Quotes of: Pay-raise Keyword

Lots of stores have self-checkout lanes now. That’s clever. They get us to buy their goods—and do their work too. Instead of paying cashiers to check us out, it’s like they’ve enticed us to pay them for the privilege of a rewarding work exper...

Love quotes for the ages. And the ageless sages.

In a Zen retreat we have a format for working with these quicksilver changes: we sit with them, we pay attention to them... Being steady with mindfulness as an anchor for all the changes we go through is the way we practice forbearance. And you can e...

Sailing Home: Using Homer's Odyssey to Navigate Life's Perils and Pitfalls

I am happy to pay you," she announced. "For your services." A harsh, strangled sound cut through the room. It came from him. "Pay me." She nodded. "Would say, twenty-five pounds do?" "No." Her brows knit together. "Of course, a person of your--prowes...

One Good Earl Deserves a Lover

Maybe it's all utterly meaningless. Maybe it's all unutterably meaningful. If you want to know which, pay attention to what it means to be truly human in a world that half the time we're in love with and half the time scares the hell out of us. Any f...

Frederick Buechner

Much of the oxygen we breathe comes from plants that died long ago. We can give thanks to these ancestors of our present-pay foliage, but we can't give back to them. We can, however, give forward. When we are unable to return the favor, we can pay it...

Joanna Macy & Chris Johnstone

Bob: Someone was in trouble... Rick Dicker: Someone's always in trouble. Bob: I had to do *something*... Rick Dicker: Yeah. Every time you say that, Bob, it means a month-and-a-half of trouble for me, and thousands of dollars of taxpayer money. We ha...

The Incredibles

Ham Porter: Hey, Smalls, you wanna s'more? Smalls: Some more of what? Ham Porter: No, do you wanna s'more? Smalls: I haven't had anything yet, so how can I have some more of nothing? Ham Porter: You're killing me Smalls! These are s'more's stuff! Ok,...

The Sandlot

Humility raises us not by human arrogance but by divine grace.

City of God

The wittiest authors raise the very slightest of smiles.

Human, All Too Human

The retirement age needs to be raised. A portion of Social Security ought to be privatized, if not all. And there probably needs to be some means testing. It's a Ponzi scheme that's not sustainable.

Gary Johnson

I've lost touch with a lot of that boutique-type music just because of my age, and raising my son and the multiple jobs I have at this point.

Liz Phair

I didn't want to raise my kids in this weird, sycophantic society. If you have celebrity parents, it's not a good recipe for the kids, or anyone at any age.

Robin Wright

Sinclair Lewis may be ripe for a revival; his books raise several interesting issues of art and fashion.

Jane Smiley

Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.

Ludwig van Beethoven

I raised an alluring eyebrow. Alluringly.

The Angel's Kiss: A Melody Malone Mystery

Snape raised his wand and pointed it directly at Dumbledore. "

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

An enlightened person raises the level of the consciousness of the entire community.

The Journal Keeper: A Memoir

For a moment you forget how much the loss hurts. Then you remember and it buries you.

Raised By Raptors

If there was ever such a thing as redemption, they would have to open a magnum of the stuff for Moist. No, a brewery.

Raising Steam

After all, if you can't trust governments, whom can you trust?

Raising Steam

Anger can be managed to become emotional content that raises power.

My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut