Top 100 Quotes About Pay
#1. Pay attention, my young friends: to go against the current; this is good for the heart, but we need courage to swim against the tide ... We Christians were not chosen by the Lord for little things; push onwards toward the highest principles. Stake your lives on noble ideals, my dear young people!
Pope Francis
#2. Never pay attention to the rumors and what they assume
Drake
#3. If I'm writing for a particular artist, I definitely think about their past records, pay attention to the type of tempos that they like. If I have the privilege of actually being in the session with the artist, I just like to have a conversation with them.
Sevyn Streeter
#5. There's nothing that makes an artist more beloved than the audience pitying him because his work comes at a price they would never pay.
Rafael Yglesias
#6. Aren't men funny? When they want to pay you the greatest compliment in their power, they naively tell you that you have a masculine mind. There is one compliment, incidentally, that I shall never be paying him. I cannot honestly say that he has a quickness of perception almost feminine.
Jean Webster
#8. Empty heads, cognitive science has taught us, learn nothing. The powerful cultural and personal flexibility of our species is owed at least in part to our starting off so well-informed; we are good learners because we know what to pay attention to and what questions are the right ones to ask.
Paul Bloom
#9. Without passion, men are not willing to pay any price or bear any burden to set the captives free.
Joseph Campbell
#10. I am more than willing to be judged by the people you claim to represent. I will let them decide what price I should pay. But please do not sit there with that smug look on your face and expect me to regret the decisions I have made. Because, sir, the truth is I don't.
Jack Bauer
#11. For those who unfairly lump Social Security in with Bernie Madoff, in all fairness, you should point out the difference. No one was ever legally required to pay money to Madoff.
Addison Wiggin
#13. The true artist regards his work as a means of talking with men [and women], of saying his say to himself and to others. It is not a question of pay ...
Robert Henri
#14. There's a price to pay for the speed, and that is danger. And to push that hard on a boat - it does take a lot out of you and is incredibly stressful.
Ellen MacArthur
#15. Why should I pay the bums all that good folding money and then go out and do all the work myself?
Tony Galento
#16. A historic investment in jobs, debt-free college, profit sharing, making those at the top pay their fair share, putting families first in a modern economy and a democracy where working people's voices are actually heard. That is what we are fighting for in this election.
Hillary Clinton
#17. Political figures who talk a lot about liberty and freedom invariably turn out to mean the freedom to not pay taxes and discriminate based on race; freedom to hold different ideas and express them, not so much.
Paul Krugman
#18. Work my hands in the soil, what's the pay for all the toil? Dust for blood, dust for blood, dust for blood.
Don McLean
#19. In our culture we make heroes of the men who sit on top of a heap of money, and we pay attention not only to what they say in their field of competence, but to their wisdom on every other question in the world.
Max Lerner
#20. 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
#21. TV directing is fine because you can come in and do a TV show in a relatively short period of time, and that can pay the bills.
John Polson
#22. Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
Leon Joseph Suenens
#23. You know, if you didn't pay close attention, you'd think we were the only people in Iraq and the only people fighting the terrorists.
Johnny Isakson
#24. Often when you are starting out in comedy, you will find that people will laugh at the things you didn't think were funny. It's important to pay attention also to what people are laughing at when you are just talking in regular conversation. Often that is when you are truly being yourself.
Natasha Leggero
#25. After failing four times and after working for other people and realizing that nobody paid attention to the food like they should have, we wanted to just pay attention to the food and service.
Paul Prudhomme
#26. Saddam is neither friend nor brother to us, and he will never pay off debts to us. It's the question of precedent: today the United States doesn't like Iraq, tomorrow Syria, then Iran, North Korea and then what: everyone else?
Robin Cook
#27. Look, I get it; you come home, you work hard, and you turn on your TV ... You kind of want to escape a little bit and be taken away by something. Our show required you to pay attention, and if that's not what you wanted to do, then it wasn't going to be for you, and that's OK.
Will Arnett
#28. People, if you pay attention to them, change the direction of one another's conversations constantly. It's like having a passenger in your car who suddenly grabs the steering wheel and turns you down a side street.
Garth Stein
#29. It is right to pay heed to the stories of our people, for that is how we learn who we are and what is required of us in this life and the life beyond.
Stephen R. Lawhead
#30. I'm afraid many women do choose the wedding over the marriage. It seems a steep price to pay, but it comes from a place of deep, sad longing to be loved and to have it proven that you are of value.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#31. 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
#32. Why pay a dollar for a bookmark? Why not use the dollar for a bookmark?
Steven Spielberg
#33. This is the real tragedy of America's 'Internet freedom agenda': It's going to be the dissidents in China and Iran who will pay for the hypocrisy that drove it from the very beginning.
Evgeny Morozov
#34. Blessings we enjoy daily, and for the most of them, because they be so common, men forget to pay their praises. [and miss much of their benefits from grateful appreciation]
Izaak Walton
#35. I don't think of any sentence as a "one-liner", but I do pay attention to how people actually speak when they are being funny. Rhythm is key.
