Top 100 Pay You Back Quotes
#1. Love is the treasure of life, so spend it as much as you can. As you spend, the universe will be richer and friendlier. It will pay you back a thousand times more.
Debasish Mridha
#2. One of the biggest wake-up calls of my career was when I saw a record contract. I said, 'Wait - you sell it for $18.98 and I make 80 cents? And I have to pay you back the money you lent me to make it and then you own it?'
Trent Reznor
#3. There's no way I could pay you back but my plan is to show you that I understand, you are appreciated
Tupac Shakur
#4. I love you, Kitten.
Don't try to get out of this. We'll see if you love me when I pay you back.
Even then I will love you, Bones called out as I stomped away.
Jeaniene Frost
#5. Lend your friend $20. If he doesn't pay you back then he's not your friend. Money well spent.
Ted Nicholas
#6. Shake off the self-pity, shake off the defeat and get ready for God to do something new. He is going to pay you back for every injustice.
Joel Osteen
#7. If you make me your president, I'm going to put the country ahead of the party. I'm going to do what it takes to defend this nation. This nation has been great to me, and that's the only way I know to pay you back.
Lindsey Graham
#8. 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
#9. That's the beauty of coaching. You get to touch lives, you get to make a difference. You get to do things for people who will never pay you back and they say you never have had a perfect day until you've done something for someone who will never pay you back.
Morgan Wootten
#10. I don't like it, but my hands are tied. I just want you to know this: if I ever get the chance to betray you, I will. If the opportunity arises to pay you back, I'll take it. You'll never be able to trust me.
Darren Shan
#11. FORGIVE The People That Hurt You. God Will Pay You Back With Double The Joy ... Double The Victory.
Joel Osteen
#12. The breaks you take from work pay you back manifold when you return because you come back with a fresher mind and newer thinking. Some of your best ideas come when you're on vacation.
Gautam Singhania
#13. I ain't never loan friends money; I give it to 'em and I don't expect to get it back. Even when he says, "I'll pay you back," I never expect it. If he gives it back, then hey, that's a feather in his cap, but I don't expect to get it back.
Mike Tyson
#14. Okay," I sighed. "I don't like it, but my hands are tied. I just want you to know this: if I ever get the chance to betray you, I will. If the opportunity arises to pay you back, I'll take it. You'll never be able to trust me."
"Fair enough," he said.
Darren Shan
#15. Everyone knows you only want to look at the sinkhole because you love a good disaster. Get back to work, Fuller. I don't pay you for your looks.
Meg Cabot
#16. Songs and smells will bring you back to a moment in time more than anything else. It's amazing how much can be conjured with a few notes of a song or a solitary whiff of a room. A song you didn't even pay attention to at the time, a place that you didn't even know had a particular smell.
Emily Giffin
#17. Actors and writers need to come back to the theater because it's a place where you can learn. You have to pay your dues, and people who haven't paid their dues in the theater, I think, have a hard time creating a whole career.
Joanne Woodward
#18. Dying before you pay someone back is just plain rude.
Sara Wolf
#19. There is a price you pay if you want to train military personnel - they don't all come back.
Dan John
#20. In America," I said, "if you can't pay back a loan, you declare bankruptcy and that's the end of it.
Cleo Odzer
#21. Since no one said anything, I decided to make offense my best ... offense. You didn't call me up here to kill me, did you? Or to pay me back for staking you? Because the last time I saw you upright, you were ... rude.
Faith Hunter
#22. What's going on in the Senate is kind of a politics of escalation. We're getting sort of like the Mideast: pay back everybody when you're in charge.
Lindsey Graham
#23. On one level, going bust didn't bother me. It was the 80s, and there wasn't the stigma about bankruptcy that you might think. My mates weren't bothered. My dad was in business.. he knew that it happened, too. He loaned me the money to bail me out, and I got a loan from the bank to pay him back.
Simon Cowell
#24. The Florida State League was considered the top A-league back then. You played in the spring training parks of major league teams, traveled throughout some great cities in Florida, and the pay was the best in A-ball.
Jim Evans
#25. That's my favorite subject because it really levels the playing field for artists these days. You don't have to sell out to the record company. You don't have to get a five hundred thousand dollars, or whatever, and pay them back for the rest of your life to record a record.
