Top 100 Pay For It Quotes
#1. The ordinary bloke will not voluntarily pay for "art" that leaves him unmoved
if he does pay for it, the money has to be conned out of him, by taxes and such.
Robert A. Heinlein
#2. I don't want to sell my music. I'd like to give it away because where I got it, you didn't have to pay for it.
Don Van Vliet
#3. I'm making an announcement: Not one penny will I give to AIDS anything as long as [public sex is allowed in gay bathhouses]. Not cent one. It's a preventable disease. If you don't want to prevent it, I don't want to pay for it.
Laura Schlessinger
#4. Advertising is in essence simply a means of communication through mass media which is available to anyone who can pay for it. It is, in this sense, rather like electricity, which can be used to work a refrigerator or a dentist's drill.
John Treasure
#5. Maybe anyone can do what he or she loves, but only the wealthy can avoid going into debt to pay for it.
Miya Tokumitsu
#6. He's not asking me to make a choice. He's telling me to take a stand. I'm either with him or against him. All or nothing. I'm disgusted with the whole business. I don't want smicha if the price I have to pay for it is to stop thinking.
Chaim Potok
#8. If you're not paying for it through the health plan, you pay for it in the emergency room.
David Lehman
#9. I've since come to understand that the universe operates on the same general equilibrium theory as markets.It never gives you something without making you pay for it somehow.
Gayle Forman
#10. I like a bit of fun myself. But not if you've got to pay for it. Where's the fun in that?
Jerome K. Jerome
#11. In the current law we're seeing Social Security dwindle. And so what we're saying is if we're going to reduce taxes we just want to make sure that there are things within the law that pay for it.
Kevin Yoder
#12. Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell government what they want and their kids pay for it.
Richard Lamm
#13. 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
#14. An item is only worth what someone is willing to pay for it
Bianca Baker
#15. My plan is to bring back like the Bracero Program (search) from 1944 that ran for 20 years where the Mexican government vets these people. I mean, they pay for it, and they get green cards, and they're actually legitimate. And then seal the border.
Kinky Friedman
#16. Your choice. Cunt or pussy, but so help me God, if you say some lame ass word like flower or lady garden you'll pay for it later, because I don't fuck gardens or flowers any more than I have a love sword attached to my groin.
Elizabeth Finn
#17. Wisdom is precious because of the price we pay for it.
Jody Day
#18. America says it loves science, but it sure as hell doesn't want to pay for it.
Hope Jahren
#19. A dream is always a bargain no matter what you pay for it
Harvey MacKay
#20. Ridge: Our other roommate has an issue with alcohol, so we have to hide it from him.
Me: Is his issue that he hates it?
Ridge: His issue is that he doesn't like to pay for it himself and he drinks everyone else's.
Colleen Hoover
#21. Valuations are actually quite simple to grasp. A company is only worth what two acquirers are willing to pay for it. Don't you just need to find that one buyer? If there is only one potential company interested in buying your startup, chances are you won't be hearing the word 'billion' in the offer.
Jay Samit
#22. You can get any film now basically for free, and that's where I think the model we're talking about is - if you give people what they want, how they want it and when they want it, they're more likely to pay for it.
Dana Brunetti
#23. The first things I did was I was a writer, painter, and photographer, and we grew up very poor, so even though I could get into any college I wanted, there was no way to pay for it.
Lori Petty
#24. The true principle of taxation is the benefit principle - those who benefit from a government service should pay for it. It's also known as the 'user pay' principle. Every effort should be made to link the payment of taxes or fees to the cost associated with the government service.
Mark Skousen
#25. Those services which the community will most readily pay for, it is most disagreeable to render.
Henry David Thoreau
#26. It ain't really Czechoslovakian,' I said, coughing. 'We used to call it the Cheque. Like, you drink it up now, you pay for it later.
Esi Edugyan
#27. This free use of the line for flirtation purposes has grown to an alarming extent," he wrote, "and if it is to go on somebody must pay for it." The Bell companies tried to discourage frivolous telephony, particularly by women and servants.
James Gleick
#28. Any city in America would like to get a museum built if they didn't have to pay for it.
Eli Broad
#29. You must speak the vision of your project in a way that convinces people to pay for it. If they won't pay for it, that is the artist's fault. It is my fault. It is your fault. It is not the executive's fault or the world's.
Jill Soloway
#30. Ah, youth. It's like heroin you've smoked instead of snorted. Gone so fast you can't believe you still have to pay for it.
Josh Bazell
#31. I did not want to leave her, but this was it, this is what life is, you have to pay for everything that has happened to you. Whether good or bad you have to pay for it, it would be anything, or something or someone you love.
Shaikh Ashraf
#32. 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
#33. I gave him a mocking smile. "Come on, Jack. Don't deprive me of the pleasure of watching you donate a DNA sample. I'll even pay for it."
