Quotes About Bribe

I offer you explanations of yourself, theories about yourself, authentic and surprising news of yourself. I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart; I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.

17For the Lord your God is *God supreme and Lord supreme,-d the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who shows no favor and takes no bribe, 18but upholds the cause of the fatherless and the widow, and befriends the stranger, providing him with food and clothing.—19You too must befriend the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.

I'm for everyone having the opportunity to accept a $150,000 bribe.

A man to whom you do a favor will not understand if you say nothing, make no noise, just walk away. You may cause more trouble by refusing a bribe than by accepting it.

You are to appoint judges and officers for all your gates [in the cities] ADONAI your God is giving you, tribe by tribe; and they are to judge the people with righteous judgment. 19 You are not to distort justice or show favoritism, and you are not to accept a bribe, for a gift blinds the eyes of the wise and twists the words of even the upright. 20 Justice, only justice, you must pursue; so that you will live and inherit the land ADONAI your God is giving you.

A gift without a heart behind it is a bribe. God asks for our heart, not our gifts.

They discussed several other options, including sending it to the president to help him run the government. But they didn't think he would want money meant for a bribe, either. In the end, they snuck upstairs to the bathroom, where they ripped up the five-dollar bill and flushed the pieces down the toilet, laughing so hard they almost woke up Lydia.

I gave her a dangerous smile of my own. "Do not," I warned, "try to threaten, bribe, or blackmail me. Ever. You won't like the consequences.

The rain is speaking quietly, you can sleep now. Near my bed, the rustle of newspaper wings. There are no other angles. I'll wake up early and bribe the coming day to be kind to us.

Offer Treats.

A hallmark of "successful" assholes is that they recruit, entice, or bribe toxic enablers to clean up the messes they leave behind—much like the cleanup crew that picks up the trash and poop after the circus parades through a town.

agent. My testimony would have been automatically suspect, even years later. I would have been a defense counsel's wet dream. As in, Special Agent, please tell us about the bribe you can't prove you didn't take. So I would have joined

We bribe the Guild with a monstrous payment in spice to keep our skies clear of satellites and such that none may spy what we do to the face of Arrakis." She

Pressure can take many forms: a bribe, a threat, a manipulative appeal to trust, or a simple refusal to budge. In all these cases, the principled response is the same: invite them to state their reasoning, suggest objective criteria you think apply, and refuse to budge except on this basis. Never yield to pressure, only to principle.

Fear, prejudice, malice, and the love of approbation bribe a thousand men where gold bribes one.

She is the witch you burned by daylight and crept from your home to consult & bribe at night. The love that tortured you you blamed on her.

When he wrote about class, he claimed that people with a great deal of money had to be cruel and defensive, and that the poor ought to become criminals since they had to fight laws written by the rich to protect their money. He wrote that all welfare was simply a necessary bribe to keep the poor from starting a revolution. About religion, he wrote that it should be prescribed like medication.

The world's esteem is but a bribe, to buy their peace you sell your own.

When I go to hell, I mean to carry a bribe: for look you, good gifts evermore make way for the worst persons.

I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect - it changes a relation. The man who offers a bribe gives away a little of his own importance; the bribe once accepted, he becomes the inferior, like a man who has paid for a woman.

Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder.

When I go to hell, I mean to carry a bribe: for look you, good gifts evermore make way for the worst persons.

Love is a gift. Not a bribe.

Love is a farthing piece, a bloody bribe pressed in the palm of God and thrown away.