Roger McGuinn
#26. I asked her why my father resisted the guards when they always won in the end. Why didn't he just save himself the pain and pay them what they wanted? She told me that sometimes, you can't choose what happens to you, but you can choose who you become because of it. That's why my father fought back.
Jessica Khoury
#28. If I see anything remotely like a telcom-run faster internet that you have to pay more to get preferential traffic on, I'm out folks. I've seen this story before, I ran an ISP back in the late 90s.
Drew Curtis
#29. Writing on the blog, you want to get attention and make strong claims. In academic work, that often doesn't pay, so sometimes it's a little bit difficult going back and forth to navigate these differences.
Alex Tabarrok
#30. What you can't pay back you pay forward.
Jo Walton
#31. What about young age? You will be miserable all through your 15 years to reach that goal of $10 million. After 50
years, even if you pay a million to get back a week of your time at 35, you will never get that. Your beer will taste very different when you are at 50 from how it tasted at 30.
Ravindra Shukla
#32. Tell him I said that he will know when he's my age that books aren't written on whims or old promises. Books are written on years turned inside out by ideas that never let go until you get them in print, and even then writing's a last resort, a desperate ransom you pay to get your life back.
Richard Bach
#33. When you're kind to people, and you pay attention, you make a field of comfort around them, and you get it back - the Golden Rule meets the Law of Karma meets Murphy's Law.
Anne Lamott
#34. Ian took off his glasses and slid them into the pocket of his jacket.
"I like those," she said. "Put them back on."
"They'll only be in the way when I kiss you."
"Who said we were going to kiss?"
"I did. Katie, you must pay closer attention.
Tracey Garvis-Graves
#35. I was talking to one of the writers about our target audience, and he was insulted that I used that term. But if you're given $60 million to make a film, you'd better know who your target audience is. That's who's going to pay back the bills you run up.
Michael Bay
#36. I was knocking guys out in the streets before I knew how to throw a jab and keep your chin down, In most neighbourhoods, the guy that could fight gets respect. You got in the parties free. I never had to pay the dollar because people were scared of me. But back then I was ignorant.
Bernard Hopkins
#37. Pay attention, don't let life go by you. Fall in love with the back of your cereal box.
Jerry Seinfeld
#38. Way back in the old days, say in Europe of the Middle Ages, you had an aristocracy, and they could afford to pay for musicians. The kings and queens had musicians in the castles, and that developed into symphony orchestras and what we call "Classical music" now.
Pete Seeger
#39. That's why I preach today. Do not do spite," he said. "Spite does not pay. It goes around and misses the object that you aim and comes back and zaps you. And you're the one who pays for it.
Isabel Wilkerson
#40. It's very, very hard to be generous and compassionate if you haven't got a dollar in you back pocket to pay for it, to actually pay for those services that people need.
Denis Napthine
#41. You do have a thousand years' seniority, after all."
"A thousand years' back pay," said a dock inspector, in an awed voice.
Ann Leckie
#42. Let me tell ya. You gotta pay attention to signs. When life reaches out with a moment like this it's a sin if you don't reach back ... I'm telling you.
Matthew Quick
#43. I met Rosie at the airport. She remained uncomfortable about me purchasing her ticket, so I told her she could pay me back by selecting some Wife Project applicants for me to date.
'Fuck you,' she said.
It seemed we were friends again.
Graeme Simsion
#44. It's not how many times you fall. And it's not how many times you get back up. It's about how much money you have to pay people to admit that the whole incident didn't even occur to begin with.
Carroll Bryant
#45. Borrow money only for an education that will yield enough of a return in the job market to allow you to pay your loans back.
Kevin Carey
#46. You couldn't pay me enough money to go back to being 20. So many tears; what a nightmare it was. It's much better being older.
Robin Wright
#47. When you finish college, you don't suddenly have thousands of dollars a year to spend elsewhere-in fact, you have to find a way to pay back your loans.
Maya MacGuineas
#48. The old paradigm was pay to play. Now you get back what you authentically put in. You've got to be willing to play to play.
Alex Bogusky
#49. It's funny to think that when you get done with an acting job, you're considered unemployed. There are definitely times when those checks don't last forever. I went to college at a private school, and I racked up quite a bit of debt. I was very slow to pay them back.
