#paying

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#great #great discovery #literary #literary men #literature

I was a pretty disruptive student in class in school. I had a hard time paying attention. I had what they call A.D.D. now, back then I was just a hyper kid. ↗

— John Corbett

#back #call #class #disruptive #had

My head was always bubbling over with facts and it seems to me this had little to do with my paying close attention in school and more to do with my voracious and omnivorous reading habits. ↗

— Eric Allin Cornell

#attention #bubbling #close #close attention #facts

We Hoosiers hold to some quaint notions. Some might say we 'cling' to them, though not out of fear or ignorance. We believe in paying our bills. We have kept our state in the black throughout the recent unpleasantness, while cutting rather than raising taxes, by practicing an old tribal ritual - we spend less money than we take in. ↗

— Mitch Daniels

#bills #black #cling #cutting #fear

The spectacle of a great, solvent government paying a fictitious price for gold it did not want and did not need and doing it on purpose to debase the value of its own paper currency was one to astonish the world. ↗

— Garet Garrett

#currency #debase #did #doing #fictitious

Practically, the desirable situation ought to be one in which any reasonably responsible person willing to accept available employment can find a job paying a living wage within 48 hours. ↗

— William Vickrey

#any #available #desirable #employment #find

I think I'm maintaining the quality, but internally I'm paying for it. ↗

— Gary Larson

#i think #internally #maintaining #paying #quality

It's so hard to express yourself, because swimmers are pretty much paying attention to a black line for hours out of a day. ↗

— Ryan Lochte

#because #black #day #express #express yourself

Why are we outsourcing millions of high-paying jobs to China and India? Why don't we secure the border and stop the country from being flooded with millions of illegal immigrants? These are important questions on the mind of middle class voters all over America. ↗

— George Noory

#being #border #china #class #country

I never had the high-paying job or the company car. It took me over a decade to pay off my student loans. I never had to worry about where to dock my yacht to reduce my taxes. ↗

— Christine O'Donnell

#car #company #decade #dock #had