Dickered Quotes

#1. For most of Wall Street's history, stock trading was fairly straightforward: buyers and sellers gathered on exchange floors and dickered until they struck a deal.

Charles Duhigg

#2. For some reason, I thought Victor could heal that wound better than anyone else. It's strange to think that this vampire, the embodiment of all my hatred, could act like a suture.

J.A. London

#3. Not only has wilderness been a force in molding our character as a people, but its influence continues, and will, if we are wise enough to preserve it on this continent, be a stabilizing power as well as a spiritual reserve for the future.

Sigurd F. Olson

#4. It does not do to be frightened of things about which you know nothing," he said. "You are like children. Afraid of the dark.

Donna Tartt

#5. You can reach stupidity only with a cannon ball.

Josh Billings

#6. I liked being with the books: they reminded me of how many ways of thinking existed outside my own - how small and fleeting my pulse was when set alongside those ageing spines.

Joanna Rossiter

#7. It shouldn't have hurt. She should be used to it by

Elizabeth Lowell

#8. The English think that incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.

Quentin Crisp

#9. Support your friends - even in their mistakes. But be clear, however, that it is the friend and not the mistake you are supporting.

Hugh Prather

#10. Nature, too, seems to sense that something is coming to and end; it's summoning all it's strength for one last surge.

Melanie Raabe

#11. Things are never simple when it comes to the human heart.

Gillian Jacobs

#12. Men don't like clever wives, they like charming ones!

Kathleen Tessaro

#13. I know how to make an impression. Not necessarily a good one.

Lauren Hammond

#14. I may have a lot of political opinions but it doesn't necessarily come into my work. I keep the two worlds separate.

Robert Barry

#15. There is something in our minds like sunshine and the weather, which is not under our control. When I write, the best things come to me from I know not where.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

#16. If I have unjustly wrested a plank from a drowning man, I must restore it to him though I drown myself.

Henry David Thoreau