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You can never make peace with grief, sweetie. You just work out a way to live with the war grief wages in your heart. — Brooke Morgan

We've always been in favor of improved wages for workers. When you have a strong middle class, they want to buy more stuff at Costco. — James Sinegal

The theory of the determination of wages in a free market is simply a special case of the general theory of value. Wages are the price of labour. — Sir John Richard Hicks

Become more valuable to your marketplace at your job. Your job is full of opportunities. Find them! Make more money! — Carlos Roche

We should create an America in which it's - we can - Americans have a better chance to progress wages and job prospects, and we can do that. — Jeff Sessions

Fast food also has a uniquely difficult business structure for workers to achieve better wages and working conditions. — David Rolf

Mick Jagger's fans bought records with their allowances. Sinatra's people bought them out of wages. — Pete Hamill

the wages of empire is myopia — Natasha Trethewey

While prices of goods continue to rise, American worker's wages remain stagnant. — Ed Pastor

Like all wage slaves, he had two crosses to bear: the people he worked for and the people he worked with — Stephen Vizinczey

If the economy is growing, people want to employ more workers. If you hire more labor, wages go up. — Michael Hudson

There is no way of keeping profits up but by keeping wages down ... — David Ricardo

The people we have employed in an undertaking that has turned out badly should be doubly rewarded. — Friedrich Nietzsche

What we must seek is a plan by which the men will receive high wages when the employers are receiving high prices for the product. — Charles M. Schwab

This is a sensible response to employer concerns that the minimum wage is starting to have a damaging impact on competitiveness. — Digby Jones, Baron Jones Of Birmingham

Not even in this world does sin pay its servants good wages. — Charles Spurgeon

The farmer and manufacturer can no more live without profit than the labourer without wages. — David Ricardo

I think we need equal wages which are living wages. — Jill Stein

But what makes wage slaves? Wages! — Groucho Marx

Our praises are our wages. — William Shakespeare

The wages of courage is death, lad, but it's the wages of everything else, too. — Tim Powers

I have long served virtue, And never ta'en wages of her. — John Webster

It stands to reason: Higher wages means higher loyalty and morale, which means higher productivity, which means a more profitable business. — Thomas Perez

What is the world coming to when you get a red card and get fined two weeks' wages for calling a grown man a wanker? — Paul Gascoigne

A thought crossed his mind: How do you make poor people feel wealthy when wages are stagnant? You give them cheap loans. — Michael Lewis

The issue isn't just jobs. Even slaves had jobs. The issue is wages. — Jim Hightower

Inflation usually helps the economy at large, but not the 1% if wages rise. So the 1% says that it is terrible. — Michael Hudson

Women know the damnation of charity because the habit of civilization has always been to throw them cheap alms rather than give them good wages. — Rebecca West

The advance guard in the campaign for peace that America wages today must be the State Department. — Louis A. Johnson

Average real wages in Mexican manufacturing are lower than they were 10 years ago, if you can believe that. — Stephen F. Lynch

If a parsley farmer is sued, can they garnish his wages? — George Carlin

Businesses should no longer be allowed to depress wages by hiring illegal labor and then falsely claim that Americans don't want to do the jobs. — Dana Rohrabacher

Wages cannot be considered as a gift, because they are due to work, but God has given free grace to all men by the justification of faith. — Hilary Of Poitiers

All wages are based primarily on productive power. Anything else would be charity. — Elbert Hubbard

Yet internally, poverty, the proletariat, wages, education, — Victor Hugo

One can repent of a sin and have done with it; but the wages of foolishness is the eternal recalling of it. — Jetta Carleton

Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages. — Terry Pratchett

Imagination is pure potentiality for creation. We shouldn't submit it to the hourly wages we subject our time at work. — Carlos Roche

I did discover that if you're interested in low wages, a bookstore ranks below retail clothing sales, except the hours are worse. — Sue Grafton

Good wages are pro business, since they reduce turnover, increase morale, produce better-skilled employees, and improve productivity. — Jim Hightower

Do what you like to do so well that someone will pay you wages for it. — Val Kilmer

The caretaker needs to be taken care of, in wages and benefits. Not enough emphasis is put on the importance of these caretakers. — Chad Urmston

I have read all that has been written by the gravest authorities on political economy on the subject of rent, wages, taxes, tithes. — Robert Peel

What men of science want is only a fair day's wages for more than a fair day's work. — Thomas Huxley

A day's pay for a day's work is more than adequate when both the work and the pay are appreciated as much as they are expected. — Cullen Hightower

for God's work is its own wages, and there is a present reward of obedience in obedience. — Matthew Henry

I don't expect to get a standing ovation from businessmen when I call for higher wages. — Peter Bofinger

It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages. — Henry Ford

Profits are better than wages. — Jim Rohn

Wages are determined by the bitter struggle between capitalist and worker. — Karl Marx

Should men and women receive the same amount of wages for the same kind of work? — Barkham Burroughs

Also consider this: how can you defend paying wages so low that your full-time employees qualify for food stamps, housing assistance and medical? — Marta Tandori

When you hire good people, and you provide good jobs and good wages and a career, good things are going to happen. — James Sinegal

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I will not serve God like a labourer, in expectation of my wages.

