Bidding quotes

One advantage of bad bidding is that you get practice at playing atrocious contracts.
-- Alfred Sheinwold

#Practice #Bidding #Advantage

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

#Self #Play #Bidding

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

#Night #Auctions #Bidding

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

#Long #Bidding #Dictator

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

#Baseball #Museums #Bidding

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

#Farewell #Sunset #Bidding

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

#Gun #America #Bidding

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

#Success #Intuition #Bidding

If you're an employer, you want to hire an employee who'll do their job, not do your bidding.
-- Jeffrey Jones

#Jobs #Bidding #Want

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

#Art #Artist #Bidding

Joy, whose hand is ever at his lips, bidding adieu
-- John Keats

#Hands #Joy #Bidding

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

#Prayer #Wind #Bidding

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

#August #Thursday #Bidding

Painting is stronger than me, it makes me do it's bidding.
-- Pablo Picasso

#Art #Stronger #Bidding

The international game has changed for bidding cities.
-- Peter Ueberroth

#Games #Cities #Bidding

The smartest side to take in a bidding war is the losing side.
-- Warren Buffett

#War #Sides #Bidding

His neigh is like the bidding of a monarch, and his countenance enforces homage. He is indeed a horse...
-- William Shakespeare

#Horse #Bidding #Countenance

Those are the two best words in English, 'Bidding' and 'war'.
-- Evan Daugherty

#War #Two #Bidding

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

#Desire #Bidding #Looks