Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pliny the Elder

It is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs.

Jim Rohn

Once you have seen and felt your ideal future, you will be ready and able to pay any price to get there.

Jim Rohn

Count the cost first. Don’t pay too big a price for pursuing minor values.

Jim Rohn

Pay attention. Don't just stagger through the day.

Ellie Goulding

I guess I'm just quite observant and I pay attention to a lot of things. Human behavior really fascinates me.

Elizabeth Gilbert

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.

Elaine Chao

Our intention is to clarify and modernize overtime pay rules,

Elaine Chao

Those who come forward will not be offered an automatic pass to citizenship and should be expected to pay a substantial fine or penalty to participate in the temporary program.

Eknath Easwaran

Mastery does not come from dabbling. We have to be prepared to pay the price. We need to have the sustained enthusiasm that motivates us to give our best.

Linus Torvalds

I've never regretted not making Linux shareware: I really don't like the pay for use binary shareware programs.

Lindsey Graham

What's going on in the Senate is kind of a politics of escalation. We're getting sort of like the Mideast: pay back everybody when you're in charge.

Lindsey Graham

It's really American to avoid paying taxes, legally.

Lilith Saintcrow

I should start charging uncomfortable thoughts rent. Except what would they pay me in? Probably something even worse.

Lil Wayne

I tried to pay attention, but attention paid me.

Joseph Stiglitz

As I noted in my Nobel lecture, an early insight in my work on the economics of information concerned the problem of appropriability - the difficulty that those who pay for information have in getting returns.

Peter Thiel

A company does better the less it pays the CEO.

Peter Kreeft

We sin because we see sin as a bargain. We unconsciously calculate that it’s worth it, that it pays.

Phyllis Bottome

When we refuse to accept our limitations, Nature, who is a stern realist, pays us out.

Haruki Murakami

I was confident that I was a special person. But time slowly chips away at life. People don't just die when their time comes. They gradually die away, from the inside. And finally the day comes when you have to settle accounts. Nobody can escape it. People have to pay the price for what they've received. I have only just learned that truth.

Haruki Murakami

If you really want to know something, you have to be willing to pay the price.

Gordon Smith

Pay-TV companies that built their businesses on the backs of local and network broadcast signals should pay a fair price for access to that high-value programming.

John Lasseter

To take full advantage of computer animation, you have to pay as much attention to the believable as you do the unbelievable.

Jimmy Carr

I pay what I have to and not a penny more.

Joseph Lancaster

The complaint of bad pay, and difficulty in obtaining it, is almost generally reiterated through every department of education.

Justin Kirk

I used to say that pot took away from my rent, and now it pays it.

Leonard Cohen

I want to be paid for my work, not work for my pay.

Laurell K. Hamilton

Is death such a high price to pay, when you will die anyway?

Josh Billings

The road to ruin is always in good repair, and the travellers pay the expense of it.

Julius Streicher

It is a trial within a nation but a trial of victors against the vanquished. Even before the trials started, the victors who are our judges were quite convinced that we were guilty and that we should all pay the price.

Oscar Wilde

Sooner or later we have all to pay for what we do.

John Podhoretz

The problem is that borrowing money to pay back more borrowed money that will oblige you in the future to borrow even more money doesn't sound kosher. Because it isn't.

Mark Spitz

I'm at the depot, and I'm not going anywhere. That's better to deal with than having to deal with the unknown. And the unknown is they don't want to fail. They don't want to pay the price unless there's a guarantee they're going to get there

Paul Begala

Republicans want to punish work and reward wealth; hence the high payroll tax and the low dividend tax. Said one Bush economic adviser, if we can't help wealthy investors and screw working people, what's the point in being a Republican?