#paid

While we enjoy the benefits of living in the greatest democracy in the world, we must be ever conscious of the fact that none of the achievements or freedoms enjoyed in America would be possible without the price that has been paid for by our servicemen and women. ↗

— Mark Kennedy

#america #been #benefits #conscious #democracy

My parents never pressured me to skate. They always said I could quit if I wanted to. They only expected me to skate when they had already paid for the expensive lessons. But, otherwise they said I could do what I wanted to do. ↗

— Nancy Kerrigan

#always #could #expected #expensive #had

It never dawned on me at any particular time of my life that people are paid tremendous money to sing. ↗

— Ben E. King

#dawned #life #me #money #my life

I was paid to read Western economic texts. In a way, the regime paid for their own undermining. ↗

— Vaclav Klaus

#i #own #paid #read #regime

In Fargo, they say, well, that's a job. How well do you get paid? For example, for this book I was written about in Entertainment Weekly, and it was kind of cool because my mom asked me if Entertainment Weekly was a magazine or a newspaper. ↗

— Chuck Klosterman

#asked #because #book #cool #entertainment

There isn't a political price to be paid yet for doing nothing. People need to get upset with President Bush. People need to get upset with their Congressmen. ↗

— Nicholas D. Kristof

#congressmen #doing #get #need #nothing

Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#expect #gratitude #none #ought #paid

The claim made by Team Obama that every dollar in stimulus translates into a dollar-and-a-half in growth is economic fiction. The costs of stimulus reduce future growth. No country has ever spent itself to prosperity. The price of stimulus has to be paid sometime. ↗

— Karl Rove

#costs #country #dollar #economic #ever

Public servants are paid to serve the American people. Do it well. ↗

— Donald Rumsfeld

#american people #paid #people #public #public servants

I think that if people are instructed about anything, it should be about the nature of cruelty. And about why people behave so cruelly to each other. And what kind of satisfactions they derive from it. And why there is always a cost, and a price to be paid. ↗

— Richard Russo

#always #anything #behave #cost #cruelly