Exchange Quotes - page 4

Money does not arise by convention, any more than the state does. It arises out of exchange, and arises naturally out of exchange; it is a product of the same. (Karl Marx)
Exchange value forms the substance of money, and exchange value is wealth. View quote
Karl Marx
You can't measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange. View quote
Milan Kundera
I'd sooner exchange ideas with the birds on earth than learn to carry on intergalactic communications with some obscure race of humanoids on a satellite planet from the world of Betelgeuse. View quote
Edward Abbey
Nobody ever saw a dog make a fair and deliberate exchange of one bone for another with another dog. View quote
Adam Smith
Our grandfathers were less well-housed, well-fed, well-clothed than we are. The strivings by which they bettered their lot are also those which deprived us of [passenger] pigeons. Perhaps we now grieve because we are not sure, in our hearts, that we have gained by the exchange. The gadgets of industry bring us more comforts than the pigeons did, but do they add as much to the glory of the spring? View quote
Aldo Leopold
New dramatic writing has banished conversational dialogue from the stage as a relic of dramaturgy based on conflict and exchange: any story, intrigue or plot that is too neatly tied up is suspect. View quote
Patrice Pavis
The goods of the world market are available for Cuba to purchase, but all the foreign exchange is monopolized by the regime, which uses it for its own power and pleasure. View quote
Robert Zubrin
The U.S. berates China for its exchange rate policy, which Washington doesn't like. But one-sided pressure on China to change its exchange rate is misplaced. View quote
Robert Mundell
As social animals, we need to exchange juicy tales about someone - to connect with one another. For millions of years our forebears must have sat around the campfire, whispering about everyone they knew. View quote
Helen Fisher
The healing power of even the most microscopic exchange with someone who knows in a flash precisely what you're talking about because she experienced that thing too cannot be overestimated. (Cheryl Strayed)
When you're doing kidney transplants, you have to find out who can exchange kidneys with whom, doing blood tests to make sure it's true. You can't just work on the preliminary data. Then you have to organize the logistics. View quote
Alvin E. Roth
A currency designed for long-term storage and investment doesn't do so well at encouraging transactions and exchange in the moment. View quote
Douglas Rushkoff
At Geneva, the neutral states were often in agreement concerning the preliminaries for Genoa, and Genoa itself was marked by a quite natural mutual exchange of ideas. View quote
Hjalmar Branting
To realize peace on the Korean peninsula, and to develop exchange, cooperation between both Koreas, they are the, you know, immediate target of our government. View quote
Kim Dae-jung
Popularity isn't just something that happens. You have to give something in exchange for it, and that's the dangerous part of the process. View quote
Robert Bringhurst
The intercourse between the Mediterranean and the North or between the Atlantic and Central Europe was never purely economic or political; it also meant the exchange of knowledge and ideas and the influence of social institutions and artistic and literary forms. View quote
Christopher Dawson
We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - what I am is beyond my control for the philosophy of responsibility. View quote
Barbara Jordan
The old boy network is still very strong and very true. Just look at the stock exchange and how many men and women are there. It is still very much run by men. View quote
Billie Jean King
When I was in high school, I liked to pretend that I was a Russian foreign exchange student. I would do things like go into a pizza restaurant and tell them I'd never had pizza before, and they'd bring me into the kitchen and show me how to make an American pizza. It's really fun. View quote
Misha Collins
The trade of banks is the buying and selling of interest and exchange. (William Petty)
Could you let me have the 3 weeks due to me now and if I work again before August I must of course repay you at the rate of exchange you let me have it at now if you kindly will. View quote
Basil Rathbone
Regional exchange can be a source of growth and development, and of enhancing good governance. View quote
Anna Lindh
Actually, King Abdullah, under his supervision and guidance, has established a dialogue in Saudi Arabia whereby all the population, whether Shiite or Sunnis from north, south, west or east, they can get together and exchange their views. View quote
Al-Waleed bin Talal
The longer we listen to one another - with real attention - the more commonality we will find in all our lives. That is, if we are careful to exchange with one another life stories and not simply opinions. View quote
Barbara Deming