The trade of critic, in literature, music, and the drama, is the most degraded of all trades. - Mark Twain
The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is in running. Where it is lacking there are no real students, but only poor caricatures of apprentices who, at the end of their apprenticeship, will not even have a trade. - Simone Weil
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. - Mark Twain
Only a prostitute will trade her valuables for money, so you shouldn't sell your God given ideas and talents for money, because you don't own it in any way but should be by a divine authority. - Michael Bassey Johnson
Music, moody food of us that trade in love. - William Shakespeare
Wanting to win is what keeps the trade on, If you win, you lose the trade. - Auliq Ice
I'm a novelist by trade and my job is to write a story rather than reconstruct actual events. - Sara Sheridan
The ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas [and] the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
The average trade book has a shelf life of between milk and yogurt, except for books by any member of the Irving Wallace family - they have preservatives. - Calvin Trillin
A family man shouldn't trade his peace for profits, it is the job of a businessman. - Amit Kalantri
Believe in yourself, don't let no man define your future, work hard at your trade as if no man exist to help you and focus should be your lens against distractions. - Oscar Bimpong
People say I was made for thisNothin' else would I trade for thisAnd just think I get paid for this... - Bobby Darin
The sad reality of Mankind: Faith is the currency people trade in, through their ego and selfish ways. - Unarine Ramaru
Beauty for wisdom, lust for love, youth for happiness, anger for understanding and denial for acceptance are all things I gladly trade on my journey through life. Who say's getting old is a bad thing? - J.S. Riley
People that criticize the harshest usually are the ones who would trade places the fastest - Gary Hopkins
When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all. - Lois McMaster Bujold
Trade your secrets and become who you are. - Frank Warren
Money should be ones demand and not command, one should not become a slave of Money because we made money to help us trade and not to make us, we're already made even without money. - Auliq Ice
Without a doubt, the most ingenious plan I could ever hope to devise would be to trade my plans for God’s. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
When people encounter the free market and they recoil or react negatively to it, they're merely confessing that voluntaryism, trade and negotiation are foreign and threatening to them, which tells you everything about how tragically they were raised. - Stefan Molyneux
Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade and laissez faire.
Those who would renegotiate the boundaries between church and state must therefore answer a difficult question: why would we trade a system that has served us so well for one that has served others so poorly? - Sandra Day O'Connor
And everything I thought I knew - you made me trade it all for you...but, frankly, you're not worth it. - Phar West Nagle
As it happened, all three of us turned out to be real writers--a coincidence almost too large to be termed mere coincidence in a society where literally tens of thousands (maybe hundreds of thousands) of college students aspire to the writer's trade and where bare hundreds actually break through. - Stephen King
The only thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart. - Lois McMaster Bujold
Dear Anarcho-Communist,If you and I ever find ourselves in a stateless society, have no fear. Just mention that you are a communist, and I promise I will never try to "oppress" and "exploit" you by offering to trade with you, or by offering to pay you to do work.Sincerely, - Larken Rose
Globally, millions of married men and women engage the servicesof sex workers each year. Despite growing health concerns aboutthe increased risk of STDs and HIV AIDS this trade continues toblossom, leading to the premature termination of several lives andthe dissolution of several marriages. - Oche Otorkpa
Value is what you trade to get money. The more valuable you are the more money you attract. - Oscar Bimpong
I Still Have Everything You Gave MeIt is dusty on the edges.It is slightly rotten.I guard it without thinking.I focus on it once a yearwhen I shake it out in the wind.I do not ache.I would not trade. - Naomi Shihab Nye
The moment that any of us begins to trade principle for approval we give up our power.
People are willing to trade money for something that they can touch, not ones and zereos. - John Gruber
Trade and money, which go together in a stream of energy, inevitably wash away the enclosing walls of a society of status. - Isabel Paterson
There is never a restless night for the dark soul. They sleep well within a destiny sealed and accepted in trade for the spoils of the earth - Carl Henegan
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.[Undelivered remarks for Dallas Trade Mart, November 22 1963] - John F. Kennedy
Teams that spend a lot of time learning the tricks of the trade will probably never really learn the trade. - Yuri Boganov
As it stands there is a very strong argument that as the book trade becomes increasingly corporate it's our literary heritage that is at risk - a vital part of our culture. - Sara Sheridan
In a job you trade your freedom and time for money. - Ken Poirot
A friend told me that one day he and I would be rich and famous. I told him that I'd trade my half of the fame, for his half of the money. - Quentin R. Bufogle
If you trade your authenticity for safety, you may experience the following: anxiety, depression, eating disorders, addiction, rage, blame, resentment, and inexplicable grief. - Brené Brown
Be courteous, be obliging, but don't give yourself over to be melted down for the benefit of the tallow trade. - George Eliot
Malick to Jacin: "There is no trade anymore, you're not nothing, you didn't kill Caidi, you're going to be the most beautiful-dangerous Incendiary the gods have ever seen, and I fucking love you. Deal with it. - Carole Cummings
The point is, whether or not they show it at dinner parties, writers learn, by a necessity of their trade, to be the sharpest of observers. - John Gardner
While the archetype of the tinker is generally the whipping person in classical bedtimes stories, this particular individual was a tinker by trade and just happened to be economically disadvantaged. - James Finn Garner
When we inhabit our own life—stop doing things based on the approval of others—we offload baggage and trade up to joy! - Laurie Buchanan, PhD
Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart. - Lois McMaster Bujold
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do then by the ones you did. So, throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. - Mark Twain
Private property and free trade stand on exactly the same footing, both being essential and indivisible parts of liberty, both depending upon rights, which no body of men, whether called governments or anything else, can justly take from the individual. - Auberon Herbert
War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade. - Percy Bysshe Shelley
I shall be an autocrat, that's my trade; and that good Lord will forgive me, that's his.
I'd trade all my tomorrows for one single yesterday. - Kris Kristofferson
I’m going to break one of the rules of the trade here. I’m going to tell you some of the secrets of improvisation. Just remember—it’s always a good idea to follow the directions exactly the first time you try a recipe. But from then on, you’re on your own. - James Beard
He who has not a good memory should never take upon himself the trade of lying. - Michel de Montaigne
The case for trade is not just monetary, but moral. Economic freedom creates habits of liberty. And habits of liberty create expectations of democracy. - George W. Bush
We can have traders, without them being traitors.We can trade, without trading others.We can trade our traits, and not our worst ones, with others.We can trade our traitors for better traders, or they can become better traders themselves.Let the market trade this way. - Justin K. McFarlane Beau
He possessed the logic of all good intentions and a knowledge of all the tricks of his trade, and yet he never succeeded at anything, because he believed too much in the impossible. Surprising? Why so? He was forever in the act of conceiving it! - Charles Baudelaire
It's frustrating to witness how popular Fairtrade bananas, coffee and tea have become with shoppers and supermarkets while plenty of unfair trade goes on, largely unnoticed, in our own back yard. - Rose Prince
To focus solely on endings is to trade conclusions for the very beginnings that created them. And if this cycle should persist, we will likewise miss the beginning that will follow this ending. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
We merely want to live in peace with all the world, to trade with them, to commune with them, to learn from their culture as they may learn from ours, so that the products of our toil may be used for our schools and our roads and our churches and not for guns and planes and tanks and ships of war. - Dwight D. Eisenhower
There is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero. - Walt Whitman