#offer

It is a trick among the dishonest to offer sacrifices that are not needed, or not possible, to avoid making those that are required. ↗

— Ivan Goncharov

#avoid #dishonest #making #needed #offer

Now, I have big-money offers on three movies, and I have director approval. That's kind of scary,' he says. 'No directors have been attached. That's a lot of pressure on me. ↗

— Cuba Gooding, Jr.

#attached #been #director #directors #i

President Johnson offered the middle of the road. ↗

— Lew Wasserman

#middle #offered #president #president johnson #road

To offer a man unsolicited advice is to presume that he doesn't know what to do or that he can't do it on his own. ↗

— John Gray

#his #know #man #offer #own

Generally speaking, when a woman offers unsolicited advice or tries to help a man, she has no idea of how critical and unloving he may sound to him. ↗

— John Gray

#critical #generally #help #him #how

I think instead writers and publishers and readers need to go to the places where people are, and make the argument that there is great value to the quiet, contemplative process of reading a novel, that reading great books carefully offers pleasures and consolations that no iPad app ever can. ↗

— John Green

#books #carefully #consolations #contemplative #ever

I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect - it changes a relation. The man who offers a bribe gives away a little of his own importance; the bribe once accepted, he becomes the inferior, like a man who has paid for a woman. ↗

— Graham Greene

#away #becomes #bribe #changes #effect

Sunrise offered a very beautiful spectacle; the water was quite unruffled, but the motion communicated by the tides was so great that, although there was not a breath of air stirring, the sea heaved slowly with a grand and majestic motion. ↗

— George Grey

#although #beautiful #breath #communicated #grand

At a time when unbridled greed, malignant aggression, and existence of weapons of mass destruction threatens the survival of humanity, we should seriously consider any avenue that offers some hope. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

#any #avenue #consider #destruction #existence

They look at what's more important, like subjects to help with the SAT's, etc. They miss that music is vital. It offers a break from a stressful day of science and math and it's different. ↗

— Justin Guarini

#day #different #etc #help #important