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“A diligent Scholer, and the Master's paid. [A diligent scholar, and the master's paid.]”

Masters Paid Scholar Diligent

Author:George Herbert

“A gift much expected is paid, not given.”

Giving Given Paid Expected

Book:The poetical works of George Herbert

Source: The poetical works of George Herbert

“... it came to me that what I had to do was to take pictures and concentrate upon people, only people, all kinds of people, people who paid me and people who didn't.”

People Kind Paid All Kinds

Book:Dorothea Lange

Source: Dorothea Lange

“people only ever offer you a great deal of money for rubbish. The greater the number of noughts on the cheque, the greater the crapular content of the movie; the better the work, the less you're paid.”

People Deals Numbers Greater Offers Paid Movie Rubbish Cheques

Author:Glenda Jackson

“a writer's first duty is to be clear. Clarity is an excellent virtue. Like all virtues it can be pursued at ruinous cost. Paid, so far as I am concerned, joyfully.”

Firsts Virtue Clear Duty Cost Concerned Paid Clarity Excellent Pursued

Book:Parthian Words

Source: Parthian Words

“[Writers are] the highest paid secretaries in the world.”

World Highest Paid Secretary

Author:Joseph L. Mankiewicz

“society has no qualms about a masseuse who is paid for touching people, or about laborers, or professional athletes or dancers, all of whom make a living with their bodies. Why should we make an exception for sex?”

People Should Body Sex Paid Athlete Dancer Exception Touching Prostitution Laborers Professional Athlete Qualms Qualms About

Book:Mayflower Madam: The Secret Life of Sydney Biddle Barrows

Source: Mayflower Madam: The Secret Life of Sydney Biddle Barrows

“In no other field has the world yet paid so dearly for the abandonment of nineteenth-century liberalism as in the field where the retreat began: in international relations. Yet only a small part of the lesson which experience ought to have taught us has been learned.”

World Has Beens Century Fields Taught Ought Lessons Relation Paid International Liberalism Retreat Abandonment International Relations Nineteenth Century Taught Us Small Parts

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“At last I came to college. I rushed for it with the outstretched arms of youth's aching hunger to give and take of life's deepest, and highest, and I came against the solid wall of the well-fed, well-dressed world - the frigid whitewashed wall of cleanliness. ... How I pinched, and scraped, and starved myself, to save enough to come to college! Every cent of the tuition fee I paid was drops of sweat and blood from underpaid laundry work. And what did I get for it? A crushed spirit, a broken heart, a stinging sense of poverty that I never felt before.”

“Freedom' is the most expensive possession there is; it has to be paid for with loneliness.”

Freedom Loneliness Paid Possession Expensive

Book:The letters of Martha Gellhorn

Source: The letters of Martha Gellhorn

“Every effort is made in forming matrimonial alliances to reconcile matters relating to fortune, but very little is paid to the congeniality of dispositions, or to the accordance of hearts.”

Heart Littles Made Matter Effort Marriage Paid Fortune Disposition Alliances Reconcile Congeniality

Author:Jean Baptiste Massillon

“Why is it immoral to be paid for an act that is perfectly legal if done for free?”

Ifs Done Paid Immoral Prostitution

Author:Gloria Allred

“You hear entertainers all the time, saying, 'If I couldn't get paid for this, I'd do it for free.' When's the last time you ever heard a business person say, 'If I couldn't get paid for being chairman of British Petroleum, I'd do it for free'?”

Ifs Persons Lasts Heard Paid British Last Time Chairman Entertainers Petroleum Business Person

Author:Dick Gregory

“[On the desert:] The wind was a constant, and when you paid attention, it seemed like the earth's own breathing.”

Earth Attention Wind Paid Constant Desert Breathing

Book:My Beloved World

Source: My Beloved World

“It is commonly a dangerous thing for a man to have more sense than his neighbors. Socrates paid for his superiority with his life; and if Aristotle saved his skin, it was by taking to his heels in time.”

Ifs Men Dangerous Skins Paid Neighbor Saved Heels Superiority Dangerous Things

Author:Christoph Martin Wieland

“The liberation of women from exclusive domesticity did not originate in feminist books, or a war, or a big inflation, although they contributed to its progress. The rising enrollment of women in the paid labor force is a straightforward consequence of the industrial revolution of two hundred years ago.”

“Every action has equal and opposite reaction. This is law of the universe and spares none. Wrong done and injustice inflicted is paid back in the same coin. No one has escaped justice of the universe. It is only a matter of time.”

Matter Done Action Law Universe Justice Equal Opposites Paid Injustice Karma Reactions Spares Coins Matter Of Time

Author:Anil Sinha

“What I can say now about paid DLC is that we aren't working on anything at the moment. We've put all our efforts into making the actual game. Creating DLC would involve large additional costs and require the involvement of a lot of people.”

