Underpaying Quotes & Sayings

The core of racism is the notion that the individual is meaningless and that membership in the collective - the race - is the source of his identity and value ... The notion of 'diversity' entails exactly the same premises as racism - that one's ideas are determined by one's race and that the source of an individual's identity is his ethnic heritage. — Peter Schwartz

I usually write from my own experience, and that's definitely a true statement for me. I think having a song about desiring to live and wanting to get it right, which many of my songs do, often I have to clarify that I haven't figured it out yet. — Jon Foreman

The tiny focal points of pain still glowed on his nerve endings, like stars coming into view one by one in a dark, bare sky. One by one - in the middle of his buttock, just below his collarbone, on the inside of his thigh - more stars came into focus, each glowing brightly at first before settling into the same intensity as the ones before, slowly forming a constellation. — L.A. Witt

Never fear being vulgar, just boring, middle class or dull. — Diana Vreeland

Sometimes human beings are very much like bees. Bees are fiercely protective of their hive, provided you are outside it. Once you're in, the workers sort of assume that it must have been cleared by management and take no notice; various freeloading insects have evolved a mellifluous existence because of this very fact. Humans act the same way. — Neil Gaiman

Is he using terror to keep away boredom? Does he have to try to destroy something? Even as a last resort, himself? — John Knowles

If Obama learned one thing from FDR, it was that every socialist needs his foot soldiers. — Ben Shapiro

Hills are terrific for running. — Bill Rodgers

But that was last year," I protested as we walked through school on Tuesday, three days before
Halloween. "I'm serious, you know how people are. They forget about things."
"Oh, really?" Roux said, then turned and smiled at a brunette passing us. "Hey, Julia, what's up?
How are things?"
"Slut," Julia responded, and kept walking.
Roux just looked back at me knowingly. "You were saying? — Robin Benway

I think it may be even a bigger story than the internet. You know, it's like saying, 'how big a deal is the internet?' The Chinese middle-class is going to change the world. — James Packer

She (a woman politician) will be challenging a system that is still wedded to militarism and that saves billions of dollars a year by underpaying women and using them as a reserve cheap labor supply — Bella Abzug

The will of the people shall be the law of the land — Robert M. La Follette, Sr.

New Year, the season for changes in positions and advances in salaries, approaches. If you have in your employ some who deserve more salary, do not compel them to go through the unpleasant ordeal of asking a raise, but, rather, voluntarily increase their remuneration. A raise that comes from the boss without asking is worth a lot more than one that has to be gouged out of him. Is it not true that a great many employers who would not dream of overcharging their customers have no qualms whatever about underpaying their employees if the latter will submit without protest? — B.C. Forbes

My mind is turning into kind of a fine gelatinous ball of pepper — Thurston Moore

It's either feast or famine, and that's the way it's been for as long as I can remember. I've spent my whole career thinking I'll never work again. Every actor lives with that insecurity. You just have to negotiate the rapids as they come. — Amanda Donohoe

My best advice is to work out with a buddy. They keep you motivated and get you out of bed. — Heidi Klum

Near this spot are deposited the remains of one who possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence, courage without ferocity, and all the virtues of man, without his vices. This praise, which would be unmeaning flattery if inscribed over human ashes, is but a just tribute to the memory of Botswain, a dog. — George Gordon Byron