Pay A Quotes

#1. In my case, I pay a standard premium to participate in the Federal Employees' Health Benefits Plan for my wife and myself out of each month's paycheck.

Virgil Goode

#2. The way we make money as a group is that we don't pay a lot for anything, and most of the stocks we buy have low expectations.

Joel Greenblatt

#3. Evening attend two "fandangos." Girls not very pretty but exceedingly graceful. [You] pay a dime for a figure and refreshments foryour doxy, who instead of eating prudently stores her cakes, etc., in a basket to be taken home for the family.

Rutherford B. Hayes

#4. In a basic agricultural society, it's easy enough to swap five chickens for a new dress or to pay a schoolteacher with a goat and three sacks of rice. Barter works less well in a more advanced economy. The logistical challenges of using chickens to buy books on Amazon would be formidable.

Charles Wheelan

#5. I'd pay a man to talk to me that way.

Kristen Ashley

#6. The Affordable Care Act's requirement that certain individuals pay a financial penalty for not obtaining health insurance may reasonably be characterized as a tax.

John Roberts

#7. In some countries, if you carry the Gospel, you can go to jail. You can't carry a cross, because you'll have to pay a fine. But still, the heart rejoices.

Pope Francis

#8. The best way to increase wolves in America, rabbits in Australia, and snakes in India is to pay a bounty on their scalps. Then every patriot goes to raising them.

Steven D. Levitt

#9. Folks can't carry around money in their pocket. They've got to go to an ATM machine, and they've got to pay a few dollars to get their own dollars out of the machine. Who ever thought you'd pay cash to get cash? That's where we've gotten to.

Bill Janklow

#10. A woman is more than a powerful feeling or unforgettable taste, and a man should not try to eat from every dish. A good woman is a jewel from Allah for which a man must pay a heavy price. Be very careful.

Sister Souljah

#11. The greater fool theory states that the price of an object is determined not by its intrinsic value, but rather by irrational beliefs and expectations of market participants. As long as there is a greater fool around the corner willing to pay a higher price, the value will continue to rise,

Ashwin Sanghi

#12. Husbands are always angry,
that's their nature.
And the nature of us women,
is not to pay a blind bit of notice.

M.C. Beaton

#13. If your appraisal comes back too low - you don't have at least 10% equity for a conforming loan or 20% for a jumbo loan - you might not be able to refinance at all, at least with a loan that's packaged and sold to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. That means you may have to pay a much higher rate.

Jean Chatzky

#14. Next time, please pay a fair price for the services you depend on. Those have a better chance of surviving the bubbles,

Dave Winer

#15. From fifth grade on, I worked at our public library. The pay, a pittance, was almost superfluous. All through high school, I looked forward to summer as the time when I could work at the library four or five days a week. I was never a camp counselor, a lifeguard, a scooper of ice cream.

Julia Glass

#16. Among our egocentric sad-sacks, despair is as addictive as heroin and more popular than sex, for the single reason that when one is unhappy one gets to pay a lot of attention to oneself. Misery becomes a kind of emotional masturbation.

Tom Robbins

#17. When people ask, 'Why should the rich pay a larger percent of their income than middle-income people?' My answer is not an answer most people get: It's because their power developed from laws that enriched them.

Ralph Nader

#18. I refuse to pay a bill I don't owe.

Jon Jones

#19. There is little place in the political scheme of things for an independent, creative personality, for a fighter. Anyone who takes that role must pay a price.

Shirley Chisholm

#20. 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.

Paulo Coelho

#21. We all must pay a price for following our own paths. But ... it's not always fair to ask others to pay that price.

C.C. Hunter

#22. Why pay a fee for Internet content when a million free sites are just a click away? There's no incentive until people are too addicted to the Net to turn off their computers, yet are bored with what's available.

Nathan Myhrvold

#23. Why do I have to pay a reconnect fee when you all made the mistake?

Jon Jones

#24. There are three things that none of the young men of the present generation can do.They can't sit over their wine;they can't play at wist;and they can't pay a lady a compliment.

