Bidding famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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One advantage of bad bidding is that you get practice at playing atrocious contracts.
-- Alfred Sheinwold -
For suppose that every tool we had could perform its task, either at our bidding or itself perceiving the need, and if-like the statues made by Dædalus or the tripods of Hephæstus, of which the poet says that "self-moved they enter the assembly of the gods" - shuttles in a loom could fly to and fro and a plectrum play a lyre all self-moved, then master-craftsmen would have no need of servants nor masters of slaves.
-- Aristotle -
When Robert Benton was doing the movie 'In the Still of the Night,' I'd choreographed the auction scene and supplied the paintings and had a bit part - I was bidding against Meryl Streep.
-- Arne Glimcher -
Warlords, dictators and terrorists are normally okay with the U.S., as long as they do the bidding of U.S. corporate interests.
-- Brendan Sexton III -
They examined all my organs. Some of them are quite remarkable and others are not so good. A lot of museums are bidding for them.
-- Casey Stengel -
We will put no impediment in your way and we will be at dockside bidding you a farewell as you set off into the sunset.
-- Charles Lichenstein -
We all understand that America feels so angry, they want to get somebody, but you can't just have lots of planes and guns and ships and make everybody do your bidding.
-- Clare Short -
If you train yourself to listen to your intuition and to follow its bidding, you will greatly increase your percentage of success in life.
-- Harold Sherman -
If you're an employer, you want to hire an employee who'll do their job, not do your bidding.
-- Jeffrey Jones -
The artist himself is often surprised at the finished work of art. He cannot tell 'how it happened', nor could he repeat the feat at someone's bidding.
-- John F. Carlson -
Joy, whose hand is ever at his lips, bidding adieu
-- John Keats -
If by prayer Incessant I could hope to change the will Of him who all things can, I would not cease To weary him with my assiduous cries; But prayer against his absolute decree No more avails than breath against the wind Blown stifling back on him that breathes it forth: Therefore to his great bidding I submit.
-- John Milton -
My agent and I put out my proposal one Thursday afternoon in August, 1998. Publishers started bidding immediately, and that process progressed for a few days.
-- Laura Hillenbrand -
Painting is stronger than me, it makes me do it's bidding.
-- Pablo Picasso -
The international game has changed for bidding cities.
-- Peter Ueberroth -
The smartest side to take in a bidding war is the losing side.
-- Warren Buffett -
His neigh is like the bidding of a monarch, and his countenance enforces homage. He is indeed a horse...
-- William Shakespeare -
Those are the two best words in English, 'Bidding' and 'war'.
-- Evan Daugherty -
You must learn to follow privately the Lord's bidding: not to speak empty words, not to adorn yourself, always to obey authority, not to look at a woman with desire, not to be angry and much else.
-- Tito Colliander
