{"quotes":[{"text":"When a gift is deserved, it is not a gift but a payment.","author":"Gene Wolfe","tags":["gifts","merit","payment"],"id":17675,"author_id":"Gene+Wolfe"},{"text":"Be willing for purpose; it pays huge returns on investment. And along the journey, those who dis your willing sacrifice(s) will ponder their own foolishness.","author":"T.F. Hodge","tags":["ambitions","aspirations","desires","dividends","dreams","foolishness","gifts","goals","inner-wisdom","investment","journey","payment","purpose","quotes","return","rewards","sacrifices","talent","thinking","thoughts","willingness","willpower"],"id":66576,"author_id":"T.F.+Hodge"},{"text":"Power comes at a price, love,' Veliss replied through bared teeth, maintaining the smile she offered to the townsfolk lining the square.'What power?'All power. The power to rule, to kill, or, in your case this fine morning, the power to incite the lust of the old goat you're about to meet.'Lust? I have no desire to incite lust in anyone.'Veliss turned to her with a quizzical expression, her smile suddenly genuine. 'Then I'm afraid you're in for a lifetime of disappointment.","author":"Anthony Ryan","tags":["afraid","command","conversation","cost","creep","desire","disappointment","fake","funny","goat","incite-encourage","kill","laugh","life","lifetime","love","lust","man","old","payment","people","perv","power","pretence","pretend","price","priest","rule","smile","strength","teeth","tell","townsfolk","truth"],"id":86231,"author_id":"Anthony+Ryan"},{"text":"Nothing good in this world comes free! For everything there’s a payment of time or money or soul!","author":"Kellyn Roth","tags":["christian","historical-fiction","kellyn-roth","novel","payment","series","the-chronicles-of-alice-and-ivy","the-dressmaker-s-secret"],"id":110859,"author_id":"Kellyn+Roth"},{"text":"In it's purest form, an act of retribution provides symmetry. The rendering payment of crimes against the innocent. But a danger on retaliation lies on the furthering cycle of violence. Still, it's a risk that must be met; and the greater offense is to allow the guilty go unpunished.","author":"Emily Thorne","tags":["crimes","guilty","innocent","payment","retaliation","retribution","revenge","revenge-tv-series","symmetry","unpunished","violence"],"id":136531,"author_id":"Emily+Thorne"},{"text":"A salary is a tax employers pay, every four weeks, for putting an employee’s dream on hold.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["dream","dreamer","employee","employer","employment","payment","salary","tax"],"id":137614,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"If you wrote something for which someone sent you a cheque, if you cashed the cheque and it didn't bounce, and if you then paid the light bill with the money, I consider you talented.","author":"Stephen King","tags":["earning","money","payment","professional","publishing","talent","talents","writing"],"id":186982,"author_id":"Stephen+King"},{"text":"Although I’m seldom aware enough to see it, the greater cost regarding that which I possess was not what I paid for it, but what someone along the way sacrificed so that I might have the opportunity to pay for it.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["aware","awareness","cost","gift","giving","opportunity","paid","payment","possess","possessing","possession","price","sacrifice","sacrificial","sacrificing","selfless","selflessness"],"id":247242,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"No price is too high to pay, to be the author of your fate.","author":"Johnathan Jena","tags":["choice","destiny","fate","life","payment","price","sacrifice","writing"],"id":263708,"author_id":"Johnathan+Jena"},{"text":"There are lasting consequences for using drugs. I'll still be paying for my prior use.","author":"Layne Staley","tags":["addicts","alice-in-chains","consequences","drug-addiction","drugs","layne-staley","payment","user"],"id":282071,"author_id":"Layne+Staley"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":23,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}