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The man wants to stick his iron pick in the little basket, and I do not prevent him. I open the knapsack, and he sees nothing in it. And the food for the soul passes, candid and free , without paying tribute to the customs .
juan ramón jiménez— Ch. 2 : White Butterflies, as translated by Eloïse Roach (1957)
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.
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.
Is the scrupulous attention I am paying to the government of my tongue at all proportioned to that tremendous truth revealed through St. James, that if I do not bridle my tongue, all my religion is vain?
frederick William faber— P. 215. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
For all my good intentions, there are days when things go wrong or I fall into old habits. When things are not going well, when I'm grumpy or mad, I'll realize that I've not been paying attention to my soul and I've not been following my best routine.
robert fulghum— "Pay Attention" in Handbook for the Soul (1995) edited by Benjamin Shield
It's frustrating when some of you guys don't put too much thought into it and you're just trying to go off the fans' reaction or you don't know much about what we're doing on offense. Just realizing how ignorant some of you guys are -- and I don't mean that necessarily in a bad way. I mean, like just understanding that you may not be correct and accepting that fact and not paying attention to it much.
rex grossman— Grossman retaliates at his critics.
— 'Ignorant' remark trails Rex
Walking on thin ice, I'm paying the price. I'm throwing the dice in the air. Why must we learn it the hard way, and play the game of life with your heart?
yoko ono— "Walking On Thin Ice" on Season of Glass (1981) - YouTube video
Electrical fire and the fire of greed kindle economies. In that flux, nations become digitized commodities on stock-exchange floors and on investors' rating screens. A country becomes a product to be rated for its obedience to paying of deficits and debts.
b. w. powe— Interlude, p. 75
In a low voice Sara told them about going to the park, seeing a man, and then not paying much attention to him until suddenly he was pushing a gun into her ribs as she unlocked her front door. “He said he had to kill me or someone would kill him.”
lis wiehl— p. 239 (Heart of Ice A Triple Threat Novel with April Henry (Thomas Nelson))
The whole business is the crudest sort of stratagem, since we have no way of foreseeing it to the end. It is a mere paying out of rope on the chance that somewhere along the length of it will be a noose.
Isaac Asimov— Part V, The Merchant Princes, section 2 (originally published as “The Big and the Little” in Astounding (August 1944))
COINCIDENCE :; You weren’t paying attention to the other half of what was going on.
john brunner— context (3) “You Have to Push Him Over”
When we reject unemployment as an economic instrument as we do and when we reject also superficial remedies, as socialists must, then we must ask ourselves unflinchingly what is the cause of high unemployment. Quite simply and unequivocally, it is caused by paying ourselves more than the value of what we produce. There are no scapegoats.
james callaghan— Labour Party Annual Conference Report 1976, p. 188.Speech at the Labour Party Conference, 28 September 1976.
It would actually be quite nice if the American ambassador in Britain could pay the charge that everybody else is paying and not actually try and skive out of it like some chiselling little crook.
Ken Livingstone— While being interviewed in the street during his dispute with several embassies for not paying Central London's congestion charge (late March 2006). The Times, 28 March 2006. [New York Times comment, 2 May 2006.]
If you're paying attention to your wardrobe, Rudy believed, your mind isn’t sufficiently occupied.
jack mcdevitt— Chapter 5 (p. 54)
If you are wired to your memory, repetitions will happen and redundancy will come; but if you are paying attention, that changes your ability to look at things
jaggi vasudev— Economic Times, 21 December 2012
The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return ...
gore vidal— p. 280 (Matters of Fact and Fiction : Essays 1973 - 1976 (1978))
No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it.
Alfred North Whitehead— Ch. 32, January 13, 1944
Alimony, that's what made OJ crack...after paying alimony OJ didn't score a touchdown in 20 years.
— "Chris Rock on YouTube YouTube video (Sourced)
Circumcision is like a substantial and well-secured annuity; every year of life you draw the benefits. Parents cannot make a better paying investment for their little boys.
— Dr Remondino, The History of Circumcision, 1891
The Srimad Bhagavatam teaches nine primary forms of bhakti , as explained by 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 Democrats just never learn: Americans don't really care which side of an issue you're on as long as you don't act like pussies. When Van Jones called the Republicans assholes, he was paying them a compliment. He was talking about how they can get things done even when they're in the minority, as opposed to the Democrats, who can't seem to get anything done even when they control both houses of Congress, the presidency, and Bruce Springsteen.
— Bill Maher, in "New Rule: Float Like Obama, Sting Like Ali" at The Huffington Post (11 September 2009)
A sin that accelerates death and annihilation of man is breaking off paying visits to one's own relatives.
— Majlisi, Bih?rul Anw?r, vol.74, p.94
Goodness to parents, and paying visits to ones own relatives, will ease the accounting on the Day of Judgement.
— Majlisi, Bih?rul Anw?r, vol.74, p.86
