an offer QUOTES

1 " I don't care much for diamonds,' Nicola had told him.

'Have you ever been offered any?' he had asked, and he had been making fun of her, his face mocking.

'Not that I can remember,' Nicola had admitted calmly.

'And how would an offer be received?' he had asked, as though he knew the answer.

'With a kick in the teeth,' Nicola had said, meeting his eye. "

― Charlotte Lamb , Obsession

2 " Many religions now come before us with ingratiating smirks and outspread hands, like an unctuous merchant in a bazaar. They offer consolation and solidarity and uplift, competing as they do in a marketplace. But we have a right to remember how barbarically they behaved when they were strong and were making an offer that people could not refuse. "

― Christopher Hitchens , God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

3 " The offer of certainty, the offer of complete security, the offer of an impermeable faith that can’t give way, is an offer of something not worth having. I want to live my life taking the risk all the time that I don’t know anything like enough yet; that I haven’t understood enough; that I can’t know enough; that I’m always hungrily operating on the margins of a potentially great harvest of future knowledge and wisdom. I wouldn’t have it any other way. "

― Christopher Hitchens

4 " Partially undermining the manufacturer's ability to assert that its work constituted a meaningful contribution to mankind was the frivolous way in which it went about marketing its products. Grief was the only rational response to the news that an employee had spent three months devising a supermarket promotion based on an offer of free stickers of cartoon characters called the Fimbles. Why had the grown-ups so churlishly abdicated their responsibilities? Were there not more important ambitions to be met before Death showed himself on the horizon in his hooded black cloak, his scythe slung over his shoulder? "

― Alain de Botton , The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work

5 " When I started to draw, most of my influences were from other painters and illustrators, so I was drawing landscape at second hand, really. The trees were Rackham trees, or trees that I had seen in paintings rather than from my own observation...and I started to feel this was a real lack in my work. Everything was too generalised, and not based on real experience. Then in 1975, after having worked for some years in London as a book cover illustrator mainly, I came down to Devon and stayed with some friends up on the moor. In the course of this one weekend, wandering around the moor, finding rivers and ancient woods, I realised that everything that I would ever want to draw was actually here. There was so much richness in the texture and forms of these fantastic trees...and I decided in the course of that weekend to come and live here. I looked at a couple of houses, found one, and made an offer on it, all in that one weekend! "

― Alan Lee

6 " Discipleship is not an offer that man makes to Christ. "

― Dietrich Bonhoeffer , The Cost of Discipleship

7 " A simple word of greeting, an offer of a cup of coffee on me, a smile and a hug will all go a long way toward reconciliation. A listening ear can open a wandering heart to the thought that God still loves them, and there just might be a place still set for them at their Father’s table. "

― Katherine J. Walden , Seasons: Reflections on Changes Throughout Life

8 " Jesus offered a single incentive to follow him; it was woven into all he said and did. Here is how I would after twenty-four years of following summarize his selling point: " Follow me, and you might be happy--or you might not. Follow me, and might be empowered--or you might not. Follow me, and you might have more friends--or you might not. Follow me, and you might have the answers--or you might not. Follow me, and you might be better off--or you might not. If you follow me, you may be worse off in every way you use to measure life. Follow me nevertheless. Because I have an offer that is worth giving up everything you have: you will learn to love well. "

9 " You wanna go see my old bedroom?”
“Is that a pickup line?”
“Come on inside and you’ll find out.”
How was a girl supposed to resist an offer like that? "

― Jamie Farrell , Matched (Misfit Brides, #2)

10 " Then what’s this?” She raised her glass of expensive wine, used it to indicate their plush surroundings.
His gaze followed her indication around the dim-lit, upmarket Italian restaurant. “Dinner in comfort.”
“With a side order of persuasion?”
“More like an offer I’m hoping you can’t refuse. "

― Monique DeVere , Ethan's Temporary Fling

11 " Kaufman almost smiled at the perfection of its horror. He felt an offer of insanity tickling the base of his skull, tempting him into oblivion, promising a blank indifference to the world. "

― Clive Barker , Books of Blood, Volume One

12 " Besides," said Suriyawong. " This was not a rescue operation." " What was it, target practice? Chinese skeet?" " An offer of transportation to an invited guest of the Hegemon," said Suriyawong. " And the loan of a knife." Achilles held up the bloody thing, dangling it from the point. " Yours?" he asked." Unless you want to clean it," said Suriyawong.Achillese handed it to him. Suriyawong took out his cleaning kit and wiped down the blade, then began to polish it." You wanted me to die," said Achilles quietly." I expected you to solve your own problems," said Suriyawong. "

13 " In regard to the so-called social contract, I have often had occasion to protest that I haven't even seen the contract, much less been asked to consent to it. A valid contract requires voluntary offer, acceptance, and consideration. I've never received an offer from my rulers, so I certainly have not accepted one; and rather than consideration, I have received nothing but contempt from the rulers, who, notwithstanding the absence of any agreement, have indubitably threatened me with grave harm in the event that I fail to comply with their edicts. "

― Robert Higgs

14 " As a first step there must be an offer to achieve equality of rights in disarmament by abolishing the weapons forbidden to the Central Powers by the Peace Treaties. "

15 " It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. "