Bargained Quotes

#1. I am more than what you bargained for and nothin less than real.

Drake

#2. From a plurality of prime movers, the monotheists have bargained it down to a single one. They are getting ever nearer to the true, round figure.

Christopher Hitchens

#3. But the danger with hatred is, once you start in on it, you get a hundred times more than you bargained for. Once you start, you can't stop. I don't know anything harder to control than hating. Easier to kick drinking than to master hate. And that is saying something.

Philip Roth

#4. I couldn't tell if, as husbands went, Paul was unusual, but he seamed to need lots more care and feeding than I bargained on. If only he'd come with an instruction booklet, like our new steam iron did, or even with a little plastic stick with tips about watering and sunlight, like a florist azalea.

Christina Bartolomeo

#5. We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, 'Blessed are they that mourn,' and I accept it. I've got nothing that I hadn't bargained for. Of course it is different when the thing happens to oneself, not to others, and in reality, not imagination.

C.S. Lewis

#6. I hadn't bargained for this. I didn't think it would be like this - shabby clothes, worn-out shoes, circles under your eyes, your hair getting straight and lanky, the way people look at you ... I didn't think it would be like this

Jean Rhys

#7. Trust is a fragile thing - difficult to build, easy to break. It cannot be bargained for. Only if it is freely given it can be expected in return

Peter Lerangis

#8. I heard a Lannister always pays his debts."
"Oh, every penny ... but never a groat more. You'll get the meal you bargained for, but it won't be sauced with gratitude, and in the end it will not nourish you.

George R R Martin

#9. It's not yet clear which side will win many of the struggles outlined in these pages - only that the companies in the crosshairs are up against far more than they bargained for. There have, however, already been some solid victories, too many to fully catalogue here.

Naomi Klein

#10. Hmmm,' the King said, making a face. 'I'm not sure this is what we bargained for, boy. We expected the girl to be attractive.'

If I hadn't been so terrified, I would have been insulted.

Danielle L. Jensen

#11. Once two persons are tied together freedom is lost and anger arises. When freedom is lost everything becomes ugly. Love means that freedom remains intact: marriage means that freedom has been dropped. You have bargained for permanence, for security, and you have paid for it with freedom.

Rajneesh

#12. But the world is what it is and won't be bargained with.

Robert Charles Wilson

#13. Am I more than you bargained for yet?
I've been dying to tell you anything you want to hear
Cause that's just who I am this week

Fall Out Boy

#14. I bargained for salvation and they gave me a lethal dose.

Bob Dylan

#15. Some cities are women and must be loved; others are men and can only be admired or bargained with

Angela Carter

#16. In 1962, I had an entry-level reporter's job at an Omaha television station. I had bargained to get a salary of $100 dollars a week because I didn't feel I could tell Meredith's doctor father I was making less.

Tom Brokaw

#17. He had received already a larger dose of life than he had bargained for, and he was scared.

Graham Greene

#18. In a world of disorder and disaster and fraud, sometimes only beauty can be trusted. Only artistic excellence is incorruptible. Pleasure cannot be bargained down. And sometimes the meal is the only currency that is real.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#19. When parents have invested enormous amounts of money in their kids' education, to find their kids coming back to live with them - well, that was not what they bargained for.

Peter Thiel

#20. Eleanor had bargained for their wedding present, the dragon-spouted teapot worth thousands and the cups to match, gold-leafed, scaly.

Kate Walbert

#21. A little more than he bargained for, perhaps," said Dick Mannering. "It's always that - when it's the truth," replied Balfour.

Eleanor Catton

#22. Let the free people of the world know that we could have bargained over and sold out our cause in return for a personal secure and stable life. We received many offers to this effect but we chose to be at the vanguard of the confrontation as a badge of duty and honour.

Muammar Al-Gaddafi

#23. It can't be bargained with, it can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity! Or remorse or fear and it absolutely will not stop! ... ever ... until you are dead!

James Cameron

#24. A woman accepted anything from life and made it the best; a man bargained for the better but also the less perfect.

Yiyun Li

#25. Bargaining. An utterly useless stage. Neither God nor the Universe ever bargained with anyone.

Tiffanie DeBartolo

#26. And why should any man who writes, even if he writes things immortal, nurse anger at the world's neglect? Who asked him to publish? Who promised him a hearing? Who has broken faith with him? Your poem, your novel, who bargained with you for it?

George Gissing

#27. But a yogi never forgets that health must begin with the body. Your body is the child of the soul. You must nourish and train your child. Physical health is not a commodity to be bargained for. Nor can it be swallowed in the form of drugs and pills. It has to be earned through sweat.

B.K.S. Iyengar

#28. She had been so fiercely alive. She had spoken honestly, and lived with an honesty that few could claim to match. She had made the most of every minute she was given. She bargained and rationed and managed the seconds. She burned up the days.

Ann Napolitano

#29. You have what she needs," he said again. "And you're capable of giving her more than she'd ever bargained for because you love her. Wether she wants it or not, it's your gift to her. True love requires no reciprocation. True love is unconditional.

Aja James

#30. As governor I would have made sure that I bargained fairly but firmly, been able to get the changes that were needed to balance the budget, but done that through collective bargaining and making sure that our public employees had a voice at the table.

Mary Burke

#31. The problem with trading dominant players of that size is you never get in return what you've bargained away.

Phil Jackson

#32. I got more than I bargained for with him, too. Much more. I know he's completely different now, but he was really nice and funny when he was human. But apparently his manners didn't survive the transition."
Marc smiled. "Yeah, well , yours didn't survive puberty, so you can't really talk.

Rachel Vincent

#33. Bargaining with God is pointless. He already has a thousand followers that will do what you bargained to do for free.

Shannon L. Alder

#34. The danger with hatred is, once you start in on it, you get a hundred times more than you bargained for. Once you start, you can't stop.

Philip Roth