Paying Quotes
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The act of living had been enjoyable; at some point when I was not paying attention, it had turned into a different sort of experience, to whose grimness I had grown so accustomed that I now took it for granted.
— 1972 Without Stopping: An Autobiography, ch.17.
The citizen who criticizes his country is paying it an implied tribute.
j. william fulbright— "The Vietnam Fallout," speech to the Bureau of Advertising of the American Newspaper Association, Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York City (April 28, 1966), in Senator Fulbright: Portrait of a Public Philosopher (1966)
On James's view, "true" resembles "good" or "rational" in being a normative notion, a compliment paid to sentences that seem to be paying their way and that fit with other sentences which are doing so.
richard rorty— Introduction to Consequences of Pragmatism (1982)
Rising unemployment and the recession have been the price that we have had to pay to get inflation down. That price is well worth paying.
norman lamont— Hansard, HC 6Ser vol 191 col 413 (16 May 1991) [1].
We need to simplify our tax code. We need to make sure that it’s not too cumbersome for people to be able to comply with. And that they don’t end up spending more money trying to file their taxes than they do actually paying in.
kristi noem— Woster, Kevin. Noem ad: poignant or political? Rapid City Journal. May 9, 2010.
When you have investment companies losing billions of dollars over something like bundled subprime loans, then you have to consider whether it's important. You probably also want to think about paying off that third mortgage.
— American Dialect Society spokesman Wayne Glowka, on the selection of subprime as the Word of the Year for 2007 — quoted in "'Subprime' is word of year 2007". BBC News (BBC). January 5, 2008.
People 'over-produce' pollution because they are not paying for the costs of dealing with it.
ha-joon chang— South Korean economist
est was developed from the beginning as a well-organized business enterprise, structured to maximize profits and minimize tax liabilities. Its major corporate arm, Transformational Technologies, is an extreme example of the rationality that pervades some such movements that have as a major goal the maximizing of profit. By 1988, it had trained nearly 400,000 people, all of whom had taken the two-weekend, 60-hour training session, paying a sizable fee ($400 per person) for so doing. est grossed some $30 million dollars in 1981, and it was claimed that one of every nine San Francisco Bay Area college-educated young people had gone through the training.
— Richardson, James T. (1998). "est (THE FORUM)". in Swatos, Jr., William H.. Encyclopedia of Religion and Society. Walnut Creek, California: AltaMira. pp. 167-168. ISBN 0761989560.
Jazz musicians are not demigods. Theyare warm, vulnerablehumanbeings with a desperateneedtogo on paying the rent.
— 1984 Hot Air, Cool Music, ch.10.
We all tend to be greedy end-gainers, paying no attention to our means whereby.
— Quoted in The Art of Seeing by Aldous Huxley (1942), p. 88
If you can manipulate news, a judge can manipulate the law. A smart lawyer can keep a killer out of jail, a smart accountant can keep a thief from paying taxes, a smart reporter could ruin your reputation — unfairly.
mario cuomo— NBC TV (August 12, 1986)
We don't know where breakthroughs will come from and there is no guarantee that they will come from a popular area which is currently drawing a lot of attention. I think the natural pattern is that something new, something which no one was paying attention to before appears when there is a bottleneck. It would be a serious mistake to nip things like this in the bud.
makoto kobayashi— Interview, IPMU News No 5 (March 2009)
I had, in my legal practice, often encountered really shocking examples of the devastating impact of the costs of long-term medical care on meagre incomes. And, just before I was elected, I had my own personal experience in paying very considerable bills for my mother's terminal illness.
judy lamarsh— CHAPTER 6, The crisis of Confederation, p. 120-121
I hate plays. I've never seen the point of paying money to watch people shout a lot and pretend to die, and now that I'm the father of three young children I don't have to.
— Do Not Pass Go (2002)
It's nice to know that people are paying attention to you on the other side of the ball, but it's also kind of sad because you feel like you're a man that's being hunted down by some vicious animal. I feel they're going to come after me and do whatever they can to shut down the run, and that makes a difference with me in going out and doing my job.
emmitt smith— Jim Greenidge (January 24, 1996) "Smith Rose to the Occasion in '95 Cowboy Mainstay Had Get-Up-And-Go", Boston Globe, p. 54.
