#paid

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

There wasn't a rich father or rich family that paid for everything that I have right now, so I worked my way. ↗

— Marat Safin

#family #father #i #now #paid

We have that illusion that we are 'deciding' what to make a character do, in order to 'convey our message' or something like that. But, at least in my experience, you are often more like a river-rafting guide who's been paid a bonus to purposely steer your clients into the roughest possible water. ↗

— George Saunders

#bonus #character #clients #convey #deciding

The most fun is getting paid to learn things. ↗

— Diane Sawyer

#getting #learn #most #paid #things

If I got paid, it was no more than five dollars a column, and I still think I was overpaid. ↗

— Dick Schaap

#dollars #five #got #i #more

I never paid much attention to being Jewish when I was a kid. In fact, I'd say my religion was more surfing than Judaism - that's what I spent most of my time doing. ↗

— Julian Schnabel

#being #doing #fact #i #in fact

By working hard we could make an average of about $5 a week. We would have made more but had to provide our own machines, which cost us $45, we paying for them on the installment plan. We paid $5 down and $1 a month after that. ↗

— Rose Schneiderman

#after #average #cost #could #down