We Pay Quotes

186 quotes by 167 authors

This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never gives them. In some form… — Amelia Barr
Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him. — Samuel Butler
A retired teacher paid $62,000 towards her pension and nothing, yes nothing, for full family medical, dental and vision coverage over her entire career. What… — Chris Christie
One state retiree, 49 years old, paid, over the course of his entire career, a total of $124,000 towards his retirement pension and health benefits.… — Chris Christie
This country pays a price whenever our economy fails to deliver rising living standards to our citizens - which is exactly what has been the… — Chris Christie
The question taxpayers keep asking is 'why should we pay for services for those who have broken the law to get here?' They should not,… — Michael D. Antonovich
How many times do we pay for one mistake? The answer is a thousand times for the same mistake. The human is the only animal… — Miguel Angel Ruiz
Our dehumanization of the Negro then is indivisible from our dehumanization of ourselves; the loss of our own identity is the price we pay for… — James A. Baldwin
The irony is this: Our bodies react to stress in exactly the same way whether or not we have a good reason for being stressed.… — Howard Martin
In our culture we make heroes of the men who sit on top of a heap of money, and we pay attention not only to… — Max Lerner
Why don't we pay more attention to who our farmers are? We would never be as careless choosing an auto mechanic or babysitter as we… — Michael Pollan
Some people are born into wonderful families. Others have to find or create them. Being a member of a family is a priceless membership that… — Jim Stovall
We pay a high price for intelligence. Wisdom hurts. — Euripides
I strongly oppose cloning, as do most Americans. We recoil at the idea of growing human beings for spare body parts or creating life for… — George W. Bush
We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. — John W. Gardner
Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth. — Nathan Eldon Tanner
There are three kinds of praise, that which we yield, that which we lend, and that which we pay. We yield it to the powerful… — Charles Caleb Colton
Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted, than when we read it in the… — Philip Gilbert Hamerton
The price we pay for our advance in civilization is a loss of happiness through the heightening of the sense of guilt. — Sigmund Freud
Society does not need more children; but it does need more loved children. Quite literally, we cannot afford unloved children - but we pay heavily… — Garrett Hardin

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