Quotes About Exchange

Dialogue is just two monologues clashing.

For a romantic relationship to work, it must have shared communication that includes a regular exchange of ideas. Without them, you might as well be roommates.

Everybody wants to talk about themselves, and everybody wants to hear everybody else's story, so we take turns playing reporter and celebrity.

Kira watched them talk and noticed how they quickly fell into the easy give-and-take of Starfleet-trained information exchange. It was a skill she had always admired in Sisko, Jadzia, O'Brien, and Julian, but hadn't imagined it extended to all Starfleet officers, even former ones like Ro. Klingons don't do this, she mused. Or the Romulans or the Cardassians. They have their own methods, their own martial cultures, but nothing that can compete with this. Ro

Two or three years after the 1947 Partition, it occurred to the governments of India and Pakistan to exchange their lunatics in the same manner as they had exchanged their criminals. The Muslim lunatics in India were to be sent over to Pakistan and the Hindu and Sikh lunatics in Pakistan asylums were to be handed over to India. It was difficult to say whether the proposal made any sense or not.

Giving up something for something else is commerce; giving up something for nothing is a sacrifice.

Ecologist Paul Ehrlich stressed that people who hold opposing opinions need to engage in open discussion with well-reasoned dissent. Positions should be questioned and criticized, not the people who hold them. Personal attacks preclude open discussion because, once someone is put on the defensive, fruitful exchanges are impossible, at least for the moment.

61. To enter others' minds and let them enter yours.

You can't buy it, but it has a price," said Oryx. "Everything has a price.

Love is giving, marriage is buying and selling. You can't put love into a contract.

If I was going to do something I didn't want to do, I at least wanted to be remunerated for it.

Are you a smuggler? [...] He laughed. Borders - lines on a map. Things move across, people too. I'm just the delivery boy.

Always remember I never do anything without reason and I never give anything without expecting something in return. I always get paid.

Sir," she said, "you are no gentleman!" "An apt observation," he answered airily. "And, you, Miss, are no lady.

Yes, but does Maine have anything to SAY to Florida?

Never do anything for another with the expectation of gratitude. The expectation itself turns the gift into an exchange and suggests a debt is owed you.

In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

He sold his watch to buy her combs, and she sold her hair to buy a watch chain.

I hate talking where there is no exchange of ideas or sentiments, and no good given or received

I hate talking when there is no exchange of ideas or sentiments, and no good given or received

To J. Halford, Esq. Dear Halford, When we were together last, you gave me a very particular and interesting account of the most remarkable occurrences of your early life, previous to our acquaintance; and then you requested a return of confidence from me.

One can never pay in gratitude: one can only pay 'in kind' somewhere else in life.

take a great deal closer look at others, and then decide with whom you would, or could, change places, and what sacrifice of your nature you would be prepared to make in order to do so.

I can write it myself," I said, "if only you give me the parchment and the pen. I need for you to send it, and establish this place for the receipt of an answer to it.