Top 202 Pays Quotes

The only possible role that I can see for reconciliation would be to make modest changes in the major package to improve affordability, to deal with what share of Medicaid expansion the federal government pays, those kinds of issues, which is the traditional role for reconciliation in health care.
Kent Conrad
I like it when hard work pays off.

I like it when hard work pays off.
Mikaela Shiffrin
The very effect of the education they were given… was to make men think; and, thinking, they became less and less satisfied with the miserable pays they received.
John Grierson
Even when I was fighting in China I met some guys on the local circuit that we’re fighting, they didn’t enjoy it, they wanted to be musicians and do other things, but they’re just fighting because it pays the bills and they get money for it.
Israel Adesanya
Persistence pays off.
Jeffrey Dean Morgan
An unskilled middle-aged man can work in the mines, and it pays well.
Richard Flanagan
We can’t get to the $4 trillion in savings that we need by just cutting the 12 percent of the budget that pays for things like medical research and education funding and food inspectors and the weather service. And we can’t just do it by making seniors pay more for Medicare.
Barack Obama
I learned at that young age that sometimes a really big chance pays off.
Bob Parsons
Students often approached me about state-paid tuition while I was out campaigning. After I explained to them that if the state pays their tuition now, they will pay higher taxes to pay other people’s tuition for the rest of their lives, most of them ended up agreeing with me.
Jesse Ventura
Put together, what we want is a system that supports, protects, and properly pays good teachers and makes it possible in a responsible and fair way to remove teachers judged to be incompetent or abusive – that’s it.
Campbell Brown
China pays a great deal of attention to the Korean nuclear issue. We stand for achieving denuclearization of the peninsula in a peaceful way through dialogue and consultation to maintain peace and stability of the peninsula and Northeast Asia.
Hu Jintao
Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.
George Sewell
Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.
Sophia Loren
International examples prove that high-speed rail pays for itself.
Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis
I did albums for Cash Money. I didn’t do singles – I did whole albums for Cash Money – and at the end of the day, I’m saying I wasn’t paid for albums, so its like you’re doing 10 songs, and somebody pays you for 1.
Mannie Fresh
Crime is the price society pays for abandoning character.
James Q. Wilson
I have to pay the bills just like everybody else, but it also pays my soul to work.
Kathy Bates
It’s really a question of fairness and what kind of country we’re going to live in. There are 22,000 people making over $1 million. They’re paying an effective tax rate in the teens. As Warren Buffett said, he pays less in taxes effectively than his secretary does. That’s not right.
David Plouffe
I do think everybody pays their dues in Gilead, whether you’re the most high-up commander or not. Everybody has to face the consequences of their actions.
Madeline Brewer
You find out your mistakes from an audience that pays admission.
Edgar Bergen
What we have to get clear to kids is that when you offer your stillness and open yourself to the experience of music, it pays you back more than you give.
David Ogden Stiers
What people forget is that no one pays you to go and be a champion for democracy. A girl’s got to make rent. I didn’t have a job for two years.
Christopher Wylie
I think that anybody that stays in school, gets good grades, pays the price, I think we are wealthy enough in the public and the private sector in America to make sure that every child in America that wants to continue their education, they should be able to do that.
J. C. Watts
‘Trapped In The Closet’ lives in a place on the earth on its own. It pays its own rent, it’s its own landlord, it owns the building, it’s everything. And it’s so separate from what R. Kelly does; that’s the great thing about it.
R. Kelly
And then modelling, because it pays you really well and you get to travel, I was forced to get used to the idea of standing in front of a camera and having six or seven people watching me and that actually allowed me to loosen up from an acting point of view.
Eoin Macken
Often in my game as an actor, someone else pays for your travel and there’s nothing like being able to lie flat on a flight home from L.A.
Ioan Gruffudd
It is in all our interests that the government, when buying goods or services, pays the lowest price.
Jacob Rees-Mogg
People have quite a simple idea about ‘Anna Karenina.’ They feel that the novel is entirely about a young married woman who falls in love with a cavalry officer and leaves her husband after much agony, and pays the price for that.
Tom Stoppard
We must defend our NATO allies, but we should also ensure that everyone pays their fair share. The United States shouldn’t be responsible for funding other countries’ shares.
