"Tragedy is one of the larger prices we pay for being alive. No one ever sidesteps tragedy. It is always there, shadowing us."
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"It didn't pay to trust another human being. Humans didn't have it, whatever it took."
"every pleasure's got an edge of pain, pay your ticket and don't complain"
"All the businesses from the beginning of history have struggled with product development (assuming there is a market, doing the market testing and so on). But now they start with customer development. Get the customer who says, "Yes. I want that. I need it. I wanna use it. I'll pay for it." And then you go back and work with your engineers. It is changing the world!"
"Led Zeppelin, you can't find a better band to pay homage to."
"Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you."
"Base is the slave that pays."
"If you will not have God (and He is a jealous God), you should pay your respects to Hitler or Stalin."
"Sometimes, you know, once you pay your taxes and once you pay your expenses, once you've lived this life, things add up quickly. And it's easy to become a statistic. And that's something I've always tried to avoid, and I've always said, hey - not that it won't be me, that, hey, it could be me."
"Since then I never pay attention to anything by "experts". I calculate everything myself."
"Anything free is worth what you pay for it."
"Let us serve the world soulfully. The pay we will receive for our service will be in the currency of gratitude, God's gratitude, God the only gratitude."
"It is ten thousand times cheaper to pay the best spies lavishly than even a tiny army poorly."
"No one is going to pay much attention to the person who has no confidence in himself."
"Hospitals must provide emergency treatment to all who walk through the door, regardless of their citizenship status or ability to pay."
"We often pay our debts not because it is only fair that we should, but to make future loans easier."
"No anguish I have had to bear on your account has been too heavy a price to pay for the new life into which I have entered in loving you."
"There is no escape - we pay for the violence of our ancestors."
"I want to be paid for my work, not work for my pay."
"Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe."