Pays Quotes (page 48)

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• hand
• time
• betrayal

My excuse for not lecturing against the use of tobacco is, that I never chewed it; that is a penalty which reformed tobacco chewers have to pay; though there are things enough I have chewed, which I could lecture against. If you should ever be betrayed into any of these philanthropies, do not let your left hand know what your right hand does , for it is not worth knowing. Rescue the drowning and tie your shoe-strings. Take your time, and set about some free labor. Henry David Thoreau

• personality
• personal
• him

Chacko had been a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford and was permitted excesses and eccentricities nobody else was. He claimed to be writing a Family Biography that the Family would have to pay him not to publish. Ammu said that there was only one person in the family who was a fit candidate for biographical blackmail and that was Chacko himself. Arundhati Roy

• attention
• god
• saying

....maybe fear is God's way of saying, "Pay attention, this could be fun. Craig Ferguson

• feeling
• attention
• darcy

Mr. Darcy began to feel the danger of paying Elizabeth too much attention. Jane Austen

• choose
• it is what it is
• things

A thing of worth is what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it. John Ruskin

• missionaries
• get
• missionary

It wouldn't pay to get fresh with a missionary. John Grisham

• greed
• warning
• you

Enter, stranger, but take heed. Of what awaits the sin of greed, For those who take, but do not earn, Must pay most dearly in their turn. So if you seek beneath our floors. A treasure that was never yours, Thief, you have been warned, beware. Of finding more than treasure there. J. K. Rowling

• die
• miracle
• time

Now is the only time there is. Make your now wow, your minutes miracles, and your days pay. Your life will have been magnificently lived and invested, and when you die you will have made a difference. Mark Victor Hansen

• moments
• meditation
• attention

Meditate. Breathe consciously. Listen. Pay attention. Treasure every moment. Make the connection. Oprah Winfrey

• lies
• hand
• closed

It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand. Audre Lorde

• time
• giving
• him

I remember a time when a cabbage could sell itself by being a cabbage. Nowadays it’s no good being a cabbage – unless you have an agent and pay him a commission. Nothing is free anymore to sell itself or give itself away. These days, Countess, every cabbage has its pimp. Jean Giraudoux

• illness
• bear
• support

Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans, born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage, and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today at home and around the world. Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that... John F. Kennedy

• world
• different
• pay

There is all the different in the world between paying and being paid. Herman Melville

• animal
• attention
• possibilities

It is quite possible that an animal has spoken to me and that I didn't catch the remark because I wasn't paying attention. E. B. White

• gift
• back
• always

It's the first gift that's always the hardest to pay back. Suzanne Collins