Top 22 Purchasable Quotes
#1. My 'must-have' was poetry. From the first, life meant that to me. And, fortunately, poetry is not purchasable material, but an atmosphere in which every life may expand. I found it everywhere about me ...
Lucy Larcom
#2. Our current drug crisis is a tragedy born of a phony system of classification. For reasons that are little more than accidents of history, we have divided a group of nonfood substances into two categories: items purchasable for supposed pleasure (such as alcohol), and illicit drugs.
Stephen Jay Gould
#3. Though pleasure may be purchasable, happiness cannot be bought for a price.
Ellen Glasgow
#4. Public health is purchasable. Within a few natural and important limitations any community can determine its own health.
Hermann Biggs
#5. Plato said that virtue has no master. If a person does not honor this principle and rejoice in it, but is purchasable for money, he creates many masters for himself.
Apollonius Of Tyana
#6. John D. Rockefeller said, the ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee. And I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.
Dale Carnegie
#7. The rich philistinism emanating from advertisements is due not to their exaggerating (or inventing) the glory of this or that serviceable article but to suggesting that the acme of human happiness is purchasable and that its purchase somehow ennobles the purchaser.
Vladimir Nabokov
#8. The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee. And I will pay more for that ability.
John D. Rockefeller
#9. It is shocking, but true, that in today's America, "Justice" is a purchasable commodity.
Phillip B. Davidson
#10. Our government is built upon the vote. But votes that are purchasable are quicksands, and a government built on them stands upon corruption and revolution.
Henry Ward Beecher
#11. And what is it, according to Plato, that philosophy is supposed to do? Nothing less than to render violence to our sense of ourselves and our world, our sense of ourselves in the world. (p. 40)
Rebecca Goldstein
#12. Give me a sea of strangers, and all I'll see is you.
Luna Lacour
#13. But still, I find the need to remind myself of the temporariness of a day, to reassure myself that I got through yesterday, I'll get through today.
Gayle Forman
#14. It's hard being a rock; they have such a strange sense of time - and priorities.
Mercedes Lackey
#15. Rumpole, you must move with the times."
"If I don't like the way the times are moving, I shall refuse to accompany them.
John Mortimer
#16. But family... family is something you guard. Sometimes you are born to that family, and sometimes you create it, one connection at a time
Anne Zoelle
#17. I have tread all three of his books and they held me spellbound interesting story. Its fiction based on fact ... mmm I like!
Harold Alvin
#18. Everything is possible for a self-determined mind.
Daniel Marques
#20. I came to know Christ when I was 13 years old at a youth camp I attended. I may not have known much about Him, but I knew I was saved by grace and that, because of the cross, I had a hope like no other. I cannot imagine life without Him.
Bart Millard
#21. It is not the question, what am I going to be when I grow up; you should ask the question, who am I going to be when I grow up.
Goldie Hawn
#22. Together, Thomas and Teresa watched, and imagined what it must be like.
James Dashner