Gift Exchange Sayings

#1. We need more Christians who take their place alongside believing and unbelieving neighbors in the daily gift exchange

Michael Horton

#2. Every relationship is a gift exchange.

Marianne Williamson

#3. This year, Rebecca instituted a White Elephant gift exchange, that passive-aggressive method of conveying just how little the people you see more often than family mean to you via the splendor of craptastic gifting.

Qwen Salsbury

#4. Betrayer! Long ago we promised
To exchange equally, gift for gift.
Take this curse: What you destroy will destroy you.

Ann Leckie

#5. The man who joins with youths stays young in heart and mind. In exchange for the gift of their vitality and eagerness, the mature of man can give guidance and trust, a sympathetic ear and helping hand.

Henry Clausen

#6. People can understand a price tag no matter what it's stuck on. But they couldn't understand the messier exchange of asking and giving: the gift that stays in motion.

Amanda Palmer

#7. Your life as a Christian should make non believers question their disbelief in God.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#8. I'll be honest, I worry sometimes about what I've done. I have tied my whole person to my art and, whatever it takes to get that hook, I will go there and do it.

Rufus Wainwright

#9. Gave a girl herpes in exchange for syphilis, put my LP on your Christmas gift list.

Eminem

#10. Sandro never cared about reciprocity. Sex is not about exchange values, he said. It's a gift economy.

Rachel Kushner

#11. I assure you, my good Lestrade, that I have an excellent reason for everything that I do.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#12. But here's the rub of addiction. By its nature, people afflicted are unable to do what, from the outside, appears to be a simple solution - don't drink. Don't use drugs. In exchange for that one small sacrifice, you will be given a gift that other terminally ill people would give anything for: life.

David Sheff

#13. Never do anything for another with the expectation of gratitude. The expectation itself turns the gift into an exchange and suggests a debt is owed you.

Michael Josephson

#14. A laugh is a terrible weapon.

Kate O'Brien

#15. No other creature on the face of this planet inflicts more suffering than humans.

Mischa Temaul

#16. Washington D.C. is about 300 square miles surrounded by realty.

Tom Clancy

#17. Christmas is based on an exchange of gifts, the gift of God to man - His unspeakable gift of His Son, and the gift of man to God - when we present our bodies a living sacrifice.

Vance Havner

#18. Love is not a business. It's not a transaction. It's not an exchange or something you get for doing something it's not a trade. It's a gift!

Tony Robbins

#19. The story of redemtion and healing is that Jesus came to exchange my not-good-enough with his better-than-I-could-ever-imagine. He came to trade my life for His, my weak for His strong, my ashes for His beauty. He longs for each of us to recieve the gift of Himself.

Emily P. Freeman

#20. Nobody cirlces the wagons like the Buffalo Bills.

Chris Berman

#21. To say that I met Nicholas Brisbane over my husband's dead body is not entirely accurate. Edward, it should be noted, was still twitching upon the floor.

Deanna Raybourn

#22. That was the nature of presents. You kept them in the giver's stead. They were a small part of that person to keep.

Paul Magrs

#23. I don't imagine Heads of Government would ever be able to say I'm not an economist therefore I can't take decisions on matters of the economy; I'm not a soldier I can't take decisions on matters of defence; I'm not an educationist so I can't take decisions about education.

Thabo Mbeki

#24. I gave my wife a gift certificate for Christmas. She ran out to exchange it for a bigger size.

Milton Berle

#25. Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air.

Georges Bernanos

#26. Our hearts are broken today for the parents and grandparents, sisters and brothers of these children and the families of the adults we lost ... May god bless the memory of the victims and in the words of scripture heal the broken hearted and bind up their wounds.

Barack Obama

#27. The joy of Christmas causes hundreds of radio stations around the country to play Christmas music all day, and people will exchange millions of gifts to remember the first gift of Christmas, the infant Jesus.

James Lankford

#28. There should be an age limit for patients, he thinks as he takes off his shoes. You just have to say to them, You lived long enough. From now on, think of what's left as a bonus, a gift without an exchange slip. It hurts? Stay in bed. It still hurts? Wait: Either you'll die or it'll pass.

Etgar Keret

#29. Anyone can talk,
but to listen is a gift,
we should all exchange

J. Benson

#30. It was not nails that held Jesus to that wretched cross; it was his unqualified resolution, out of love for his Father, to do his Father's will-and it was his love for sinners like me.

D. A. Carson

#31. The holy, all-loving, all-powerful, all-mighty, perfectly peaceful and joyful Life of God is waiting to be ours. It is a priceless gift that comes with only one condition: His Life can only be had in exchange for our own.

Eric Ludy

#32. I remember when replay first came to TV. I can't remember who it was now, but a manager came out to beef about a call, and I ran him. He said he was going back into the clubhouse and watch replay. I told him, 'Go ahead. I am the replay.'

Doug Harvey

#33. The only gift is giving to the poor;
All else is exchange.

Thiruvalluvar