Wilkie Collins

#25. I hate gold. It does not pay a dividend, it has no value, and you can't work out what it should or shouldn't be worth," he said. "It is the last refuge of the desperate.

Jeremy Grantham

#26. Corporatism trying to redeem itself through charity is akin to a serial killer offering to pay a fine for his crimes.

Dean Cavanagh

#27. Invest in great relationships, they will pay a lifetime of dividends.

Bill Walsh

#28. I made mistakes and I broke the law and I'm more than willing to pay a price for that. But there's a price beyond that that my children have paid, and that's not what was supposed to happen.

Paula Poundstone

#29. I'm not one of those people who hates Amazon because they're big. Why pay a third more for the same thing?

Susan Hill

#30. Life is such an effort, Child. It's a war that is renewed each day, and its moments of joy are brief parentheses for which you pay a cruel price.

Oriana Fallaci

#31. The idea is that in any situation, people have a notion as to who they are and how they should behave. And if you don't behave according to your identity, you pay a cost.

George Akerlof

#32. Customers pay a price, but they remember the value.

Ron Kaufman

#33. If you pay a child a dollar to read a book, as some schools have tried, you not only create an expectation that reading makes you money, you also run the risk of depriving the child for ever of the value of it. Markets are not innocent.

Michael Sandel

#34. It's true, the Church will be raptured before the final seven years of Earth's history, but during that final seven years, many people will come to faith in Christ, but they will pay a terrible price to do so.

Robert Jeffress

#35. There is no perfect strategic decision. One always has to pay a price. One always has to balance conflicting objectives, conflicting opinions, and conflicting priorities. The best strategic decision is only an approximation - and a risk.

Peter Drucker

#36. You can pay a mercenary to fight, you can't pay him to die.

J.D. Rhoades

#37. We will probably have to pay a price for devoting our lives to building the kingdom of God. Jesus did.

Bill Hybels

#38. Honor is a public enemy, and conscience a domestic, and he that would secure his pleasure, must pay a tribute to one and go halves with t'other.

William Congreve

#39. 'Longmire' is more of a show about the characters, and you couldn't pay a bigger compliment than to want to know more about my character, or the characters on the show.

Bailey Chase

#40. You must not pay a person a compliment, and then straightway follow it with a criticism.

Mark Twain

#41. Some people never change and they pay a price for it.

Spencer Johnson

#42. We must pay a price if we are to become priceless.

Elizabeth George

#43. Coca-Cola is little more than sugar, some flavoring, and lots of (carbonated) water. It is largely indistinguishable from innumerable other brands of cola, yet people around the world seem to think that Coca-Cola is something and they are eager to ask for it by name and even to pay a premium for it.

George Ritzer

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

Amy Irving

#45. 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.

Amy Ryan

#46. What's absolutely unforgivable is the financial benefit top management people get for laying off people. There is no excuse for it. No justification. This is morally and socially unforgivable, and we will pay a heavy price for it.

Peter Drucker

#47. I basically modeled my way through college, doing local runway shows in L.A. that don't pay a lot and a couple of shows in N.Y. and S.F., and I probably made the same as the average 19-year-old waiter; I just worked less and was around beautiful girls, so it was nice.

Mehcad Brooks

#48. I decided I can't pay a person to rewind time, so I may as well get over it.

Serena Williams

#49. Men are continually applauded for being ambitious and powerful and successful, but women who display these same traits often pay a social penalty. Female accomplishments come at a cost.19

Sheryl Sandberg

#50. You pay a price for the 'gift' of an active imagination. While mine played a major part in making me a writer, it also made me adept at transforming run-of-the-mill molehills into towering mountain ranges.

Jean Little

#51. It costs a lot of money to make an album in a studio in New York with a producer and musicians. I have to pay a publicist every month. I have to pay for mastering, production, the manufacturing of the discs. Then, to promote an album properly, you have to spend a lot of money.

