Quotation Explorer - 'Pay'

An item is only worth what someone is willing to pay for it - Bianca Baker
Our reactions to trials, tests, and tribulations are products of the price we're willing to pay to stay delivered. - Okisha Jackson
To get change, you must first pay for it. - Timothy Joshua
How long will it be necessary to pay City men so entirely out of proportion to what other servants of society commonly receive for performing social services not less useful or difficult? - John Maynard Keynes
I am a teacher. Pay close attention - this will be on the test. You don't wreck buildings. You don't take children hostage. And you don't threaten people with violence. Okay class dismissed. Looks like you fail! - yoko
In every problem there is a lesson to learn, an asset to acquire, a rest to restore, a bitterness to sweeten, a load to lighten or a price to pay. - Ikechukwu Joseph
a barking Dog will never hurt, unless you pay attention - AX
Many people are not ready to pay for advice they can use, so the few that do, break boundaries and soar higher. - Bernard Kelvin Clive
Take some advice from an old farmer. You’re in business now. Take the money. You’d be amazed at how many don’t want to pay. - Kathy Bryson, Fighting Mad
Price and Cost. Sometimes we pay more. Sometimes we pay less. You've got to determine what you are willing to pay for success. - Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.
Miss, I'd gladly pay you to remove your clothes. - David Scheier
Money may not be able to buy her love but it will definitely make her pay attention. - Habeeb Akande
The more books you read, the less topics you have in common with most of the people, that´s the price you pay for reading. - Martina Tutková
Love is a small price to pay for friendship. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Knowledge is a commodity to be shared. For knowledge to pay dividends, it should not remain the monopoly of the selected few. - Moutasem Algharati
I don't regret my painful times, i bare my scars as if they were medals. I know that freedom has a high price, as high as that of slavery; the only difference is that you pay with pleasure and a smile, even when that that smile dimmed by tears - Paulo Coelho
You are free to travel on the road you pave for yourself but you have to pay penalty if you do not go in the right direction. - Amit Abraham
The exquisite kindliness of her manner suggested that their relationship was of no possible consequence, that she could not pay him the tribute of hostility. - Ayn Rand
It is easy to be conspicuously 'compassionate' if others are being forced to pay the cost. - Murray N. Rothbard
We are not subjects of an autocratic King, but are citizens of the country contributing to the advancement of our people who pay taxes out of their hard earned income. - Nilantha Ilangamuwa
Is there a price too great to pay for your own happiness? What is the price that you are willing to pay for your own happiness? - Lenon Honor
Education is every day and everywhere, the only thing you have to pay is attention. - Tim Fargo
Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic. - Jean Sibelius
You never realize how short a month is until you pay alimony. - John Barrymore
You think you're paying your dollar for a chance at the $6.2 million jackpot on Saturday, but really you're paying for the pleasure of the car ride home, deciding which credit card to pay off first and where your kid will suddenly be able to go to college. - Kelly Braffet
You've captured my flag but I captured your imagination. It's true you regulate what I grow, regulate what i know, and to pray or to play I got to pay you a fee, pero we both know that you wish you could dance like me. - Vincent Torres
We have to ask the wealthiest Americans to pay their fair share again. Their incomes went up in the 1980s and their taxes went down. We can't ask the middle class to pay more; their incomes went down and their taxes went up. - Bill Clinton
We will lower the tax burden on middle-class Americans by asking the very wealthy to pay their fair share. Middle-class taxpayers will have a choice between a children's tax credit or a significant reduction in the income tax rate.
He left that morning, the last words still echoing in my head, and though he said he’d come back one day I know a broken promise from a right one for I have used them myself and there is no coming back. Minds like ours are can’t be tamed and the price for freedom is the price we pay. - Charlotte Eriksson
Science fiction" means different things to different people. "When I make a word do a lot of work like that," said Humpty Dumpty, "I always pay it extra"—in which case the term science fiction has piled up a lot of expensive overtime. - Robert A. Heinlein
We now in the United States have more security guards for the rich than we have police services for the poor districts. If you're looking for personal security, far better to move to the suburbs than to pay taxes in New York. - John Kenneth Galbraith
I have discovered," he said to Charles Dewy, "that when a man marries, peace of mind and freedom go out of the window.""Well, old boy," said Charles comfortably, "that's the price we have to pay for having company in our old age and for ensuring that we have heirs to follow us. - Colleen McCullough
The more you pay for a rubber flower, the harder it is to say it's not real.
Give a person a job you help them pay some bills, teach them how to find a career and you provide them with sustenance for life! - Mark W. Boyer
Pay no attention to toxic words. What people say is often a reflection of themselves, not you. - Christian Baloga
Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure. A centrally planned totalitarian state represents a complete defeat for the civilized world, while a totally voluntary society represents its ultimate success. - Mark Skousen
The Christian religion is a parody on the worship of the sun, in which they put a man called Christ in the place of the sun, and pay him the adoration originally payed to the sun. - Thomas Paine
Beware of those who would pay you lip service but refuse to put their money where their mouths are. - Faydra D. Fields
Pay no attention to what the critics say; no statue has ever been put up to a critic. - Jean Sibellius
There is no night porter wandering about in King's. The authorities pay you the compliment, ugly gate-crasher, of treating you as a grown-up. And since we are not grown-up you and I, we will perform our midnight frolics as the inmates burn the midnight oil. - Whipplesnaith
A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done. - Vince Lombardi Jr.
