We bought an apartment building and were going to live off the rent money. We rented to people who were on welfare and a lot of times they couldn't pay the rent. We wouldn't throw them out so we lost the building.
Figures cannot calculate the amount collected by those public and private robbers: it is more than would liberate every slave in the United States; it would pay the British debt! They say, We do not force people to give. I see no difference between forcing a man out of his money, at the mouth of a pistol, and forcing it from by trick and cunning; the crime is the same.
Our promise to our children should be this: if you do well in school, we will pay for you to obtain a college degree.
I am faced with a bruising dilemma: pay to fix the dishwasher or continue serving everything in waffle cones.
A set of Bollywood actresses are coming through Dallas soon in a live tour; I'd pay a lot to see them, but alas, I'm fully booked elsewhere.
The whitewash'd wall, the nicely sanded floor, The varnish'd clock that click'd behind the door; The chest, contriv'd a double debt to pay,- A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day.
Pain pays the income of each precious thing.
Grief is the tax we pay on our attachments.
One of the biggest reasons for higher medical costs is that somebody else is paying those costs, whether an insurance company or the government. What is the politicians' answer? To have more costs paid by insurance companies and the government. . . . [H]aving someone else pay for medical care virtually guarantees that a lot more of it will be used. Nothing would lower costs more than having each patient pay those costs. And nothing is less likely to happen.
A common man, even like myself, I don't know how to pay my taxes.
Those who have safe and secure jobs pay more taxes than those who own the business that provides the jobs
I said, I'm going to stand up and somebody is going to pay attention to me.
The average American family head will be forced to do twenty years' labor to pay taxes in his or her lifetime.
The problem. . . is that most members of Congress don't pay attention to what's going on.
Some folks pay a compliment like they went down in their pocket for it.
Taxes, after all, are dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society.
Humour's the pay-off for all that existential horror.
To say that people would cease to come to California if they would have to pay more taxes is to underestimate the advantages of being in California - mightily.
I'm not the girl to keep all the emotions I have inside. I guess I have to pay lots of fines because that's the way I am.
What's so great is that we're making money for AIDS in Africa. There's a lot of love and spontaneity, we're doing something creative. That's what I love about Red. It's not just a charity, "Give us money, give us money. " It's being innovative. Like here's a show that you won't see anywhere else and you can come and whatever you pay for your ticket it's going somewhere. You can go and buy a pair of Armani shades, like Bono, but the money goes to Africa. It's quite cool.
