Quotes About Payment

The year 845 was a fateful one. The region around the Seine was plundered. Paris, including the town's fortified centre on the Île de la Cité, was conquered and looted on Easter Sunday, 28 March; Charles the Bald paid the Vikings 7,000 lbs of silver to withdraw – the first of many payments to them. The Vikings did not get much joy from their 'heavy-laden ships', however. Their leader Ragnar (who brought back a bar from the city-gate of Paris

The evils of a bad tax are quite sure to be pressed upon the ears of Parliament in season and out of season; the few persons who have to pay it are thoroughly certain to make themselves heard.

To come so low as to beg servants to reveal secrets to you, and to fall lower still by paying for a revelation, is not a crime; it is perhaps not even a dastardly act, but it is certainly a piece of folly; for nothing will ever guarantee to you the honesty of a servant who betrays her mistress, and you can never feel certain whether she is operating in your interest or in that of your wife.

Something in your voice tells me we approach the question of remuneration.

Free must be like a whippoorwill that could fly here and there and settle where it pleased... free could mean to get paid for your work like white folks... free was like the free black boy who... gave her water... if you were free, you wouldn't be whipped." (58)

Redemption' (root p??â) in the Old Testament is fundamentally 'rescue', frequently through the payment of a price

When the country's indebtedness is so colossal and where the budget deficit is so huge, there is a moral obligation on people to pay their fair and reasonable dues.

Most game developers in the United States do not receive extra compensation for extra hours.

I received $100 per week when I started working at the Globe after graduation.

Six years after I wrote the first draft of 'Plan B,' I received my first paycheck as a writer. It included both the $3,000 in deferred option money as well as half the fee for performing the initial rewrite. The amount was scale according to the Writer's Guild guidelines, but a lot, according to me.

I've got to tell you, I haven't received any $500,000 checks lately.

After my dismissal, I received nothing in writing from Cricket Australia, no contact, and no payment at all, not even of my basic leave pay, until I was forced to bring in lawyers to assist in the process.

I'd never been paid for the first Roses LP - it was 2002 before we received any royalties.

When the record company pays you an advance, it is just that - an advance. And it's at worse rates than any bank would charge you to pay them back.

Cost recovery is the polite way of saying, make families pay to educate their children.

I love this game. I love to have fun. You're playing a sport that you've loved since you were a kid, you get paid for it, and even if you're 0-for-20 or 0-for-30, you still have fun.

Hillary Clinton wrote a book. She got paid. I don't understand why I can't.

a pension is a delayed payment for work already done. This is the most fundamental truth about pensions, and it is almost never said.

Do remember that dishonesty and cowardice always have to be paid for.*Don't imagine that for years on end you can make yourself the boot-licking propagandist of the Soviet régime, or any other régime, and then suddenly return to mental decency. Once a whore, always a whore.

He must pay his debts with all the promptness within his power, not purchasing that for which he is unable to pay

but I wish my labors to be fairly rewarded.

if I were permitted to be well fed and not worried, that alone would enable me to pay faster.

What is my purpose? To get paid. How do I accomplish my purpose more efficiently?

however much such loans may temporarily relieve the situation, the Government is still indebted for the amount of the surplus thus accrued, which it must ultimately pay, while its ability to pay is not strengthened, but weakened by a continued deficit.