Lorrie Moore
#36. We asserted ourselves as a music community, and showed legislators that music is positive. Especially if you've sold 300 million records worldwide and pay taxes.
Krist Novoselic
#37. Anyone who really wants to coach and have a lot of impact on people's lives, high school's the way to go. To be honest with you, of all the jobs I've ever had, the one I really, truly enjoyed the most was teaching and coaching in high school. It just doesn't pay as well.
Charlie Weis
#38. Suffering is my teacher. If I pay attention to it instead of trying to numb it out, maybe it can lead me to its root.
Michelle Colston
#39. To be king means to accept that others will pay the price of your failures
and even your successes.
Brent Weeks
#40. I will have to pay more attention to Russian weather forecasts in future, to check that Kiev, Warsaw, Riga and Vilnius are not included in their maps.
Andrey Kurkov
#41. Another difference between death and taxes is that you don't have to work like fury to pay for the dying you did last year.
Robert Quillen
#42. So you have to just be really careful and make sure that when a deal comes along, that it's like the right deal for you ... not necessarily the most money, because you have to pay the record label that back in like record sales and stuff.
Adam Rich
#43. The actions of those in power can have enormous consequences - a price that they themselves almost never have to pay.
Barack Obama
#44. I can't give money away to buy listeners. I can't pay listeners off with phones or food stamps or anything. I can't come by my audience by buying it.
Rush Limbaugh
#46. Instead, the Nationals will pay Scherzer $15 million per season, but do so for 14 years; essentially, they've deferred half of each season's salary seven years into the future.
Max Scherzer
#47. Make no mistake, Lucas. You chose Pedro over your fellow Hunters. I'm coming for you and you will pay for your betrayal. I'm coming for everyone in that house and no one will survive.
Amber Belldene
#48. America does not need gorgeous halls and concert rooms for its musical development, but music schools with competent teachers, and many, very many, free scholarships for talented young disciples who are unable to pay the expense of study.
Anton Seidl
#49. I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price.
Vince Lombardi
#50. There's always been a lot of negative stuff written about me. That's why I don't pay any attention to the critics. They've never liked anything I've done. What do critics know? It's the way the audience reacts that matters.
Eddie Murphy
#51. I think people sometimes don't pay enough attention to what they do. I've done well, but the reason is pretty simple: I've worked my ass off. The toughest thing a performer can do is make it look as if it comes easy.
Justin Timberlake
#52. Who then is able to stand against Me? 11 Who has preceded Me, that I should pay him? Everything under heaven is Mine.
Anonymous
#53. We can't answer King's assassination with violence. That would be the worst tribute we could pay him.
Sammy Davis Jr.
#54. People should really take care when they vote, and pay more attention to what people say they're going to do - instead of just how they feel about how things are going.
William J. Clinton
#55. Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work.
Mao Zedong
#57. For me to call myself a musician, it's necessary to play live, and it rewards so much - not just in the pay cheque sense but what it does for my playing. I feel it through a tour - I feel it at the end of a tour - all that I've gathered, and especially now that I am improvising so much.
Neil Peart
#58. Do not regulate the private lives of people because, if you do, they will become angry and antisocial, and they will get what they want from criminals who work in perfect freedom because they know how to pay off the police.
Gore Vidal
#59. We are happy at the respect others pay our favorites, because we consider it a lively confirmation of our own choice, and as so much homage reflected on ourselves.
Norm MacDonald
#60. We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.
Azar Nafisi
#61. Pork - no animal is more used for nourishment and none more indispensable in the kitchen; employed either fresh or salt, all is useful, even to its bristles and its blood; it is the superfluous riches of the farmer, and helps to pay the rent of the cottager.
Alexis Soyer
#62. 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
#63. Indeed, this is how 99 percent of people select their jobs: pay, work environment, hours. But that's the point. Putting lifestyle first is how you find a job - not a calling.) As
Paul Kalanithi
#64. Sixteen- and 17-year-olds pay taxes and can join the army, so surely they should in turn be given their right to vote.
Lucy Powell
#65. This is a global effort we're going to have to lead to overcome this jihadist effort. It's more than Osama bin Laden. But he is going to pay, and he will die.
Mitt Romney
#66. I'd made enough made money by the time I was 12 to never work again, so it's not about a big pay check with me.
Macaulay Culkin
#67. I can't concern myself with what's going on with the club or what the media is writing. If you pay attention to those things, that's when you get yourself in trouble.
Don Mattingly
#68. Four Rules For Life Show up. Pay attention. Tell the truth. Don't be attached to the results.
Angeles Arrien
#69. I do pay performance royalties on others' songs I perform live, but I'm not recording these songs and putting them up for sale.
Prince
#70. You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
Len Evans
#71. The Yankees don't pay me to win every day, just two out of three.
