Pay famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Pay attention to where you are going because without meaning you might get nowhere.
-- A. A. Milne -
Not a penny off the pay, not a second on the day.
-- A. J. Cook -
If the first requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite, the second is to put in your apprenticeship as a feeder when you have enough money to pay the check but not enough to produce indifference of the total.
-- A. J. Liebling -
Definition of 'Free': You pay for it whether or not you elect to receive it.
-- Aaron Allston -
Religion, like water, may be free, but when they pipe it to you, you've got to help pay for the piping. And the piper.
-- Abigail Van Buren -
I have the Pleasure to assure you Congress pay particular Attention to the Defence of New Jersey, and hitherto have denied us nothing which we have Asked for that Purpose.
-- Abraham Clark -
To the extent that language forces experiences into categories it is a screen between reality and the human being. In a word, we pay for its benefits... Therefore, while using language, as we must of necessity, we should be aware of its shortcomings.
-- Abraham Maslow -
Killing the infidels is our religion, slaughtering them is our religion, until they convert to Islam or pay us tribute.
-- Abu Musab al-Zarqawi -
Whoever is for higher taxes, feel free to pay higher taxes.
-- Adam Carolla -
Rich people don't pay taxes? Of course they pay taxes - they pay tons in taxes. They pay for everyone else who doesn't pay taxes.
-- Adam Carolla -
So you have to just be really careful and make sure that when a deal comes along, that it's like the right deal for you... not necessarily the most money, because you have to pay the record label that back in like record sales and stuff.
-- Adam Rich -
History is made every day. The challenge is getting everyone to pay attention to it.
-- Adora Svitak -
My only ambition when I came to Hollywood was to pay my rent.
-- Adrian Grenier -
It's all about the Benjamins, I got a Pay Per View and I should be on Pay Per View.
-- Adrien Broner -
But surely for everything you have to love you have to pay some price.
-- Agatha Christie -
Every one of my works, when I'm looking back, becomes some kind of solution, or something to concentrate on. Something to pay attention to and maybe change direction.
-- Agnes Denes -
And the price for being a homo-hater should be as high as anyone can pay.
-- Aidan Chambers -
I'm a crusader. I really believe in the First Amendment, and I use it fully, and I pay a price for that.
-- Al Goldstein -
Everything shapes you to be the person you are today. Sometimes hard lessons pay off dividends.
-- Al Jourgensen -
Polly: Education with socialists, it's like sex, all right as long as you don't have to pay for it.
-- Alan Bennett -
I've bought QPP shares but unfortunately both times I bought it they immediately dropped by over 10p. Do you pay much attention to the dealing notes?
-- Alan Green -
[ Computing ] is just a fabulous place for that, because it's a place where you don't have to be a Ph.D. or anything else. It's a place where you can still be an artisan. People are willing to pay you if you're any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.
-- Alan Kay -
There are very few things you can really do [to promote] healthy aging ... and none of these things include an insurance system or a legal system. All those things do is change who pays.
-- Alan Russell -
Taxation is the price which civilized communities pay for the opportunity of remaining civilized.
-- Albert Bushnell Hart -
Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it ... he who doesn't ... pays it.
-- Albert Einstein -
Money does not pay for anything, never has, never will. It is an economic axiom as old as the hills that goods and services can be paid for only with goods and services.
-- Albert J. Nock -
Seek always to do some good, somewhere... Even if it's a little thing, so something for those that need help, something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it.
-- Albert Schweitzer -
When one lives with problems of importance, the prostitute is ideal. You pay, and whether or not you fail is of no importance. She doesn't care.
-- Alberto Giacometti -
Well... ...That's what you always forget, isn't it? I mean, you forget to pay attention to what's happening. And that's the same as not being here and now.
-- Aldous Huxley -
‎"But that's the price we have to pay for stability. You've got to choose between happiness and what people used to call high art. We've sacrificed the high art.
-- Aldous Huxley -
Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.
