104 Commodity Quotes for You to Enjoy

Canada Day comes and goes modestly every year. Sure, there are retail sales promotions and a long weekend. But there isn't bluster or commodity in Canadian celebration. Canada isn't big on bunting. Or jet flyovers, fireworks, marching bands or military pomp. Rick Moranis

I sometimes lie, especially about personal things, because what does it matter? I am a kind of minute commodity, my name is no longer my own. River Phoenix

Lie Sometimes Matter Own Kind Minute About My Own Longer Name Because Does Am Personal Commodity Personal Things Things

Good nature is the cheapest commodity in the world, and love is the only thing that will pay ten percent, to borrower and lender both. Robert Green Ingersoll

Love Good Nature Love Is World Will Pay Good Nature Borrower Percent Ten Only Both Cheapest Commodity The Only Thing Lender Thing

Love is a dangerous commodity - fraught with peril. Robert Indiana

Love Love Is Dangerous Fraught Peril Commodity

Top-up fees mean that universities are increasingly under pressure to confer degrees upon students, who perceive the degree as a commodity they've purchased. Failure doesn't enter into anyone's calculations. Sarah Churchwell

Failure Pressure Degree Increasingly Enter Purchased Degrees Perceive Students Fees Calculations Commodity Anyone Mean Who Universities

Auto companies need to quickly separate the stuff that will be swallowed by commodity from the brand stuff. Sergio Marchionne

Will Stuff Brand Quickly Auto Commodity Swallowed Separate Companies Need

Trust is an amazing commodity. The Afghan people often talk to me about having to develop trust in America, because they believe that we deserted them in 1990 and 1991. Stanley A. McChrystal

Me Trust People Amazing Believe About Having Develop Talk Because America Afghan Afghan People Often Commodity Them Deserted

People perceive me as a commodity. They just don't think anything of asking for five minutes of my time. It never occurs to them that if they're asking for it and another thousand people are asking, I don't have 1,000 five minutes to give. Stephen Jay Gould

Time Me People Think Thousand Minutes Perceive Give My Time Never Another Occurs Five Commodity Just Anything Them Asking

The best measure of inflation is what is happening with commodity prices. Stephen Moore

Best Inflation Prices Commodity Happening Measure

When I was a kid, phone calls were a premium commodity; only the very coolest kids had a phone line of their own, and long-distance phone calls were made after eleven, when the rates went down, unless you were flamboyant with your spending. Then phone calls became as cheap as dirt and as constant as rain, and I was on the phone all the time. Susan Orlean

Time You Rain Phone Made Own Down Unless Spending Kid Phone Calls Kids Constant Rates Only Dirt Had Cheap Long-Distance Calls Became Line Were Very Flamboyant Commodity After Then Your Premium Coolest Eleven

If America is addicted to foreign money and foreign oil, then China is addicted to foreign supplies of just about every commodity known to man - save highly polluting coal. Thomas P.M. Barnett

Man Money Every Addicted About Supplies Highly Known Foreign Foreign Oil America Commodity Just Oil Polluting China Then Coal Save

The care and concern of one human being for another is a peculiar 'commodity.' It can't be stockpiled. It becomes degraded through trade. It isn't delivered by machines. Its quality rests entirely on the attention paid by one person to another. Even to speak of reducing the time involved is to misunderstand its value. Tim Jackson

Time Quality Human Being Speak Care Value Machines Degraded Entirely Rests Through Delivered Attention Involved Concern Another Trade Becomes Misunderstand Reducing Person Human Commodity Being Paid Even Peculiar

We're going to move from a commodity economy where you basically grow the same kind of crops - where a kernel of corn is a kernel of corn is a kernel of corn - to an ingredient economy where there will be a kernel of corn that will be designed for fuel, there will be a kernel of corn designed for livestock. Tom Vilsack

You Will Corn Kind Crops Economy Same Going Move Commodity Where Fuel Ingredient Grow Livestock Designed Basically Kernel

The capitalist system is about taking from the Earth and from the other great commodity, labour. What's happening with this system is that the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer, and the only way out of it is supposed to be growth. But growth is debt. It's going to make the situation worse. Vivienne Westwood

Great Situation Rich Other Earth Way Worse System Out About Only Taking Supposed Make Debt Labour Getting Going Commodity Happening Poor Poorer Capitalist Richer Growth

News is the backbone of our network; the main commodity and the main successes of Al Jazeera came out of our involvement in covering the news in the Middle East. Wadah Khanfar

News Our Backbone East Out Network Main Involvement Came Covering Commodity Middle Middle East Successes Al Al Jazeera

Ships are a strange kind of commodity because they're very lumpy, very big individual units, but they're commodities. Wilbur Ross

Strange Big Kind Individual Because Ships Very Commodities Commodity Units

I was asked to do an ad campaign for a supermarket once. I was baffled. It's strange when you realise your popularity or reputation is a marketable commodity; it's a stock, a currency. Bill Bailey

You Strange Reputation Once Supermarket Baffled Campaign Stock Currency Commodity Realise Asked Your Popularity Ad Ad Campaign

What a nightmare it would be if we individually had to criminalise every single abuse of every single commodity, market or financial product. There are thousands of these and new ones being invented every day. Such an approach would have disastrous implications for regulation and policy-making. Any slide towards it must be resisted. Emily Thornberry

Day Every Day Financial Single Every Approach Market Slide Must Would Would-Be Thousands Invented Had Individually Towards Implications Abuse New Disastrous New Ones Any Commodity Being Product Regulation Resisted Nightmare

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