Quotes About Payment

But with my last film, Spider it was agony. The money was always disappearing, nobody got paid, it was very difficult - and it's very distracting from the process of making the movie, of course. So I think things have been getting harder and harder.

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 or other we pay for her favors or we go empty away.

Alimony - the ransom that the happy pay to the devil.

Alimony is a system by which, when two people make a mistake, one of them continues to pay for it.

I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both; and I believe they both get paid in the end; but the fools first.

A doctor gave a man six months to live. The man couldn't pay his bill, so he gave him another six months.

Buying a 100,000 yen bond keeps the capital sum safe while also providing regular payments to the saver. To be precise, the bond pays a fixed rate or 'coupon' of 1.5 per cent: 1,500 yen a year in the case of a 100,000 yen bond. But the market interest rate or current yield is calculated by dividing the coupon by the market price, which is currently 102,333 yen: 1,500 ÷ 102,333 = 1.47 per cent.

Debts were transferable, hence 'pay the bearer' rather than a named creditor.

the creditor could draw a bill on the debtor and either use the bill as a means of payment in its own right or obtain cash for it at a discount from a banker willing to act as broker.

because friendships that are obtained by payments, and not by greatness or nobility of mind, may indeed be earned, but they are not secured, and in time of need cannot be relied upon; and men have less scruple in offending one who is beloved than one who is feared, for love is preserved by the link of obligation which, owing to the baseness of men, is broken at every opportunity for their advantage; but fear preserves you by a dread of punishment which never fails.

Give a day's work for a day's pay. Anything less is stealing.

All artists deserve compensation for their work, including musicians.

Only 8 percent of large businesses paid taxes in cash, while the rest paid in kind or not at all.

What kind of job you aiming to get? The kind where a man gets paid what he's owed.

here in five minutes." "Sir, you haven't paid them in weeks.

Stipendium peccati mors est.

everything in this world must be paid for, whether in gold, time, or blood. Nothing is without its price.

Konti "leased" most of its personnel from the SS. The texts of several such SS-Konti agreements have survived, and one was entered into evidence at Nuremberg. "Jewish laborers will not receive any payment in cash," reads one 1942 SS-Konti note concerning exploitation of concentration camp inmates in the Ukraine.

There exist beings who, for the sake of obtaining the key to these enigmas, which are, moreover, of no consequence whatever to them, spend more money, waste more time, take more trouble, than would be required for ten good actions, and that gratuitously, for their own pleasure, without receiving any other payment for their curiosity than curiosity.

AFTER TEN HOURS OF hard labor beneath a hot sun, Elsa climbed down from the truck. She had her work chit in one gloved hand. It wasn't worth much, but it was something. The company store charged the camp residents ten percent to convert the chit to credit, but they couldn't cash it anywhere else; if they wanted cash instead of credit, they had to pay interest. So, in point of fact, as little as they were paid, it was really even ten percent less.

Una persona, en la sociedad, desempeña una determinada función de acuerdo con su capacidad. Y el dinero es la recompensa. Ahora, piensa en una persona que tenga la facultad de enamorarse de alguien. ¿Qué habría de malo en que le pagasen si esa persona se enamorara valiéndose de las facultades que tiene?

May 2022 month's stock market crash is worse than that of March 2019 and still 7 days to go of this month, yet there is no uproar in the news channels and no tweets for this because no agency has been paid by brokers for creating shout out

Love potions? For Will Herondale? T'aint my way to turn down payment, but any man who looks like you has got no need of love potions, and that's a fact.

The sofa has to go first. We can put that right in the truck to go to the church." "Is something going on I don't know about? Is the church paying top dollar for old stuff or something?