#pay

There are criminals who are drug users, but most addicts are criminals only by virtue of prohibition or from resorting to crime to pay inflated black market prices. ↗

— Danny Sugerman

#crime #criminals #inflated #market #most

The necessity of every one paying in his own labor for what he consumes, affords the only legitimate and effectual check to excessive luxury, which has so often ruined individuals, states and empires; and which has now brought almost universal bankruptcy upon us. ↗

— Josiah Warren

#almost #bankruptcy #brought #check #consumes

I've been paying alimony since I was 14 and child support since 15. That's a joke, but not by much. ↗

— Don Adams

#been #child #child support #i #joke

Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion. ↗

— Scott Adams

#behind #better #defines #humans #irrational

I see this as my humanitarian legacy. We're prepared to pay billions. ↗

— Sheldon Adelson

#humanitarian #i #i see #legacy #pay

To do what we are doing in this budget to our children, cutting their health care funds, decreasing opportunity, simply so we can pay for tax cuts and a war in Iraq is beyond belief, and we need to reverse it. ↗

— Tom Allen

#beyond #budget #care #children #cuts

Definition of 'Free': You pay for it whether or not you elect to receive it. ↗

— Aaron Allston

#elect #free #pay #receive #whether

If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#gun #his #horse #i #lessons

Unfortunately, no matter how frivolous the lawsuit, you still, of course, have to pay people to defend you on it. ↗

— Kelly Ayotte

#defend #frivolous #how #lawsuit #matter

The personality problem is so tough when you're not able to pay people. It's bad enough when you can pay people, but, when you have people working for free, often their motivation is diminished considerably. ↗

— John Badham

#bad #considerably #diminished #enough #free