Rent Quotes

Activism is my rent for living on this planet. (Alice Walker)
More than ever before, Americans are suffering from back problems: back taxes, back rent, back auto payments. View quote
Robert Orben
As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce. View quote
Adam Smith
Rent is the portion of the earth, which is paid to the landlord for the user of the original and indestructible powers of the soil. View quote
David Ricardo
Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time. View quote
Marian Wright Edelman
Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth. View quote
Muhammad Ali
Buy a business, don't rent stocks. View quote
Warren Buffett
The Tories in England had long imagined that they were enthusiastic about the monarchy, the church and beauties of the old English Constitution, until the day of danger wrung from them the confession that they are enthusiastic only about rent. View quote
Karl Marx
A great pilot can sail even when his canvas is rent. View quote
Seneca
I've had the luxury of owning my own studio, 24 analogue, 48 digital, endless effects, endless hardcore gear, that I don't have to rent, I don't get stuck with the bills, it's all mine. View quote
Billy Sherwood
I've already got my rent paid, and it's too late in my life for me to go around talking up stuff that I don't like or believe in. (Wilford Brimley)
Men did not make the earth... It is the value of the improvements only, and not the earth itself, that is individual property... Every proprietor owes to the community a ground rent for the land which he holds. View quote
Thomas Paine
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
Adam Smith, and other able writers to whom I have alluded, not having viewed correctly the principles of rent, have, it appears to me, overlooked many important truths, which can only be discovered after the subject of rent is thoroughly understood. View quote
David Ricardo
I have already expressed my opinion on this subject in treating of rent, and have now only further to add, that rent is a creation of value, as I understand that word, but not a creation of wealth. View quote
David Ricardo
If the demand for home commodities should be diminished, because of the fall of rent on the part of the landlords, it will be increased in a far greater degree by the increased opulence of the commercial classes. View quote
David Ricardo
for price is everywhere regulated by the return obtained by this last portion of capital, for which no rent whatever is paid. View quote
David Ricardo
If you don't have trouble paying the rent, you have trouble doing something else; one needs just a certain amount of trouble. View quote
Robert Rauschenberg
Well, maybe it was just that I wasn't going to like anybody because I had to work and I had to explain to my teachers why I wasn't keeping up. I'd fall asleep and things in class and they'd lecture me about the reality of their classroom. I said, 'You want to see my reality?' I opened up my backpack to where you usually keep your pencils. That's where I kept my bills... electric bills, rent... That was my reality. View quote
Eddie Vedder
Why couldn't she be part of that family? rent a room in someone else's life. View quote
Kiran Desai
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. (Woody Allen)
Do something you really like, and hopefully it pays the rent. As far as I'm concerned, that's success. View quote
Tom Petty
Notice this rent in my garment; I am at a loss to explain its presence! I am even more puzzled by the existence of the universe. View quote
Jack Vance
I got three letters today telling me that I'm god. Why can't I pay the rent? View quote
Henry Rollins
All rent is based on the monopoly power of private owners of certain portions of the globe. View quote
David Harvey