Are you to pay for all you have with all you are?
So, you’ve failed many times at many things. That’s okay! Learn, grow, and move forward. With the right attitude and mindset, you can learn a lot from failure. Pay attention and keep on striving! You’ve got this! - Stephanie Lahart
It doesn't pay to be good at something unless you are the absolute best at it. - Josh Lieb
We pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact their dues of work and self-denial, anxiety and discouragement. - L. M. Montgomery
This is the price we pay, that the only way to take our life is death. - Stebby Julionatan
When we consider the magnitude and extent of his discoveries and their influence on the progress of science and of industry, there is no honour too great to pay to the memory of , one of the greatest scientific discoverers of all time. Ernest Rutherford - Faraday
Selfishness is not a virtue. Altruism is not a moral weakness. Taxation is the price we pay for civilization. - Darryl Cunningham
Your lovin' gives me a thrillBut your lovin' don't pay my billsI need money That's what I want. - Berry Gordy
Everyone who gets sleepy at night should have a simple decent place to lay their heads, on terms they can afford to pay.
Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay. - Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Advertising is tax deductible, so we all pay for the privilege of being manipulated and controlled. - Noam Chomsky
We are living in a moment where we have broken the equilibrium of the planet. We are not paying attention to our intuitive side. We only pay attention to our reason. We have become an urban animal - Sebastião Salgado
Commoditization is the enemy of meaning. In ages dominated by the forces of commoditization, individuals pay the price with devalued lives. by contrast, unique skills requiring mastery and expertise, like the skills of a brain surgeon, are safe from the threat of commoditization. - Tom Hayes
There can be no greater stretch of arbitrary power than to seize children from their parents, teach them whatever the authorities decree they shall be taught, and expropriate from the parents the funds to pay for the procedure. - Isabel Paterson
The mob mentality may keep you safe, but your soul will pay for it in the end. - Lori Goodwin
A good man can become a nightmare if he continues to pay attention to wrong counsel. - Paul Bamikole
I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet. - Susan B. Anthony
The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth. It is obvious that man is himself a traveler; that the purpose of this world is not "to have and to hold" but "to give and serve." There can be no other meaning.
The greatest homage we can pay truth is to use it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dandelions, like all things in nature are beautiful when you take the time to pay attention to them. - June Stoyer
It’s the well-behaved children that make the most formidable revolutionaries. They don’t say a word, they don’t hide under the table, they eat only one piece of chocolate at a time. But later on, they make society pay dearly. - Jean-Paul Sartre
Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent. - Neil Gaiman
Pay the hired worker his wages before his sweat dries - Hazrat Muhammad P.B.U.H
It's not free - Somebody had to pay for it! - Angelo N. Dallas
You will either profit by or pay for what your children become. raise them properly. - Darnell Lamont Walker
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. - Friedrich Nietzsche
Your world is made of your memories, and your memories are given to you by your world. The whispering voice of happenstance is always in our ears. 'This is the world. This is the way things are. Look. Pay attention. Remember.' - Gordon Atkinson
Being present here and now is the highest compliment you can pay to a woman in your life. - Lada Ray
Behavioral economics tells us that people often focus too much on the wrong things, and tend to focus on aspects of the job that are salient. So, for example, the pay is salient, especially the starting pay. - Alan Krueger
One thing is clear: The Founding Fathers never intended a nation where citizens would pay nearly half of everything they earn to the government. - Ron Paul
To make people feel special you don't have to pay money but rather pay attention. - Orrin Woodward
Service to the humanity is the source of joy and happiness. It is the rent you pay for living on this beautiful planet. - Debasish Mridha
To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work. - Mary Oliver
When there is no one to teach you life will show you. All you have to do is pay attention.People unfortunately rarely take the time to sit back and evaluate. Their too busy being busy. - Therone Shellman
One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind. - Malayan Proverb
Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too?
Opportunity for all means making taxes fair. I'm not out to soak the rich. But I do believe the rich should pay their fair share. For twelve years, the Republicans have raised taxes on the middle class. It's time to give the middle class tax relief. - Bill Clinton
The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill. - Peter Ustinov
until we courageously find a cheaper antidote to our ignorance, we shall courageously pay a higher price for our ignorance always - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
What I want???I just want silence I can afford it, it doesn't need to pay for it or does it? - Deyth Banger
Why should I pay strangers to listen to me talk when I can get strangers to pay to listen to me talk? - Ellen Degeneres
To live, pray. To learn, read. To love, give. To listen, pay attention. But to be wise, apply all that you have acquired - Israelmore Ayivor
The only way I can pay back for what fate and society have handed me is to try, in minor totally useless ways, to make an angry sound against injustice. - Martha Gellhorn
Borrow a little and if you can't pay it back, it's your problem. Borrow a lot and if you can't pay it back, it's the lenders problem. - Willi Way
Because I'm just a giving person spiritually, I feel that if your intentions are to use or abuse or take advantage of, then you might get what you get in the meantime, but there's still a price to pay. - Angie Stone
You must give some time to your fellow men. Even if it's a little thing, do something for others - something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it. - Albert Schweitzer
A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money. - G. Gordon Liddy
Whenever you look at a piece of work and you think the fellow was crazy, then you want to pay some attention to that. One of you is likely to be, and you had better find out which one it is. It makes an awful lot of difference.