Rami Malek
#50. You can go back 150 years and literally find the same people saying the same thing in the same way. "If we have to pay you more, it will be bad for you." And that's because saying that is a much more polite way of saying, "I'm rich, you're poor, and I would prefer to keep it what way."
Nick Hanauer
#51. I think a lot of us think we've failed when we've put the weight back on, but when this happens. you have to pay attention because you can actually learn something. You didn't fail. You just need to stay conscious and know where you went wrong and try again.
Jessie Pavelka
#52. When you do the right thing, but not to any particular person, we instinctively feel that we have earned some sort of pay back. Since no-one will do that for us, we opt for self-service reciprocation.
Julian Baggini
#53. (Adron leveled a scowl that made him shrink back.)
Jeeze, you ought to bottle that look. I know armies that would pay a fortune to have something that toxic in their arsenal. (Tiernan)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#54. I came upon Diana Krall's jazz arrangement of "A Case of You" several years back. I've always wanted to pay homage to both her version and Joni's, and by proxy, my mom. She's the one that introduced me to that music.
Cheyenne Jackson
#55. The budget enforcement rules of the 1990s were an important part of getting the budget back into balance. It was done on a bipartisan basis. Those pay-as-you-go rules were tested and they worked. We are now in a one-party system, and we have thrown them out.
Melissa Bean
#56. If you want to pay me back one day, that's up to you. I'm not asking for it, and I never will. The best way you can pay me back is by becoming the person you want to be.
C.R. Strahan
#57. A book is like a money-changer: it pays you back in another form what you brint to it.
Austin O'Malley
#58. When you borrow money, you should always think how you're going to pay it back.
Dmitry Medvedev
#59. 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
#60. Books: Put them down and they'll wait for you forever. Pay attention to them and they'll always love you back
John Green
#61. As a young analyst just out of Stanford business school in the 1960s, I got to really understand what growth was about. Back then, you had to ask a customer to pay some money. That was the most important thing in getting a company off the ground.
Charles Schwab
#62. Sometimes you can't pay it back, so you just have to pay it forward.
Randy Pausch
#63. When you have been to the lowest part of your life, you have no choice but to sit back and just think about things. You just pay attention to so much more.
La'el Collins
#64. The Navy's paid for you to go through school, and then they need doctors to go out and take care of people who are in various different parts of the world. I decided to pay back my time first as an undersea medical officer. I was stationed in Scotland.
Laurel Clark
#65. I have a question. What if your advice doesn't help me? Do I get my money back?"
"No, because as soon as you pay me, I run right out and spend it. That's one of the first things they teach you in medical school!
Charles M. Schulz
#66. Wrong turns just added more to who you are. I didn't know that they also add to the toll you must pay to go back.
Vikki Wakefield
#67. People of my age who went to college, go into college, you know what it cost back then? Nothing or next to nothing. At the most, you had to work at Dairy Queen during the summer and that would pay for your college education.
Michael Moore
#68. Why pay $100 on a therapy session when you can spend $25 on a cigar? Whatever it is will come back; so what, smoke another one.
Raul Julia
#69. You can never really pay back. You can only pay forward.
Woody Hayes
#70. Whether they run a record company or a grocery store, every boss will tell you you're in big trouble if you're borrowing more than you can ever afford to pay back. Delaying the pain for future generations is suicidal. We've got to start getting the deficit down right now, not next year.
Simon Cowell
#71. This could be a whole life," she thought. "You work eight hours a day covering wires to earn money to buy food and to pay for a place to sleep so that you can keep living to come back to cover more wires. Some people are born and kept living just to come to this ...
Betty Smith
#72. When you have a policy of making sure that African Americans cannot build wealth, of plundering African American communities of wealth, giving opportunities to other people, it's only right that you might want to, you know, pay that back.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#74. If you take your kid in for the sniffles, you pay $20, but the full cost is $200. And so we need to get back to the price system where you see the full cost of health care, and then people will make smarter decisions. That will reduce health care costs, and it's a huge part of our economy.
Dave Brat
#75. What are you, Zombie Slayer Barbie?"
The big man in the back barked a laugh. "You'll pay for that one.
Aria Kane
#76. Don't pay back in kind, pay back in kindness. If someone does wrong by you, do right by them.
Jodi Picoult
#77. Life is a loan;
you are a debtor,
and God is your creditor.
