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Quotes About Pay

Weekends don't pay as well as weekdays but at least there's football.
~ S. A. Sachs
Given all of life's ambiguities and the reality of impermanence and suffering, our existence is remarkable, wondrous. It evokes awe and amazement. We need to pay attention. Really pay attention. Lest we become blind to the awe and wonder that fills our days.
~ Marcus J. Borg
They are boiling with the pressured energy of explosive forces confined in a small space, and with the fervor of all religious movements in their early, purist stages. It is not enough to give lip service and to believe in equal pay: there has to be a conversion, from the heart. Or so they imply.
~ Margaret Atwood
Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell government what they want and their kids pay for it.
~ Richard Lamm
The principle of equal pay for equal work is written in the EU Treaties since 1957. It is high time that it is put in practice everywhere.
~ Viviane Reding
I told her the time to start worrying about a lawyer's fee was after he brought it up: which was a lie. Most people didnt pay them anyhow, I said: which at least was partly true, to a degree.
~ Shelby Foote
Sway's an idiot who didn't order them when we used up the last bunch. (Vik) Isn't that your job? (Devyn) No. I'm the sub-idiot. Sway's head idiot because the company refuses to deal with mechas. Since I'm not organic, they think I can't pay. (Vik) Thanks, Vik. (Devyn) Ever my pleasure to irritate you, sir. (Vik)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
I feel blessed to be in the broadcast business for 20 years. I believe that when you're this blessed, you have an obligation to pay it forward. That's what life is all about ultimately.
~ Tavis Smiley
The great scandal of American life is that we pay for German levels of government without enjoying the related benefits.
~ Kevin D. Williamson
The pay is good and I can walk to work.
~ John F. Kennedy
You see, the Highway to Hell is a toll road. Someone has to pay. And, guess what? It ain't gonna be me.
~ John Geddes
What monster have we here? A great Deed at this hour of day? A great just deed -- and not for pay? Absurd -- or insincere?
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I am half given to think that it pays better than the novel does, in spite of everything. Not that we speak out of golden experience; alas, no! We have had not a sou from our books for a year past, the booksellers being bound of course to cover their own
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
A gentleman does not openly work for pay, does he?
~ Ashley Gardner
I was absolutely astonished and could not believe my eyes at the outrageous interest rates that people in need have to pay to get loans.
~ Theo Paphitis
I like my films to have a certain amount of realism - something that's thought provoking and intelligently written. More than the amount on the pay cheque, I look for a level of respectability as an actor.
~ Arjun Rampal
I just really want to make a good show and make it as interesting as I can, and anything else is kind of above my pay grade.
~ Mark Valley
He soon made himself deeply disliked by many naval officers by his energetic reforming and general meddling, although this was largely to his credit. He wanted to improve the conditions of ordinary seamen, and to increase their pay for the first time since the early days of Victoria's reign, and at the other end he created a naval staff. 'I knew thoroughly the current
~ Geoffrey Wheatcroft
Have you ever wondered why Republicans are so interested in encouraging people to volunteer in their communities? It's because volunteers work for no pay. Republicans have been trying to get people to work for no pay for a long time.
~ George Carlin
The fact that women are paid 73 cents on the dollar for work equivalent to work being done by men is unacceptable in America.
~ John Edwards
It's 2014, and women are still paid less than men. Does this suggest that a gender pay gap is an unfortunately permanent fixture? Will it still be with us in 50 years? I would predict yes. But by that point, it will be men who will be earning less than women.
~ Sendhil Mullainathan
Women are often paid far less than men, while they also perform most of the world's unpaid care work.
~ Sri Mulyani Indrawati
It is not possible that it is God's will that women are making 77 cents on a dollar.
~ Tom Perez
Look, I get it; you come home, you work hard, and you turn on your TV... You kind of want to escape a little bit and be taken away by something. Our show required you to pay attention, and if that's not what you wanted to do, then it wasn't going to be for you, and that's OK.
~ Will Arnett