Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

We should ban banks from risk-taking because society is going to pay the price.

Morris West

It costs so much to be a full human being that there are very few who have the Love and the courage to pay the price. One has to abandon altogether the search for security and reach out to the risks of living with both arms. One has to embrace life.

Mircea Eliade

If we pay no attention to it, time does not exist.

Mike McGavick

The payroll tax increase was destructive financially, it took what was a close call and made it a bad call,

John Wooden

Understand there is a price to be paid for achieving anything of significance. You must be willing to pay the price.

These are positions that more than pay for themselves.

James Anderson

These are obligations and we feel people should pay them.

Oskar Lafontaine

These policies are false, and we need a different approach. The truth is that they don't want to pay for the social welfare system any longer.

Steve Letarte

All I did was work. And it's paying off for me now.

Eric Idle

I never pay any attention to figures.

Eric Idle

Never do things for money. It's always the things you do for love that turn out to pay the best.

Peter De Vries

The rich aren't like us, they pay less taxes.

Paulo Coelho

I've done everything I wanted to do, even if I have had to pay a very high price - which has been the case most of the time.

Paulo Coelho

What really matters in a pencil is not its wooden exterior, but the graphite inside. So always pay attention to what is happening inside you.

Mariska Hargitay

If you stop for one second and do something, everyone is happy. You pay it forward and it comes back to you twelve-fold.

Mariska Hargitay

Just smiling at someone walking down the street can make the person's day. It's all about paying it forward.

Mehcad Brooks

There are so many of us that just do things to pay bills, but I never wanted that to be me.

Somehow life doesn't always pay off to those who are most insistent.

Matthew Lillard

I got into a bad jag of movies that helped pay the rent and I thought would help further me along.

Maya Angelou

You may not get what you paid for, but you will pay for what you get.

John Ruskin

A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it.

Nina Simone

I am particular about the seating of the audience - also about how much money they pay - but most of all where they are seated. If I am going to sing something intimate, who am I going to sing it to?

Joel Edgerton

That's one of the great privileges, being an actor, is that someone pays you and sends you off to learn about something that otherwise you'd never know about.

George Ade

A good jolly is worth what you pay for it.

George Duke

Well, since I produce and pay for my own albums, it is the ultimate freedom.

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.