Carlos Beruff
Someone pays me a hundred bucks every Tuesday to DJ. I don’t think I’ll ever give that up.
Shannyn Sossamon
Hard work pays off.
Bret Bielema
The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.
Thomas Jefferson
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Investing in better-quality education outcomes – especially in maths and science – more than pays for itself.
Julia Gillard
Today people who hold cash equivalents feel comfortable. They shouldn’t. They have opted for a terrible long-term asset, one that pays virtually nothing and is certain to depreciate in value.
Warren Buffett
What I don’t like is the way people automatically think I am a kept woman, that he pays my expenses. This puts me in a rage. I’ve always paid my own way, even while living in his mansion. I’ve kept an apartment of my own. In fact, I not only buy my own clothes, but many of Hef’s, too – he just hates to shop.
Barbi Benton
It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.
Henry Ford
That is the definition of equal justice under law: everyone gets a fair shot, everyone pays their fair share, and everyone plays by the same set of rules.
Eric Schneiderman
Somehow politicians have become convinced that negative campaigning pays off in elections.
George McGovern
I loved modeling. I absolutely loved it. I was so happy to get the cover of ‘Vogue’ – 23 times. I keep each copy. I made more money as a model than as an actress or as a filmmaker. In monetary terms, beauty pays more than anything.
Isabella Rossellini
Success doesn’t demand a price. Every step forward pays a dividend.
David Joseph Schwartz
Every Kentuckian, regardless of background, should have access to a job that pays a living wage.
Amy McGrath
It’s nice when the hard work pays off.
Remco Evenepoel
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.
Joel Edgerton
That is how America gets her art: Contracting firms get the contract and the honor. Starving artists do the work. The government pays for sculpturing thousands of dollars, of which the sculptor gets a hundred or so.
Gutzon Borglum
When you die, nobody pays your hosting company, and your work disappears. Like that.
Jeffrey Zeldman
That was really so upsetting when you are trying to pass on some very serious knowledge and be basically, treated worse than a student coming off the street because his father pays the tuition. Come on. Give me a break. This is no school. This is a joke.
Miroslav Vitous
I can’t micromanage what anybody pays or doesn’t pay. But the concept that half of the public isn’t involved with the income-tax system is somewhat odd and I’m not saying how much people should do, but we should all be part of the system.
Stephen A. Schwarzman
Doing ‘EastEnders’ wasn’t exactly suffering, but my soul’s not in quick-fix TV. Theatre doesn’t pay like TV work pays, though. We all have to live, don’t we?
Phil Daniels
The days of print media are numbered. Some papers will be around for a few years, but everyone knows news is going online. Then you have to ask, who pays for it? How do you deliver it? Is there any money for proper investigative reporting?
Mike Bartlett
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
Benjamin Franklin
Success now is waking up in the morning and being comfortable in my own skin. You can go to a job that pays well, but if you’re not happy in yourself or if you’re not grateful for what you have, it means nothing.
Alesha Dixon
To me, a tax heaven is where everyone pays their fair share. In that respect, I am not quite sure we are in tax heaven yet.
Margrethe Vestager
Unfortunately, the world pays attention when the media shines a light on those in need, which is why it’s so important that we maintain the global public will that is necessary to meet the needs of those we serve.
Ertharin Cousin
Everybody pays lip service to the safety of the aeroplane, but nobody is prepared to pay for it.
Nevil Shute
I am someone who pays attention to the currents that are going on socially in terms of what people want. When I catch wind of the types of matches people want, those are the matches I want, too.
Karrion Kross
If your knowledge is in your hands and in your mind, then nobody can take it away from you. Be kind and be on time! You never know who you’re talking to – the waitress today could be the producer tomorrow, so it pays to be kind to everyone.
GloZell
Giving parties is a trivial avocation, but it pays the dues for my union card in humanity.
Elsa Maxwell
Whoever pays the consultant gets pretty much what they want to hear.
Matthew Stewart
In the modern-day world, where time is premium and battle for subsistence is unimaginably tough, the hapless common man simply gives in and pays the bribe just to get on with life.
Shaffi Mather
To be an Olympian – not many people can say that. But first of all, I’ve got to make the team, and I know a lot of hard work is going to go into it, so hopefully it pays off.
Sonny Bill Williams