Traded Quotes

#1. Women are actually superb at math; they just happen to engage in their own variety of it, an intricate personal math in which desires are split off from one another, weighed, balance, traded, assessed.

Caroline Knapp

#2. From day one, since I was traded to the Clippers, the team has been amazing to not only me, but to my family.

Chris Paul

#3. Fine words are traded. Noble deeds gain respect. But people who are not good, why abandon them?

Laozi

#4. Happiness is not a life without pain, but rather a life in which the pain is traded for a worthy price.

Orson Scott Card

#5. I traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity.

Veronica Roth

#6. Last I heard, I was being traded to Washington for Monica Lewinsky.

Theoren Fleury

#7. We have largely traded wisdom for information, depth for breadth. We want to microwave maturity.

John Ortberg Jr.

#8. Dude. Did you just sniff her hair?" Kent asks, with a look of absolute disgust on his face.
"I did." I smirk, uncaring. I traded in my man card a long time ago. "I love how my girl smells. Shoot me if it's a crime.

Siobhan Davis

#9. One of the biggest problems of 'In Search of Excellence' is that it focused on giant, publicly-traded companies. There are thousands upon thousands of excellent companies. Some of them are two-person accountancies in a community of three thousand people.

Tom Peters

#10. Of all the contracts I had signed, this was perhaps the only one that my father could never have imagined me signing, for it traded what should never be traded. It delivered me into the unknown and erased my father's name. I could not know that this was just the first of many erasures.

Laila Lalami

#11. Go get your gun because God won't show.
He sent a poet instead.
The Don Quixote of the ICU. Quite impressive for a cripple. Munchhausen by proxy of a muse.
Tempt not a desperate man. This split lip is for you. I traded it for an outdated tooth.

Keith Buckley

#12. The goddess shrugged. 'One of my sons recently traded an eye for the ability to make a real difference in the world.

Rick Riordan

#13. 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

#14. A great many people in this world would be willing to throw out their gender in a second if it could be traded for freedom.

Jenny Nordberg

#15. Somewhere along the way of my illustrious high school career I traded my humanity for a prison of popularity.

Jean Haus

#16. Money is the general medium of exchange. It is the thing for which all other goods are traded, the means of final payment for such goods on the market.

Murray Rothbard

#17. 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

#18. Today was the end of freedom. High school had fallen behind; college loomed ahead. Tomorrow he traded freedom and Arizona for Colorado and discipline.

Tony Taylor

#19. Babies were born, old people died, stocks were traded, and someone faked an orgasm. All in those five seconds.

Alice Clayton

#20. An unfamiliar pain ripped through my chest as I gazed down at her, constricting my throat. I couldn't explain it, but it was...nice. I wouldn't have traded the pain for anything in the world.

Kelley R. Martin

#21. There were days I would have traded a year of my life to touch you again.

Kristen Proby

#22. Children are not chattel. they cannot be given away or traded in the marketplace.

Garth Stein

#23. I traded being heartbroken over one guys for being completely heartbroken over another. And I didn't even get to have any fun in between. No relationship, no sex, not even a good makeout session.

Lauren Barnholdt

#24. Jules and I were tiny people. We were delicate. We were almost destroyed. We were vulnerable. Like nerds in a school yard of bullies, we could have traded our stamps and cards of extinct animals. That's the kind of people we would be if our situation were different.

Heather O'Neill

#25. You've traded vocabulary, lucidity, and memory for motherhood.

Maria Semple

#26. I wanted to be a dancer from when I was about nine or something like that and started ballet. I used to really like it and got into it and did it full time for a couple of years. I did a lot of ballet but I traded that in for acting when I was about 15.

Mia Wasikowska

#27. Bitcoins can be traded or used for purchases, but only with those sellers who will accept them. Because it is a system independent of external meddling, there can be no sudden devaluation of Bitcoins through the actions of governments.

Kurt Eichenwald

#28. Nobody knows this, but one of us has just been traded to Kansas City.

Casey Stengel

#29. Being traded is like celebrating your 100th birthday. It might not be the happiest occasion in the world, but consider the alternative.

Joe Garagiola

#30. Publicly traded companies die through acquisitions, mergers, and bankruptcies at the same rate regardless of how well established they are or what they actually do. The

Geoffrey West

#31. Values are not trendy items that are casually traded in.

Ellen Goodman

#32. Jane had it right: He'd traded his bravery for his ambition. And if he didn't make this right - if he didn't learn to suppress that memory of pain and reach in and grab hold of the coals in front of him, he'd be locked up for life in the chains of his own silence.

Courtney Milan

#33. Randy Moss is not a leader. He doesn't deserve to be the captain of the Oakland Raiders. He's the one who said he wanted to be traded. He's not happy. His effort is lacking. That's a disgrace to the uniform. I don't care what uniform you have on.

Boomer Esiason

#34. Before things are written down they don't exist in quite the same way. The act of fixing them in words gives them a kind of currency that can be traded.