There will always be a down but also always an up, your moods depends on wich of the two you pay the most attention to. - Laurins
One could never pay too high a price for any sensation. - Oscar Wilde
For a kid in crisis, there is no "make it happen," only "survive today." Who am I to have the cojones to think my "critical questions" are the most important thing in this kid's life? I think of the times I was in crisis and failed to pay attention to the manila folders on my desk as an adult. - Dawn Casey-Rowe
As for those who disbelieve, their deeds are like a mirage in a desert. The thirsty one thinks it to be water, until he comes up to it, he finds it to be nothing, but he finds Allah with him, Who will pay him his due (Hell). And Allah is Swift in taking account. - Anonymous
You must however pay attention to the fact that we don’t only lose time to lateness. We also lose time to jokes, gossip, empty talks, sleep on duty, social media etc. - Sunday Adelaja
Your whole life people tell you to do what you love. But if you gotta do something else to pay the bills, you don't automatically have to be miserable. - Jeph Jacques
Once people said: Give me liberty or give me death. Now they say: Make me a slave, just pay me enough. - Todd Garlington
My grandfather used to say ‘It is my house I am paying the bills’,my dad used to say ‘this is my house I pay the mortgage’,my generation is saying this is my house I pay the rent. - Csaba Gabor-B.
Age is a very high price to pay for maturity. - Tom Stoppard
the price you pay for opening your eyes is the easy life you can no longer have. but it becomes worth it. - Darnell Lamont Walker
A person ought to be always cautious of what s/he asks for from God because everyone has to invariably pay the price in proportion to the preciousness of the prize from HIM. - Anuj Somany
We all must pay the price to be our genuine selves. - Ethel Russell
To middle-class Americans who have paid a great deal for the last 12 years and from whom I ask a contribution tonight, I will say again... you're not going at it alone anymore - you're certainly not going first, and you're not going to pay more for less as you have too often in the past.
Maybe it's just that some of us have had certain facts and truths slapped up against our heads so hard and so often that we have to see them and pay our respects to their reality. - Ralph Ellison
Each of us must pay for the slightest damage he inflicts upon a universe created for indifference and stagnation, sooner or later, he will regret not having left it intact. - Emil Cioran
You have to pay for this view (onto which he looks while writing), so our expenses keep us pretty motivated to write. It's a vicious cycle. - Pat Conroy
There is a story, there is a scene which you always miss and you never pay attention at it... (The Ring 1) - Deyth Banger
Pain is just the price we pay to feel - Duane Joseph Olson
The road that leads to heaven is risky, lonely, and costly in this world, and few are willing to pay the price. Following Jesus involves losing your life-and finding new life in him. Follow Me, pg. 11 - David Platt
We all pay for our choices. - Deyth Banger
Don't be afraid to go after what you want to do and what you want to be, and don't be afraid to pay the price to get it. - Anonymous
Political figures who talk a lot about liberty and freedom invariably turn out to mean the freedom to not pay taxes and discriminate based on race; freedom to hold different ideas and express them, not so much. - Paul Krugman
An entrepreneur is someone who can make enough money to pay for their mistakes. - Jayson Gaignard
Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it. - Ellen Goodman
Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a huge research staff to study the problem. - Bill Vaughan
Crime should not pay, it must be punished. Unfortunately, in Pakistan big crimes do get rewarded. - Imran Khan
Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair. - Sam Ewing
You will do as you are told the second you are told to do it. Is that clear?''I'm not six mother, I think I can grasp standard sentences.' Whether I chose to pay attention to them however... - Heather James
What a price we pay for experience, when we must sell our youth to buy it.
Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul. - Marilyn Monroe
Dear Anarcho-Communist,If you and I ever find ourselves in a stateless society, have no fear. Just mention that you are a communist, and I promise I will never try to "oppress" and "exploit" you by offering to trade with you, or by offering to pay you to do work.Sincerely, - Larken Rose
Next time I tell you someone from Texas should not be president of the United States, please pay attention."[Shrub Flubs His Dub, The Nation, June 18, 2001] - Molly Ivins
Why is patience so important?""Because it makes us pay attention. - Paulo Coelho
If you want to be successful. You must pay the price in advance. - Godwin Elendu Ph.D
Nothing great was ever achieved without a personal sacrifice. You have to pay the price to realize your goals. - Lailah Gifty Akita
As I like to put it, we have hit pay dirt. The effort to cure the resource curse is a good example of what private foundations working with NGOs can accomplish. - George Soros
Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul. I know, because I turned down the first offer often enough and held out for the fifty cents. - Marilyn Monroe
I don't know which I hate most my bills or the money I pay them with... - Stanley Victor Paskavich
I see where we are starting to pay some attention to our neigbors to the south. We could never understand why Mexico wasn't just crazy about us; for we have always had their good will, and oil and minerals, at heart. - Will Rogers
It is better to pay attention than to have ideas about things. - Marty Rubin
Your obsession determines what you pay attention to. Your observations are limited to the focus of your mind. - Emmanuel Ayensu
Only when we pay attention and notice small moments, do we make the connections that lead to a change in our perspective. - Andrea Goeglein
Money is like your girlfriend/boyfriend; she/he will come running towards you and embrace you in her/his arms, only if you pay enough attention. - CK Arora
Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it. - Publilius Syrus
This is the truth about mainstream media and advertising: People wouldn't have to pay to show you such messages if they were right. - J.R. Rim
When I was kidnapped as a child my parents sent a letter to the hijackers me Pay 5,000 dollars or your back - Rodney Dangerfield
Education and knowledge are no longer values of truth and beauty that make life worth living- they are reduced to an economic means to the ends of greater pay and more consumption. - Shawn Otto
Indentured servitude is banned, but what about students seeking to sell shares of their future earnings in exchange for money up front to pay for their college tuitions? - Robert B. Reich
The human eye is restricted to see the useen, because there’s a price to be paid to the rulers of this image and if this image is seen by you, you’ll dare not divulge it to others, for others must pay a price - Michael Bassey Johnson
The service you do for others is the rent you pay for the time you spend on earth.
