Top 76 Compensated Quotes
#1. These were lobbyists - many of them compensated quite handsomely not to react as human beings.
Ron Suskind
#2. My forte was the middlegame. I had a good feeling for the critical moments of the play. This undoubtedly compensated for my lack of opening preparation and, possibly, not altogether perfect play in the endgame. In my games things often did not reach the endgame!
Boris Spassky
#3. I think top scientists need to be compensated at a different scale in society. Somebody with experience will tell you that true scientists are not motivated by money - they are motivated by the quest itself. That is true. But I think an additional recognition will not hurt.
Yuri Milner
#4. His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.
Woody Allen
#5. Papa's love did indeed have wondrous properties: it not only compensated for her boredom and anxiety, it was the cause of her boredom and anxiety.
Vivian Gornick
#6. Study after study confirms that even when you control for variables like profession, education, hours worked, age, marital status, and children, men still are compensated substantially more - even in professions, like nursing, dominated by women. No wonder there's a gender gap.
Dee Dee Myers
#7. My partners ... taught me that in order to create wealth, I needed to pair up with people whose strengths compensated for my weaknesses.
Kevin O'Leary
#8. Frankly, the reason why lawyers were compensated so lavishly was that they were paid to attend to the most stultifying aspects of modern life.
Lionel Shriver
#9. Buddhism: a violent religion that has compensated for the exploding human population by causing whole species of animal vessels to go extinct.
Bauvard
#10. Do those Guests really cover themselves in honey and run naked into the bear enclosure?" "Oh yes." Kay grinned. "The bears are well-compensated for their trouble.
Cat Amesbury
#11. True tragedy may be defined as a dramatic work in which the outward failure of the principal personage is compensated for by the dignity and greatness of his character.
Joseph Wood Krutch
#12. I was on the verge of ruin but well-compensated by the miracle of still being alive at my age.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#13. Sport is part of every man and woman's heritage and its absence can never be compensated for.
Pierre De Coubertin
#14. It is pointless for a woodcutter to shed tears for the trees he'd chopped all his life. He can't bring them back but he can plant new ones and in doing so he would have compensated and redeemed himself of his wrongdoings.
Chirag Tulsiani
#15. The universe is completely balanced and in perfect order. You will always be compensated for everything that you do.
Brian Tracy
#16. The fact of being alive compensated for what life did to one.
Salman Rushdie
#17. Capablanca plays very superficially sometimes, in a way that can only be ascribed to lack of concentration. This is an integral weakness of his make-up and can only be partially compensated by his employing his time allowance to the full.
Max Euwe
#18. Find something to do that you love because then the work itself is always the reward not the recompense. And if you love what you're doing you probably do better at it than doing something you don't love and therefore you'll be compensated appropriately.
David McCullough
#19. Workers want to be paid an honest, fair wage for the work they do. They want to be able to provide for their families by being justly compensated for their part in helping grow the U.S. economy. They deserve to be able to put food on the table and receive health care and other benefits.
James P. Hoffa
#20. Professional land surveyors take on a lot of responsibility, and should be compensated appropriately.
Mark Mason
#21. As the revenue of the farmer is realized in raw produce, or in the value of raw produce, he is interested, as well as the landlord, in its high exchangeable value, but a low price of produce may be compensated to him by a great additional quantity.
David Ricardo
#22. [F]rank knew he was guilty of arrogance and misanthropy, but he compensated by being kind to strangers and tipping really well at restaurants.
Sherman Alexie
#23. The glories of the past compensated for the imperfections of the present.
Margaret MacMillan
#24. Be sure that you are well compensated for illiquidity - especially illiquidity without control - because it can create particularly high opportunity costs.
Seth Klarman
#25. The problem is that those who produce the emissions do not pay for that privilege, and those who are harmed are not compensated.
William D. Nordhaus
#26. The only way the gender divide affected me was the social things the younger guy executives could do with their bosses. I don't know what went on in the clubs, because I didn't go. I made sure my work was stellar, and that compensated for whatever social time we weren't spending together.
