Auctioned Quotes & Sayings

A dog is grateful for what is, which I am finding to be the soundest kind of wisdom and very good theology. — Carrie Newcomer

Whether women are better than men I cannot say ... but i can say they are certainly no worse. — Golda Meir

I still get a lot of letters from kids and parents who face different challenges and disabilities. I share some of the lessons that I learned through sports and baseball, which makes me feel good. It's incredible to have an impact that way. — Jim Abbott

Oh, Black known and unknown poets, how often have your auctioned pains sustained us? Who will compute the lonely nights made less lonely by your songs, or by the empty pots made less tragic by your tales?
If we were a people much given to revealing secrets, we might raise monuments and sacrifice to the memories of our poets, but slavery cured us of that weakness. — Maya Angelou

I really am a mystic. I don't know where I got it from. — Debbie Harry

I get more optimistic as I get older. — Richard Flanagan

I love Twitter. As an entertainer, it's a way to connect with the fans, and I think that's important. — Lance Gross

For the surf idol Duke Kahanamoku portrait, which I created for the Surfrider Foundation, I took a photo from a book cover and abstracted the photo image into a drawing. This drawing was laminated onto a surfboard and auctioned to a buyer. — John Van Hamersveld

If I hear any more loud voices, you will both be auctioned off on eBay. I could use the extra money. — J.R. Rain

Always assume incompetence before looking for conspiracy. — Niccolo Machiavelli

She would have auctioned off the Milky Way if it would have made his intentions a little less honorable — Marissa Meyer

The Cubs are a major league baseball team based in Chicago. Apparently, the team was once cursed by a goat and is doomed now to never win the World Series. The 71 seats [auctioned by the Chicago Board of Exchange] are adjacent to the Cubs' dugout on the third-base line. This is an unnecessary detail needed to give color to what would otherwise be a dull and uninspiring narrative. — Rakesh V. Vohra

The word liberty in the mouth of Mr. Webster sounds like the word love in the mouth of a courtesan. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I had a novel in the back of my mind when I won an Ian St James story competition in 1993. At the award ceremony an agent asked me if I was writing a novel. I showed her four or five chapters of what would become 'Behind the Scenes at the Museum' and to my surprise she auctioned them off. — Kate Atkinson

One has to dare if one wants to get anywhere,' said Mrs. Bantry. — Agatha Christie

It seemed especially cruel, then, three days later, in the hospital when the doctor came into the room to tell Leonard that he suffered from something that would never go away, something that could only be "managed," as if managing, for an eighteen-year-old looking out on life, could be any life at all. — Jeffrey Eugenides

Writing adds up to the conscience of our times. — Martin Firrell

His justice is the love that gives to each one of His creatures the gifts that His mercy has previously decreed. And His mercy is His love, doing justice to its own exigencies, and renewing the gift which we had failed to accept. — Thomas Merton

These days, she would have auctioned off the Milky Way to make his intentions a little less honorable. Her — Marissa Meyer

You force people to stop asking questions, and before you know it they have auctioned off the question mark, or sold it for scrap. No boldness. No good ideas for fixing what's broken in the land. Because if you happen to mention it's broken, you are automatically disqualified. — Barbara Kingsolver

We need a firm cap on carbon emissions from fossil fuels. No coal, oil, or gas could enter the economy until the buyer had a permit. All permits would be auctioned by the federal government, and the number of permits auctioned would be decreased by three percent per year. Permits could be traded, but they could not be created out of whole cloth by companies that plant forests or dump iron filings at sea. — Denis Hayes

A college education is one of the few purchases a person can make that cannot be repossessed or auctioned off — Ken Ilgunas

In Naples, Fla., I met a self-made man, a multimillionaire, whose round penthouse apartment is home to Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Claude Monet, Henry Moore, and Mickey Mantle. He had purchased the most coveted items auctioned by the Mantle family at Madison Square Garden in December 2003. — Jane Leavy

I've auctioned off many scripts and will continue to do so for good causes. — Claudia Christian

I kept thinking about how southern Manhattan had always been Ground Zero for us. They auctioned our bodies down there, in that same devastated, and rightly named, financial district. And there was once a burial ground for the auctioned there. They built a department store over part of it and then tried to erect a government building over another part. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

He who thanks but with the lips
Thanks but in part;
The full, the true Thanksgiving
Comes from the heart. — John G. Shedd

In Germany anti-Uber feeling has nurtured a broader criticism of "Plattform-Kapitalismus"; its perceived readiness to reduce all aspects of people's lives, from spare rooms to spare time, to assets to be auctioned off is seen as deeply dehumanising. — Anonymous