Money is not everything, But it can pay anything. And yes, Happiness is the most important and no one can pay for it. - Immanuel Kabuhung
No use to shout at them to pay attention. If the situations, the materials, the problems before the child do not interest him, his attention will slip off to what does interest him, and no amount of exhortation of threats will bring it back.
You are self employed. You work to pay your bills, build your dreams and create your life, regardless of who signs your paycheck. - Rob Liano
Liberals tend to view traditions, policies, and morals of past generations as arbitrary designs put in place by less enlightened people. Because of this, liberals don't pay much attention to why traditions developed or wonder about possible ramifications of their social engineering. - John Hawkins
Until you are willing to learn the lessons, pay attention to details, and become patient with yourself, you will keep repeating the same patterns over and over again. - Kemi Sogunle
Everything that happens in our lives has meaning even though we may not understand it or even pay attention to it. - Debasish Mridha
We pay a tax to succeed at anything worthwhile. That tax is called dedication, and here's the most wonderful part. Once you pay it, once you truly dedicate yourself to something important, you'll find the price was worth it. - Steve Goodier
Your motivation? Your motivation is your pay packet on Friday. Now get on with it. - Noel Coward
Your frequency is what you frequently see. Pay attention to synchronicity as there are valuable lessons to be learned in the repetition of your reality. - Jennifer Sodini
That didn't surprise me; any man with a grain of sense knows that marriage is the only way, these days, to acquire a full-time maid who works twenty-five hours a day. with no time off and no pay except room and board. - Elizabeth Peters
Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death. The higher the interest rate and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed - Arthur Schopenhauer
Did you know that true love asks for nothing? Her Acceptance is the way we pay. - Stevie Wonder
Breakups can be sad, but sometimes tears are the price we pay for a freedom we need. - Steve Maraboli
As I stood behind you, I sensed that God was telling me to pay for your groceries, so I did. Simple as that. - Clare De Graaf
People want economy and they will pay any price to get it. - Lee Iacocca
Every damn fool thing you do in this life you pay for. - Édith Piaf
Because of the power that we have given money: The government would rather have taxpayers who do not vote, than voters who do not pay tax. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
A person who is not worth for the value of the product can't buy it even if s/he has any amount of money to pay for it. - Anuj Somany
We go through life and don't pay attention to God even when he's yelling. Then there are the moments you never expect and can't avoid. It is at those times when you can hear him ever so clearly; even when he's whispering. - Benjamin J. Carey
Ninja Mom's can't be all their called to be, if their so stressed out about how their going to pay their Mastercard bill - Anna M. Aquino
I might have made a tactical error not going to a physician for 20 years. It was one of those phobias that didn't pay off.
Those who seek consolation in existing churches often pay for their peace of mind with a tacit agreement to ignore a great deal of what is known about the way the world works. - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Inviting someone to work for pay is a sacred privilege and a trust. It must be regarded a high honor to be able to give another person work, and neither employer nor employee should abuse this relationship - Judy Frankel
A child cannot pay for its mother's milk - Chinua Achebe
I prefer to suffer than repent because I stand by my decision and capable enough top pay for it Or reap the beauty later. - Ravindra Shukla
Have you ever wondered why Republicans are so interested in encouraging people to volunteer in their communities? It’s because volunteers work for no pay. Republicans have been trying to get people to work for no pay for a long time. - George Carlin
You invite a few players in to start a game of Texas Hold'em by telling them that the deck doesn't have any jacks or queens in it and that you won't tell the other people who come to play with them. How do you get people into the casino? You pay the brokers to bring them there. - Michael Lewis
Pay great attention to those who love you, and love those who hate you. - Debasish Mridha
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness... but only when you pay your taxes? That means your freedom is rented, leased, & not unalienable. - Steve Maraboli
Very occasionally, if you pay really close attention, life doesn't suck. - Joss Whedon
You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. . . . Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but not, as yet, quite intelligent enough. - Aldous Huxley
No price is too high to pay, to be the author of your fate. - Johnathan Jena
We wear the mask that grins and lies.It shades our cheeks and hides our eyes.This debt we pay to human guileWith torn and bleeding hearts…We smile and mouth the myriad subtleties.Why should the world think otherwiseIn counting all our tears and sighs.Nay let them only see us whileWe wear the mask. - Maya Angelou
If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance. - Dale Carnegie
We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves. - John Buchan
The secret is here in the present. If you pay attention to the present, you can improve upon it. And if you improve on the present, what comes later will also be better.
Never pay attention to someone who has not earned your respect. - Habeeb Akande
Crime does not pay if you get caught. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Truth doesn't pay homage to creeds. Creeds must adjust themselves to be compatible with the truth. - Abhijit Naskar
Men like to borrow kisses because they know they will have to pay them back. - Matshona Dhliwayo
One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself. - Lucille Ball
Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream - Oprah Winfrey
The price is what you pay; the value is what you receive.
