In a rising market, enough of your bad ideas will pay off so that you'll never learn that you should have fewer ideas.
Kids are incredibly expensive. But it pays off later when they are better educated, bigger, and better-looking than you. And find you incessantly boring and uncool.
When I look at how fortunate I've been, being a musician... my response to being overpaid is that I should pay it back to my community in some way.
If you are lucky enough to be successful, you get drawn further in and you stop paying attention to the stuff that matters.
Let us be kind and pay our deepest gratitude to those angels who fill our life with joy, beauty, and magic.
American businesses and upper incomes pay a larger portion of the federal taxes of our national taxes than any country in the world.
I pay two full-time assistants in my studio, plus consultants who are architects, engineers, and landscape architects, as well as lighting designers.
Consumers are going to have get used to eating less meat - to paying more for better quality meat and eating significantly less of it.
Timmy, who made a daring escape, also made a mistake of paying the taxi driver with a check made out of toilet paper.
Social Security was always supposed to be basically in theory an insurance program where you pay in and then you get out.
A lesser but still fundamental rule of racing is that you properly enter the event. Anyone who doesn't but still insists on running interferes with the paying customers.
Nobody pays attention to the way a person's shirt folds around his shoulder when they sit down, but if that shirt folded in an unusual way, you'd notice it.
If you have something to say then you want someone to pay attention or at least to have the opportunity for them to tell you to shut up and go away.
The spectacle of a great, solvent government paying a fictitious price for gold it did not want and did not need and doing it on purpose to debase the value of its own paper currency was one to astonish the world.
The police officers, so far as discipline, organization, pay, and orders were concerned, came exclusively under the German Reich police system and were in no way connected with the administration of the Government General.
There were days when I was on the last $10 in my account, and I was freaking out about paying rent or buying groceries. Then you book a commercial, and you're good for another three months.
There's no reason not to be in television now. You get to live at home and you're not on the road all the time, they pay you decent money, and the writing's good. You're not compromising for it, you know.
Too often in the past, U.S. leaders have forced Israel to pay the price for American strategic interests in the Middle East - through concessions in the peace process as well as passivity in the face of Iraqi attacks.
Reviewers are certainly entitled to their own opinions. I've become buddies with enough writers and directors, and to be perfectly honest, the ones that have lasted a long time don't pay a lot of attention to the reviews.
Surely there comes a time when counting the cost and paying the price aren't things to think about any more. All that matters is value - the ultimate value of what one does.
The easy way out is to approve an early retirement plan one year but not pay out sick and vacation time to deserving employees until three years later. Unfortunately, later is now.
