Everybody pays lip service to the safety of the aeroplane, but nobody is prepared to pay for it.
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TOM ROBBINS I have to pay the bills just like everybody else, but it also pays my soul to work.
KATHY BATES Everybody wishes to know, but nobody is ready to pay the price.
VIKRANT PARSAI Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
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PATRICK LENCIONI May I never neither turn left nor turn right in my journey of life, but may I go straight to Christ ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine."
The Q...
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GARY F EVANS... When I was a kid it was big news when someone flew around the world in a little aeroplane, but nobod...
GARY NUMAN My life is not mine - it is for my people – the humans – the humans of the thinking society.
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NEVIL SHUTE I never was in such a horrid office . . . It's not very nice to be where people are being swindled a...
NEVIL SHUTE She lived in the dream world of unreality, or else she would not admit reality; he did not know. In ...
NEVIL SHUTE You cannot argue stupidity, you just have to accept it patiently as one of those things.
NEVIL SHUTE It's not the end of the world at all," he said. "It's only the end for us. The world will go on just...
NEVIL SHUTE It pays to be honest, but it's slow pay
PROVERB The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The love you get, is equal to the love you give.
BEN OAK I don't like to pay lip service. I don't frankly like to talk about stuff.
BRUCE RAUNER Time determines the occurrence of possibilities and impossibilities, but God determines the time for...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I don't define lust as anything evil or nasty. Lust as defined by me, is the feeling of desire: a de...
C. JOYBELL C. Congratulations, to the people which made gotham series, still need some more and extra work!
DEYTH BANGER To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world...
GARY F EVANS... The first and foremost human right or fundamental right is the right to exist.
APURVA GAGLANI If we ever put research into what the subconscious is we could probably come to the conclusion that ...
GARY F EVANS... i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g...
SIMI GREWAL Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.
KIN HUBBARD Honesty pays, but it don't seem to pay enough to suit some people.
KIN HUBBARD I am no God. I am no Messiah. I am no divine incarnation. I am but a human in the service of humans.
ABHIJIT NASKAR Unfortunately, research institutions and universities have not taken this issue seriously. They pay ...
ADIL SHAMOO The horse is prepared against the day of battle, but safety is of the Lord.
BIBLE A lot of people out there pay good lip service to the idea of personal freedom... right up to the po...
NEAL BOORTZ Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it?...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY A lot of lip service gets paid to being honest, but no one really wants to hear it unless what's bei...
COLIN QUINN If you want to marry me, here's what you'll have to do:
You must learn how to make a perfect ch...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN I have a dream, I have a vision, I have a mission, I have to do something, I will do this at this ti...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give...
JAMES C. DOBSON The king may rule the kingdom, but it's the queen who moves the board.
D.M. TIMNEY We're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive. It's pretty dense kid...
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JACQUE FRESCO We'd like to see the company put up for sale, ... VISX [management] is giving lip service to a sale.
CARL ICAHN Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.
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NEAL BOORTZ Celebrities like to pay lip service to causes but rarely do so by putting their lives in peril. And ...
ANDREW BREITBART Even with a slightly larger Shute, Everett will still have less than the 1 square foot of library sp...
DEBORAH ABRAHAM The cost of living is dying, everybody pays.
UNKNOWN Tell your story to the universe and Let your actions speak LOVE.' No matter what it is.
NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO The saying sell all your belongings & give to the poor simply means "Redirect your mind to the verit...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Life can only be understood looking backward. It must be lived forward.
ERIC ROTH You're afraid of getting hurt like I'm afraid to die. It doesn't mean I'm not going to live every da...
VI KEELAND Wesley Rush doesn't chase girls, but I'm chasing you.
KODY KEPLINGER I turn and kick with the first one and feel myself being lifted and thrown towards the beach. It's l...
MARK SMITH What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough ...
DOUGLAS ADAMS One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit o...
DOUGLAS ADAMS The fear of God is the only cure for the fear of people.
CRAIG GROESCHEL The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.
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HELMUT KOHL Wake every morning with the same feeling. Live up high and fly on top of the ceiling. I just know th...
ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES Our troops and the American people need the president to pay more than just lip service to a strateg...
HARRY REID The price we are willing to pay for safety cannot be infinite. It is distasteful to put a price on h...
PETER SINGER Life pays for performance; you get out of it what you pay forward.
SCOTTIE SOMERS Our soul longs to be of service in some way. It's why we are here. If you weren't meant to touch the...
EILEEN ANGLIN God does not pay at the end of every week, but He pays
ANNE OF AUSTRIA The world does not pay for what a person knows, but it pays for what a person does with what he know...
LAURENCE LEE The world does not pay for what a person knows, but it pays for what a person does with what he kno...
LAURENCE LEE They do that for all the employees, ... In some places, the employees pay a portion of their share f...
JUDY ANDERSON They just give lip service to listening.
AL SEVIER The problem is that rap is so often a caricature of its own image. Nobody comes to the table with th...
K'NAAN Judge not lest ye be judged.
THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MATTHEW There’s faith that knows itself as faith, Proyas, and there’s faith that confuses itself for kno...
R. SCOTT BAKKER That's really sad," Beth said softly, "To have no one left.
R.J. SCOTT I think it is important to differentiate between lip service towards something and actually making c...
HOZIER Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everybody agrees that it is old enough to know better.
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JEFF DIXON-THE KEY TO THE KINGDOM Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it
SARA SHEPARD You get to pay for it, ... You guys are going to pay. Nobody wants to turn down the fire department.
POPE JOHN XXIII Again, I am surprised why people seek to eliminate lust and cling to love; as they wish to ignore ha...
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SUNNY DEOL Remember that yours is not the only heart that may be wishing for love.
CAMERON DOKEY The world does not pay for what a person knows. But it pays for what a person does with what he know...
LAURENCE LEE Everybody needs to understand: the safety of our clients, the safety of our community and the safety...
LORI ROSEN Nicolas Cage is the best for taking the role of character Joker. He is pretty damn good at jokes!
DEYTH BANGER Nobody panics when things go “according to plan”. Even if the plan is horrifying!
THE JOKER - HEATH LEDGER A lifestyle is what you pay for; a life is what pays you.
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ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt...
ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank...
ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ...
ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate...
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ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices.
ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag...
ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future.
ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea...
ANDREW TO Those who would give us equal opportunity for everybody are threatened by it. They are afraid to los...
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