Paying Quotes

1106 Paying quotes by 904 unique authors

No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience… — Chuck Palahniuk
Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and… — Bill Gates
Don't equate activity with efficiency. You are paying your key people to see the big picture. Don't let them get bogged down in a lot… — Harvey Mackay
There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They… — Mark Twain
Reality TV was to me the worst form of entertainment--the modern equivalent of paying sixpence to watch lunatics howling at the wall down at the… — Jasper Fforde
My friends are gone and my hair is grey. I ache in places I used to play. And I’m crazy for love but I’m not… — Leonard Cohen
Her mind was an hotel where facts came and went like transient lodgers, without leaving their address behind, and frequently without paying for their board. — Edith Wharton
Still paying, still to owe. Eternal woe! — John Milton
If you are interested in something, you will focus on it, and if you focus attention on anything, it is likely that you will become… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Montalbano and Valente seemed not to have heard him, looking as if their minds were elsewhere. But in fact they were paying very close attention,… — Andrea Camilleri
When it comes to paying contractors, the sky is the limit; when it comes to financing the basic functions of the state, the coffers are… — Naomi Klein
I hate paying taxes. But I love the civilization they give me — Oliver Wendell Holmes
Because when you love something, you want to do it all the time, even if no one is paying you for it. At least that's… — Meg Cabot
One thing I've learned about vampires--they keep pulling new rabbits out of their cloaks. Big, fanged, carnivorous bunnies that'll eat your eyeballs if you're not… — Laurell K. Hamilton
So what am I? I guess I would call myself a sober optimist...If you are not sober about the scale of the challenge, then you… — Thomas Friedman
I had to stop hoping so much that a ship would rescue me. I should not count on outside help. Survival had to start with… — Yann Martel
Timmy, who made a daring escape, also made a mistake of paying the taxi driver with a check made out of toilet paper. — Janet Frame
True justice is paying only once for each mistake. True injustice is paying more than once for each mistake. — Miguel Angel Ruiz
Women. You tell me they're not all witches, and I'll tell you you haven't been paying attention. — Charlie Huston
At the end of the day, no amount of investing, no amount of clean electrons, no amount of energy efficiency will save the natural world… — Thomas Friedman
Personal growth has its price, and she was paying it without complaint. — Paulo Coelho
There is ecstasy in paying attention. — Anne Lamott
Survival lies in sanity, and sanity lies in paying attention...the capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention. — Julia Cameron
James - "Are you paying attention or just trying to make me look like an idoit?" Elizabeth - "Oh, I'm definately paying attention. If you… — Julia Quinn
Along with voting, jury duty, and paying taxes, goofing off is one of the central obligations of American citizenship. — Sarah Vowell

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