People I Can Moments Games Effort Cost Creating Paid Involvement

Author:Masahiro Sakurai

“Ignorant people always suppose that popular writers are wonderfully well-paid - and must be making rapid fortunes - because they neither starve in garrets, nor wear rags - at least in America.”

People Wells America Paid Fortune Ignorant Rapids Rags Ignorant People

Book:Miss Leslie's Behaviour Book: A Guide and Manual for Ladies as Regards Their Conversation; Manners; Dress; with Full Instructions and Advice in Letter Writing [!]; Receiving Presents; Incorrect Words

Source: Miss Leslie's Behaviour Book: A Guide and Manual for Ladies as Regards Their Conversation; Manners; Dress; with Full Instructions and Advice in Letter Writing [!]; Receiving Presents; Incorrect Words

“Horace Dinsmore was, like his father, an upright, moral man, who paid an outward respect to the forms of religion, but cared nothing for the vital power of godliness.”

Men Form Religion Father Moral Paid Godliness Power Of God

Book:ELSIE DINSMORE Complete Collection – 28 Timeless Children Classics in One Premium Edition: Elsie Dinsmore, Elsie's Holidays at Roselands, Elsie's Girlhood, Elsie's Womanhood, Elsie Yachting with the Raymonds, Elsie's Motherhood, Christmas with Grandma Elsie…

Source: ELSIE DINSMORE Complete Collection – 28 Timeless Children Classics in One Premium Edition: Elsie Dinsmore, Elsie's Holidays at Roselands, Elsie's Girlhood, Elsie's Womanhood, Elsie Yachting with the Raymonds, Elsie's Motherhood, Christmas with Grandma Elsie…

“The middle classes shouldn’t be getting tax cuts, while those in tough, poorly paid jobs, who are already running out of money at the start of the month, are getting their benefits cut. That’s not one-nation conservatism; it’s two nations conservatism.”

Two Running Jobs Nations Class Cutting Middle Months Taxes Benefits Tough Paid Middle Class Conservatism Tax Cuts Two Nations

Author:Tim Montgomerie

“Mum did a lot of commercial theatre and farces in the 1980s and '90s to make sure the school bills were paid.”

School Paid Bills Theatre Mum Farce

Author:Benedict Cumberbatch

“We [women] are the majority of the population, majority of the electorate, majority of the workforce... and yet we're still doing majority of family unpaid or low paid labor. And we live longer. Our stuff is not "special interest" stuff. Our stuff is the stuff of the future, of the whole.”

Stills Whole Stuff Interest Special Lows Labor Paid Majority Population Special Interests Workforce Electorate

Author:Ai-jen Poo

“Video games paid for my house. What am I saying? Go ahead and keep playing!”

Games House Paid Video

Author:Ernest Cline

“If actors are making a little film with me at 2am in Nashville, they're not doing it to get paid. They're doing it because there's something special about the characters, which helps the film become more interesting.”

Ifs Littles Character Helping Film Actors Interesting Special Paid Something Special Nashville

Author:Dito Montiel

“My wife and I were poor when I started but we struggled along until things happened for me in my thirties. I knew I was doing what I loved even if I wasn't getting paid for it, so I think I'd still be doing it.”

Ifs Thinking Stills Poor Wife Happened Paid My Wife Things Happen

Author:Denis Leary

“When I cook, I generally stick with what I know, what I'm comfortable with, and what I feel I've paid my dues learning, and am good at.”

Knows Feels Comfortable Paid Sticks Dues Cooks

Author:Anthony Bourdain

“I would say the three stages of making a film are the initial 'are we gonna do this,' 'how much will I be paid,' is there a lot of nights, who's it going to be with? The second stage of doing a film is how much fun your going to have doing it. The third stage is was the film a hit?”

Film Night Three Fun Stage Thirds Paid Initials

Author:Steve Martin

“I raced because I was paid to do a job and I felt like I had to do the job. Number two: I raced because I loved the process, I loved training, getting ready for the race, I loved all of that. And number three I raced for my memories. Regardless of what somebody wants to give or take away, you can't take my memories.”

Want Giving Two Jobs Three Felt Process Memories Numbers Race Ready Training Paid Number Three

Author:Lance Armstrong

“I'm the most mellow person offstage. I think it's just, going onstage lets me get out some frustration that I'm too shy to do in real life. Instead of doing it in private, I'd rather do it in front of 1,000 people who've paid $25 to see me lose my mind.”

People Thinking Mind Persons Real Loses Fronts Let Me Paid Real Life Frustration Shy Mellow

Author:Zach Galifianakis

“I normally don't initiate conversations with guys unless they want to talk about certain things - when I'm at the facility, I'm there to play football. If you want to talk about the meaning of life, games, whatever, I'm more than happy to, but when I'm in that building, I'm being paid to play football. Conversely, when I'm not at the facility, that's my life to live.”

