Gift Buying Quotes

#1. You may have heard of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. There's another day you might want to know about: Giving Tuesday. The idea is pretty straightforward. On the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, shoppers take a break from their gift-buying and donate what they can to charity.

Bill Gates

#2. Why are cancer patients so hard to buy for? This question always puzzles me. When people are healthy, things are so simple, including gift buying. A jaunt to the local mall or a day in front of the TV watching QVC can be just enough for all the loved ones on your list.

Jenna Morasca

#3. Wherefore we be not only His by His buying, but also by the courteous gift of His Father we be His bliss, we be His meed, we be His worship, we be His crown. (And this was a singular marvel and a full delectable beholding, that we be His crown!)

Julian Of Norwich

#4. I mean, my idea of exciting is getting an Amazon gift card and buying a whole bunch of books.

J. Daniels

#5. I don't want to lose hope.

Maurice Sendak

#6. It's better to have loved and lost than to be nagged about buying a damn anniversary gift every year.

Joey Green

#7. Sin is still sin - no matter how you spell it.

Edwin Louis Cole

#8. I'd always liked the idea that drama acts at its best as a kind of arena for debate, not just about the thing itself, but also producing aesthetic, stylistic, political and moral discussions.

Jeremy Northam

#9. People buy such bollocks at museums. They don't know what else to do once they're there.

David Mitchell

#10. More even than Southern Presbyterians and Southern Methodists, the Baptists provided the great mass of Confederate enlisted men.

Harold Bloom

#11. Faith in a higher power helps us to control our mind and thoughts.

Mata Amritanandamayi

#12. Water must be free for sustenance needs. Since nature gives water to us free of cost, buying and selling it for profit violates our inherent right to nature's gift and denies the poor of their human rights.

Vandana Shiva

#13. The quality of democracy and the quality of journalism are deeply entwined.

Bill Moyers

#14. But I decided that buying the gift was more for me than for her, anyhow. A commercial kind of substitute for prayer.

Joe Haldeman

#15. Christmas is the time for celebration, so I'm not against decorating, putting on lights, buying gifts. In fact, the whole reason we give gifts is the wise men gave gifts to Jesus at the first Christmas, and that started the gift-giving process.

Rick Warren

#16. Basically, the only thing we need is a hand that rests on our own, that wishes it well, that sometimes guides us.

Hector Bianciotti

#17. Love can be obtained by begging, buying, receiving it as a gift, finding it in the street, but it cannot be stolen.

Hermann Hesse

#18. Don't look back!" "Why not?" "Because I just did! Run faster!

Terry Pratchett

#19. But I fail to see how that (not buying gifts) would bring back the essence of Christmas. And I don't think it would affect retailers. Besides, that's part of the joy of Christmas ? to give someone a gift to show your appreciation for them.

Mathew Staver

#20. The first thing I noticed was the gun in his hands, and it wasn't the sort of gun a beginner carries around with him. A big dull black German Mauser 7.63. One of those economical guns; the bullet goes clear through three people at once.

Alistair MacLean

#21. I always try to be a trend setter. That's what I always tell young people when I'm giving them advice. To go with their heart and don't follow the trends.

Teena Marie

#22. Too many people are buying gifts for themselves when they pick out a gift for a friend.

Phoebe Cates

#23. Everything that's really worthwhile in life comes to us.

Earl Nightingale

#24. Author's Warning
If you're buying this book as a gift for your grandma or a kid, you should be aware that it contains cusswords as well as tasteful depictions of cannibalism and people in their forties having sex. Don't blame me. I told you.

Christopher Moore

#25. Nugget?" said Micah, offering a lump to Toby.
"Thanks," said Toby. He took a bite and chewed thoughtfully.
"I think maybe it is a squirrel." He said.

Ridley Pearson

#26. Writing isn't necessarily a gift it is a passion. You can write a one page masterpiece to 99 pages of crap. What keeps you coming back is that Zen moment when you enlightened your own self with a few cleverly arranged words and saved yourself a $200 trip to the shrink, by simply buying a #2 pencil.

Shannon L. Alder

#27. You are right, none of us live enough, and sometimes I think it is because we mistake hurrah and hullabaloo for experience, we get a sock in the eye and think it is a broken heart ...

Katherine Anne Porter

#28. Dreams reveal we never quite get 'over' anything: it's all still in there somewhere.

Alain De Botton

#29. Instead of buying something for you that you want I give you something that is mine, truly mine. A gift, a sign of respect for the person I have in front of me. Now you have a little piece of me with you which I gave you freely and spontaniously.

Paulo Coelho

#30. I don't believe for a minute that the Ripper killed only the prostitutes we hear about - five and only five.

Patricia Cornwell