Top 100 Borrowed Quotes
#2. The seeker says, "I do not know." That takes honesty. The master says, "I do not know." That takes a mystic's mind that knows things through non-knowing. The disciple says, "I know." That takes ignorance, in the form of borrowed knowledge.
Anthony De Mello
#3. This is some sort of joke, isn't it?" asks Hunt, staring at the flawless blue sky and distant fields.
I cough as lightly and briefly as possible into a handkerchief I have made from a towel borrowed from the inn. "Probably," I say. "But then, what isn't?
Dan Simmons
#4. Nothing is mine, I have only nothing but it is enough, it is beautiful and it is all mine. Do I even walk about in my own skin or is it something I have borrowed to spare my modesty?
Katherine Anne Porter
#5. Shorts wager on price declines by selling shares that they have borrowed in the hope of buying them back at far lower prices.
Gary Weiss
#6. Knowing beauty, influence, fame, and privilege to be borrowed rather than bestowed, they are not easily impressed. They are not quick to envy or take offense.
Amor Towles
#7. I toyed with making portraits based on people's discarded shopping lists found on the street, or old diaries bought on eBay, or other forms of borrowed stories. When I stumbled across the Missed Connections listings, I knew immediately I'd found it.
Sophie Blackall
#8. I felt vigorous and cheered by borrowed popularity.
Tracy Kidder
#9. Most men's conscience, habits, and opinions are borrowed from convention and gather continually comforting assurances from the same social consensus that originally suggested them.
George Santayana
#10. A certain awkwardness marks the use of borrowed thoughts; but as soon as we have learned what to do with them, they become our own.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#11. I borrowed a hammer and the garage and disposed of both phones. I was pretty sure that I could have just pulled the batteries, but pretty sure wasn't good enough, so I used a hammer.
Patricia Briggs
#12. The reason why borrowed books are seldom returned, is that it is easier to retain books themselves than what is inside of them.
Gilles Menage
#13. You were, are
cactus tourism.
meeting you: granular
fractals borrowed from oceans.
Virginia Petrucci
#14. 'Helter-Skelter' was the motive for the murders. Manson borrowed that term from a Beatles song on the 'White Album.' In England, helter-skelter is a playground ride. To Manson, helter-skelter meant a war between whites and blacks that the Beatles were in favor of.
Vincent Bugliosi
#15. Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.
Samuel Rutherford
#16. it wasn't so much the companies' strategies that bled them dry as it was the billions of dollars they had borrowed to put their strategies into action.
Paddy Hirsch
#17. When I was a boy, my family took great care with our snapshots. We really planned them. We made compositions. We posed in front of expensive cars, homes, that werent ours. We borrowed dogs. Almost every family picture taken of us when I was young had a different borrowed dog in it.
Richard Avedon
#18. You must take risks, both with your own money or with borrowed money. Risk taking is essential to business growth.
J. Paul Getty
#19. I've got a bike. You can ride it if you like. It's got a basket, a bell that rings and things to make it look good. I'd give it to you if I could, but I borrowed it.
Syd Barrett
#20. Filipinos are not worse than any other colonized people except that our colonization was a little longer, and the independence movement was always dictated in political terms, never in social ones. We borrowed terms, but we didn't understand them.
Ferdinand Marcos
#21. I had been an abject fan of Robert Stone since the early eighties, when I borrowed a copy of 'A Flag for Sunrise' to read on a plane to Rome. I was twenty-something, with a first novel under my belt.
Madison Smartt Bell
#22. It was a debt that Peter could never fully repay: the debt of borrowed courage.
Justin Cronin
#23. Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music.
Herbie Hancock
#24. As a rule we develop a borrowed European idea forward, and ... Europe develops a borrowed American idea backwards.
Mark Twain
#25. Like most of my friends in school, I was a member of multiple circulating libraries; and all of us, to begin with, borrowed and read the same things.
Aravind Adiga
#26. I have only ever borrowed money for investment. I have been sound money all my life.
Ken Livingstone
#27. Yesterday I did not want to be borrowed but this is the typewriter that sits before me and love is where yesterday is at.
Anne Sexton
#28. I was 16 when I started playing. I borrowed a friend's acoustic guitar, and I had a Beatles chord book. I just taught myself that way.
Britt Daniel
#29. Better to have flamed in the darkness, to have inspired others, to have lived, than to have sat in the darkness, cursing the people who borrowed, but did not return, your candle.
Neil Gaiman
#30. I no longer have a borrowed soul. I no longer have borrowed thoughts or ideas. I no longer speak in a borrowed language.
Mobutu Sese Seko
#31. A work of art wastes away and becomes lustreless in surroundings where it has a price but not a value. It radiates only when surrounded by love. It is bound to wilt in a world where the rich have no time and the cultivated no money. But it never harmonizes with borrowed greatness.
