Top 1200 Trade-Off Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

I guess I was about 15. I wore glasses at the time, and I remember [first girlfriend] sitting on the floor at a party, one of those school parties where everyone is getting off with each other. I remember her taking my glasses off and saying something very complimentary about my eyes or whatever, and I was just so pissed off because I was convinced she was taking the piss out of me.

The Queen of Hearts, she made some tarts, all on a hot summer's day. The Knave of Hearts, he stole those tarts. The mad Queen said, "Off with his head! Off with his head! Off with his head!" Well... that's too bad... no more heads to cut.

We do not control the trade of our resources, which are an important factor of prosperity for the dominant nations.

The first time I cut all my hair off was when I was 19. I just got fed up going to the salon every week. I'd had enough! On a whim, it was off. It's low-maintenance.

Sweat doesn't fall off you. The water just accumulates until it gets too big and agitated and falls off like a sphere of water. It then floats around until it hits something. It takes a lot of water to fall off. Usually it just hangs on, so you get a quick build-up of sweat when working out.

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

I became a dancer in self-defense. I was doing a comedy monologue and didn't know how else to get off, so I danced off. I've been dancing ever since, but I'm still a comedian.

Growing up in a business-orientated family meant that I naturally learnt the tricks of the trade.

To hear the Japanese plead for free trade is like hearing the word love on the lips of a harlot.

At the same time, African aims to intensify cooperation with China in the fields of trade, investment and agriculture.

My last two years at Buffalo, I've had so many trade requests. Rumors every year.

You don't play eight years and all of a sudden let your game go down just for a trade.

My trade is a lonely one. I'm a craftsman, if you like. It so happens that these days singers are better paid than blacksmiths.

Life is very good. I'm the president and Chief Executive Officer of the Wireless trade association, the CTIA.

As far as standup goes, I really feel like I can stand and bang and trade with anybody in the game.

Life is an ordeal, albeit an exciting one, but I wouldn't trade it for the good old days of poverty and obscurity.

There's a lot of people in the world that would love to trade places with American citizens, and we are very fortunate to be here.

We'll build new ties of trade and of commerce, culture and education that unleash the potential of the Iraqi people.

What is gained by debt relief and aid can be lost if we don't get a proper trade agreement in Hong Kong.

You cannot read any image of the World Trade Center without thinking of 9/11.

In 2000, I got stuck in the sea off Cyprus after I fell off a boat. I was out there for over an hour. I am not a strong swimmer, but adrenaline kicked in, and I swam back.

The more we can have peaceful trade both with Russia, with China, and with others, you know, there's a self interest in this for everyone.

Trade agreements influence the standards, protections and regulations that shape the kind of society we live in.

Apparently Bolivia is the key source of lithium in the world. So we're gonna trade the Saudis for the Bolivians.

I adore [my son]. I wouldn't trade him in for a Pulitzer - unless someone actually offered that as an option.

Sound science must be a basis to governing our trade relations around the globe.

You'll have to have the governments sell off all of their public domains; sell off their railroads, sell off their public land. You'll essentially have to introduce neo-feudalism. You'll have to roll the clock of history back a thousand years, and reduce the European population to debt slavery. It's as simple a solution as the Eurozone has imposed on Greece. And it's a solution that the leaders and the banks are urging for responsible economists to promote for the population at large.

Why are people who are appalled at insider trading so quick to trade on inside information when it comes their way?

I feel that where I came from made me the actor that I am, and I wouldn't want to trade that with anything else.

Law is not a trade, not briefs, not merchandise, and so the heaven of commercial competition should not vulgarize the legal profession.

I wished there was some kind of switch on my brain. That I could turn it off in the same way that I could turn off the television. Just click it off and immediately empty my mind of all these images and worrying thoughts. And simply leave a blank screen. Or if I could just remove my head and put it on the bedside table and forget about it until morning. And then attach it again when I needed it.

At first it was a bit strange and daunting to have to wear a mask, but afterwards I came to enjoy it. In warm conditions, though, it started to slip off my face. Other times they used this double-sided sticky tape, and I literally couldn't get it off my face. I would feel like I was ripping my face off and I had a lot of cuts and bruises because of it-huge red marks. People might think it was method acting.

In the 1980s, Thatcher hacked away at our trade unions and abolished the Greater London Council.

Auditioning is a funny one. It's all about energy. If you walk into a room and the room feels off or the people feel off, that can set you off. If the room is very small. I know which casting directors I should go to, because the place is conducive to doing a good job and the people are conducive and I know the other ones aren't, in which case I send in a tape.

The talking shows allow me to come out of my cave and that's why those shows go on for so long. I hate walking off stage. Sometimes I walk off and I miss them as I'm walking off the stage. I wonder if they'll let me go another hour. That's why I do it: to communicate, to get points across.

It's always a struggle. It's an uphill battle the whole time. But you know what? The rewards are so graet, I wouldn't trade it for the world.

We get off track. Capitalism takes us off track. You get off the "real" and get on the "wheel." The "wheel" becomes the winning and losing, the succeeding and failing, the "I will achieve." All that stuff becomes so preoccupying, particularly if you're born with low self-esteem, or no sense of yourself, or even if you're just born in the consumer culture. It's very powerful.

The 1993 Trade Center bombing was obviously frightening. It could have been much worse than it was.

Hate always sells well, but for repeat trade and the long pull happiness is sounder merchandise.

Pop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman. Grounders are his stock trade.

Mass inflation, welfare line, gross economy, trade it all for what's behind curtain number three.

As ambassador, I am focused on expanding bilateral trade and investment between the United States and Spain.

Chicago kept industry, attracted new business, became the center for convention trade and transportation.

Before Trump, trade policy ceded our manufacturing strength to foreign nations.

Our relations with the Indians have been governed chiefly by treaties and trade, or war and subjugation.

Trade liberalization can be contagious, and the opening of markets regionally can spark progress multilaterally as well.

The original form is the contagion of fear and alarm. You're in a flock of birds. One bird suddenly takes off. You have no time to wait and see what's going on. You take off, too. Otherwise, you're lunch.

Wars are sometimes waged to extend trade-the blood of many being shed to enrich a few.

Sanctions are not diplomacy. They are a precursor to war and an embarrassment to a country that pays lip service to free trade.

I think by now if people hire me, they know I'm going to improvise. I'm an improviser by trade.

Respect Mother Earth and her giving ways or trade away our children's days.

Christ offers us the incredible opportunity to trade temporary goods and currency for eternal rewards.

You know, plenty of people headed off to Canada or America on the basis of government information, propaganda campaigns. Often you'd go off with a brochure in hand and you'd turn up and it wouldn't be like that at all.

The world would be better off if people tried to become better. And people would become better if they stopped trying to become better off. For when everybody tries to become better off, nobody is better off. But when everybody tries to become better, everybody is better off.

We should not allow a trade treaty to take precedence over our own laws and regulations.

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

The extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record persists as the trade secret of paleontology.

A country like France now does two-thirds of its trade within the euro zone.

I tried snowboarding at 14, and I absolutely fell in love with it. I snowboarded every day off I had, every weekend I had off of school, every holiday we had off from school, and it became a huge part of my life, not just what I love to do, but really just kind of who I was.

Living faith is above circumstances; no delays can discourage it, no loss of friends or depression in trade can touch it.