Arrangement Quotes

“No physical contact means no sex."
"Ever?" Liam didn't like ultimatums. "What if you beg for it?"
"I have never begged for sex in my life."
A slow, sensual smile spread across his face. "You've never been with me."
"I'm not sleeping with you, Liam," she said firmly. "And no developing feelings, either. This is solely a business arrangement. I'll include my terms and conditions when I send you the final plan." She took a picture of the whiteboard and then wiped it clean. "I'll go get Tyler."
"Daisy?"
She looked back over her shoulder as she reached for the door. "Yes?"
"What if I beg?"
"I'll throw you a bone.”
― Sara Desai, The Dating Plan

“What kind of a man is he,” McKenna interrupted, “that he makes no objection when he sees you being escorted through the village by someone like me?”

“A trusting one. Lord Sandridge and I have a certain understanding—we allow each other as much freedom as is needed. It’s a very enlightened arrangement.”

“Enlightened,” he repeated with ill-concealed contempt. “Sandridge is a fool. And if I were in his place, you wouldn’t even be here.”

“Where would I be, then?” she asked pertly. “At home, I suppose, mending your shirt cuffs?”

“No, in my bed. Under me.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Again the Magic

“Dishonorable people do not honor their arrangements. A bill of sale only requires payment, a contract only requires completion, and/or a debt merely requires a payment.”
― Akutra-Ramses Atenosis Cea, Spidersilk

“Solitude allows you to be able to arrange your life only around your destiny.”
― Sunday Adelaja, How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?

“She led me into the salon, where buckets of mostly white flowers bloomed in every corner of the room like fluffy clouds, making it a magical olfactory experience for my nose and my spirit, the sweet aromas potent. There were roses, tulips, and peonies, as well as a few containers bursting with blood-orange flowers with saffron-colored filaments, similar in form to an amaryllis.
"I mostly ordered white flowers," said Jane, pointing to an arrangement. "The clivias offer a dash of color- my concept for the exciting change to come.”
― Samantha Verant, The Secret French Recipes of Sophie Valroux

“Now it rests on a gold foil chest, next to a single iris in a fluted vase. Something about the flower beckons me to study it.
The arrangement is perfectly framed against the silk tapestry behind it. The purple petals are simple but elegant. Its placement here seems deliberate, almost ceremonial.”
― Emiko Jean, Tokyo Ever After

“Il est également vrai qu'un échange est une transaction dans laquelle les deux contractants gagnent tous deux. Toutes les fois que je fais librement et sans contrainte un échange quelconque, c'est que je désire plus la chose que je reçois que celle que je donne, et qu'au contraire celui avec qui je traite désire plus ce que je lui offre que ce qu'il me rend. Quand je donne mon travail pour un salaire, c'est que j'estime plus ce salaire que ce que j'aurais pu faire en travaillant pour moi-même, et que celui qui me paie prise davantage les services que je lui rends que ce qu'il me donne en retour.
Quand je donne une mesure de blé pour une mesure de vin c'est que j'ai surabondamment de quoi manger, et que je n'ai pas de quoi boire ; et que celui avec qui je traite est dans le cas contraire.
Quand nous sommes plusieurs qui nous soumettons à faire un travail quelconque en commun, soit pour nous défendre contre un ennemi, soit pour détruire des animaux malfaisants, soit pour nous préserver des ravages de la mer, d'une inondation, d'une contagion, soit même pour faire un pont on un chemin, c'est que chacun de nous préfère l'utilité particulière qui lui en revient, à ce qu'il aurait pu faire pour lui-même pendant ce temps. Nous sommes tous satisfaits dans toutes ces espèces d'échange, chacun de nous trouve son avantage dans l'arrangement proposé.”
― Antoine Destutt de Tracy, A Treatise on Political Economy

“True words come out without arrangement.”
― Ahmed Mayouf

“Is there not some arrangement (neutral gear) in the car, where the wheels do not turn, but the car keeps running? Similarly, one should do something, whereby worldly life continues and (karmic) ‘causes’ stops.”
― Dada Bhagwan

“Worldly relationships are not true [are not real]; it is a ‘business arrangement’.”
― Dada Bhagwan

“Helen, marvelling at Joyce's capacity for self-protection, often wondered at her choice of career. It had something to do with order, she decided; Joyce mistrusted books for their content, but liked the way they could be marshalled. The readers were simply an unlooked-for hazard.”
― Penelope Lively, Passing On