"That offer might interest me," he said, "if it involved anything more exciting than a buccal swab."
-Ella & Jack
Lisa Kleypas
#34. Take what you want and pay for it, says God. You can have anything you want, as long as you accept that there is a price and you will have to pay it.
Tana French
#35. Avoid miscommunication. The price you pay for it is horrendous.
Shiv Khera
#36. In the end, someone would have to pay for it. Everything costs.
Alex London
#37. Give people what they want, when they want it, in the form they want it in, at a reasonable price, and they'll more likely pay for it rather than steal it. Well, some will still steal it, but I think we can take a bite out of piracy.
Kevin Spacey
#38. If I have made a mistake in the design, then I'm the one who should pay for it. I certainly would not ask somebody else to fly a plane if I were afraid to do it myself.
Howard Hughes
#39. If it's free, it's advice; if you pay for it, it's counseling; if you can use either one, it's a miracle.
Jack Adams
#40. The pressure of the environment cramps art as it cramps behaviour. One may challenge this environment, but one has to pay for it, and the price is neurotic guilt. There never was an intelligentsia without a guilt complex; it is the income tax one has to pay for wanting to make others richer.
Arthur Koestler
#41. Never lower your standards just to fill a position. You will pay for it later.
David Cottrell
#42. Now come, you filth! You've hurt my master, you brute, and you'll pay for it. We're going on; but we'll settle with you first. Come on, and taste it again!
J.R.R. Tolkien
#43. The Continental army got more generals than they got private soldiers, these days. An officer lives through more 'n two battles, they make him some kind of general on the spot. Now, gettin' any pay for it, that's a different kettle of fish.
Diana Gabaldon
#44. As far as I know, we have never before decided to fight a war with borrowed money and ask generations that come after us to pay for it.
Byron Dorgan
#45. 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.
Paul Ryan
#46. Take what you want, and pay for it, the old saying went.
Robert Jordan
#47. Ever since Olly came into my life there've been two Maddys: the one who lives through books and doesn't want to die, and the one who lives and suspects that death will be a small price to pay for it.
Nicola Yoon
#48. There must be progress, certainly. But we must ask ourselves what kind of progress we want, and what price we want to pay for it. If, in the name of progress, we want to destroy everything beautiful in our world, and contaminate the air we breathe, and the water we drink, then we are in trouble.
Marjory Stoneman Douglas
#49. Everything has a price. It's just what your willing to pay for it.
Anne Bishop
#50. Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
William James
#51. You wanna another truth?
To have the guts??
To hear it?
To have the money to pay for it?
...
The adults make the children miserable, the adults kill children, the adults abuse the children, the adults have made the world now which you see it...
Deyth Banger
#52. If your head thinks up mischief, your backside's going to pay for it.
Diana Gabaldon
#53. One candidate who considered applying for the position explained his change of heart: That job is like unprotected sex. It feels amazing at the time, but there is a good chance you will pay for it later. None of the benefits are worth the pleasure.
Taona Dumisani Chiveneko
#54. 'Sex drives us, love or no love. Power or no power. Money or no money. It's the most powerful drug in the world. Some pay for it. Some die for it.'
Vicki Pettersson
#55. Seems like it's going to be really hard to make money at it, and, therefore, really hard to get any great games done. Much like Flash games, the audience is huge, but the content isn't likely to be good enough to have people pay for it.
Mike Wilson
#56. He squeezed his eyes shut, his heart beginning to split. Reaching out to hold her was stupid and he was bound to pay for it, but sometimes he needed her so badly. He simply needed. Needed to know he wasn't alone. Needed the solid warmth of another person who cared.
Elizabeth Camden
#57. 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
#58. We will have to want peace, want it enough to pay for it, before it becomes an accepted rule.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#59. At times our need for a sympathetic gesture is so great that we care not what exactly it signifies or how much we may have to pay for it afterwards.
E. M. Forster
#60. If I could store lightnings in jars, I'd sell them to sick fireflies to light their way. Only they have nothing to pay for it with but life.
Will Advise
#61. He has trifled with the sacred memory of my husband," thought the Professor's widow. "On my life and honor, I will make him pay for it.
Wilkie Collins
#62. Depends on how badly you want it. It's worth whatever you're willing to pay for it.
Katja Millay
#64. Given that you'll never be able to prevent copying, the question is, what can you do to minimize it? What can you do to make consumers happy enough with legitimate use of the system that they'll be willing to pay for it?
Edward Felten
#65. If you want quality service, you have to pay for it. You don't buy into waste. I have great misgivings about the amount of advertising that we see in the health care field, some by hospitals, a lot by drug companies.
Dave Obey
#66. [Health reform] will destroy the country [because] in the next year or so [America will have to] dramatically cut the military because we can't pay for it.
