We Pay Quotes
186 quotes by 161 authors
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The linguistic clumsiness of tourists and students might be the price we pay for the linguistic genius we displayed as babies, just as the decrepitude…
— Steven Pinker
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I've always believed that service to others is rent we pay for our time on this planet.
— Tony Curtis
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The grim irony of investing, then, is that we investors as a group not only don't get what we pay for, we get precisely what…
— John C. Bogle
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We say that word [bureaucracy] with such contempt. But it's that contempt that keeps this thing that we own and we pay for as something…
— Jennifer Pahlka
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The gurus come from the sickliest nation on earth to tell us how to live. And we pay them for it.
— Edward Abbey
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Since our awareness of others is considered our duty, the price we pay when things go wrong is guilt and self-hatred. And things always go…
— Nancy Chodorow
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We bring about a world in consciousness that is partly what is given, and partly what we bring, something that comes into being through this…
— Iain McGilchrist
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The price we pay for the complexity of life is too high. When you think of all the effort you have to put in -telephonic,…
— Jean Baudrillard
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Rather than going after our walls and barriers with a sledgehammer, we pay attention to them. With gentleness and honesty, we move closer to those…
— Pema Chodron
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Taxes are what we pay for civilized society
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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We don't pay a whole lot of attention to the Internet until people have played the game - then we pay a lot of attention…
— Shigeru Miyamoto
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Should one be shallow enough to view existence as a system of rewards and punishments, one soon learns that we pay as dearly for our…
— Tom Robbins
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We become what we pay attention to.
— Sue Monk Kidd
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When Turkey buys Iranian oil, we pay for it in Turkish lira... However, it is not possible for Iran to take that money as dollars…
— Ali Babacan
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As we pay our tithing faithfully, the Lord will open the windows of heaven and pour out upon us His richest blessings.
— Carl B. Pratt
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Guilt is the price we pay willingly for doing what we are going to do anyway.
— Isabelle Holland
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Miracles occur all around us, signs from God show us the way, angels plead to be heard, but we pay little attention to them.
— Paulo Coelho
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The richness of human life is that we have many lives; we live the events that do not happen (and some that cannot) as vividly…
— Jacob Bronowski
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COMMENDATION n. The tribute that we pay to achievements that resembles but do not equal our own.
— Ambrose Bierce
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