Why pay a dollar for a bookmark? Why not use the dollar for a bookmark? - Steven Spielberg
The price you have to pay to be great at something - is repetition. - Andrew Brown
Follow the dreams of others and you will receive a paycheck. Follow your own dreams and you will never check your pay. - Vincent Lowry
When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income. - Plato
If you are not a psychiatrist, stay away from idiots. They are too stupid to pay a layman for his company. - Stanislaw J. Lec
By shaping the menus we pick from, technology hijacks the way we perceive our choices and replaces them with new ones. But the closer we pay attention to the options we’re given, the more we’ll notice when they don’t actually align with our true needs. - Tristan Harris
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty. - John F. Kennedy
I want excitement; and I don’t care what form it takes or what I pay for it, so long as it makes my heart beat. - F. Scott Fitzgerald
The earth is hiring and the pay is your legacy. - Shannon L. Alder
I see a good deal of talk from Washington about lowering taxes. I hope they do get 'em lowered enough so people can afford to pay 'em. - Will Rogers
There are things that you might forget, but you might not clearly forget. Time is the only coin you have to buy the things you want to remember, and to pay for the things you want to leave behind. - Aileene Mhar Jabarani
We can’t answer King’s assassination with violence. That would be the worst tribute we could pay him. - Sammy Davis Jr.
Come what may and hell to pay. - Gregory Maguire
In your goals to go the extra mile, prepare to pay an extra cost. Excellence is to be exceptional, surpassing, more competent and a step ahead with what is in your hands. - Israelmore Ayivor
The sorrow we feel when we lose a loved one is the price we pay to have had them in our lives. - Rob Liano
Was I sorry that I chose to come by hand cart? No. Neither then nor any minute of my life since. The price we paid to become acquainted with God was a privilege to pay and I am thankful that I was privileged to come in the Martin Hand Cart Company. - Francis Webster
Pay attention… How a person handles poor cell service, traffic, and spotty wifi is a good indicator of how they’ll behave during relationship challenges. - Steve Maraboli
Defeating depression is like playing the carnival game Whac-a-mole. You have to give it your all and be on target to beat that sucker down when it pops up again and again. If you pay attention, learn from your past efforts, and keep at it, you can win." -Mel. Edwards - Mel Edwards
And the matron sighed over the destiny of ladies in good society, whose moral judgement led them to love unabashedly and whose depravity led them to pay for it. - Michelle Franklin
Sir, pay no attention to the people who say the glass is half empty, because 32% means it's 2/3 empty. There's still some liquid in that glass is my point, but I wouldn't drink it. The last third is usually backwash.(Said to President Bush at the White House Correspondents Dinner) - Stephen Colbert
A minute later the steam stopped. By then, I was soaking wet and, no doubt, my pores were open. Some people pay a fortune for this kind of beauty treatment. I got mine for free, if you disregard the bruises, headache and all those dead people."- Corin Hayes, Silent City (working title) - G.R. Matthews
If you want your dreams to work out for you, you must work with them. Pay the price and have the package of your accomplishments in full versions. - Israelmore Ayivor
It seems it doesn't pay to be good anymore, when people are short-changing you for evil. - Anthony Liccione
She knew that it was better to have a dream and pay a price for it than to be lukewarm. - regarding St. Teresa of Avila - Mark Salzman
When you need to borrow money the Mob seems like a better deal I think. 'You don't pay me back I break both yer legs.' Is that all? You won't take my house or wreck my credit rating? Fine where do I sign. Legs? Fine. You don't even have to sign anything. - Craig Ferguson
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty. - John F. Kennedy
I have learned that the less I pay attention, the more often I am pleasantly suprised.
There is no escape - we pay for the violence of our ancestors. - Frank Herbert
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty. - John F. Kennedy
PAY PEANUTS & GET MONKEYS’ is a correct thought all the way, but what they have to say about a lot those who pay cashew nuts to one who acts like nuts and makes others work only like flunkeys. - Anuj Somany
Pay attention: Are your daily choices in alignment with the life you want for yourself? If not, nothing will change. - Steve Maraboli
Sometimes, when I couldn’t afford to pay the utility bill at the end of the month, I was forced to read by the light of the stories themselves. - Steve Stern
You will never know just how thrilled my heart is to behold such a throng of people; especially as they have gathered to pay tribute and love's greatest honor to loved ones who, today, are basking in the sunshine of God's heaven. - Reverend Ada Slaton Bonds
I didn't do anything but sit quietly and pay attention to the fact that my hollow chest was still beating. I was still alive and could see that the new normal wasn't so bad. - Dee Williams
I promise to pay you before you die - but you have to promise not to die. - Jim Baen
One of the greatest disservices you can do to a man is to lend him money that he can't pay back. - Jesse H. Jones
Don't for heaven's sake, be afraid of talking nonsense! But you must pay attention to your nonsense. - Ludwig Wittgenstein
After getting respect, one will get an equal amount of insult, if not in this life then the next. If you taste even the slightest of pleasure from this body-complex [pudgal], you will have to pay back an equivalent amount. Therefore become attachment-free (vitarag). - Dada Bhagwan
The human is the only animal on earth that pays a thousand times for the same mistake. The rest of the animals pay only once for every mistake they make. But not us. We have a powerful memory. We make a mistake, we judge ourselves, we find ourselves guilty, and we punish ourselves. - Miguel Ruiz
A world without esoteric knowledge is a poorer place and we as a humanity pay the price for the loss of its principles. - Belsebuub
Listen to your intuition. When you're at a crossroad, the little voice is always talking to you. You just have to pay attention. - Karen A. Baquiran
until we courageously find a cheaper antidote to our ignorance, we shall always pay a higher price for our ignorance courageously. - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay an author. - Samuel Johnson
I'm not going to raise taxes on middle-class Americans to pay for the programs I've recommended. - Bill Clinton
Pay attention to me. - Sally Quinn
No matter what it is that you want to do, you should dream as big as you can and go for it. Don't let anyone tell you that it can't be done because that's the worst advice. Do whatever you want to do and hard work will make it pay off. - Logan Henderson
Who but the Christian, among the religions of the world and throughout time, worships a God who loves him so much that he died an agonizing and wretched death to pay for his sins? - Ron Brackin
Most people pay too much for the things they get for nothing.
Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it. - William Penn
People pay attention to the things they want to listen, anything that doesn't please them is rubbish. - Himmilicious
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
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. - George Bernard Shaw
Tolerance is the price we pay for living in a free, pluralistic society. - Robert Casey
People are so cheap. Everyone wants quality, no one wants to pay for it. Here's the suburban dream-- to hire great workers who are such meek morons that they don't have the guts to ask for a living wage. - Joan Bauer
But it’s still a big fight to get the work you’re really excited about onto shelves. And past that, convincing someone to pay you to do the work that you are most excited about is more than a trick, it’s a fucking scam of a magic trick. - Brandon S. Graham
It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong. - Thomas Sowell
No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. - Friedrich Nietzsche
We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to them. - Samuel Butler
Be focused and learn what it takes to excel in your calling. Be patient and persistent in your drive to succeed. Be ready to pay the price of success because wealth without sweat is wishful thinking. Never give up on your dreams so you don’t lose what can actually bring you true success. - Sesan Kareem
You can’t tax business. Business doesn’t pay taxes. It collects taxes. - Ronald Reagan
You cannot have an agency that defends your property, which also has the right to violate your property rights at will. That's like hiring a bodyguard that you pay to beat you up randomly. - Stefan Molyneux
Get-rich-quick schemes are for the lazy & unambitious. Respect your dreams enough to pay the full price for them. - Steve Maraboli
According to Democritus, truth lies at the bottom of a well, the water of which serves as a mirror in which objects may be reflected. I have heard, however, that some philosophers, in seeking for truth, to pay homage to her, have seen their own image and adored it instead.
Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author? - Philip G. Hamerton
Do you have to regret spending money when you earn money? And when it is time to spend, you should be strong that you got the opportunity to pay off your debt. Income is one’s responsibility and expense is the means to clear off the responsibility. - Dada Bhagwan
We who are born into this age of freedom and independence and the self must undergo this loneliness. It is the price we pay for these times of ours. - Natsume Soseki
Why should a financial engineer be paid four, four times... to a hundred times more than the, uh... real engineer?A real engineer build bridges, a financial engineer build, build dreams.And when those dream turn out to be nightmares, other people pay for it. - Andrew Sheng
People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead. - James Baldwin
Anyone who recommends attention to the moment as a prescription for grateful wonder is only telling half the truth. To be happy one must pay attention, but to be unhappy one must also have paid attention. - Philip Lopate
To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it. - Nelson Bunker Hunt
Children pay little attention to their parents' teachings, but reproduce their characters faithfully - Mason Cooley
See your greatness. Be your greatness. Pay it forward. - Monika Zands
Teenagers - tired of being hassled by your parents?Act now!Move out, get a job, pay your own bills.....while you still know everything. - James Hauenstein
Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it. - Mary Oliver
The invention of the teenager was a mistake. Once you identify a period of life in which people get to stay out late but don't have to pay taxes - naturally, no one wants to live any other way. - Judith Martin
If happiness could be brought, few of us could pay the price.
