Pay Quotes

You can look at the state of California, which is on a pathway to destruction because they expanded government too much, thinking that there would always be someone to pay for it.

Pay close attention to any flame of enthusiasm.

It became apparent to me really fast that I wasn't going to be able to make a living and pay my bills playing on Broadway.

I'm a junkie. I like drugs, I like the whole lifestyle, but it just didn't pay off.

Art is the attention we pay to the wholeness of the world.

We must be prepared to pay a price for freedom, for no price that is ever asked for it is half the cost of doing without it.

Pastor: One employed by the wicked to prove to them by his example that virtue doesn't pay.

The cocktail party has a simple function in modern society. Its basic purpose is to pay off social debts.

Feeling tired should almost never be an excuse, because your body has huge reserves of energy. But if you eat badly, stay out late, drink too much, and so on, you'll pay a price on the course.

Indeed, I have, alas! outlived almost every one of my contemporaries. One pays dear for living long.

It is natural for us to pay attention to North Korea and human rights issues of North Korean defectors but I wish people would not try to create stars. The reality is different from Hollywood movies.

For me, most comedy scripts fail in the mechanical playing-out of the setup. They'll pay lip service to a moral lesson or a psychological progression.

Where's the great pay? Where's the travel? Where's the Winnebago, Goddamnit!

[I] wish that the land-tax went a little more according to situation than it does. 'Tis really ridiculous, how one has to pay five times as much as another, without any reason that ever I heard tell.

Directing is too hard, it takes too much time, and it doesn't pay very well.

He [Mitt Romney] didn't pay taxes for 10 years! Now, do I know that that's true? Well, I'm not certain, but obviously he can't release those tax returns. How would it look?

It's a terrible thing when a person dies, whatever the circumstances. A hole opens up in the world, and we need to pay the proper respects. If we don't, the hole will never be filled in again.

A dream is always a bargain no matter what you pay for it

I don't know anyone who ever got deferred pay. I'm the first of my friends to ever actually get a deferred paycheck.

Without growth we can't pay down our debt, and without growth there's no money for welfare.

I don't think we should pay people to fight terrorism. I would be amazed if they asked for anything in return.

If the laborer gets no more than the wages which his employer pays him, he is cheated, he cheats himself.

Those services which the community will most readily pay for, it is most disagreeable to render.

An efficient and valuable man does what he can, whether the community pay him for it or not.

Good religious men, with the love of men in their hearts, and the means to pay their toll in their pockets.

for nothing can be more reasonable, than that slaves and flatterers should exact the same taxes on all below them, which they themselves pay to all above them.

Men who pay for what they eat will insist on gratifying their palates

Some general officers should pay a stricter regard to truth than to call the depopulating other countries the service of their own.

We want to get full value out of labour so that we may be able to pay it full value. It is use - not conservation - that interests us.

If you paid Americans a living wage, they would be able to pay for products made by Americans in America.

I got three letters today telling me that I'm god. Why can't I pay the rent?

There is nothing namable but that some men will, or undertake to, do it for pay.

My message is, you can accomplish anything, not just on the athletic field, if you're willing to work pay the price. It doesn't matter what your age.

We need to make equal pay and equal opportunity for women and girls a reality so women's rights are human rights once and for all.

Tens of thousands of men and women with kids to raise, bills to pay, and dreams that won't die. This is your campaign.

I believe in raising the minimum wage and equal pay for work.

Standing up for America, investing in America, will pay off.

A Wall Street money manager should not be able to pay a lower tax rate than a teacher or a nurse.

I pay for everything I'm proposing.

I am very comfortable saying what I believe I can do, being very specific about how we will do it, how we will pay for it, and having people know that I want them to hold me accountable.

Honest work deserves honest pay.

[Donald Trump ] who has said women don't deserve equal pay unless they do as good a job as men.

Multimillionaires cannot pay lower rates than their secretaries and other people working for them.

Being responsible and taking care of your body is truly how you make your pay cheque, how you excel and succeed in your lifelong goals, so for me it's just an everyday lifestyle.

I never did buy things on credit, I always paid for 'em, because I can't see much difference in paying for something and just waiting a week and pay interest on it; that looks foolish to me.

Taxi drivers are the ones who pay me the most attention. They seem to be into River Cottage and have a dream of moving to the country, so I have chats with them.

There's just an enormous vast universe of possible intrigue out there and why not pay attention to it? Because then you're not burdened with trying to find that meaning in yourself all the time.

Before a man's forty, girls cost nothing. After that you have to pay money, or tell a story. Of the two, it's the story that hurts most. Anyway I'm not forty yet.

A book tour is not a good opportunity to let your mind wander. You have to pay attention, remember salespeople's and interviewers' names, succinctly summarize your book in a 'selling' way, and so on.

We got CEOs making 200 times the worker's pay, but they'll fight like hell against raising the minimum wage.