Ifs Want Play Guy Certain Games Building Football Conversation Paid Meaning Of Life Facility Initiate

Author:Chris Kluwe

“a man can break God's laws and be forgiven. That's what they teach us. But when he breaks Nature's laws, there's no forgiveness - and there's no escape. Sooner or later he pays the penalty, or his children pay it - or his children's children. It doesn't matter much. It must be paid.”

Men Children Matter Earth Law Nature Pay Teach Break Environment Paid Sooner Or Later Penalties Forgiven No Forgiveness

Book:The Stone Field

Source: The Stone Field

“I thought I was going to make crazy cartoons for the rest of my life. I didn't think I'd ever get paid for it, didn't think I drew well enough, but I knew it made me happy.”

Thinking Wells Made Enough Crazy Paid Cartoon

Author:Matt Groening

“" many seemingly independent businessmen or craftsman are more or less well paid retainers of larger corporations, such as the cobbler, operating a United States shoe machine or an automobile dealer holding a license of the General Motors Corporation."”

Wells States United United States Machines Paid Independent Shoes Corporations Businessman License Motor Automobile Dealer Craftsman General Motors Cobblers Retainers

Author:Paul A. Baran

“I get paid to ask questions I don't know the answers to and to complain about the things that bother me.”

Knows Asks Answers Paid Complaining Bother

Author:Jack Cafferty

“I am sick of war. Every woman of my generation is sick of war. Fifty years of war. Wars rumored, wars beginning, wars fought, wars ending, wars paid for, wars endured.”

Years War Generations Sick Paid Fifty My Generation

Book:The Inland Island

Source: The Inland Island

“In the past few months, I've become convinced of one thing: If I were a man, I'd be paid more.”

Ifs Men Past One Thing Months Paid Convinced

Author:Judy Greer

“In the years that Ive seen concerts, when Ive paid to see somebody I want to see, there would be a certain amount of songs Id want to hear. So whether its stuff I want to play every night or not - or stuff Ive been playing for years or stuff you get tired of playing - you have to play what people pay for and make it fair for them.”

People Want Years Play Would Be Night Certain Song Stuff Pay Amount Fairs Paid Tired Concerts Every Night

Author:Toby Keith

“The most fun is getting paid to learn things.”

Author:Diane Sawyer

“My dad was a businessman, and he would say, 'Work for free at the best company. Don't get paid a lot of money to work with the worst people.' And that's exactly how I see my career.”

People Company Careers Worst Dad Paid My Dad Lots Of Money Businessman Best Company

Author:Topher Grace

“I was essentially paid to perpetuate the myth that we are all, or should at least try to be, 17 and a size 2 forever.”

Should Trying Forever Paid Size Myth

Author:Carre Otis

“I've already got my rent paid, and it's too late in my life for me to go around talking up stuff that I don't like or believe in.”

Believe Stuff Talking Late Paid Too Late

Author:Wilford Brimley

“About this business of being a gentleman: I paid so heavily for the fourteen years of my gentleman's education that I feel entitled, now and then, to get some sort of return.”

Feels Years Return Paid Gentleman Now And Then Entitled Fourteen

Book:Good-Bye to All That: With a Prologue and an Epilogue

Source: Good-Bye to All That: With a Prologue and an Epilogue

“Rarely has a people paid the lavish compliment and taken the subtle revenge of turning its oppressor's speech into sorcery.”

People Taken Speech Paid Revenge Subtle Compliment Oppressors Sorcery

Author:Bill Vaughan

“I think I grew up really fast; I grew up in this really fast-paced business, and I never understood what it meant to take a break or take time off or recover, and I paid for it.”

Thinking Break Grew Grew Up Understood Paid Take Time Fast Paced Time Off

Author:Alicia Keys

“Hell, I ain't paid to make good lines sound good. I'm paid to make bad lines sound good.”

Sound Lines Hell Paid

Author:Walter Huston

“If the studios paid the artists, how would they ever be able to afford the executives?”

Ifs Able Artist Paid Studios Executives

Author:Eric Idle

“My first paid role was my first job out of drama school, which was Just William. It was a BBC TV show. I played Ethel.”

Firsts Shows School Jobs Roles Tvs Drama Paid Tv Shows

Author:Lily James

“How can we know who we are and where we are going if we don't know anything about where we have come from and what we have been through, the courage shown, the costs paid, to be where we are?”

Ifs Knows Has Beens Cost Paid Who We Are

Book:Brave Companions

Source: Brave Companions

“I am always sort of delightedly surprised when someone recognizes me because as far as I'm concerned, I'm just going to work and getting paid to act, and that alone is fantastic; I forget people watch it, too.”

People Forget Watches Concerned Paid Fantastic Going To Work

Author:Kirsten Vangsness