Almost all reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for. - Logan Pearsall Smith
Entrepreneurs pay the price of a road less traveled, while everyone else takes the freeway and perpetually misses their own exit. - Ryan Lilly
Justice requires that you should not place the burdens of one man on the shoulders of another man, even though he is better able to bear them. In plainer words, that you should not make one set of men pay for what is used by another set of men. - Auberon Herbert
We all pay for life with death, so everything in between should be free. - Bill Hicks
Sorry... my mind was wandering... one time it went all the way to Venus and ordered a meal I couldn’t pay for. - Steven Wright
I am not smart, I pay attention.I am not considerate, I listen.I am not patient, I make time. I’m not lucky, I work hard. - Mark W. Boyer
The rich don't have to kill to eat. They employ people, as they call it. The rich don't do evil themselves. They pay. People do all they can to please them, and everybody's happy. - Louis-Ferdinand Céline
History shows us that people often make mistakes, they give wrong decisions, they vote for the wrong persons! And history also shows us that in the end they pay a heavy price for it! - Mehmet Murat ildan
I'm afraid." Olivia to Caleb"Afraid of what?" Caleb."Of how vulnerable you make me." Olivia."I make you vulnerable because you love me. That's the price you pay for love, baby girl." Caleb. - Tarryn Fisher
Alimony: the ransom the happy pay to the devil. - H. L. Mencken
I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity. - Tom Stoppard
A salary is a tax employers pay, every four weeks, for putting an employee’s dream on hold. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Everybody wants to go to heaven but nobody wishes to die. The same could be said about success. Everybody wants to achieve it but few are willing to pay the price of success. - Michael A. Contés II
COMMENDATION, n. The tribute that we pay to achievements that resembles, but do not equal, our own. - Ambrose Bierce
When something means nothing to you, you can do everything you want; but someday, somehow you may have to pay for it. - Munia Khan
Vanity does not pay the bills. - Robert Black
Let us be kind and pay our deepest gratitude to those angels who fill our life with joy, beauty, and magic. - Debasish Mridha
Every dream has a message. Pay attention! - Temi 'T Quest' Sholeye
It is the writer's job to craft a story so compelling that strangers will pay to hear it. - Seeley James
When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale. - John W. Gardner
Pay no attention to what the critics say... Remember, a statue has never been set up in honor of a critic! - Jean Sibelius
I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person. - Jane Austen
You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one. - Lois McMaster Bujold
Work is what you have to do to pay rent. Life is what happens when your shift is over. - Marianne Kavanagh
It is not in our hands to prevent the murder of workers… and families… but it is in our hands to fix a high price for our blood, so high that the Arab community and the Arab military forces will not be willing to pay it. - Moshe Dayan
Progress has a steep price. Success has an even steeper price. Your team won't be willing to pay it if you aren't willing to pay it. - T Jay Taylor
The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. - Plato
Money is still the root of all evilYet we tell our kids don't get that degreeThe jobs don't pay enough. - Prince Ea
Happiness is like a cat. If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you. It will never come. But if you pay no attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing up against your legs and jumping into your lap. - William J. Bennett
Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been a statue set up in honour of a critic. - Jean Sibelius
As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do. - Andrew Carnegie
And then she poked him again. Not because he wasn't paying attention but because when she did it the first time she found she liked it. Mrs. Bunny might think she was getting away with this, but Mr. Bunny was silently counting the pokes to pay her back later. - Polly Horvath
Keep your eyes on the prize for you cant hit an unseen target but don't forget to pay the price - Bernard Kelvin Clive
When you cannot get a compliment any other way pay yourself one. - Mark Twain
Now everything that you do is written in red or black in Angel Gabriel's book. Not for everyone is this record kept, but only for those who have taken a position of responsibility. There is a Law of Sins, and if you do not fulfil all your obligations, you will pay. - G.I. Gurdjieff
Always try to avoid repeating the same mistakes; the price that you haveto pay is often too high. - Eraldo Banovac
One of life's great challenges is getting out of your own way after a divorce or breakup... Heartache and anger make you feel like enemies, but your children need you to be a team. Unfortunately, few rise to this challenge, and the children pay an emotional debt they did not incur. - Steve Maraboli
Maimed, mad, and sexually different people were believed to possess supernatural powers by primal cultures' magico-religious thinking. For them, abnormality was the price a person had to pay for her or his extraordinary gift. - Gloria E. Anzaldúa
All Reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for. - Logan Pearsall Smith
Life teaches us many lessons daily, even from our mishaps, only if we pay attention - Bernard Kelvin Clive
Dear Literary World, Sorry for breaking down your door...I'll pay for that!!! Since I'm here and planning to stay a while, let me tell you some stories!! - C.K. Webb
Work a lifetime to pay off a house. you finally own it, and there's nobody to live in it. - Arthur Miller
Pay attention, behavior speaks… While preacher are telling you to pray for abundance, they’re passing around a basket. - Steve Maraboli
The are things that you might forget, but you might not clearly forget. Time is the only coin you have to buy the things you want to remember, and to pay for the things you want to leave behind. - Aileene Mhar Jabarani
The highest price you can pay for a thing is to ask for it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It's all about paying attention. attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. stay eager. - Susan Sontag
Clever wives are mostly silent ,alert and pay equal attention to limiting the kind and degree of emotions of family which creates and destroy HOMES. - Kishore Bansal
Too many people want to have mountaintop experiences at rock-bottom prices and that just doesn't work. Greatness doesn't come at a discount. If you want true greatness, you have to pay the full price for it. - Damilola Oluwatoyinbo
People pay a dear price when not dealing with the powerful emotions. - David W. Earle
Pay attention. Be alert. Don't be in denial. Learn - Marxxha
We find no evidence that Congress intended to modify the nostrum to read, 'crime does not pay, except for attorney's fees.'
Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth. - Muhammad Ali
I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings. - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
[B]ecause the second time I ever saw you I learned what I had read in books but I never had actually believed: that love and suffering are the same thing and that the value of love is the sum of what you have to pay for it and anytime you get it cheap you have cheated yourself. - William Faulkner
If you don't create a good message about your dreams, those who were created to pay for it can't find it. Speak them out and you will find those God created to finance it - Israelmore Ayivor
Either way, it will cost you. You will for pay for your education or pay for your ignorance. - Kathy McClary
The cost you will pay to achieve the goal is worthwhile. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Sailboats with they were stars, floating softly through the sky, among our dreams that pay goodbye. - Adam Young
People always want the bad guy to pay for his sin, until they're him. - D.R. Silva
Price is what you pay. Value is what you get. - Warren Buffett
Give me kisses! Nay, 'tis true I am just as rich as you; And for every kiss I owe, I can pay you back, you know. Kiss me, then, Every moment, and again. - John Godfrey Saxe
Pay attention to the intricate patterns of your existence that you take for granted. - Doug Dillon
[A]though people get paid to do their jobs, you cannot pay someone to do their job passionately and wholeheartedly. Those qualities are not for sale; they are themselves gifts that can only be given freely, and are in many, many fields. - Rebecca Solnit
Loving is misery for women always. I shall never forgive God for making me a woman and dearly am I beginning to pay for the honour of owning a pretty face. - Thomas Hardy
Spend your money for education; it will pay you the best dividend. No one will be able to steal is and you will not lose it for a second. - Debasish Mridha
If you have to pay the bills, and you write something you're not proud of, use a pen-name for that. - Dean Koontz
It's not vanity, because if you look weird, it will distract from what your trying to do. If you look as good as you can, people will be able to pay attention to what your actually saying. - Tina Fey
Your motivation is your pay packet on Friday. Now get on with it. - Noël Coward
Age is a hell of a price to pay for wisdom - George Carlin
There is some magic in wealth, which can thus make persons pay their court to it, when it does not even benefit themselves. How strange it is, that a fool or knave, with riches, should be treated with more respect by the world, than a good man, or a wise man in poverty! - Ann Radcliffe
When he shall die, take him and cut him out in little stars, and he will make the face of heaven so fine, that all the world will be in love with night, and pay no worship to the garish sun. - William Shakespeare
The minute your group gets so big you don't know anybody in it and they don't know you, there's hell to pay. - Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Of course, freedom is not free. Taxpayers pay for it. - Zarina Bibi
A love of classical music is only partially a natural response to hearing the works performed; it also must come about by a decision to listen carefully, to pay close attention, a decision inevitably motivated by the cultural and social prestige of the art. - Charles Rosen
Never... ever suggest they don't have to pay you. What they pay for, they'll value. What they get for free, they'll take for granted, and then demand as a right. Hold them up for all the market will bear. - Lois McMaster Bujold
There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story. - Linda Hogan
You broke me bodily.The heart ain't the half of it,And I'll never learn to laugh at itIn my good natured way.In fact, I'm laughing less in general,But I learned a lot at my own funeral.And I knew you'd be the death of me,So I guess that's the price I pay. - Ani DiFranco
Listen. Pay attention. Treasure every moment. - Oprah Winfrey
Every desire has it's own demand and a price to pay. - Auliq Ice
Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education. Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both. - Abraham Flexner
Meditation is a wonderful way to shout down the outer noise so that you may pay attention to the universal inner message. - Debasish Mridha
A moment of brilliance is not good enough to pay for your mistakes, it's taking responsibility - Mohamed Mohamed Adel
Are you willing to pay the price for the fulfilment of your passion? - Lailah Gifty Akita
Politics is theater. It doesn't matter if you win. You make a statement. You say, "I'm here, pay attention to me - Harvey Milk
Lots of folks want success without sacrifice. Life doesn't work that way. Be willing to pay the price for your dreams. - Ziad K. Abdelnour
The rage for railroads is so great that many will be laid in parts where they will not pay. - George Stephenson
Sometimes with one I love, I fill myself with rage, for fear I effuse unreturn'd love; But now I think there is no unreturn'd love—the pay is certain, one way or another; (I loved a certain person ardently, and my love was not return'd; Yet out of that, I have written these songs.) - Walt Whitman
Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people. - Kin Hubbard
No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk. - Moliere
Normally, children learn to gauge rather accurately from the tone of their parent's voice how seriously to take his threats. Of course, they sometimes misjudge and pay the penalty.
Walk slowly through the world and pay attention - Marty Rubin
Every decision, every single one, comes with a price to pay. It means you chose one thing over another, always. Whether you chose right or wrong, that cost remains constant. It's a permanent life tax. That's where taxes come from. - Hubert Martin
It costs me never a stab nor squirm / To tread by chance upon a worm. / Aha, my little dear, / I say, Your clan will pay me back one day. - Dorothy Parker
How do you pay for what you've done? - Hope Estheim
Many buy gadgets they don’t really need, with money they don’t have, for people they don’t actually care for, while infringing their corporeal and financial capacities, in order to pay doctors and psychiatrists.( "Keeping up with the Joneses") - Erik Pevernagie
Love words, agonize over sentences. And pay attention to the world. - Susan Sontag
Pay equality is not going to happen because we scream and yell about it, it's going to happen when we start demanding it."(On Beauty: , Vogue, January 8, 2016) - Susan Sarandon
A few thoughts on crime and punishment:Punishment—either don’t merit it, or learn to embrace it.It is easy to endure punishment, much harder to accept it.Committing a crime is like incurring a debt: you can either pay it off now, or pay it off later—with interest. - Clifford Cohen
We pay attention to what we are told to attend to, or what we're looking for, or what we already know...what we see is amazingly limited. - Daniel Simons
Where you are today and where you want to be lies a gap. That gap is the price you have to pay to get to the top. - Oscar Bimpong
Crime does not pay ... as well as politics. - Alfred E. Newman
A man must properly pay the fiddler. In my case it so happened that a whole symphony orchestra had to be subsidized. - John Barrymore
Money can't buy you happiness but it can pay for the plastic surgery. - Joan Rivers
The denial of language is a suicidal one and we pay for it with our own lives. - Joyce Carol Oates
Do what is right and be prepared to pay the price. - Christopher Taylor
Do the most difficult thing if that is what will pay you. Dust the Rust if you Must. Success never comes with ease. - Israelmore Ayivor
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