I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.
How do leaders serve their people? They may pay good wages and treat employees with respect.
Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent’s pressure, and the temporary failures.
Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up.
Programs that pay farmers not to farm often devastate rural areas. The reductions hurt everyone from fertilizer companies to tractor salesmen.
It is always easier to requite an injury than a service: gratitude is a burden, but revenge is found to pay.
I am not somebody who is very fashionable. I do not pay much heed to what I wear. I am very erratic in that sense.
All one needs to do is read – books, magazines, research the Internet – and pay attention to the influencers in their lives to discover the myriad people of strong moral character who have and still are making positive, meaningful contributions and differences in our world.
Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.
People need to be insured so when you have an accident out there, or when something catastrophic happens to you, that you’re covered and there’s not someone else has to pay for you. That is as simple as that.
I do not demand equal pay for any women save those who do equal work in value. Scorn to be coddled by your employers; make them understand that you are in their service as workers, not as women.
Words do not pay for my dead people.
I had a lot of survival jobs. One was for the Witty Ditty singing-telegram company. I was in the red-and-white stripes with the straw boater hat and kazoo. Balloons. Even when you’re sleeping on a friend’s couch, you have to pay some kind of rent.
Let there be a door to thy mouth, that it may be shut when need arises, and let it be carefully barred, that none may rouse thy voice to anger, and thou pay back abuse with abuse.
A bespoke shirt is one of the true luxuries that you can acquire. There’s nothing better than a fitted shirt. Once you’ve picked up your first one, you’ll never stop buying them – providing you can pay for it.
Alimony – the ransom that the happy pay to the devil.
Value is what people are willing to pay for it.
For every R. Kelly or Bill Cosby or Harvey Weinstein, there’s, you know, the owner of the grocery store, the coach, the teacher, the neighbor, who are doing the same things. But we don’t pay attention until it’s a big name. And we don’t pay attention ’til it’s a big celebrity.
The one percent must pay their fair share.
So the people will pay the penalty for their kings’ presumption, who, by devising evil, turn justice from her path with tortuous speech.
Pay attention to those employees who respectfully ask why. They are demonstrating an interest in their jobs and exhibiting a curiosity that could eventually translate into leadership ability.
I’m proud to pay taxes in the United States; the only thing is, I could be just as proud for half the money.
I’ve never been big on cars. When I first got to Hollywood, I bought a used car from Avis. I drove that until I almost had to pay someone to tow it away.
Scars are the price you pay for success.
You learn as you grow up, if you’re intelligent – or even three-quarter witted – that there’s no free lunch. You pay for things in various ways. Living, loving, everything else is a matter of the same principles: you learn to work with what you have.
I like to be able to go out to dinner once in a while. I like to be able to drive my MG up the McKenzie River on a weekday afternoon. I like to be able to pay my bills on time.
Everyone has to pay their child support, and no matter if you’re a Hollywood actor or anyone else, it’s always a little bit more than you want to pay.
I’m writing about real things. Real people. Real characters. You have to believe what I write about is true or you wouldn’t pay any attention at all. Sometimes it’s me, or a composite of me and other people. Sometimes it’s not me at all.
The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.
Life is complex. You don’t have any person who is nice from the beginning until the end. You don’t always have the notion of redemption. The bad people don’t always pay.
History is made every day. The challenge is getting everyone to pay attention to it.
You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.
There’s a price to pay for greatness. The price to pay is doing the right thing.
Hollywood is a place where they’ll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.
If it’s free, it’s advice; if you pay for it, it’s counseling; if you can use either one, it’s a miracle.
Writing itself is a dream. There are days of self doubt and deadlines and wondering how you’re going to pay the bills until you write that bestseller. But it’s still the best job I’ve ever had. I’ve also been able to help a lot of people and even inspire a few and that feels great.
The Yankees don’t pay me to win every day, just two out of three.
We all pay for life with death, so everything in between should be free.
We will pay the debts by growing and exporting… The only way is to export. The other channel has been exhausted, which is to borrow.
I’ve always considered myself a physical person. I don’t call myself a farm girl, but I did spend a lot of years shoveling manure and throwing hay, because I worked to pay most of my riding expenses.
If you’re early on in your career and they give you a choice between a great mentor or higher pay, take the mentor every time. It’s not even close. And don’t even think about leaving that mentor until your learning curve peaks.
If I put my name on something, I’m going to be involved. I’m not just going to put my name on it and not pay attention.
Be willing to be uncomfortable. Be comfortable being uncomfortable. It may get tough, but it’s a small price to pay for living a dream.
I have been privileged to work for some of the most high-powered people in town. They pay me for my opinions, and I give those to them.
How does a nice Catholic girl end up going to prison for a year? It’s crazy. I’ve made mistakes. I have to pay for those mistakes.
Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.
I’ve been married for 46 years, and I live in a nice house, my grass is always cut, I pay my bills, and my cat loves me!
Do I care about clothes and stuff? Not much. It’s a bit sick, isn’t it, people spending all that money on clothes? I’m too stingy. I wouldn’t pay £100 for a shirt.
We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with.
People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.
Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay dear for them.
The only thing that hurts more than paying an income tax is not having to pay an income tax.
There is a price to pay for most of our actions. For every action, there is a reaction.
I feel it is time that I also pay tribute to my four writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
I’d really love to get back into commercials, actually. I love how quick and breezy they are. And honestly, they pay really well.
People want economy and they will pay any price to get it.
I try to keep in mind that it’s a long journey. It’s not a race. It’s about staying focused, continuing to do good work, make my family and community proud; that’s all I really want to do… and pay my bills.
Whether we are working to pay off student loans, credit card debt, paying for elder or childcare, or even trying to save for retirement, the idea of the American dream still remains just that – a dream.
First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don’t come, I choose the ones that pay the rent.
These funds will ensure that ports will be able to pay for adequate security measures to protect all Americans against terrorist attacks from our seaports.
Dorothy is the only woman in history who has had her menopause in public and made it pay.
Salaries and wages must reflect the reality of the enterprise’s economic performance; deviations from the planned performance should be reflected in pay.
You don’t pay taxes – they take taxes.
I’ve been drawing since I was a little kid, but it’s not something I love to do every day. If there’s one thing I love to do every day, it’d probably be acting. I can act every day. I’d happily do it, you don’t have to pay me. But that’s one thing I’d love to do and get paid for.
One way to make sure crime doesn’t pay would be to let the government run it.
I am going to try to pay attention to the spring. I am going to look around at all the flowers, and look up at the hectic trees. I am going to close my eyes and listen.
I have no idea about the state of rap. I don’t pay attention. I just listen to old music that I have.
