Sara Paretsky Quotes

Donald Trump doesn't necessarily stay mad for very long. He's a transactional guy. If you can offer him something, he will take it. Or from a salesman's point of view, if he's not making the sale, you're of no use to him. But if you suddenly come back into the showroom and are willing to buy, he's willing to sell.

And what will you give me in return, Severus?' 'In - in return?' Snape gaped at Dumbledore, and Harry expected him to protest, but after a long moment he said, 'Anything.

I always think if you are asking somebody for something it is a good idea to give them something first.

It was a mutual thing. I made a deal with them: I asked them if they did not bring out the place card of Malachi, I would let them have two minutes with each one of my patients.

In a deal, you give and take. You compromise. Then you grab the cash and catch the next train out of town.

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another.

It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

You help me, I'll help you. That's politics.

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

Nations keep agreements, keep their treaties so long as they continue to do them good.

If you're nice to me I'll never write anything bad about you.

It’s in their interest to keep a Republican majority …. It’s sort of ‘Scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours.”

All government—indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act,—is founded on compromise and barter.

Everybody trades off in some sense or another.

… the principle of give and take--give one and take ten--the principle of diplomacy.

The first rule of negotiations is that normally you have to give to get.

It is never exactly clear what makes something a quid or a quo.

Everything is a negotiation. Everything is a little bit of give and take.

Approaching people looking for something in return isn't a relationship, it's a transaction.

A word of wisdom to you, akribos, you need to learn to accept gifts. (Catera) There’s no such thing as a gift. If I were to take that from you, sooner or later you would ask a favor from me in return. Nothing in life is ever truly given without expectation. (Acheron)

Sure, that's what I mean,' Doc Daneeka said. 'A little grease is what makes this world go round. One hand washes the other. Know what I mean? You scratch my back, I'll scratch yours.' Yossarian knew what he meant. That's not what I meant,' Doc Daneeka said, as Yossarian began scratching his back.

Men keep agreements when it is to the advantage of neither to break them.

Gifts are not favors. If you expect something in return, it's not a gift.

When people do things to make your dream come true, you owe them in one way or another. Everyone understands that for every dream that comes true for you, there might not be a dream coming true for someone else. When we trade one wish for another, there's a price to pay. It works like that