Quotes About Compensation

of thee/ Pains only in child-bearing were foretold; soon recompensed with joy, fruit of thy womb

They say that crippled men have compensations which make them stronger than the strong. I could wish that you would know and understand that you are the husband and the father of love. The gift you received is beyond the furthest hope of most men. It's not that you should try to excuse or explain. You should—you must—search in your dark crippled self for the goodness and the generosity to receive.

The government paid the family of Richard Nixon $18 million for papers, tape recordings and other materials seized after Watergate.

We compensate for what we don't do internally by projecting and allowing our minds to be marinated in chronic fantasy.

For every tragedy there is a miracle to make up for it, just somewhere else.

As long as men are liable to die and are desirous to live, a physician will be made fun of, but he will be well paid

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

If I have always been so much interested in dreams, is it not because, compensating duration with intensity they help us to understand better what is subjective in love?

such suffering, owed to her, in compensation, the possibility of receiving the strange call which had come to me and which I would never again cease to hear—as it were the promise that something else existed, something perhaps reachable through art, besides the nothingness that I had found in all pleasures, and even in love, and that even if my life seemed so empty, at least it was not over.

Really, I find all that sort of thing too deadly. Listen, it's not always as boring as this at my parties. I hope that you will soon come and dine again as a compensation, with no pedigrees next time," she murmured, incapable both of appreciating the kind of charm which I could find in her house and of having sufficient humility to be content to appeal to me only as a herbarium, filled with plants of another day.

According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another.

The glories of the past compensated for the imperfections of the present.

Our joy is to touch, and conquer souls, and this is the one prize which can bring us a true compensation.

Hatred has its pleasures. It is therefore often the compensation bywhich a frightened man reimburses himself for the miseries of Fear. The more he fears, the more he will hate. - Screwtape

To every disadvantage there is a corresponding advantage.

No evil is without its compensation ... it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss, that troubles us.

For everything you have missed you have gained something else.

The loss of enemies does not compensate for the loss of friends.

It's funny how the music industry is enraged about the Internet and the way things are copied without being paid for. But you know why people steal the music? Because they can't afford the music.

You can get up to a million dollars or more in life insurance in case you die. But can only get about seven or eight bucks an hour to live.

To encourage more top-caliber students to choose teaching, teachers should be paid a lot more, with starting salaries more in the range of $60,000 and potential earnings of as much as $150,000.

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

El amor es uno de los elementos emblemáticos de la vida. Breve o extendido, espontáneo o minuciosamente construido, es de cualquier manera un apogeo en las relaciones humanas. Curiosamente, hasta en su controvertida obra, Schopenhauer no puede evitar una constancia esperanzada: «El amor es la compensación de la muerte; su correlativo esencial». Lo rescaté como epígrafe para esta antología.

Submission is the art of compensating for your weakness by playing to each other's strengths.