Quotes About Quid Pro Quo

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

Tom Wilkinson

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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

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

Nick Rahall

#7. 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

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

Shahla Khan

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. My dad was an entrepreneurial businessman, and maybe I got some of his ability.

Thomas Jane

#13. Twas a cold Yuletide evening, and I wandered the stacks, shelving multiple titles that the patrons brought back. We toiled overtime at our library here, 'cause the powers that be cut our staffing this year.

David Davis

#14. 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

#15. Once in Africa I lost the corkscrew and we were forced to live off food and water for weeks.

Ernest Hemingway,

#16. You don't really have time to do other than what's written. It's very rigid. Shows have a certain rhythm that nobody wants disturbed. So a lot of that doesn't take place on television, at least the television I was doing at the time when I first started.

Gary Cole

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

Carlous Ruiz Zafon

#18. 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

#19. Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They're only powerful when you got your back turned.

Eminem

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

Kate McGahan

#21. The thing I hate about religion is, they ban what they have done and force us to do what they haven't done.

M.F. Moonzajer