Paying Quotes
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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)
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.
But plots come fromGod knows where. They can't be summoned at will.Theycome reluctantly, unexpectedly, stealthily, when you have given up hope of them ever paying you a visit.
— 1993 'A Plot at Last', in Brown and Munro (eds) Writers Writing (1993).
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
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)
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
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].
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)
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
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))
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))
The fact that the price must be paid is proof it is worth paying.
robert jordan— al'Lan Mandragoran
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)
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)
What the welfare system and other kinds of governmental programs are doing is paying people to fail. In so far as they fail, they receive the money; in so far as they succeed, even to a moderate extent, the money is taken away.
thomas sowell— During a discussion in Milton Friedman's "Free to Choose" television series in 1980
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
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 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).
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
