Pay Quotes - Page 74

It is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs.

I really don't pay too much attention; I don't go out of my way to read any interviews.

When we refuse to accept our limitations, Nature, who is a stern realist, pays us out.

The e-book revolution has made it very easy to pay writers a good deal less than what their work is worth. I do strongly believe that we writers ought to hold out for much better royalties.

People who lack material wealth, who are poor, won't be very happy. They will be obsessed with meeting their bills at pay day. And people who have an abundance of material goods are often not happy.

It's not fair to say that people who work with their head or with their hands ought to pay taxes, but people who earn their living with capital ought not to.

Since the 1960s, there has been a tremendous expansion of the resources available to pay for health care.

Wealthy people don't even pay taxes. But everybody must pay taxes.

I've had to do all kinds of jobs to pay the rent. I've even worked in a Cornish tin mine.

The rhetoric on the Hill is getting very heated and it's getting quite dangerous. The gun is at the head of the American economy and Congress is holding it and its got a hair trigger. We've got to pay our bills.

I don't sell enough books to pay for the lawyers, however. And these various problems finally became too much.

In the next economic downturn there will be an outbreak of bitterness and contempt for the supercorporate chieftains who pay themselves millions. In every major economic downturn in US history the villains have been the heroes during the preceding boom.

I've done everything I wanted to do, even if I have had to pay a very high price - which has been the case most of the time.

Everything comes at a price. Everthing in your life. The question you have to ask yourself is, what price are you willing to pay?

Either we have the government forcing us and telling us what we have to do, where we have to do it and how much we have to pay for it or we put ourselves in charge - we as consumers, as patients.

What did the taxpayers get out of the Obama stimulus? More debt. That money wasn't just spent and wasted – it was borrowed, spent, and wasted.

When I was at Brown. In other words, I'd heard about [H.P. Lovecraft], but I didn't pay that much attention till I happened to go to a meeting about it. And then I got just totally turned on.

Republicans want to punish work and reward wealth; hence the high payroll tax and the low dividend tax. Said one Bush economic adviser, if we can't help wealthy investors and screw working people, what's the point in being a Republican?

I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets. That kind of spilled out into translation as a way to earn money, pay for food and put bread on the table.

You want to understand the smallest feature set customers will pay for in the first release.

With bikes, it is absolutely the case that you will get what you pay for. Invest in quality so it will endure wear and tear.

When I sit and talk with a person, I'm not always paying attention. I'm looking at the person and saying, 'What is it about his or her life that appeals to me?

It's going to take from 40 to 118 years for the pay gap to close for women if we just go along with the status quo, so we need some serious, radical change.

I mean, if a person acts irresponsibly in his own life, he will pay the consequences. And it's not so much divine retribution as it's built into the law of nature.

Terrorism is the price of empire. If you do not wish to pay the price, you must give up the empire.