Rick Santorum
#67. [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
#68. There was freedom of speech in this era," James Oliver reminds the gentle reader, "so long as you were prepared to pay for it at the end of a rope.
James A. Oliver
#69. You want to protect your child from pain, and what you get instead is life, and grace; and though theologians insist that grace is freely given, the truth is that sometimes you pay for it through the nose. And you can't pay your child's way.
Anne Lamott
#70. Chance is the one thing you can't buy. You have to pay for it and you have to pay for it with your life, spending a lot of time, you pay for it with time, not the wasting of time but the spending of time.
Robert Doisneau
#71. When I turned 16, my dad made me sign a contract - he made us sign contracts for everything - that if I hit my car, I would be responsible for paying for it. I was in bumper-to-bumper traffic, and I tapped someone. It was so not a big deal, but I had to pay for it.
Kim Kardashian
#72. I would like a man now who is rich, and who can give me a boat - a sailboat. I want to own it and let him pay for it. My first love is the sea and water, not music. Music is second.
Nina Simone
#73. If I was a bad character that got away with murder like we see on other shows, I do not think I would like it because that sends a message that you can do these horrible things and never pay for it.
Hunter Tylo
#74. You can look at the state of California, which is on a pathway to destruction because they expanded government too much, thinking that there would always be someone to pay for it.
Greg Abbott
#75. If you have attacked me, your children will pay for it.
Benny Hinn
#77. I don't believe in all this public-funded health care, we can't afford it. If you want health care, you pay for it.
Rob Ford
#78. Something is worth what somebody will pay for it. Nothing else, nothing more, nothing less.
P. J. O'Rourke
#79. She hadn't had this much to drink in ages, knew she'd pay for it in the morning, but for now, she reveled in this beautiful padding that protected her from the sharp edges of reality
the unanswered questions, the fear that was always with her.
Blake Crouch
#80. We are the collateral damage of carnism; we pay for it with our health, our environment, and our taxes - $7.64 billion a year, to be exact.
Melanie Joy
#81. There's no life-work balance. I think you have to have the discipline to have the life you want to have. And if you are stealing from one part of your life in order to make the other part work, you are going to pay for it.
Seth Godin
#82. President Bush and I had asked Congress to appropriate a half-billion dollars to school vouchers. We didn't get it, and we were disappointed. But we did not go out and form a corporation to pay for it. That would have been a problem.
Lamar Alexander
#83. Definition of 'Free': You pay for it whether or not you elect to receive it.
Aaron Allston
#84. Jesus did not help just the sick who could afford to pay for it.
John F. Kerry
#85. If Somebody disrespects me they will pay for it. I promise
Anderson Silva
#86. There are times that everyone hates his or her job. Were they freed from the economic consequences of having these jobs, they'd drop out of the workforce. There are only two problems with this strategy: First, someone has to pay for it; second, it is not the recipe for human fulfillment.
Ben Shapiro
#88. If you're smart enough to go to college, you should be smart and creative enough to pay for it.
Jesse Ventura
#89. Our civilization rests on a faulty premise, that the world is physical and mechanical, energy and matter only. We do not pay for it in our bridges, we pay for it in the quality of our lives. "
Richard Grossinger
#90. I try my best to stay healthy, but I have the appetite of a nine-year-old boy, so I just pay for it in workouts.
Italia Ricci
#91. The value of any investment is, and always must be, a function of the price you pay for it.
Benjamin Graham
#92. Here is my personal opinion about prostitution. If men knew how to do it, they wouldn't have to pay for it.
Roseanne Barr
#93. When you start talking about the patients' bill of rights and all the benefits that are in there, people agree with all that. What they don't know is how are you going to pay for it.
Bart Stupak
#94. If God offers the world for sale, how much will you pay for it? What is the price of your own destruction?
Felix Wantang
#95. Although I'm seldom aware enough to see it, the greater cost regarding that which I possess was not what I paid for it, but what someone along the way sacrificed so that I might have the opportunity to pay for it.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#96. With access to the clubs, access to the strip joints. My house. My boat. We're talking about high school football players. Not anybody can just get into the clubs or strip joints. Who is going to pay for it and make it happen? That was me.
Nevin Shapiro
#97. [..] and there are tons of people I hate so much that I wouldn't mind taking them out. But killing them wouldn't get me anywhere - that's the conclusion I always come to. If I'm going to pay for it in the end, I might as well let them live.
Natsuo Kirino
#98. I look to an out gay man or woman as pretty much what I would aspire to. The strength that it takes to do that and the floodgates that open and what they pay for it.
Ben Folds
#99. My belief has always been that national defense is the most important thing we do, but we shouldn't borrow to pay for it.
Rand Paul
#100. It's not a real adventure when you have to pay for it.
Edmund Hillary
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