Quotes of: Pays Keyword

If you're not paying for something, you're not the customer; you're the product being sold.

Andrew Lewis

We always pay dearly for chasing after what is cheap.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Led Zeppelin, you can't find a better band to pay homage to.

Ann Wilson

How much would you pay to avoid a second Depression?

Ben Bernanke

We are telling veterans they must sacrifice to pay for the pet projects and contracts to campaign donors of powerful members of Congress.

Nick Lampson

To pay more is the easy way. In fact, the solution possibilities to the problem are many.

Vladimir Putin

When I was having that alphabet soup, I never thought that it would pay off.

Vanna White

No man pays double or twice for the same thing, forasmuch as nothing can be spent but once.

William Petty

People are still willing to do an honest day's work. The trouble is they want a week's pay for it.

Joey Adams

I was raised on, 'You go get a nine-to-five job, earn your pay and work your way up.'

Matthew McConaughey

Sometimes when you're putting the work in it just seems so, so hard, and you never know when that work's going to pay off.

Maria Sharapova

You know what—gyms make the largest chunk of their profit from clients who pay their monthly dues on auto-pay but never bother to show up and use the gym. The DVD-rental companies make a good chunk of their profits from late fees; the credit-card c...

Closure of the Helpdesk — A Geek Tragedy

While it is true that many people simply can't afford to pay more for food, either in money or time or both, many more of us can. After all, just in the last decade or two we've somehow found the time in the day to spend several hours on the internet...

In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto

A brick is a duplicate. It is a physical copy of the idea for a brick. And what’s the big idea? A brick represents unity, a notion of hey, let’s build something together. Like a house, for example. And after you help me build my house, I’ll use...

A brick and a blanket walk into a bar

A brick could be used as gift for the man who has everything. Here’s a tip: that man doesn’t have everything, because I just stole his wallet. But I can’t very well give him a gift of something I’ve just grifted. So while he’s pondering the...

Blanket

Not that anyone minds--no one's paying attention to the music. Most of them never really listen to music. Practically no one actually does. Even at concerts people pay good money for, instead of a three-dollar cover charge, they talk through the whol...

I Kissed a Zombie, and I Liked It

One man thinks justice consists in paying debts, and has no measure in his abhorrence of another who is very remiss in this duty and makes the creditor wait tediously. But that second man has his own way of looking at things; asks himself Which debt ...

The Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

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