Paying Quotes

The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way. (Keanu Reeves)
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them. View quote
Susan Sontag
The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return. View quote
Gore Vidal
No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it. View quote
Alfred North Whitehead
I think the one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention. View quote
Diane Sawyer
Freedom is worth paying for. View quote
Jules Verne
If you can manipulate news, a judge can manipulate the law. A smart lawyer can keep a killer out of jail, a smart accountant can keep a thief from paying taxes, a smart reporter could ruin your reputation - unfairly. View quote
Mario Cuomo
Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work, driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for, in order to get to a job that you need so you can pay for the clothes, car and the house that you leave empty all day in order to afford to live in it. View quote
Ellen Goodman
The citizen who criticizes his country is paying it an implied tribute. View quote
J. William Fulbright
There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry. View quote
Mark Twain
There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible. (Henry Ford)
The trouble with organizing a thing is that pretty soon folks get to paying more attention to the organization than to what they're organized for. View quote
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Women. You tell me they're not all witches, and I'll tell you you haven't been paying attention. View quote
Charlie Huston
You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It's just a matter of paying attention to this miracle. View quote
Paulo Coelho
A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Nothing is boring exept to people who aren't really paying attention. View quote
Michael Chabon
If you're paying attention to your wardrobe, Rudy believed, your mind isn't sufficiently occupied. View quote
Jack McDevitt
Look, we're all the same a man is a fourteen-room house --in the bedroom he's asleep with his intelligent wife, in the living-room he's rolling around with some bareass girl, in the library he's paying his taxes, in the yard he's raising tomatoes, and in the cellar he's making a bomb to blow it all up. View quote
Arthur Miller
Being a survivor doesn't mean being strong - it's telling people when you need a meal or a ride, company, whatever. It's paying attention to heart wisdom, feelings, not living a role, but having a unique, authentic life, having something to contribute, finding time to love and laugh. All these things are qualities of survivors. View quote
Bernie Siegel
Surely there comes a time when counting the cost and paying the price aren't things to think about any more. All that matters is value - the ultimate value of what one does. View quote
James Hilton
I thought in this country, the best social program was a job. Yet minimum wage jobs aren't paying enough to keep families out of poverty. (Barbara Mikulski)
And I have to tell you as a grandmother, I worry about the fact that my grandchildren are going to be paying for all the spending, including military spending, that has gone on and the tax cuts that have come through. View quote
Geraldine Ferraro
People who have been hardworking, tax paying, those people ought to be given an opportunity to be on a track that leads towards citizenship, and if that happened, then they wouldn't be prey to the employers who say, 'We want you because we know that you work for a salary we could not lawfully pay anyone else. View quote
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
My friends are gone and my hair is grey. I ache in places I used to play. And I'm crazy for love but I'm not coming on. I'm just paying my rent every day in the tower of song. View quote
Leonard Cohen
Is the scrupulous attention I am paying to the government of my tongue at all proportioned to that tremendous truth revealed through St. James, that if I do not bridle my tongue, all my religion is vain? View quote
Frederick William Faber