Stacey Snider
#27. There goes a lot of pain in raising children. But the pain is equally or overtly compensated by the joy of parenthood.
Girdhar Joshi
#28. He turned. "She would never marry for wordly advantage."
"Yet when she experiences the consequence she gains in such a marriage, she will feel compensated for giving up her freedom!"
"Her freedom!"
"I think her much at liberty.
Helen Halstead
#29. People choose to work more if they do it for free or if well-compensated but not if it is compensated with a little money.
Dan Ariely
#30. We play the whole summer. I do think guys should be compensated. Just like I think college players should be compensated as well. Unfortunately, it's not there. But I think it should be something, you know, there for it.
Dwyane Wade
#31. Drue [Langlois] and I started making music together before we started the Art Lodge, so I guess musical collaboration came first. The music we made, and our performances, always had a visual component. I could never play an instrument, so these other elements compensated for that a little.
Michael Dumontier
#32. Clinton leaned in close, breath stinking. "I'm a well-compensated lawman, Reb. Let's leave it at that. You'll never prove anything else."
"You're no lawman. You are a whore," Tom growled.
C.G. Faulkner
#33. We're compensated metaphysically with the absolute freedom to define and pursue whatever it is we believe will make our lives worthwhile- a dubious birthright that imparts a wearisome burden of its own. Rather like choosing one all-important meal from an infinite menu.
Chris Chester
#34. I think that once an artist has proven herself and you sell lots of records, you should be compensated.
Toni Braxton
#35. It is of the utmost importance that our service members are adequately compensated for their duties, and that we offer them a quality of life that will enable them to continue to serve and to live comfortably.
Carl Levin
#36. It seems that in the advanced stages of stupidity, a lack of ideas is compensated for by an excess of ideologies.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#37. Naturally, I have compensated in my adult years by owning very large numbers of books.
Martin Lewis Perl
#38. Every great example of punishment has in it some injustice, but the suffering individual is compensated by the public good.
Tacitus
#39. Little given to brahman in distress compensated abundantly,
Is got back not in equal quantity, but in a way higher degree.
[210] 12.2 Chanakya
Munindra Misra
#40. The athletic fool, to whom what heaven denied of soul, is well compensated in limbs.
John Armstrong
#41. The cost of a model is more than compensated for by future savings. It not only presents an accurate picture of the product for the executives, but it also gives the tool-makers and production men an opportunity to criticize and to present manufacturing problems.
Henry Dreyfuss
#42. Chronic boredom compensated or uncompensated constitutes one of the major psychopathological phenomena in contemporary technotronic society, although it is only recently that it has found some recognition.
Erich Fromm
#43. In our high-tech, high-skilled economy where low-skilled work is being scaled back, phased out, exported, or severely under-compensated, all the right behavior in the world won't create better jobs with more pay.
Michael Eric Dyson
#44. The Apricot Ice-cream Disaster had cost a whole evening of my life, compensated for only by the information about simulation algorithms.
Graeme Simsion
#45. They believe if employees are treated right and well compensated, they will be loyal to the company. A loyal employee is worth his or her weight in gold.
Serena Simpson
#46. It's critical that states improve how teachers are trained, recruited, evaluated, compensated, advanced, and retained.
Eli Broad
#47. Early laurels weigh like lead and of many of the boys whom I knew at Eton, I can say that their lives are over ... Once again romanticism with its death wish is to blame, for it lays an emphasis on childhood, on a fall from grace which is not compensated for by any doctrine of future redemption.
Cyril Connolly
#49. But the harshness of his steely glare was compensated by the softness of his cotton gloves, so that, as he approached Swann, he seemed to be exhibiting at once an utter contempt for his person and the most tender regard for his hat.
Marcel Proust
#50. Spontaneous abortion: the opposite of immaculate conception. God has compensated for Christianity's violent history by revealing that innocent blood does not have to be spilt.
