#pay

Marriage to Fernando offered shelter and security, but the shackle was the price I'd pay. ↗

— Esther Williams

#i #marriage #offered #pay #price

But if Sharon wants to occupy Gaza, let him come. Israel will pay the price. ↗

— Ahmed Yassin

#gaza #him #israel #occupy #pay

In the current law we're seeing Social Security dwindle. And so what we're saying is if we're going to reduce taxes we just want to make sure that there are things within the law that pay for it. ↗

— Kevin Yoder

#current law #going #just #law #make

I was discriminated against because I was Jewish, Italian, black and Puerto Rican. But maybe the worst prejudice I experienced was against the poor. I grew up on welfare and often had to move in the middle of the night because we couldn't pay the rent. ↗

— Philip Zimbardo

#because #black #discriminated #experienced #grew

I just wish moments weren’t so fleeting!' Isaac called to the man on the roof, 'They pass so quickly!' 'Fleeting?!' responded the tilling man, 'Moments? They pass quickly?! . . . Why, once a man is finished growing, he still has twenty years of youth. After that, he has twenty years of middle age. Then, unless misfortune strikes, nature gives him twenty thoughtful years of old age. Why do you call that quickly?' And with that, the tilling man wiped his sweaty brow and continued tilling; and the dejected Isaac continued wandering. 'Stupid fool!' Isaac muttered quietly to himself as soon as he was far enough away not to be heard. ↗

— Roman Payne

#fable #growing-old #hope-and-despair #middle-age #old-age

I remember being unemployed and walking the East Village streets for many years, constantly checking my voice mail on pay phones, hoping for an audition. ↗

— Rainn Wilson

#being #checking #constantly #east #east village

Now I am a writer who can command fairly good payments from magazines with large circulations, I very often refuse to write for them and still write sometimes for small magazines for nothing. ↗

— George Woodcock

#command #fairly #good #i #i am

I'm famous for being nicer to my fans than anyone on the face of the Earth because I figure a) They pay my salary, and b) It's probably like a big moment in your life to meet somebody so I would say, just come on up. ↗

— James Woods

#because #being #big #come #earth

Whether the medium is ready for consumers is better judged by those consumers. I sometimes read online - but not often. The stigma is attached to pay scales. Much online publication is no pay or small pay. ↗

— Gene Wolfe

#better #consumers #i #judged #medium

May a man live well-, and long-enough, to leave many joyful widows behind him. ↗

— Roman Payne

#funny #humor #humour #living #men