Quotes of Recompense - somelinesforyou

“ Eight generations of African-Americans are still waiting to achieve their rights - compensation and restitution for the hundreds of years during which they were bought and sold on the market. ”

- Cynthia McKinney

“ The obvious one is compensation. ”

- Richard Powers

“ Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness. ”

- Confucius

“ In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, a woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, "until death doth part… ”

- Emma Goldman

“ I'll follow, as they say, for reward. He that rewards me, God reward him. If I do grow great, I'll grow less; for I'll purge, and leave sack, and live cleanly, as a nobleman should do. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ It seldom pays to be rude. It never pays to be only half-rude. ”

- Norman Douglas

“ I don't think you can look for love. All you can do is get yourself in a situation where you don't discourage something that may be rather nice. ”

- Linda Ronstadt

“ They sing, they will pay. ”

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“ Texas should be afforded the same reimbursement structure as our Louisiana neighbors. ”

- Rick Perry

“ Every professional athlete owes a debt of gratitude to the fans and management, and pays an installment every time he plays. He should never miss a payment. ”

- Bobby Hull

“ I would pay to do what I do if I had to. ”

- David McCullough

“ If he invited you out, he's got to pay. ”

- Beyoncé Knowles

“ For a murderous blow let murderous blow atone. ”

- Aeschylus

“ The world pays knowledge workers far more than it pays manual, industrial workers. And that's what's sweeping over here. ”

- Steve Miller

“ To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living. ”

- William Hazlitt

“ Are you to pay for all you have with all you are? ”

- Edwin Arlington Robinson

“ Every other author may aspire to praise; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach, and even this negative recompense has been yet granted to very few. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense. ”

- Marcus Annaeus Seneca

“ Perhaps women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just recompense for being deprived of idealism. ”

- Germaine Greer

“ There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ A consultant is someone who saves his client almost enough to pay his fee. ”

- Arnold H. Glasgow

“ True charity is the desire to be useful to others without thought of recompense. ”

- Emanuel Swedenborg

“ You are much surer that you are doing good when you pay money to those who work, as the recompense of their labor, than when you give money merely in charity. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers. ”

- Kahlil Gibran

“ The reward of a thing well done is to have done it. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing. ”

- Albert Einstein

“ Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself. ”

- Sir John Vanbrugh

“ It's clear that investors are dissatisfied with the fees they pay and those who aren't should be, given the negative effect high fees have on investment returns. Canadians are looking for clear, competitive and transparent pricing with no hidden fees. ”

- Sandy Wilson

“ There is something utterly nauseating about a system of society which pays a harlot 25 times as much as it pays its prime minister, 250 times as much as it pays its members of Parliament and 500 times as much as it pays some of its ministers of religion. ”

- Harold Wilson

“ On this earth, one pays dearly for every kind of mastery.... For having a specialty one pays by also being the victim of this specialty. But you would have it otherwise — cheaper and fairer and above all more comfortable — isn't that right, my dear contemporaries? ”

- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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