-- Aldous Huxley -
The customer is usually wrong, but statistics indicate that it doesn't pay to tell him so
-- Aleister Crowley -
We always pay dearly for chasing after what is cheap.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
The old paradigm was pay to play. Now you get back what you authentically put in. You've got to be willing to play to play.
-- Alex Bogusky -
I always encourage people to pay themselves first, so I really advocate setting up direct deposit for your paycheck and establishing an automatic transfer so that part of each paycheck goes straight into your savings account.
-- Alexa Von Tobel -
A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.
-- Alexis de Tocqueville -
If rewards do not work, what does? I recommend that employers pay workers well and fairly and then do everything possible to help them forget about money. A preoccupation with money distracts everyone - employers and employees - from the issues that really matter.
-- Alfie Kohn -
It pays in England to be a revolutionary and a bible-smacker most of one's life, and then come round.
-- Alfred Douglas -
Error is the price we pay for progress.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
That's the penalty we have to pay for our acts of foolishness - someone else always suffers for them.
-- Alfred Sutro -
Activism is the rent I pay for living on this planet.
-- Alice Walker -
Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.
-- Alice Walker -
Brain surgeons earn 10 times that of a general practitioner... it pays to be an expert.
-- Allan Pease -
Temples also take into consideration an ability to pay and, in a general sense, do not turn people away if there's a need,.
-- Allan Sherman -
I had moved out of the Edison Hotel because I couldn't pay the bill and was living at the Lincoln Hotel, where I couldn't pay the bill either, but it was cheaper.
-- Allan Sherman -
If you want the world to pay for projects, you have to be able to display why you're worthy.
-- Amanda Palmer -
I just like to do covers, every once in a while. If someone pays me to go into the studio, I'll do it.
-- Amanda Seyfried -
Sometimes it pays not to be interested in what happened but in what did not happen.
-- Ambeth R. Ocampo -
What we buy, and pay for, is part of ourselves.
-- Amelia Barr -
Everybody should pay some tax, just as everybody should vote.
-- Amity Shlaes -
Do not make your current partner pay for the crimes and misdemeanors of your previous partners.
-- Amy Dickinson -
My job ... I do nothing, it pays nothing, but - you guessed it - it's better than nothing.
-- Amy Hempel -
One of my problems is that I'm very honest and direct. You pay a price for that.
-- Amy Irving -
They say you’re meant to live everyday as if it were your last, which I’ve always thought was daft, since no one would ever pay the gas bill if that was the case, but what if it were your first?
-- Amy Jenkins -
Happiness: We rarely feel it. I would buy it, beg it, steal it, Pay in coins of dripping blood For this one transcendent good.
-- Amy Lowell -
You can't have intentions without consequences. The question is, who pays for the consequences? Saving fish from drowning. Same thing. Who’s saved? Who’s not?
-- Amy Tan -
Be strong enough to say this to yourself -Sins were mine, and so shall I have to pay for it
-- Anamika Mishra -
People respected my experience, they hire me, they pay me what I am worth to coach their team.
-- Anatoli Boukreev -
If Somebody disrespects me they will pay for it. I promise
-- Anderson Silva -
I suddenly realized that we were on borrowed time, that time is always borrowed, and that the lending agency exacts its premium precisely when we are least prepared to pay and need to borrow more...
-- André Aciman -
It's not so much the amount of tax we pay - it's the sense that our pocket's being picked without our knowing what's going on.
-- Andrew Bacevich -
Britain has squandered its windfall of natural resources from North Sea oil and gas. Instead of prudently investing the 'unearned income' from nature, to build a safe, clean and green energy supply for the nation, we face unnecessary shortages. But there is still a chance to put the proceeds from liquidating our fossil fuel assets to better and more appropriate use. Instead of oil companies profiteering from climate change and oil depletion, a windfall tax could establish an Oil Legacy Fund to pay for Britain's urgent transition to a sustainable, decentralised energy system
-- Andrew Simms -
Little things do matter. Sometimes, little things matter the most. Everybody pays a lot of attention to big things, but nobody seems to understand that big things are almost always made up of little things. When you ignore little things, they often turn into big things that have become a lot harder to handle.
