Quotes about Rent

Church and State are both rent, by the tugging of the demonic and the Divine

Service to others is the rent we pay for our room in Heaven.

I figure if I have my health, can pay the rent and I have my friends, I call it 'content.'

All of which is only to explain how I came by a piece of equipment that most writers have to acquire one way or another: an unusual tolerance, even a preference, for instability. Not that they don't suffer from being unsure of next year's plans or this month's rent. They do. But, unlike many people, they can live with it.

I took a part-time editing job to pay the rent. It was work I could do at home, but when suddenly I was expected to spend two days a week in the office, I quit, bought an ice cream cone, and walked the sunny streets of Manhattan.

Making the landlord and the tenant the same person has certain advantages, as that the tenant pays no rent, while the landlord does a little work.

Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth.

He has a head that is for rent unfurnished.

Any business that wanted to set up shop inside the OASIS had to rent or purchase virtual real estate (which Morrow dubbed "surreal estate") from GSS.

Service is the rent that you pay for room on this earth.

Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth.

New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.