Juliana Hatfield

#52. Quite frankly, Barack Obama knows what it's like to pay a mortgage and student loans. He knows what it's like to watch a beloved family member in a medical crisis and worry that treatment is out of reach. Barack Obama knows our struggles. And, my friends, he shares our values.

Ted Strickland

#53. They do very classy, sexy television in the U.S. - and they pay a lot more, so there's always that draw!

Jamie Dornan

#54. Sometimes You Have to Pay a Heavy Price to Live in a Free Society

Chelsea Manning

#55. A number of American colleges are willing to pay a tempting amount to pinch and poke an author for a day or two.

John Updike

#56. People will pay a price for putting political obstruction over progress in a time that is so critical and urgent.

Tim Kaine

#57. There is rarely a creative man who does not have to pay a high price for the divine spark of his great gifts ... the human element is frequently bled for the benefit of the creative element.

Carl Jung

#58. The entertainment industry at large has pretty much given away high definition to consumers. They haven't really charged a premium for it on television. That makes consumers more likely to buy Blu-ray but less likely to pay a premium for it.

Michael Lynton

#59. Every person should take a lesson from history. We should understand that wherever there have been internal fights and conflicts in the country, the country has been weakened. Due to this, the danger from outside increases. The country has to pay a big price due to this type of weakness.

Rajiv Gandhi

#60. I used to make my grandparents pay a dollar to watch me sing 'Grease' songs and 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow' in their living room. I was always an entertainer, and I would always do all that stuff, but it slowly evolved into a career, which is great, but it wasn't a plan.

Zoe Kravitz

#61. I pay a lot of attention to how things are done and the whole activity of building something is interesting.

Donald Judd

#62. This household is like a pocketful of coins that jingled together for a time, but now have been slapped on a counter to pay a price. The pocket empties out, the coins venture back into the infinite circulation of currency, separate, invisible, and untraceable.

Barbara Kingsolver

#63. President Obama likes to talk about the Buffett Rule. Well, here's a Buffett Rule that all Americans should be able to support: mom and pop businesses should not pay a higher tax rate than Fortune 500 corporations like Warren Buffett's.

Rob Portman

#64. It's hard to get movie studios to pay a lot of money for movies that don't have robots or explosions.

John Green

#65. The purpose of art is to elevate the spirit or to pay a surgeon's bill. Or both. It can help a person remember or forget.

Barbara Kingsolver

#66. I don't pay a lot of attention to polls.

Noam Chomsky

#67. I'd go for parts that didn't pay a dime, and there would be 300 to 400 actors there. It could be very discouraging. To make it in this business, you have to have a kind of dumb sense that you're really good. You have to believe that someone is going to recognize that.

Michael Imperioli

#68. In the story of Thetis and Achilles, it's clear this isn't really a safe environment. She's gone down to the River Styx - the dead are being ferried across in the background. There's something in this mythology that says that if you want invulnerability, if you want immortality, you pay a price.

Eula Biss

#69. Everything anyone says when they have an agenda is bullshit, and bullshit isn't necessarily false, but it's never really the truth either. So when someone's bullshitting, you need to pay a little more attention.

Caliban Darklock

#70. We must pay a price to touch godliness through daily decision to die to self and embrace the cross.

K.P. Yohannan

#71. I would rather give up acting than become world famous, because I think you pay a very high price. Writing and putting new plays out into the world has informed what I do, and I've had a lot more freedom to play really interesting parts.

Lindsay Duncan

#72. We're still dealing with the consequences of our actions. The people you drag down with you never go away. You have to pay a penance for your sins.

Angie McKeon

#73. Sometimes, we pay a higher price for trying to help someone fit into their skin than we do trying to fit into ours.

Srividya Srinivasan

#74. My dad should have listened to me when I told him that college was not my thing. Instead, he insisted on learning a $200,000 lesson the hard way. That's the thing about college - you pay a ton of money just to realize that everyone is a fucking moron.