Erica Jong

#35. I've never felt like I've exactly traded on my looks. When I was a teenager, I was an ultra late bloomer, and my mom would say it was a blessing because it means you never have to wonder if guys are only interested in you because you've got boobs.

Anna Kendrick

#36. As countries get wealthier - all of them, together - you're going to have financial assets. That is a good thing. You could argue the assets were traded too much, or that they're too highly valued, or too leveraged.

Jamie Dimon

#37. The strictly theoretical and so attractive dream of possible equality had been traded for the worst authoritarian nightmare in history when it was applied to reality, understood, with good reason (more, in this case), as the only criterion of truth.

Leonardo Padura

#38. With respect to their safety, derivatives, for the most part, are traded among very sophisticated financial institutions and individuals who have considerable incentive to understand them and to use them properly.

Ben Bernanke

#39. It doesn't matter to me what place I get traded to. If I was traded someplace - I'd play anywhere.

Kobe Bryant

#40. What I find disturbing in America is the consuming desire for leisure, convenience, and fun. It seems we, as a nation, have traded God for gadgets. We have traded eternal truth for momentary self-gratification - worshipping false gods of materialism and humanism instead of the Creator of all things.

Billy Graham

#41. In a burst of hideous insight, DeDe realized the depth of her commitment to this marriage. She had just traded adultery for a cheeseburger and an order of french fries.

Armistead Maupin

#42. I had traded the fight against love for the fight against loneliness, the fight against life for the fight against death.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#43. When I got traded to the California Angels, I really wasn't that excited about going to the Angels because it meant changing leagues and also a whole new set of teammates. But shortly after I got there I realized that it was one of the best things that ever happened to me.

Nolan Ryan

#44. And for at least that moment, I wouldn't have traded the hundreds of books I've read for the few I know almost by heart.

Helene Hanff

#45. 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

#46. Happiness isn't reserved for privileged individuals. It is a state of mind that can neither be bought nor stolen nor traded; it is a liberty available to anyone.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#47. All my memories are things I gave away, traded for new days after days after days...

Brenna Ehrlich

#48. I would rather be a spinster than sold off, traded in, whatever they may call it.

Sara Sheridan

#49. The success of the stock connect program and the increased market volatility means investors are looking for more products to access China markets performance than exchange traded funds, and futures are feeding that rising demand.

Andrew Sullivan

#50. Once humans traded their hunter-gatherer existences for more settled communities, we began a quest to make our lives better and more comfortable, but we've also been sucking precious finite resources from our environment ever since.

Naveen Jain

#51. How'd you get Magnus to let Jace leave?"
"Traded him for Alec," Clary said.

Cassandra Clare

#52. You can't fool yourself anymore that your art is your art. When you're not getting paid for that song that's being traded back and forth among millions of people on the Internet, you have to think like a businessperson.

Ann Powers

#53. I remember when I got a call and was told I was traded [to the Yankees in 1974], I actually cried because I liked Kansas City. But coming to the Yankees was the best thing that ever happened to me in my baseball career.

Lou Piniella

#54. A recession is very bad for publicly traded companies, but it's the best time for startups. When you have massive layoffs, there's more competition for available jobs, which means that an entrepreneur can hire freelancers at a lower cost.

Timothy Ferriss

#55. As soon as you get traded, you kind of start thinking where you're going to live, your family, you have to pack.

Marco Scutaro

#56. If the road behind me is not growing ever longer, then it is likely that the feet underneath me are not moving any longer. And if my feet are not moving, I have somehow, somewhere traded this most glorious journey for lesser endeavors.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#57. The Vikings certainly didn't write anything about themselves; it was not a literate, but rather a pagan, culture. So what we get was written later by Christian monks. But there were occasional reportings and recordings of people who had traded usually with the Vikings.

Michael Hirst

#58. When I got Traded To The Celtics, I was so Happy Because I was Back home And Had Grown Up Idolizing The Celtics

Chris Herren

#59. When men fought, they connected. You became brothers as you traded blows.

Brandon Sanderson

#60. If you want to give a man something practical, consider tires. More than once, I would have gladly traded all the gifts I got for a new set of tires.

Dave Barry

#61. Of course I remember. I traded a lifetime of servitude for a box of conversation hearts. That's not something I'm likely to forget.

Stephenie Meyer

#62. Maybe love, unfathomable love, was too much for people, so they had traded it for something easier.

Gwenn Wright

#63. Study after study, however, concludes that about 90 percent of all publicly traded companies have proved themselves unable to sustain for more than a few years a growth trajectory that creates above-average shareholder returns.

Clayton M Christensen

#64. He floated above, weightless, watching his human self labor and writhe. He gave himself to it willingly, traded himself for all that he loved and valued, and felt free.

Lois Lowry

#65. 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

#66. When Wayne was traded, I became captain. For me it really wasn't anything - I didn't do anything or I didn't feel I had to do anything different than what I had been doing all along.

Mark Messier

#67. My will enkindled by mine eyes and ears, Two traded pilots 'twixt the dangerous shores Of will and judgment.