Bauvard
#51. The heart of the 2008 financial crisis was a coterie of reckless financial executives, working for too-big-to-fail financial companies, who were handsomely compensated for taking risks that almost ruined the economy when they failed.
Gary Weiss
#52. I'm sweaty and sore and I can feel his come leaking out of my ass and onto the pillow he propped under me. I really hope Mrs. Gieger is well compensated.
Jana Aston
#53. The injury which may possibly be done by defeating a few good laws, will be amply compensated by the advantage of preventing a number of bad ones.
Alexander Hamilton
#54. Alexia had, in part, compensated for a lack of soul through the liberal application of manners. This was rather like donning an outfit consisting entirely of accessories, but Alexia maintained that proper conduct was never a bad thing.
Gail Carriger
#56. The wisdom of the crowds has peaked. Web 3.0 is taking what we've built in Web 2.0 - the wisdom of the crowds - and putting an editorial layer on it of truly talented, compensated people to make the product more trusted and refined.
Jason Calacanis
#57. If I do my best and produce the best products, that is my purpose, then I shall definitely be compensated. The by product will come when the product is good.
Sunday Adelaja
#58. Gardeners celebrate the influence of time. If we have had a late cold spring followed by a desiccating drought, autumn may be the most soft and golden for years; one poor season will sooner or later be compensated for by another.
Susan Hill
#59. Loneliness is the representation of love. Death is compensation of love
Each love is compensated by a head.
It was Shams who sacrificed his head as compensation this time.
Sinan Yagmur
#60. Whores have the ability to put up with behaviors other women would never manage to put up with. That's why we deserve to be generously compensated.
Annie Sprinkle
#61. (Since this was, after all, a Canadian revolution, the former rebels were compensated by the Canadian government for their lost property.)
Peter C Newman
#62. Piracy was risky business, and injuries were commonplace; a single lost limb or gouged-out eye could end a pirate's career. To encourage pirates not to hesitate in battle - and out of a sense of fairness - many pirate crews compensated wounded crewmen in predetermined amounts.
Robert Kurson
#63. In this age when people expect to get their music for free, we have to work out how we can protect the rights of creative artists so they are compensated fairly and that the record business itself remains sound and healthy.
Clive Davis
#64. As more delivery systems for entertainment producers come on board, you have all these different formats where people are compensated.
Marsha Blackburn
#65. If we are deprived of hope as well as fear, we are compensated by being given an almost endless patience for enduring or simply for waiting.
Joseph Wood Krutch
#66. The punishment should fit the crime and if a doctor or drug company does harm knowingly or negligently to a patient they should be compensated to make them whole.
Corrine Brown
#67. Evil can be condoned only if in the beyond it is compensated by good and god himself needs immortality to vindicate his ways to man.
W. Somerset Maugham
#68. If you're working for a good company and you're happy there, and you're being compensated accordingly, and your work satisfies you, you should stay there.
Robert Kiyosaki
#69. The human sigh for peace and love is answered and compensated by divine love.
Mary Baker Eddy
#71. Production and consumption of carbohydrates is so well regulated that there is a constant blood sugar level; any accidental increase or fall in blood sugar is rapidly compensated.
Bernardo Houssay
#72. There is a level of fame that is really unmanageable. But most of the people who experience that level of fame are compensated in other ways. Private villas and chauffeured boats.
John C. Reilly
#73. A screen actor is compensated in the knowledge that millions will see his performance at one time, where only hundreds will see it on the stage.
Bela Lugosi
#74. Among irrational animals the love of the offspring and of the parents for each other is extraordinary because God, who created them, compensated for the deficiency of reason by the superiority of their senses.
Saint Basil
#75. A dull speaker, like a plain woman, is credited with all the virtues, for we charitably suppose that a surface so unattractive must be compensated by interior blessings.
A.P. Herbert
#76. The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.
G.K. Chesterton
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