Rabia el-Adawia. — Idries Shah

Heaven never defaults. The wicked are sure of their wages, sooner or later. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

I don't want security - to be self-assured - I want to risk my heart in making your portrait and be paid the wages of your devotion ... — John Geddes

Experience takes dreadfully high school-wages, but he teaches like no other. — Thomas Carlyle

Don't reduce your impacts to match what you earn. — Israelmore Ayivor

Increased wages, higher pensions, more unemployment insurance, all are of no avail if the purchasing power of money falls faster. — Bernard Baruch

Since NAFTA was put in place, Mexico has lost 1.9 million jobs and most Mexicans' real wages have fallen. — Stephen F. Lynch

The Wages Of Sin Is Death — Sunday Adelaja

For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 6:23 — Beth Moore

Median wages of production workers, who comprise 80 percent of the workforce, haven't risen in 30 years, adjusted for inflation. — Robert Reich

The fast-food industry is notorious for employing millions of Americans at poverty wages. — David Rolf

Whoever controls work and wages, controls morals. — Susan B. Anthony

We need more good jobs that reward hard work with rising wages, dignity, and a ladder to a better life. — Hillary Clinton

Public employees should have the right to bargain for better wages and working conditions, just like all employees do. — Robert Reich

Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages. — H.L. Mencken

The rise or fall of wages is common to all states of society, whether it be the stationary, the advancing, or the retrograde state. — David Ricardo

Nearly every study shows that competition from cheap foreign labor undercuts the wages of American workers and legal immigrants. — Lamar S. Smith

Paying good wages is not charity at all-it is the best kind of business. — Henry Ford

poorly performing investments, and stagnating or falling wages. At the same time there are, we are told, more billionaires than ever. The rich — Harvey Walsh

If you look at the US economy over the last 15-20 years wages have been stagnating or even declining. — David Korten

Wages for the typical graduate of a four-year college have dropped more than 7 percent since 2000, and — Anonymous

The state of Washington calls tips 'wages.' — Tom Douglas

The household has become the place where the consumption of wages takes place — Ivan Illich

Pay the hired worker his wages before his sweat dries — Hazrat Muhammad P.B.U.H

What's the use you learning to do right when it's troublesome to do right and ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same? — Mark Twain

He that serves well needes not ask his wages. — George Herbert

The wages of sin is debugging. — Ron Jeffries

Listen, if you're a hardworking steelworker or truck driver, that drives down your wages. That takes away your jobs. — Ted Cruz

Wages are a direct consequence of estranged labor, and estranged labor is the direct cause of private property. — Karl Marx

There must be a major economic recovery package which puts Americans to work at decent wages. — Bernie Sanders

Global markets have a much bigger effect on prices and wages in the U.S. and elsewhere than they did before. — Kenneth Rogoff

It is not how much you are paid that matters. But how much you get done that is most important. — Lailah Gifty Akita

If workers struggle for higher wages, this is hailed as "social gains", if businessmen struggle for higher profits, this is damned as "selfish greed". — Ayn Rand

Since Bush has been in office, African-American women have fallen behind in terms of income and wages. — Donna Brazile

Wal-Mart has always paid low wages, or, as Sam Walton put it, 'as little as we could get by with at the time.' — Bill Dedman

The global equalization of wages and the exponential growth in technology has created a job-killing machine that's only going to get worse. — Jeff Greene

Much of the beauty that arises in art comes from the struggle an artist wages with his limited medium. — Henri Matisse

For poets the wages of sin are poverty. — William Logan

We can't continue to look on, when there are entire sectors where there are wages that don't provide a secure livelihood. — Matthias Platzeck

I want to make sure that the American worker has an opportunity to see their wages rise and their incomes increase. — Rick Santorum

The wages Haiti requires by law belong in the department of science fiction: actual wages on coffee plantations vary from $.07 to $.15 a day — Eduardo Galeano

The higher the wages the fewer the jobs; the lower the wages the more the jobs. — James Cook

But no customer is going to buy based on their existing wage structure. — David D. Cole

You pay more in wages, get more in in tax, you get people living a higher standard, you get more money. It's a kind of circle. — Jeremy Corbyn

The wages of pedantry is pain. — Carroll O'Connor

The anarch wages his own wars, even when marching in rank and file — Ernst Junger

Sin has the devil for its father, shame for its companion, and death for its wages. — Thomas Watson