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Quotes About Payment

I doing casual labor by the day. They wouldn't pay you until the next morning. There was a bar that would cash your check if you bought a beer first. A lot of guys never left until they'd drunk up all their money.
~ Fred Ward
Funny thing about payment is that it isn't the buyer of the goods or services that gets to set it. It's the seller. That's me.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Who is going to pay a day's wage to slide down a damn tongue?" -- The Chief, Swamplandia
~ Karen Russell
Society has made it so I have to get paid in order to do basic things like eat and be indoors and not be naked. Once that's happened, morality's bound to get slippery.
~ karin lowachee
Per Diem 10 dites/day Visitors' Card 75
~ Karl Schroeder
That'll be one gold coin per passenger," he said. "Living gods, hand the coin directly to me. Dead mortals, have a relative slip it under your tongue.
~ Kate McMullan
Imagine getting to be one of those people who actually gets paid to talk about literature. He'd do this for free, not that he wants his publisher to know that.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
She was paying him for his ears and his experience, not for his lessons and he was coming to the conclusion that she was paying him too much, that perhaps he should have been paying her, for he was more her student than she had ever been his.
~ Gael Baudino
in money. They pay us in coupons.
~ Brett Helquist
Everything comes with a price. Everything. Some things just cost more than others.
~ Brom
Gavin did not enjoy his hard work. The optimistic startup guys sending in these crazy proposals were guys who enjoyed their work. Gavin had the solid, old-fashioned idea that work should be painful, so that people would pay you for doing it. If the "work" was fulfilling, then work was a form of entertainment. The workers should be paying people for being entertained.»
~ Bruce Sterling
The act of paying is perhaps the most uncomfortable infliction that the two orchard thieves entailed upon us. But being paid,— what will compare with it? The urbane activity with which a man receives money is really marvellous, considering that we so earnestly believe money to be the root of all earthly ills, and that on no account can a monied man enter heaven. Ah! how cheerfully we consign ourselves to perdition!
~ Herman Melville
But being paid,— what will compare with it? The urbane activity with which a man receives money is really marvellous, considering that we so earnestly believe money to be the root of all earthly ills, and that on no account can a monied man enter heaven. Ah! how cheerfully we consign ourselves to perdition!
~ Herman Melville
The act of paying is perhaps the most uncomfortable infliction that the two orchard thieves entailed upon us.
~ Herman Melville
Neste mundo, o pecado que paga a passagem pode viajar tranquilamente e sem passaporte, enquanto que a virtude em um pobre é detida em todas as fronteiras.
~ Herman Melville
Again, I always go to sea as a sailor, because they make a point of paying me for my trouble, whereas they never pay passengers a single penny that I ever heard of.
~ Herman Melville
En este mundo, compañeros, el Pecado, si paga el viaje, puede ir libremente, y sin pasaporte, mientras que la Virtud, si es pobre, es detenida en todas las fronteras.
~ Herman Melville
There is all the difference in the world between paying and being paid. The act of paying is perhaps the most uncomfortable affliction that the two orchard thieves entailed upon us. But being paid - what will compare with it? The urbane activity with which a man receives money is really marvelous, considering that we so earnestly believe money to be the root of all earthly ills, and that on no account can a monied man enter heaven. Ah! how cheerfully we consign ourselves to perdition!
~ Hermann Melville
I went back to one of the motels, went into the office, turned on the light, picked a key off the desk and located a cabin by myself. The next morning it took me 20 minutes to find somebody to pay—and then I was told I wouldn't be welcome there in the future because my car had a license plate from Louisville. They don't care much for city boys, specially when they're roamin' around late at night.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
Mr Scaramanga looked up at him under lizard eyelids. 'No. If you figure the evening's not going so good, make it go better. That's what you're being paid for. You act as if you know Jamaica. Okay. Get these people off the pad.' It was many years since James Bond had accepted a 'dare'.
~ Ian Fleming
We should make it so that young people pay their fair share for health care, and nothing more. And instead of Washington telling us what to buy, let's get back to letting every American choose the plan that's best for them and their family.
~ Aaron Schock
What I love about YouTube is that you don't need brands to pay you, because you get paid off the views. When I put effort into YouTube, I directly see money back.
~ Jake Paul
I used to think there was something dirty about being paid for something which is a sacred thing to do. I can't disconnect the act of writing music from the act of prayer. If anyone tries to stop me working, it feels like someone is trying to stop me from taking communion.
~ John Tavener
The real problem was not the troops; the real problem was that only the United States had the infrastructure to do the transport of troops with big planes, and then who will pay?
~ Boutros Boutros-Ghali