Barters Quotes

#1. Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#2. Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state has become lawless or corrupt. And a citizen who barters with such a state shares in its corruption and lawlessness.

Mahatma Gandhi

#3. Female artists are the perfect example of a creator: They know how to make life and art with their bodies. Life comes from their bodies, so on a very basic level, they have more to write about.

Brandon Boyd

#4. The piano is the social instrument par excellence ... drawing-room furniture, a sign of bourgeois prosperity, the most massive of the devices by which the young are tortured in the name of education and the grown-up in the name of entertainment.

Jacques Barzun

#5. Silence is a figure of speech, unanswerable, short, cold, but terribly severe.

Theodore Parker

#6. If you're crying under fire, then you wasn't built for war.
If a pimp took your girl, then your girl was never yours.

MF Grimm

#7. My heroes are and were my parents. I can't see having anyone else as my heroes.

Michael Jordan

#8. I felt that America's duty was not to try to do everything itself, but to foster a sense of commitment that would bring out the best in every country.

Madeleine Albright

#9. It's strange how close love and fear live to each other.

Fredrik Backman

#10. When the Chinese suspect someone of being a potential troublemaker, they always resort to one of two methods: they crush him, or they hoist him on a pedestal.

Lu Xun

#11. Now what is Judge Douglas Popular Sovereignty? It is, as a principle, no other than that, if one man chooses to make a slave of another man, neither that other man nor anybody else has a right to object.

Abraham Lincoln

#12. I hope I get the bliss. And I know I'm going to have to work for it. But I've got to say, really, I have no kind of, can I say "secular religiosity"? ... I don't have a denominational sight.

Keanu Reeves

#13. The difference between where we are and where we want to be is created by the changes we are willing to make in our lives. When you want something you've never had, you must do something you've never done to get it.

John C. Maxwell

#14. Especially with a comedy, you've got the clear cut goal of trying to make a scene funny. It's not like drama where you're trying to achieve some kind of emotion or trying to further the story along. You're trying to figure out what's the funniest way to do something.

Luke Wilson