William Shakespeare

#68. The danger that we have right now are people who get the same information as I do and, therefore, think they'll reach the same conclusions that haven't traded as long, don't have bear claws up and down their backs like I do.

Jim Cramer

#69. Men and women who had worn suits for decades traded punches powerful enough to crush elephant skulls, dodged and deflected attacks too fast for the eye to follow, and died suddenly, often before the crowd registered the killing blow.
Victors and dead men were separated by a blink of the eye.

Zachary Jernigan

#70. I'm going to tell it straight, that yes, I'd love to be traded

Terry Bradshaw

#71. Sadie was full of crap at the best of times, and in an institution where laxatives were traded like cigarettes in jail, that was really saying something.

James Dawson

#72. Once a person gave his talent to the world, the world put a stamp upon it. The talent was not a personal possession any more. It was something to be traded, bought and sold. It fetched a high price, or a low one. It was kicked in the common market.

Daphne Du Maurier

#73. About cars: They can list with faithful accuracy each model they acquired through the years, how much they paid for each one, its main faults, and why they traded it in - but they couldn't list as many close friends.

Doris Janzen Longacre

#74. You don't wait 30 minutes before a game to tell a guy he's traded.

Steve Francis

#75. The Red Sox believe what's written. If it's written that I should be traded, more times than not, that's what ends up happening. Look at the people who've gotten traded around here. It's not their doing.

Jon Lester

#76. The options and futures traded on exchanges are derivatives contracts.

Carol Loomis

#77. She had traded that first womb for twenty notes and a case of Ras Tiegan beer.

Kameron Hurley

#78. If I have forfeited the ability to wonder so as not to offend the tenets of the culture, and if I have sacrificed warm dreams on the cold altar of conformity, it is likely because I have somewhere traded the marvel of the infinite for the malaise of the finite.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#79. We pay for every little choice we make. You traded everyone else's life for yours. I traded my life for everyone else's.

Sister Souljah

#80. The Great Bubble ended on March 10, 2000 (though we didn't realize that fact until some months later). On that day, the NASDAQ (recently 1,731) hit its all-time high of 5,132. That same day, Berkshire shares traded at $40,800, their lowest price since mid-1997.

Warren Buffett

#81. My penalty for rocking the boat was being traded.

Ted Lindsay

#82. There are people who are avaricious parasites. There are psychotic geniuses in control of this planet, and to them human beings are only a commodity to be bought and sold and traded.

Alex Jones

#83. All corporate-owned, publicly-traded media is our first and most immediate enemy.

Michael Ruppert

#84. My dad once told me that his biggest challenge after returning from Vietnam had been coming to terms with his own callousness. He'd made a deal with the war and traded his humanity for a ticket home.

Tucker Elliot

#85. I only had one player in my 33 years of sports that couldn't be traded. He wore No. 23 - and 45 when he played baseball.

Jerry Reinsdorf

#86. If you're the CEO of a publicly traded company, you're worried about quarterly returns.

Peter Diamandis

#87. Outside my window, the British public traded crack, slept with itself for money, and fought drunken battles it couldn't remember in the morning.

Hugh Laurie

#88. When Donald Duck traded his wings for arms, was he trading up or trading down?

Douglas Coupland

#89. There is no poverty in life when you have a loving, peaceful, happy family. They are a gift which cannot be bought nor traded for gold.

Ryan Dunn

#90. I'm astonished at how readily a great many people I know, young people, have accepted a reduced economic prospect and limited freedoms in any substantial sense, and basically traded them for being able to screw around online.

Jaron Lanier

#91. The President's unwavering devotion to his television set was so potentially embarrassing his cabinet would gladly have traded it in for an indiscreet mistress.

Ann Patchett

#92. Whites have traded their culture for power.

Eileen O'Brien

#93. War is a bazaar where lives are traded like any other commodity: chocolate or bullets or parachute silk.

Anthony Doerr

#94. Once we started to urbanize, we put ourselves on this treadmill. We traded away stability for growth. And growth requires change.

Geoffrey West

#95. I had a very crazy aunt and uncle who we traded my brother Webster to for a Siamese cat. It was heaven to live with my aunt and uncle because you got spoiled to death.

Rex Smith

#96. Fungible goods in economics can be extended and traded. So, half as much grain is half as much useful, but half a baby or half a computer is less useful than a whole baby or a whole computer, and we've been trying to make computers that work that way.

Neil Gershenfeld

#97. As kids, we traded 'I like Ike' and 'All the way with Adlai' buttons in elementary school.

Andrea Mitchell

#98. Come on, when does it come to the point where your name can't come up in trade talks? Willie Mays got traded. Pedro Martinez got traded. So what? That's part of the game.

Eric Davis

#99. The right to have children should be a marketable commodity, bought and traded by individuals but absolutely limited by the state.

Kenneth E. Boulding

#100. Saga of the Sexually Repressed Southerner Who Traded Gold for Whale Teeth.

Yanko Tsvetkov