Pay Him back by obeying Him
Matshona Dhliwayo
#78. I argue with wife over what little pieces of real estate investments we should try to pay on and hold, and which to let go back. We always said, "Put it in land, and you can always walk on it." We did, but no buyers would walk on it with us.
Will Rogers
#79. Adora you're not telling the truth. Go back to your husband and pay gross devotion to your marriage and family. Edochie is an angel. Only agberos would watch football and transfer aggression to their wives, not a captain.
S.A. David
#80. I was at a small private school in London. I wasn't very academic. My dad said to me, 'OK, you might as well leave, since you're not working very hard'. When I told I him wanted to stay on for my A-levels, he said I'd have to pay my own fees, then he'd pay me back if I got good grades.
Robert Pattinson
#81. 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
#82. I do not know what to say, how to tempt you. If you had a price, I would pay it. If you desired particular words, I would say them. I would be anything you want, Jane. Just come back. Please come back.
- Matthew in a letter to Jane.
Charlotte Featherstone
#83. Hey, Falls!" I yell after him. One little thing is bugging me. "How'd you know what my favorite latte is?"
"Because I pay attention, Eva," he calls back, not turning around.
Kata Cuic
#84. It's a tough path to citizenship. You've got to pay back taxes. You've got to learn English. You've got to have a clear record. You've got to get to the back of the line behind other people who have come here legally or even waiting legally.
John McCain
#85. One of the greatest disservices you can do a man is to lend him money that he can't pay back.
Jesse H. Jones
#86. When you cross over into the weird stuff, there's no going back. Hector has a theory on it. Calls it the law of 'Anomalous Phenomena Attraction.' He explained it to me once. Didn't really pay attention, but it boils down to 'weird shit pulls in more weird shit.
A. Lee Martinez
#87. Anyone who thinks you can pay $3,100 to the federal government and thinks you can get that money back completely in services - like I said - he may go to M-I-T but he is an N-U-T.
Louie Gohmert
#88. The Red God takes what is his, lovely girl. And only death may pay for life. You saved me and the two I was with. You stole three deaths from the Red God. We have to give them back. Speak three names and the man will do the rest. Three lives I will give you - no more, no less, and we're done.
George R R Martin
#89. You have to pay your own electric bill. You have to be kind. You have to give it all you got. You have to find people who love you truly and love them back with the same truth. But that's all.
Cheryl Strayed
#90. If you pay your credit card off every month, get a rewards card. One that gives you airline miles or that will give you 1 percent cash back at least on every purchase.
Aaron Patzer
#91. Draw every bad word you've ever called yourself on your body. Stand in the shower and pay attention to the way the words turn back into ink and disappear down the drain.
Iain S. Thomas
#92. There's a laundry list of reasons why not to borrow from your 401(k). While the money is on loan, it's not working for you - and if you leave your job, you'll have to pay it back in 60 days or treat it as a taxable withdrawal.
Jean Chatzky
#93. In the end, though, maybe we must all give up trying to pay back the people in this world who sustain our lives. In the end, maybe it's wiser to surrender before the miraculous scope of human generosity and to just keep saying thank you, forever and sincerely, for as long as we have voices.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#94. I went back to the notion of story, which is always a good thing to have if you're trying to get people to pay attention to a book and pick up information along the way.
David Macaulay
#95. 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
#96. Believe me, when people say, 'We want to pay you X-million to do this movie,' I won't be the girl who hangs back saying, 'Oh, I really don't deserve it,' I'll be, 'Un-hunh, hand it right over.'
Sharon Stone
#97. You download it for free, we get charged back for it.
I know you're saying, "They won't know, they won't miss it,
Besides, I ain't a thief, they won't pay me a visit."
So, if I come to your job, take your corn on the cob,
And take a couple kernels off it, that would be alright with you?
Andre Benjamin
#98. It really doesn't pay to go back and look again at the things that once delighted you, because it's unlikely they will delight you now. I
Bill Bryson
#99. Look, it's true that I think there are a lot of people to blame for all of this, but I'm one of them." For a second, my mind flashed back to the party, to the last words I'd ever said to him. Fuck you, Hayden. Some kind of best friend I was. "And it's not my job to decide who should pay.
Michelle Falkoff
#100. You got to pay your dues, too. So you be careful how you live and what goes in that Bank of Life. You are going to get it back ... someday. I can sure tell you that!
J. California Cooper
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