Quotes About Compensation

For every gift, there is a cost. For every cost, there is a gift.

I would argue that, over the last 40 years, as a higher proportion of parents' time in two-parent families has been compensated at market rates, parental time overall has become more valuable. Consequently, parents allocate this valuable time differently during their nonworking hours than people did in the past.

If it be true that men of strong imaginations are usually dogmatists--and I am inclined to think it is so--it ought to follow that men of weak imaginations are the reverse; in which case we should have some compensation for stupidity. But it unfortunately happens that no dogmatist is more obstinate or less open to conviction than a fool.

Es una justa, equitativa y noble ley de compensación de la naturaleza que, siendo infecciosas la enfermedad y la tristeza, no haya en el mundo nada tan irresistiblemente contagioso como la risa y el buen humor.

It's not convenient," said Scrooge, "and it's not fair. If I was to stop half-a-crown for it, you'd think yourself ill-used, I'll be bound?" The clerk smiled faintly. "And yet," said Scrooge, "you don't think me ill-used, when I pay a day's wages for no

It would come dearer...for when a person comes to grind off poetry night after night, it is but right that he should expect to be paid for its weakening effect upon his mind.

How much of the ugly does it take to substitute for a lack of the beautiful? How many adventure films does it take to compensate for a lack of adventure? How many superhero movies must one watch, to compensate for the atrophied expression of one's greatness? How much pornography to meet the need for intimacy? How much entertainment to substitute for missing play? It takes an infinite amount. That's good news for economic growth, but bad news for the planet.

No hay compensación para una actitud o modo de pensar rebelde. Ninguna cantidad de buenas obras o entrega económica puede compensar la realidad de que usted esté en desobediencia. Lo que cosecha de esta actitud es una continua agitación interior. No hay paz para el corazón rebelde.

There's nothing offensive about this pragmatism. The relationship between money and voluntariness is too complex to be summarized in one or even many paragraphs of a code. Most people wouldn't go to work if they weren't paid, and yet rarely is it suggested that there should be laws to stop them working. Workers in dangerous occupations tend to get paid more: again it is rarely suggested that compensation for risks is contrary to public policy.

The Ward Line paid the lowest possible wages and drove the crew as hard as it could. Ordinary seamen earned $35 a month; firemen, $52; quartermasters, $55; engine-room oilers, $60.

The ship's officers were in a substantially higher bracket. First Officer Warms earned $180 a month; Captain Wilmott, the princely sum of $300 a month. Chief Engineer Eban Abbott's paycheck was $220 a month. For that salary Abbott was expected to keep the engines running smoothly, and play his part in entertaining the passengers, particularly the women on board.

obelisk's symbolic representation of the male anatomy, which shouldn't be overlooked. As my physician wife, who's never shy with talking about body parts, puts it when we walk through old cemeteries packed with firmly erect obelisks, "A lot of men were overcompensating for something around here.

Generally speaking, people are drawn toward intimate relationships either because they are opposites who will compensate each other, or because they are complementary, which means that not only their conscious likes and dislikes line up, but their complexes as well.

If you wanted me to take a shower, you should have payed me ten bucks like you usually do!

I have at times spoken with my peers and the head of the actors' union about why we're not paid when we appear in, say, a 'TMZ' production, but there seems to be no real interest in combatting it.

To me, as I see it, reparations would be something that is fairly specific to the descendants of slaves, and it would also be an official apology from the United States government for slavery.

In India, writers are underpaid. Universities should start new courses to create more opportunities for them.

I feel like we bring in a lot of money to the universities. We put in a lot of work. Some guys don't have enough money to bring their families to the games... so I feel like athletes should be compensated for it.

I want to be paid fairly for the work that I'm doing. That's what every single woman around the world wants.

No pang that is suffered by man or woman upon the earth will be without its compensating effect . . . if it be met with patience.

Women may be whole oceans deeper than we are, but they are also a whole paradise better. She may have got us out of Eden, but as a compensation she makes the earth very pleasant.

When I hear that there are 5,000,000 working women in this country, I always take occasion to say that there are 18,000,000 but only 5,000,000 receive their wages.

Women have helped shape our world, yet still do not receive the recognition and compensation they deserve.

Women get 77 cents on the dollar that men get for the same job.