Quotes About Exchange

I do think it's a very uneven exchange of presents. You'll eat yours up in a week and have nothing left to show for it by New Year's Day. I'll have mine till the day I die—and die happy in the knowledge that I'm leaving it behind for someone else to love. I shall sprinkle pale pencil marks through it pointing out the best passages to some booklover yet unborn.

I love Christmas. I receive a lot of wonderful presents I can't wait to exchange.

I took my car down to see what I could get for it on a trade-in. The dealer took a look at it and offered me a ballpoint pen.

Against an economism void of values other than those of exchange, protest stood for reuniting the festival and daily life, for transforming daily life into a site of desire and pleasure. The protesters were protesting against the fact, simultaneously obvious and ignored, that delight and joy, pleasure and desire, desert a society that is content with satisfaction—that is to say, catalogued, created needs that procure some particular object and evaporate in it.

The first of all commodities to be exchanged is labour, and the freedom of man consists only in the exercise of the right to determine for himself in what manner his labour shall be employed, and how he will dispose of its products.

I hope that it will yet be said, America is America's best customer.

I have received no more than one or two letters in my life that were worth the postage.

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

If events change men, much more persons. No man can meet another on the street without making some mark upon him. We say we exchange words when we meet; what we exchange is souls. And when intercourse is very close and very frequent, so complete is this exchange that recognizable bits of the one soul begin to show in the other's nature, and the second is conscious of a similar and growing debt to the first.

The end of money is not ease but the opportunity to perform more service.

Everything we get, outside of the free gifts of nature, must in some way be paid for.

Mere inflation-that is, the mere issuance of more money, with the consequence of higher wages and prices-may look like the creation of more demand. But in terms of the actual production and exchange of real things it is not.

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept in constant circulation... A book is not only a friend, it makes friends for you. When you have possessed a book with mind and spirit, you are enriched. But when you pass it on you are enriched threefold.

The dog gave the meat to the ass and the ass gave hay to the dog and both went hungry

Prices too that day indicated the state of affairs. The price of weapons, of gold, of carts and horses, kept rising, but the value of paper money and city articles kept falling, so that by midday there were instances of carters removing valuable goods, such as cloth, and receiving in payment a half of what they carted, while peasant horses were fetching five hundred rubles each, and furniture, mirrors, and bronzes were being given away for nothing.

When did anybody ever sell anything without being told immediately after the sale, 'It was worth much more'? But when one wants to sell, no one will give anything….

I bargain now. I offer buttons for his love.

Come on, big boy," she said. "I guess it don't matter what it cost since you didn't ask, but that forty, that's for head. You want to put it in, that's forty more.

Paris was the cross-roads of the world.

The truth of course was otherwise, but Lecha had never felt she owed anyone the truth, unless it was truth about their own lives, and then they had to pay her to tell them.

Enormous gain includes enormous loss.

cash was like a magic all its own: a way of turning one thing into another thing, producing something out of nothing, and he worked that magic all over town.

Hey—Penny, is it?" Plum said. "That ought to pay for Quentin's library fines, don't you think? Or Alice could just punch you again, it's all good." But

Circular giving differs from reciprocal giving in several ways. First, when the gift moves in a circle no one ever receives it from the same person he gives it to. I