-- Andy Andrews -
I like things that are immature and offbeat and bizarre. Random jokes. Weird stuff. And stupid. Stupid is the highest compliment a person can pay to me.
-- Andy Samberg -
It has no enforceable standards to stop a union from conspiring with employers to keep another stronger union out or from negotiating contracts with lower pay and standards that members of another union have spent a lifetime establishing.
-- Andy Stern -
I'm against an income tax because all the rich people hire lawyers and accountants to be sure that they don't pay income tax.
-- Ann Richards -
Led Zeppelin, you can't find a better band to pay homage to.
-- Ann Wilson -
There have definitely been more than a few moments in my life where I'm wondering where the next paycheck will come from and how I'm gonna pay rent.
-- Anna Kendrick -
Everything has a price. It's just what your willing to pay for it.
-- Anne Bishop -
Up until the time I was 31 years old, in Spain, I still didn't know how I was going to pay the rent.
-- Antonio Banderas -
What we pay for with our lives never costs too much.
-- Antonio Porchia -
There are a thousand things to hear about, informationally, daily, but the thing that doesn't go away is the one to pay attention to.
-- Antonya Nelson -
The actual growth in a person's life is the rise in his wisdom and not the raise in his pay or income.
-- Anuj -
The truth is that perhaps everything has a price, but certainly everyone has to pay more price only for their lies.
-- Anuj -
The weak are always anxious for justice and equality. The strong pay no heed to either.
-- Aristotle -
Borrowing to pay for college used to be the exception; now it's the rule.
-- Arne Duncan -
The depths of the Depression. You didn't ask what the job was, what the pay was, you didn't ask about stock options, or - you said yes
-- Art Linkletter -
People who can least afford to pay rent, pay rent. People who can most afford to pay rent, build up equity.
-- Arthur Bloch -
Work a lifetime to pay off a house You finally own it and there's nobody to live in it.
-- Arthur Miller -
Poe wrote like a drunkard and a man who is not accustomed to pay his debts.
-- Arthur Twining Hadley -
Show your work, and when the right people show up, pay close attention to them, because they'll have a lot to show you.
-- Austin Kleon -
I have had to pay a price for leaving Islam and for speaking out. I have to pay for round-the-clock security because of the death threats against me.
-- Ayaan Hirsi Ali -
We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.
-- Azar Nafisi -
I don’t like to feel that I owe anything. I like to feel that I pay my own way, no free lunch.
-- B. B. King -
The corporatist-economic model of society appears to be governing us. Economists, often in the pay of transnationals, are deciding, for us, what democracy is, and will be.
-- B. W. Powe -
Nobody likes taxes. I would prefer that none of us had to pay taxes, including myself.
-- Barack Obama -
Especially if you're over 40, shortening the term of your loan to pay it off sooner could make you mortgage-free in retirement.
-- Barbara Corcoran -
When someone works for less pay than she can live on -- when, for example, she goes hungry so that you can eat more cheaply and conveniently -- than she has made a great sacrifice for you, she has made of a gift of some part of her abilities, her health, and her life.
-- Barbara Ehrenreich -
Napping is too luxurious, too sybaritic, too unproductive, and it's free; pleasures for which we don't pay make us anxious. Besides, it seems to be a natural inclination. ... Fighting off natural inclinations is a major Puritan virtue, and nothing that feels that good can be respectable.
-- Barbara Holland -
Is is difficult to be angry with a gentleman who pays you compliments, even impertinent compliments. Especially impertinent compliments.
-- Barbara Mertz -
You cant get more for less. You get what you pay for.
-- Barbara Mikulski -
I wanted to pay homage to working women because they are the bridge that got us over.' My work is about the people who are assumed not to have a worldview.
-- Barbara Neely
