Quotes of: Pay-raise Keyword

Moreover, they who returned, if any, would be flogged, as seemed proper, after due examination. And though the news of their beatings might help all others to hesitation, ere they did foolishly, in like fashion, yet was the principle of the flogging ...

The Night Land

You can't raise happy kids in a happy family if you aren't happy and don't know who you are. You can't pin your life on someone else's happiness.

Champagne and Lemon Drops

Slowly I raise my eyes and take in the water spreading out in every direction. I can only form one clear thought.

Catching Fire

What if one out of every three multinational corporation CEO's were raped every year? Don't you think that would raise a kind of ruckus?

Cunt: A Declaration of Independence

It appeared that way, Lawrence, but this raised the question of was mathematics really true or was it just a game played with symbols? In other words—are we discovering Truth, or just wanking?

Cryptonomicon

Three guys and a girl were leaning against a black raised pickup ... I had to do a double take as this group was nothing like I had ever seen before.

Churning Waters

To get leaders to become stakeholders in ministry and to understand the DNA of your church, you must invest in them, equip them, and raise the bar of accountability.

Equipping Church, The

So, using his pride like a shield against despair, dejection, and-most important— self-pity, Raoden raised his head to stare damnation in the eyes.

Elantris

Will raised both eyebrows. 'Well, you learn a new thing everyday,' he said reflectively. 'In your case, that's no exaggeration,' Halt said, completely straight-faced.

The Emperor of Nihon-Ja

You didn't have to go to the fireworks with him. Or - or let him fondle you." "Fondle?" Raisa raised her eyebrows, "When did I mention fondling?

The Exiled Queen

Roland of Gilead responded as he ever had and ever would when such useless, mystifying questions were raised: 'Ka.

Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales

She fully expected to see a maniacal killer raising his arms with a plastic bag in his hands to suffocate her

Eye of The Storm: Eilida's Tragedy

Someone carries my belief that raises hope in me, but flame didn’t last for long

Equating the Equations of Insanity: A Journey from Grief to Victory

She raised herself up on an elbow, stroked my forehead & said in a hushed half-whisper, 'You will be famous.' "The seed was planted. Ambition fed on the compost of my vanity.

The Forbidden

Look forward to the wonderment of growing up, raising a family and driving by the gas station where the popular kids now work.

Gator A-Go-Go

If you, as a parent, raise your children well, they won't need you anymore. If you did it properly, they go away.

The Graveyard Book

If you raise a daughter to be both independent and an excellent marksman, you have to accept the fact that your control over her actions is at an end.

The Gate of Gods

[Caine] "Interesting. Me, I've always wanted to know who my real parents were." [Sam] "Let me guess: you're secretly a wizard who was raised by muggles.

Gone

I had a dream I named my boat after you. I love to raise your mast.

Better to be able to love than to be loveable

Surely that was why faith had been invented: to raise teenagers without dying. Although of course it was also why death was invented: to escape teenagers altogether.

Bark: Stories

Here you do have forests, where pigs could be raised by letting them root about in the forests for a good part of the year. Therefore, you have a different attitude toward them compared with what continues to exist in the Middle East.

Marvin Harris