Payment Quote by Gene Wolfe Download Open image “When a gift is deserved, it is not a gift but a payment.” — Gene Wolfe ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Payment
A gift is acceptable according to what the giver has, not according to what he has not. — John Stott Copy Share Image
A gift involves sacrifice. If you give away something that you no longer value or want, it cannot be a gift. It is simply… — Wayne Gerard Trotman Copy Share Image
A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer. — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
“If you give me a gift, it’d be insulting to pay you, because I’d be denying you the gift of giving. So my gift… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Gifts are not favors. If you expect something in return, it's not a gift. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
A gift isn't a gift unless it has meaning. Just giving things to people, especially children, create the expectation of more things. — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
Some writers say they cannot write in front of a window; many say they cannot function without almost perfect quiet. A writer with only… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
“Sometimes driven aground by the photon storms, by the swirling of the galaxies, clockwise and counterclockwise, ticking with light down the dark sea-corridors lined… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
Ambiguity is necessary in some of my stories, not in all. In those, it certainly contributes to the richness of the story. I doubt… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
“There are beings—and artifacts—against which we batter our intelligence raw, and in the end make peace with reality only by saying, “It was an… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
Science has so accustomed us to devising and accepting theories to account for the facts we observe, however fantastic, that our minds must begin… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
“The experienced feel love or desire, or both. The inexperienced are sick with a thousand feelings, most of them unformed: fearful that they may… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
“For those who have never attended a science fiction convention, masquerades are features of most of the larger ones. Awards are presented for best… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
“He had a wild yellow beard and long, tangled hair that stood out from his head in a way that made it seem too… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
“For after all, if the lives of most men are examined in detail, it will be found that they have been experts of immense… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
You never learn how to write a novel. You just learn how to write the novel that you're writing. — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which... public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours. — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
If there was a payment to the bank due, and we needed shoes, she'd get the shoes, and then deal with them guys at… — Larry Bird Copy Share Image
Tireless passion, fierce jealousy, longing to possess and crush-these alone were left of all his love for Rosalind; these remained to him as payment… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
To give money to a sufferer is only a come-off. It is only a postponement of the real payment, a bribe paid for silence,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Consider a 15- or 20-year fixed-rate mortgage instead of a 30-year, if you can afford the monthly payments - they may not be as… — Suze Orman Copy Share Image
Back in those days, in the fifties and sixties, countries had balance of payment's deficits or surpluses, those were reflected much more than today… — Robert C. Solomon Copy Share Image
Everybody loves to spend money at least some of the time - because everybody loves the stuff you can buy with it. The key… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
Investors, of course, can, by their own behavior make stock ownership highly risky. And many do. Active trading, attempts to "time" market movements, inadequate… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nike store won't accept my Starbucks card as payment. Come on guys, just do it. — Dov Davidoff Copy Share Image
When I was in Philadelphia during the Depression in 1930 or '31, I got a very sad job as a night watchman in a… — Tom Glazer Copy Share Image
True salvation is wholly a work of God. It is said to be both a finished work and a gift, and, therefore, it lays… — Lewis Sperry Chafer Copy Share Image
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