Babe Walker

#75. Government agents sardonically known as the Menstrual Police regularly rounded up women in their workplaces to administer pregnancy tests. If a woman repeatedly failed to conceive, she was forced to pay a steep "celibacy tax.

Steven D. Levitt

#76. I pay a lot of tax, and I feel, one of the reasons I stay and pay why I'm not based in Monaco ... I think my country helped me.

J.K. Rowling

#77. There should be no unemployment. There is large percentage of labor now which cannot make a living because wages are not high enough. That is industry's 2nd job. 1st job is to make good product. 2nd pay a good wage.

Henry Ford

#78. I enjoy doing new tunes. It gives me a little bit to perk up, to pay a little bit more attention.

Earl Scruggs

#79. If you go out on a date, for the first date, a guy should pay, a guy should be respectful and, you know, I'm not saying roll out a red carpet, but, like, open the door and just be polite and just have common courtesy. I don't think that's too much to ask.

Carly Aquilino

#80. It was too early for any of my friends to have come home.
Hell, it wasn't even nine yet, which meant it was probably also too early for a serial killer to pay a visit.

J. Lynn

#81. I didn't pay a lot of attention as I should have in college.

Dan Quayle

#82. So might I suggest at your earliest convenience that you pay a visit to the Okins Funeral Salon to make arrangements?"
"Why'd I wanna do that?" she says so damn snippy.
"Because on my return visit you can count on my beatin' the ever-lovin' shit outta you with a rusty shovel. Twice.

Lesley Kagen

#83. My blood will only buy you that fool's regard. I will pay a high price for you to be respected by a churl. Nothing bought with blood is worth having, young man.

Robin Hobb

#84. Who is going to pay a day's wage to slide down a damn tongue?
The Chief, Swamplandia

Karen Russell

#85. Giving your heart away before you are certain of a man's character and commitment is dangerous. You must discern his true intentions or you'll pay a high price.

Carrie Turansky

#86. To achieve success, whatever the job we have, we must pay a price

Vince Lombardi

#87. Let me say I was trained at Juilliard. I have a very high standard. I expect everybody around me to work equally as hard because people pay a lot of money for tickets. They demand the best that we have.

Patti LuPone

#88. If Warren Buffett made his money from ordinary income rather than capital gains, his tax rate would be a lot higher than his secretary's. In fact a very small percentage of people in this country pay a big chunk of the taxes.

Michael Bloomberg

#89. If you live beyond your means and have to restructure as a result, you pay a price.

Wolfgang Schauble

#90. Anyone who's tried to pay a heating bill, fill a prescription, or simply buy groceries knows all too well that the current minimum wage does not cut the mustard.

Sherrod Brown

#91. To me, the print business model is so simple, where readers pay a dollar for all the content within, and that supports the enterprise.

Dave Eggers

#92. In certain parts of the world - where I'm at right now in New York, you're going to pay a whole lot more. In Los Angeles, your average starter home is a million dollars. So I need more money in Los Angeles to live like a normal person. If I live in another city, Iowa maybe, I wouldn't need as much.

Karrine Steffans

#93. I make films, and I hope that people come to see them. If they don't, I pay a big price. But I can't make decisions where I would change my own standards or my own taste in order to court the public in some way.

Sydney Pollack

#94. For every advance that the Japanese have made since they started their frenzied career of conquest, they have had to pay a very heavy toll in warships, in transports, in planes, and in men. They are feeling the effects of those losses.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#95. It seems to me that it's the best way of wasting money that I know of. I don't think investments on the moon pay a very high dividend.

Prince Philip

#96. 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

#97. Bachelor parties would pay a lot of money to hire Pat Buchanan to come.

Willie Geist

#98. If you are going to be a champion, you must be willing to pay a greater price.

Bud Wilkinson

#99. 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.

H.L. Mencken

#100. We need to expect to pay a price if we want to make our lives better, but more importantly, we need to expect to pay a price for just leaving things as they are.

Jane Powell