Top 16 Traded Away Quotes
#1. Combined families often get bad reviews, but the family my children got when they traded away 'the suffocating four-person' nuclear one is one that has benefited all of them.
Jane Smiley
#2. The life of membership with all its cumbers is traded away for the life of employment that makes itself free by forgetting you clean as a whistle when you are not of any more use.
Wendell Berry
#3. Is human dignity and human life so cheap that the rights protecting it can be traded away to appease the appetite for intimidation and prejudice of a vicious and self-centered group - for whatever reason, power, politics, nationalism, or unity?
Christina Engela
#4. Once we started to urbanize, we put ourselves on this treadmill. We traded away stability for growth. And growth requires change.
Geoffrey West
#5. Timbuktu. The last pure place. Isolation being the mother of purity. All men are jealous of Timbuktu because Timbuktu is removed from men, it's the wholeness men have fractured, the sacred extreme they've traded away.
Tom Robbins
#6. Code should run as fast as necessary, but no faster; something important is always traded away to increase speed.
Richard E. Pattis
#8. Children are not chattel. they cannot be given away or traded in the marketplace.
Garth Stein
#9. All my memories are things I gave away, traded for new days after days after days...
Brenna Ehrlich
#10. If only I'd realized earlier that it never pays to fight evil with evil. But after watching my father die, I'd been consumed with bitterness and had allowed it to lead me astray from what was righteous and pleasing to God.
Jody Hedlund
#11. Outrage, combining as it does shock, anger, reproach, and helplessness, is perhaps the most unmanageable, the most demoralizing of all the emotions.
Margery Allingham
#12. I'll tell you the secret to good teaching: make possible an experience without predetermining what that experience will be.
Maxine
#13. We used to have a dog named Snoopy, you know, a real live dog. I suppose people who love Snoopy won't like it, but we gave him away. He fought with other dogs, so we traded him in for a load of gravel.
Charles M. Schulz
#14. Political scientists and professors are the new clergy; the clergy of oppression.
A.E. Samaan
#15. What the hell do you have on?"
Emily looked down at her ensemble. "I have done something wrong, haven't I?"
"Did Tinker put you up to this?"
"Well, she said it was my manager uniform."
"You...you look like an oversexed librarian."
She blinked. "Is that a bad thing?
Bella Street
#16. Bathrooms that traded mirrors for glass walls invited prurience on occasion, but they also drew the inhabitant's gaze away from himself toward an increasingly threatened nature.
Christopher Bascom Rawlins
