Quotes About Haggle

#1. Only, in Haiti, I realized, is it possible to drink rum and haggle with a god.

Wade Davis

#2. Women lose their delicacy and refinement, when they are compelled night and day to haggle with their destiny over things pitifully small, and for this they are blamed by those whom their toil supports.

Rabindranath Tagore

#3. It's more important to fly midpoint in deals and work together than to try to haggle for the last dollar.

N. Murray Edwards

#4. I don't like dealing with money transactions in poor countries. I get confused between the feeling that I shouldn't haggle with poverty and getting ripped off

Alex Garland

#5. Like a valet who commits grand theft auto not to go for a joy ride but to open a used car lot, so do we seize upon love not to revel in its ecstasies but to haggle over its blue-book value.

Bauvard

#6. 'Priced to sell' - just the phrase makes me smile. When a dealer says all the items in his booth are priced to sell, he means he's tagged them as aggressively as he can to get you to buy them. Don't worry, though, I still haggle. You have to. That's the point of a flea market.

Nate Berkus

#7. It was those damn wool socks. He didn't realize he loved her until she
told him about out-negotiating a god of war - the most haggle-loving of the
gods - with socks!

G.A. Aiken

#8. You haggle like a crone with a codfish.

George R R Martin

#9. A man's ability to haggle is never a turn-on. The only thing less romantic than how much you paid is how much you saved. The last thing we want to hear is how you talked the jeweler down on our new earrings.

Jennifer Coolidge

#10. How can you put human rights to a popular vote and call it democracy? How many times do you need to redefine or haggle about the meaning of the word EQUALITY?

Christina Engela

#11. It is far more important to be able to hit the target than it is to haggle over who makes a weapon or who pulls a trigger.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#12. Flea-Market vendors are frozen mid-haggle. Middle-aged women are frozen in the middle of their lives. The gavels of frozen judges are frozen between guilt and innocence. On the ground are the crystals of the frozen first breaths of babies, and those of the last gasps of the dying.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#13. 'In the Wake' was a very bleak book. This relationship was not too good, the father and son. This time around, I wanted a father and a son who really loved each other, which would be visible on the first page and would still be there on the last page.

Per Petterson

#14. My mother was 45 when she had me, so when I was in high school my parents were the same age as my friends' grandparents.

Jack White

#15. Abilene (AB-a-lene) adj. Descriptive of the pleasing coolness on the reverse side of the pillow.

Douglas Adams

#16. I love liminal characters. I love these characters that are outside and enter and consequently are perpetually outsiders, and who hold themselves to a higher standard.

Greg Rucka

#17. But the sun will rise the day after tomorrow
A millennium without us silences our last echo
To tiny fragments even our plastics are reduced
In Eden Reincarnate all life but ours is renewed

A.A. Patawaran

#18. Confusion is not an ignoble condition

Brian Friel

#19. Autobiography is the most fascinating thing you can do because you get to touch the human condition. And in the end, what else is there? To me, it's the ultimate affirmation of life, and a miracle of this transient, extremely fragile organism. To celebrate that, I think, is a noble thing to do.

Jim Dine

#20. Raymond collected expressions. He repeated them in experimental accents, as if learning a tune. He sounded like an Eighteenth Street Mexican when he said cuate, like a Logan Square cubano when he said comemierda.

Sebastian Rotella

#21. She went away, and the fireflies, on their electric circuits, fluttered after her like an errant constellation, showing her how to walk in darkness. I heard her say, faintly, "We've got to try, anyway.

Ray Bradbury

#22. Finders were keepers unless title was proven.

Harper Lee

#23. Reality has a way of intruding. Reality eventually intrudes on everything.

Joe Biden

#24. Are we the only members of the Galaxy that can actually understand what a galaxy is? Could Homo sapiens really be the pinnacle of Creation - the cleverest critters in the cosmos? If we learn the answer is 'no,' that would affect our philosophies forever.

Seth Shostak

#25. Terror is the poor man's war, war is the rich man's terror. Ultimately, all wars will end either in annihilation or at the negotiating table. (#) A terrorist is someone who has a bomb but can't afford an air force.

William Blum

#26. Winners do not whine, they roar. Let me hear you roar!

Ken Polson