Pay Quotes

I was not able to understand how it could be right to pay an actor, or a singer, or an instrumentalist for entertaining the public and wrong to pay a ball player for doing exactly the same thing.

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.

Cease being intimidated by the argument that a right action is impossible because it does not yield maximum profits, or that a wrong action is to be condoned because it pays.

To preserve his life, should a man pay everything that gives it color, scent and excitement?

As the power of governments wanes, corporations become ever more powerful. Sometimes they do things that aren't so good. We should pay attention.

I also believe that member states of the United Nations should live up their obligations to pay their dues.

I like to score and drive in runs more than pay attention to batting average.

The only reason I got into broadcasting was, I needed money to pay for my junior and senior years at college, and they hired me, those fools!

One of my big inspirations was Céleste Mogador. She was a courtesan who wrote her memoirs in order to pay off her debts, which is a hilarious gesture.

Error is the price we pay for progress.

Temples also take into consideration an ability to pay and, in a general sense, do not turn people away if there's a need,.

If you want the world to pay for projects, you have to be able to display why you're worthy.

How do we let people pay for music?

I didn't come out and pay a really painful price often, to be LGBT, to not claim my sexuality at the same time. It's not all right with me to not talk about it so I don't make anybody nervous.

COMMENDATION n. The tribute that we pay to achievements that resembles but do not equal our own.

Everybody should pay some tax, just as everybody should vote.

A recurring dream probably merits close attention. Something wants you to pay attention.

My job ... I do nothing, it pays nothing, but - you guessed it - it's better than nothing.

One of my problems is that I'm very honest and direct. You pay a price for that.

Some jobs you do - maybe you don't - are jobs that pay mortgages and some are art and I don't care about not being paid on those.

I'm so fortunate in that I've never had another job to pay a bill but acting, since the day I got out of high school.

You write a book and you hope somebody will go out and pay $24.95 for what you've just said. I think books were my salvation. Books saved me from being miserable.

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?

My children, who are almost two: watching them develop has made me pay much closer attention to how we become who we are.

Everyone wants to be open and inclusive, but nobody wants to pay for it. It's the biggest roadblock to translating living writers, especially poets.

We must all live so that our children do not have to pay for our deeds.

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.

I can't afford to pay them any other way.

I'll never pay above the odds for something if there's a more cost-effective alternative, so I guess that's where the saver in me shines through.

American workers won't be able to compete fairly for jobs until companies have to pay higher wages in countries like China and India.

It means being able to resist the urge for immediate gratification and opt for the course of action that will pay off later.

There is some magic in wealth, which can thus make persons pay their court to it, when it does not even benefit themselves.

Everything has a price. It's just what your willing to pay for it.

My deepest belief is that to live as if we're dying can set us free. Dying people teach you to pay attention and to forgive and not to sweat the small things.

There is ecstasy in paying attention.

I'll Vacuum up my stale hair, I'll pay all my neighbors' bad debts, I'll write a poem called Yellow and put my lips down to drink it up.

Silly trends don't last long. A lot of this nonsense that pops up, I don't even really pay attention because it'll be gone in a flash.

Death comes along like a gas bill one can't pay.

Psychologists pay lip service to the scientific method, and use it whenever it is convenient; but when it isn't they make wild leaps of their uncontrolled fancy.

Up until the time I was 31 years old, in Spain, I still didn't know how I was going to pay the rent.

In 'Self Comes to Mind' I pay a lot of attention to simple creatures without brains or minds, because those 'cartooned abstractions of who we are' operate on precisely the same principles that we do.

The truth is that perhaps everything has a price, but certainly everyone has to pay more price only for their lies.

No one is mandating merit pay.

I can't afford the luxury of music while I'm flying an airplane. I have to pay attention to what I'm doing.

I propose that a teacher's pay be tied to merit, not tenure. And I propose that a teacher's employment be tied to performance, not just showing up.

Have you tried to drive a harpoon through a body? No? Tut, tut, my dear sir, you must really pay attention to these details.

Poe wrote like a drunkard and a man who is not accustomed to pay his debts.

Shopping's absolutely impossible nowadays. You can't get near the counter, and when you do, they haven't got it and you pay twiceas much for it.

I will get a loan and pay the money the court asks for. But I will not lay down my writing and I still say this was an important book to write.

It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.