Buying Quotes

How can we tax people for not buying a product from a website that doesn't work?

We chase the reward, we get the reward and then we discover that the true reward is always the next reward. Buying pleasure is a false end.

Unwarrantable installment buying is a pit into which those who covet fall.

You're buying years of work, toil in the sun; you're buying a sorrow that can't talk.

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

The smartest thing legislatures can do is get rid of lotteries and get those dollars buying consumer goods and get the sales tax revenues from that

I'm as embarrassed as hell about it. I purged myself of my shame by buying the Beatles 'all you need is love', one of the most evocative singles of all time.

There are countries that prefer to think that they're buying comfort at the cost of others, but I don't think that's the way you can act in this world. There are no neutral groups.

Music is so hard. It's a struggle to get people to care. It's hard to make an impact in today's world because people aren't buying records anymore.

Look at someone like Ke$ha. I wouldn't say she's got the most rangy, incredible voice, but she's got a thing. She stands for something, and people are buying into that.

It's these parallel universes when someone you love is sick. Your world is this completely foreign place involving radiation and tumor markers. Outside, people are buying sweaters.

I haven't bought anything excessive. I do plan on buying an island and filling it with baby tigers, though.

If people had good albums, they'd be buying albums. But people are buying singles because they only have good songs.

I felt sick. Buying Kisten’s and my safety from Piscary was so wrong. But it was either that or deal with a demon, and I’d rather keep my soul clean and let my morals get dingy.

I vowed to never use my American accent, and I didn't. Even going to get the paper in the morning to buying milk down at the shop, getting a cab, wherever.

I'm a great believer in everything at the right time. Go on a crazy spree if it's the right time to do it but choose your moment carefully and beware of impulse buying.

My mum says, 'Go with your first instinct,' but this can lead to impulse buying!

There is no technical reason why we could not feed a world of nine billion people. Hunger is a matter of buying power, not of shortages.

The thing about Paris, it's a great city for wandering around and buying shoes and nursing a cafe au lait for hours on end and pretending you're Baudelaire. But it's not a city where you can work.

Over many generations, fortunes in the business world were made through buying and selling products in physical stores. Internet fortunes have been made buying and selling products online.

They know not how many things are signified by the words stealing, sowing, buying, keeping quiet, seeing what ought to be done; for this is not effected by the eyes, but by another kind of vision.

Love is giving, marriage is buying and selling. You can't put love into a contract.

I always felt like an outsider growing up. In school, I felt like I never fit in. But it didn't help when my mother, instead of buying me glue for school projects, would tell me to just use rice.

It's pretty sad that when people see a guy buying flowers, they assume he's in trouble.

Buying a home wouldn't make much sense if house prices were likely to decline further; no one wants to catch a falling knife.

A lot of TV people buy more than one of an item, in case they spot or stain it, but I don't like buying duplicates - it's wasteful.

Stop going for the easy buck and start producing something with your life. Create, instead of living off the buying and selling of others.

The reality is people are going to steal the record instead of buying it. It's kind of a cancer in the industry where people will just use a streaming service and then won't buy the record.

I'm a drugstore beauty girl, I love going to the drugstore and buying makeup.

There are so many currency exchange rate problems that people are buying gold as a safe haven. Right now, gold looks like a safe haven if international exchange rates break down.

I'm a firm believer that all this packaged stuff that Americans are buying up in gobs is making them fatter.

There are moments when I resent even buying a book. But browsing is wonderful. I like to go and browse everywhere, even fashion shops. You can get influences from anywhere.

Buying shoes is the highest form of shopping.

I have actually found myself buying up more and more old analogue gear. I have this strange obsession with old drum machines.

My goal with everything that I do is to present things in a way that I would want to see if I was in the audience or buying the record.

We still live in a world where if you have nuclear weapons, you are buying power; you are buying insurance against attack.

I would say, if you're buying less expensive clothes, buy two sizes bigger. They'll hang better.

Every four years, I'll watch figure skating, but I'm no closer to buying tights.

A lot of people use a smiley face when they write letters. But it's this huge insane compulsion, like "I'm happy! I swear!" I'm not buying it. I don't believe them.

Can't you see that everyone is buying station wagons?

I sort of pride myself in my dissatisfaction with my work. I've always been concerned with buying the hype, and having that make your performances suffer.

What I don't understand about mobile homes is that you have a mobile place to live, you park it, and you never move it again. That's like buying a Sony Walkman, and nailing it to your hi-fi.

Buying a Ferrari is like buying Château Pétrus if you like fine wines. It's the safe choice.

Im saving up to buy art. Nothing famous, but every time Im in a new city I wander into galleries and dream about buying great pieces one day.

I learned that buying expensive furniture with toddlers around is pointless.

Everything changes all the time, and unfortunately, everyone who knows what you do by buying records only hears a small amount of what's going on in your life.

I'm an advocate for buying few, but very good quality pieces of clothing, and if you do that you need to take care of them.

I am guilty of buying way too many gadgets - way too many! And though I try to keep things nice and orderly, sometimes I get distracted and stick saucepans where the stockpots should go.

When I buy Windows 98, I'm not only buying something useful, I'm giving money to Bill Gates, which is a really good thing.

And to all of you, what it really comes down to is: If you're buying a book with my name on it, I feel I owe it to you to have it be the best book that I can make it.