Transacted Quotes

#1. One very clear memory I have of college is that I never learned anything in the big lectures. I have a feeling I'd have done even worse if they'd been on a laptop screen.

Gail Collins

#2. My dream is to try to reach as many kids and readers who might need an unlikely hero to connect to.

Tim Federle

#3. Battles, in these ages, are transacted by mechanism; with the slightest possible development of human individuality or spontaneity; men now even die, and kill one another, in an artificial manner.

Thomas Carlyle

#4. Finally, gentleman, from the considerations above mentioned, as I cannot consistently with my own honor, nor with utility to my country, considering the manner in which Business is transacted here, remain any longer in this chair, I now resign it.

Henry Laurens

#5. Lies don't make you happy. They just make you lie about being happy.

Stefan Molyneux

#6. The reader can't take much for granted in a fiction where the scenery can eat the characters.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#7. If you're not having fun, you're doing something wrong.

Groucho Marx

#8. I don't want to be a star - most of the ones I know are too unhappy.

Vivian Vance

#9. If you look at the size of the art world in terms of the money that is being transacted compared to other parts of the 'consciousness industry,' it is minuscule. But if you look at what happens in this small sector, how it rubs off on the rest of it, it is astonishing.

Hans Haacke

#10. The business of lying is transacted in the abode of the gullible.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#11. If childhood is still a state, it is now chiefly a state of confusion.

Phyllis McGinley

#12. There's always a great deal of business to be transacted in one's office. There are always visitors it seems to me, an unending stream of them, who come with letters of recommendation, or come actually on substantive business.

David K. E. Bruce

#13. The Law and her sidekick, Tex, the Crackpot Coffee Guy were on the job.

Kristen Ashley

#14. Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge. - Marcus Tullius Cicero

Tom Standage

#15. If I met me, I would say a quick hello and then think that I was a really nice girl.

Britney Spears

#16. The Roman politician and philosopher Cicero once said: 'Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labours of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.

Ha-Joon Chang

#17. I've gone through the village of my songwriting and my artistry, and I've gone through lots of different phases, including one where it has been very quiet and abandoned me for a few years.

Carly Simon

#18. Up to this time, Mr Pancks had transacted little or no business at his quarters in Pentonville, except in the sleeping line; but now that he had become a fortune-teller,

Charles Dickens

#19. As to writing another book on geometry [to replace Euclid] the middle ages would have as soon thought of composing another New Testament.

Augustus De Morgan

#20. Christ's sacrifice stands in glorious proportions with the work to be done. Nothing else or less would suffice. It is a work supernatural, transacted in the plane of nature; and what but such a work could restore the broken order of the soul under evil?

Horace Bushnell

#21. The State is a term for the legislative and administrative machinery whereby certain business of the people is transacted, and badly so.

Emma Goldman

#22. Sing as you like, don't worry about who is listening to you.

Debasish Mridha

#23. What is missing in our economic system is a central value that can encompass everything that can be transacted and used to assign the proper relative value to everything.

Ilchi Lee

#24. Bouncing in the club where the heat is on,
All night on the beach till the break of dawn

Will Smith

#25. I would kiss Tipper much longer.

Al Gore

#26. And there are no words left, try as men may, to describe that little death, that incandescent instant when, transacted with mutual love, there is no difference between sweet submission and exquisite conquest.

Isolde Martyn

#27. It is hard to befool a fool who has already been fooled so many times

Munia Khan