Casey Stengel
#72. The easiest thing in the world for me is to pay attention.
Susan Sontag
#73. From what I hear, everyone who does a Marvel movie gets a three-picture deal. I'll be Sam Jackson's stand-in. I'll do eight pictures for Marvel, and then I'll just do indies. Marvel can pay for my indie career.
Sinqua Walls
#74. The secret is here in the present. If you pay attention to the present, you can improve upon it. And, if you improve on the present, what comes later will also be better.
The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho
#75. To pay flattery their country will bleed.
Taliesin
#77. I always tell people there's only one trick to writing: You have to write something that people are willing to pay money to read. It doesn't have to be very good, necessarily, but somebody, somewhere, has got to be willing to pay money for it.
Bill Bryson
#78. Anything in this culture that stands still long enough eventually becomes okay if a person can derive an income from it. Eventually, pay-per-view public execution will happen, and it will be half-time entertainment.
Henry Rollins
#79. Whether you are a low-income elderly woman living at the end of a dirt road in Vermont or a wealthy CEO living on Park Avenue, you get your mail six days a week. And you pay for this service at a cost far less than anywhere else in the industrialized world.
Bernie Sanders
#80. Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay an author.
Samuel Johnson
#81. We must pay greater attention to keeping our bodies and minds healthy and able to heal. Yet we are making it difficult for our defences to work. We allow things to be sold that should not be called food. Many have no nutritive value and lead to obesity, salt imbalance, and allergies.
David Suzuki
#82. Learn the lesson: Once the words are out, you cannot take them back. Keep them under control. Be particularly careful with sarcasm: The momentary satisfaction you gain with your biting words will be outweighed by the price you pay.
Robert Greene
#83. I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers.
Alexander Pope
#84. I also think that if you want to put a price on carbon, why not just do it with a simple tax? Why not ask motorists to pay more, why not ask electricity consumers to pay more and then at the end of the year you can take your invoices to the tax office and get a rebate of the carbon tax you've paid
Tony Abbott
#85. How is it that Christians today will pay $20 to hear the latest Christian artist in concert, but Jesus can't draw a crowd?
Jim Cymbala
#86. Licensed, regulated, taxed, safe. People pay for therapy, for physical training," he added, nodding at the board. "For spiritual guidance, and so on and so on. People pay for all manner of basic needs, and others train to provide those needs. Sex is a basic need.
J.D. Robb
#87. So it is that God tugs at a pilgrim's sleeve telling him to remember that he is only human. He must be his own man, remain in exile, and belong to himself. He must pay attention to his own feelings and to the meaning of what he does, if he is to be for himself, and yet for others as well.
Sheldon B. Kopp
#88. Salvation: to see each thing for what it is - its nature and its purpose.
To do only what is right, say only what is true, without holding back.
What else could it be but to live life fully - to pay out goodness
like the rings of a chain, without the slightest gap.
Marcus Aurelius
#89. To wear something like that your whole life is the largest compliment someone can pay to you as an artist.
H.R. Giger
#90. The funny thing is people won't let me pay for things. I'll be in a restaurant and the manager will say, 'Oh no, it's on the house.'
Richard Branson
#91. My policies are based not on some economics theory, but on things I and millions like me were brought up with: an honest day's work for an honest day's pay; live within your means; put by a nest egg for a rainy day; pay your bills on time; support the police.
Margaret Thatcher
#92. But when you're already swimming in a sea of humiliation deep enough to drown you, it doesn't matter much if somebody throws in another bucketful. It's not worth it to stop and pay attention to that when you need to keep paddling.
Catherine Ryan Hyde
#93. The animated books pay the lowest rates at the Big Two and you can forget about royalties.
Mark Millar
#94. Regrettably, many Americans don't pay much attention to the inconsistencies in U.S. foreign policy. People in other parts of the world who feel the impact of those policies play close attention. And they take notes.
Charles Kimball
#95. Focus on what you want to do. Don't be scared to try stuff. You only live once. Get your mind towards what you want to do and you'll achieve it. It makes it fun. You gotta take risks at times. Risks pay off.
Mark Zupan
#96. If there's a senior citizen in downstate Illinois that's struggling to pay for their medicine and having to chose between medicine and the rent, that makes my life poorer even if it's not my grandparent.
Barack Obama
#97. Choose a place to take a stand. Not where they can corner you but not where they can surround you, either. Find a weapon, a stick, a rock, anything. If you cannot escape, make them pay as dearly as you can for capturing you. Fight them all the way.
Robin Hobb
#98. An American worker should not expect his pay to be cut because somebody comes to this country illegally and is willing to work for less than he or she should be paid.
Gary Miller
#99. Don't for heaven's sake, be afraid of talking nonsense! But you must pay attention to your nonsense.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
#100. Sanctification means more than being freed from sin. It means the deliberate commitment of myself to the God of my salvation, and being willing to pay whatever it may cost.
Oswald Chambers
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