Trade Quotes

A kind of second childhood falls on so many men. They trade their violence for the promise of a small increase of life span. In effect, the head of the house becomes the youngest child.

I have the instincts of a minstrel rather than those of a scrivener. There you have it. We are not of the same trade at all and so how can your rules fit me?

[T]he only way to shrink the trade deficit is for the government to prohibit us from buying whatever we want.

Trade is a social act.

I wouldn't trade my career with anybody's. I'd trade a few movies with Tom Hanks - 'Apollo 13 and 'Forrest Gump' - but other than that, I love my career.

The ability to provide choices and the right to make choices that prove not detrimental, are the fundamental ingredients of free trade and independence.

America is the primary engine of growth in the world and we are the only beacon of free trade left, and open markets.

Apollo was held the god of physic and sender of disease. Both were originally the same trade, and still continue.

The plain truth is that the reporter's trade is for young men. Your feet, which do the legwork, are nine times more important than your head, which fits the facts into a coherent pattern.

What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul I suppose this depends somewhat upon the size of the soul. I think there are cases where the trade would do.

When you choose a language, you're choosing more than a set of technical trade-offs-you're choosing a community.

If I had a hundred kingdoms, I would trade them all for you, my dearest love. I was nothing until you.

When it comes to economics, president-elect [Donald] Trump has promised to revive American manufacturing, get tough on trade with China, cut taxes and invest in infrastructure.

Cynicism ... is the trade-mark of failure.

Freedom is a messy affair, and sometimes people get their feelings hurt but we think the trade-off is worth the aggravation.

I'm a pollster by trade, so I'm into things that are actually quantifiable.

This is what I find encouraging about the writing trades: ... They allow lunatics to seem saner than sane.

A bruxis. That was the one wish more powerful than a gavriel, and its trade value was singular: The only way to purchase one was with one’s own teeth. All of them, self-extracted.

While some are as loathe to trade a Bishop for a Knight as a Cadillac for a Chevrolet, others are prepared to do so without hesitation.

While there have been many potential scenarios discussed, today we have only confirmed that we designed Xbox One to enable our customers to trade in and resell games at retail.

The SSRC committee turned attention from team research for building a model of the United States to doing one for world trade in order to investigate the international transmission mechanism.

I would not go so far as to say that the French trade unions attached greater importance to the struggle for peace than the others did; but they certainly seemed to take it more to heart.

This led me to understand that trade unionism, the instrument of working-class liberation and of social change could, and indeed should, be also an instrument of industrial progress.

There is a genius on one side of every trade and a dolt on the other, but which is which does not become clear until much later.

Grandfather / advised me: / Learn a trade / I learned / to sit at desk / and condense / No layoff / from this / condensery.

Nobody really tells me what's going on, and I find out via the trades myself.

... the time will come when no servant will be hired without a diploma from some training school, and a girl will as much expect to fit herself for house-maid or cook, as for dressmaker or any trade.

The best way of losing a cause is to abuse your opponent and to trade upon his weakness.

I call the Lancashire trade immoral, because it was raised and is sustained on the ruin of millions of India's peasants.

Here am I, a human being and that has a body that is getting old. And I only have one, I can't trade it in.

The Chinese economy is growing at the rate of 9 percent; the Indian economy growing at the rate of 8 percent - enormous I think opportunities for two-way flow of trade, technology and investment.

Even today with the problems that we face, who would you rather be? Which country would you trade places with?

Love the little trade which thou hast learned, and be content therewith.

Let every man practise the trade which he best understands.

Stick a shovel into the ground almost anywhere and some horrible thing or other will come to light. Good for trade, we thrive on bones; without them there'd be no stories.

Brexit has shrunk the market opportunities. Exiting trade deals will do the same for the U.S. Those deals must be actively shaped and governed to make growth more inclusive.

I think the vast majority of Americans would have supported military action to stop the second plane from hitting the World Trade Center, if that had been possible. I would have been among them.

If we have a food supply that we can't trust, that has enormous implications for the way we view government, for the way we trust business, and for our international trade relations.

CONVICTIONS are lessons learned from experiences we’d never want to go through again, but wouldn’t trade for anything in the world.

If you get rid of a lot of the poseurs by destroying record companies, maybe it's a good trade-off.

I do think, over the last years, a lot of Republicans have decided it's not working, what the party believed in, free trade, global capitalism, open borders.

The worst thing that can happen to an investor is to make money on his first trade; he thinks investing is easy

A crowded police docket is the surest of all signs that trade is brisk and money plenty.

The principal linkages between Japan and the U.S. global economies are trade, financial markets, and commodity markets.

As an accountant by trade, my work for blue chip companies took me all over the world.

I'm afraid I'm not sufficiently inhibited about the things that other women are inhibited about for me. They feel that you've given away trade secrets.

Using human rights commitments more effectively, either as part of negotiations in the WTO or as part of the trade policy review process, poses issues of equality in a practical venue.

It's usually, my people speak to your people and then they speak around each other and trade calls for weeks.

Washington is a place where people have always been suspect of style and overt sexuality. Too much preening signals that you're not up late studying cap-and-trade agreements.

U.S. agricultural products, including safe, high-quality Montana beef, face unscientific trade restrictions in many important markets.