Quotes About Rent

By the way, food and rent aren't the only things around here that cost money. You sleep on the couch.

People who can least afford to pay rent, pay rent. People who can most afford to pay rent, build up equity.

Children do not really need money. After all, they don't have to pay rent or send mailgrams.

Money doesn't buy happiness, Gytha." "I only wanted to rent it for a few weeks!

12% of people marry because they are completely in love. 88% of people marry just so they are then liable for only half of their rent.

My mother paid eight dollars a month for rent. When she had it. Mostly we were evicted, because she couldnt afford to pay the eight dollars a month.

Why does Mosley always speak as though he were a feudal landlord abusing tenants who are in arrears with their rent ?

Kindness, quite simply, is the rent we must pay for the space we occupy on this planet.

Rent control has in certain Western countries constituted, maybe, the worst example of poor planning by Governments lacking courage and vision.

Try telling a Cuban: 'You should pay higher rent, or pay for your own healthcare' ... There is no serious opposition to the current government.

And the bikes, why did people think bikes were a good thing? Why were cyclists so smug? Why did cyclists ride on pavements when there were perfectly good cycle lanes? And who thought it was a good idea to rent bicycles to Italian adolescent language students? If

Hey listen -- I've proved a lot of things. That's how I pay my rent. Theories and little observations. A puckish remark now and then. Occasional maxims. It beats picking olives, but let's not get carried away.

Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.

I'm damn sure not going to rent a place—what am I, an immigrant?

Activism is my rent for living on the planet.

It was also the suspicion that I was paying "rent" every time I went out for coffee or a walk, that there was no longer any public space to sit in, that a high charge was always associated with "hanging around"; once again I'd have to buy that unwanted second overpriced spice tea, or hand over another chunk of change for an hour at the indoor play space for my daughter.

When I started go-go dancing on tables for a living, I didn't want to tell my mom or my dad. I made 25 dollars a night, and I was able to make my rent, with the four girls I lived with.

You keep your rent low, which takes some of the pressure off. So when I say 'no,' I mean 'no.' I don't mean, 'Give me more money.' I mean 'no.'

The Paris peace talks kept a roof over my head and food on the table and clothes on my back because if something was said going in or coming out, I had the rent for the month.

A Chicago Department of Public Welfare report in the mid-1920s stated that African Americans were charged about 20 percent more in rent than whites for similar dwellings. It also observed that in neighborhoods undergoing racial change, rents increased by 50 to 225 percent when African Americans occupied apartments that formerly housed whites. The limited supply of housing open to African Americans gave property owners in black neighborhoods the opportunity to make exorbitant profits.

I like to feel that I've paid rent on the piece of earth I'm using.

In a capitalist world, the word capital has taken on more and more uses. . . . human capital, for instance, which is what labor accumulates through education and work experience. Human capital differs from the classic kind in that you can't inherit it, and it can only be rented, not bought or sold.

Rent goes to people who are not creators of value, but predators on the creation and exchange of value.

It's a stealth tax imposed on the exchanges by high-frequency trading, by the cloud itself. A rent.