The world's got a nosebleed, it saidAnd we're flooding, but we keep on cutting the trees and the forests!And we keep on paying those freaks on the TVWho claim they will save us, but want to enslave us, andSweating like demons, they scream through our speakersBut we leave the sound on 'cause silence is harder, andNo one's the killer and no one's the martyrThe world that has made us can no longer contain usAnd prophets are silent and rotting away.
regina spektor— "Consequence of Sounds"
His (Deschamps’) complaint of court life was the same as is made of government at the top in any age: it was composed of hypocrisy, flattery, lying, paying and betraying; it was where calumny and cupidity reigned, common sense lacked, truth dared not appear, and where to survive one had to be deaf, blind, and dumb.
barbara tuchman— p. 450 (A Distant Mirror (1978))
The fact that the price must be paid is proof it is worth paying.
robert jordan— al'Lan Mandragoran
They have founded the whole structure of their happiness on these very illusions, which ought to be combated and dissipated by the light of knowledge, and they would think they were paying too dearly for a truth which begins by robbing them of all that has value in their sight. It would be necessary that they should be already sages to love wisdom: a truth that was felt at once by him to whom philosophy owes its name.
friedrich von schiller— Letter 8; Variant: They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
Susan Sontag— "Susan Sontag Finds Romance," interview by Leslie Garis, The New York Times (2 August 1992)
Chargemasters contain laughably high prices that hospital administrators don’t even try to justify. (They don’t seem to know how they were set to begin with, and argue that they’re misleading because insurance companies always negotiate lower ones.) Yet people without insurance, or with too little insurance, often end up paying chargemaster prices.
— Bloomberg View editorial board (February 24, 2013). "Bringing Down Health-Care Costs Isn’t Always Complicated". Bloomberg View. Retrieved on March 7, 2013.
I will be no party to paying out of charity property costs which are not properly payable out of it.
— Kay, J., In re St. Stephen, Coleman Street; In re St. Mary the Virgin, Aldermanbury (1888), L. R. 39 C. D. 507.
I have looked into the books in order to discover the origin of the proceeding of paying money into Court, but without being able to fix the period of its commencement, though I think it highly probable that it took its rise early in the present century.
— Heath, J., Gutteridge v. Smith (1794), 2 H. B. 376; reported in James William Norton-Kyshe, Dictionary of Legal Quotations (1904), p. 193-194.
The power of discretionary disqualification by one law of Parliament, and the necessity of paying every debt of the Civil List by another law of Parliament, if suffered to pass unnoticed, must establish such a fund of rewards and terrors as will make Parliament the best appendage and support of arbitrary power that ever was invented by the wit of man.
Edmund Burke— Edmund Burke, Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents (1770).
The price that Africa is paying could cover the cost of solving the HIV and AIDS crisis in Africa, or provide education, water and prevention and treatment for tuberculosis and malaria,”
— Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Liberian President. WATCHTOWER ONLINE LIBRARY, Watching the World
The Bhagavata Purana teaches nine primary forms of bhakti, as explained by [[w:Prahlada|Prahlada as:(1) ?rava?a ("listening" to the scriptural stories of K???a and his companions), (2) k?rtana ("praising," usually refers to ecstatic group singing), (3) smara?a ("remembering" or fixing the mind on Vi??u), (4) p?da-sevana (rendering service), (5) arcana (worshiping an image), (6) vandana (paying homage ), (7) d?sya ( servitude ), (8) s?khya ( friendship ), and (9) ?tma-nivedana (complete surrender of the self ).
— Bhagavata Purana (from Bhagavata Purana, 7.5.23-24) quoted in Acting as a Way of Salvation: A Study of R?g?nug? Bhakti S?dhana, p.133
The work of Escrivá de Balaguer, will undoubtedly mark the 21st century. This is a prudent and reasonable wager. Do not pass close to this contemporary without paying him close attention.
— Pierre Chanu(Vue Culturell, 5-6 February 1983)
Yoga practice can make us more sensitive to subtler sensations in the body. paying attention to and staying with finer sensations within the body is one of the surest ways to steady the wandering mind .
— Ravi Ravindra, in “Yoga and You”
paying visits to ones own relatives prolongs the life of a person and prevents poverty and indigence.
— Majlisi, Bih?rul Anw?r, vol.74, p.58
