Pro Quo Quotes

#1. The most productive, healthy and satisfying relationships are based, not on a quid pro quo but an ebb and flow of mutual support over time. Don't just be a giver. Be an extremely helpful giver who demonstrates an awareness of what that person most needs.

Kare Anderson

#2. As a lobbyist, I thought it only natural and right that my clients should reward those members who saved them such substantial sums with generous contributions. This quid pro quo became one of hallmarks of our lobbying efforts.

Jack Abramoff

#3. Acting for me is not that quid pro quo.

Tom Wilkinson

#4. Texas has waited too long for a governor who knows that quid pro quo shouldn't be the status quo. It's time for a governor who believes that you don't have to buy a place in Texas' future.

Wendy Davis

#5. So, what, Trevor was the quid and Shayna was the pro quo? I don't think so, Syd. Playing games is not my style.

Steph Campbell

#6. Everything that is large and institutional should be distrusted, even though it may be the best around. The Internal Revenue Service doesn't trust me, so why should I trust them? It's a quid pro quo arrangement.

Wayne Rogers

#7. but seeing as I ain't so flush right now, I'm afraid your quids'll have to come pro quo.

Alexis Hall

#8. Twenty-five years ago, Christmas was not the burden that it is now; there was less haggling and weighing, less quid pro quo, less fatigue of body, less weariness of soul; and, most of all, there was less loading up with trash.

Margaret Deland

#9. Wilderness designations should not be the result of a quid pro quo. They should rise or fall on their own merits.

Nick Rahall

#10. If the angle you're going at is there's some kind of quid pro quo - there isn't. Business is business, and people are allowed to make money. Looks can be deceiving, because there's no quid pro quo here.

Mike Miller

#11. Love may not be quid pro quo but marriage certainly is.

Shahla Khan

#12. The mode of reconciling the promise of ever-increasing reward for the cadres and the demands of the working classes for a quid pro quo for their loyalty to the state was to offer the latter a small piece of the pie.

Immanuel Wallerstein

#13. Once you experience being loved when you are unworthy, being forgiven when you did something wrong, that moves you into non-dual thinking. You move from what I call meritocracy, quid pro quo thinking, to the huge ocean of grace, where you stop counting or calculating.

Richard Rohr

#14. True friendship has no checks or balances. Once someone starts Keeping Score, the game is over.

Kate McGahan

#15. All survival situations revolve around a host of variables ... Always adapt, think positive, and move forward.

Cody Lundin

#16. Oscar had a straightforward, dimpled, happy smile. It was one of the hundreds of great things about him.
And after that we were best friends. It had been as simple and inevitable as the striking of a match.

Sarah Moore Fitzgerald

#17. America is a place where we all come together. It is a place of consensus.

Chuck Schumer

#18. The advertiser is the overrewarded court jester and court pander at the democratic court.

Joseph Wood Krutch

#19. I was able to bring the souls from the past back to life.-Amaranth

Carolina Cody Aldaz

#20. This book has too much plot and not enough story.

Samuel Goldwyn

#21. Affairs, ... , like everything else, ask too much.

John Updike

#22. Quid quo pro - you cant get something from nothing .

Carlous Ruiz Zafon

#23. love denied a childish heart that yearns for love. Little

Edgar Rice Burroughs

#24. I'd like to think that I have a plan, but you can't really pick what scripts you're going to get or what movie is going to come along.

Jennifer Lawrence

#25. There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.

William James

#26. And no man gave you a fur coat without expecting to receive something inreturn. Except for one's husband, of course, who expected nothing beyond modest gratitude.

Kate Atkinson

#27. I really love printmaking. It's like a mystery and you're trying to figure out how to rein it in.

Kiki Smith

#28. I'm on national TV in front of millions and I hate making mistakes.

Terry Bradshaw

#29. 'Comfort Me with Apples' is a love story, or better, two love stories. And since it deals with a later period in my life, most of the people who appear in it are living.

Ruth Reichl

#30. Afterwards, when Agamemnon would ask him when he would confront the prince of Troy, he would smile his most guileless, maddening smile. What has Hector ever done to me?

Madeline Miller