Ernst Junger
#32. I borrowed a lot of money from my parents in the years leading up to the 2000 Olympics, and I worked odd jobs.
Bryan Volpenhein
#33. I feel like my body is borrowed and this life is very temporary.
Beyonce Knowles
#34. Borrowed eloquence, if it contains as good stuff, is as good as own eloquence
John Adams
#35. Whatever you choose to claim
of me is always yours;
nothing is truly mine
except my name. I only
borrowed this dust.
Stanley Kunitz
#36. Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it. At
Cormac McCarthy
#37. Baccarat is a game whereby the croupier gathers in money with a flexible sculling oar, then rakes it home. If I could have borrowed his oar I would have stayed.
Mark Twain
#38. The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use?
Dale Carnegie
#39. I borrowed a guitar at age 16 and taught myself to play because I wanted to write songs.
Adrian Belew
#40. We owe at least this much to future generations, from whom we have borrowed a fragile planet called Earth.
Maurice Strong
#41. My bedroom was filled with reading material: books salvaged from dustbins, books borrowed from friends, books with missing pages, books found in the street, abandoned, unreadable, torn, scribbled on, unloved, unwanted and dismissed. My bedroom was the Battersea Dogs' Home of books.
Christopher Fowler
#42. The story of my billion-dollar business starts like this. I borrowed $1,000 from a friend.
Barbara Corcoran
#43. It [moonlight] had a tentative grip on their shadows, as though the irregular shapes had been borrowed momentarily from the dark expanses left and right.
Scott Wyatt
#44. In the evening I finished reading a book, and because I was feeling so alone, I buried the book on the edge of the forest with a borrowed spade.
Werner Herzog
#45. For that matter, Odysseus himself might have borrowed a trick or two from the rabbit hero, for he is very old and was never at a loss for a trick to deceive his enemies.
Richard Adams
#46. When we reject our origins, we become the product of whatever soil that we find ourselves planted; the colors of our leaves change as we consume borrowed nutrients with borrowed roots and, like a tree, we grow.
Mike Norton
#47. Imagine if you borrowed your parents' car without permission and ran it into a tree, how much better you'd feel if you were incorporated.
Peter Lynch
#49. My courage is nothing but borrowed courage." "Not borrowed," said Mother. "Stored up. In us. Like a bank. We've seen your courage and we saved some for you when you temporarily ran out and needed some of it back." "Cash flow problem, that's all it was," said Father.
Orson Scott Card
#50. It's a funny semantic turn - when someone paints a landscape, no one says they "borrowed" it, only that they painted it.
Joe Bradley
#51. To pay for my father's funeral I borrowed money from people he already owed money to. One called him a nobody. No, I said, he was a failure. You can't remember a nobody's name, that's why they're called nobodies. Failures are unforgettable.
Philip Schultz
#54. No reporter is flying around in borrowed twin-engine airplanes.
Dee Dee Myers
#55. Words can be borrowed but thoughts can never be stolen. You are a born thinker.
Kunal Narayan Uniyal
#56. To substitute judgments of fact for judgments of value is a sign of pedantic and borrowed criticism.
George Santayana
#57. Most men are rich in borrowed sufficiency: a man may very well say a good thing, give a good answer, cite a good sentence, without at all seeing the force of either the one or the other.
Michel De Montaigne
#58. I dreamed of having a Gibson. I had a cheap Kent - you know, a Japanese guitar - and then a Kanora, a Japanese guitar. I borrowed a friend's Harmony for years. To have a Gibson was really, really my dream as a kid.
Alex Lifeson
#59. If you borrowed the very moonbeams for your head-dress, if you were a hundred times more beautiful than my fancy can paint, you would be as nothing to me, - less than nothing, because an object of aversion.
Henryk Sienkiewicz
#60. It was 1953, and I was still at school. I'd borrowed a silent French film from the library for my 9.5mm projector. It was by Jean Epstein, and it was awful. So I rang the library and asked if they had anything else. They said they had 'Napoleon Bonaparte and the French Revolution.'
Kevin Brownlow
#61. It's strange how you're sometimes forced to assume an unsympathetic view of yourself through borrowed eyes.
Thomas Ligotti
#62. Her hands crept around his neck, tangling in his hair to keep him closer, even though she knew that beautiful boys with expiration dates couldn't be held, only borrowed for a time.
Martina Boone
#63. All is a riddle to the man who trails a shadow. For that man walks in borrowed light, therefore he stumbles on his shadow.
Mikhail Naimy
#64. What did the taxpayers get out of the Obama stimulus? More debt. That money wasn't just spent and wasted - it was borrowed, spent, and wasted.
Paul Ryan
#65. Genius is to other gifts what the carbuncle is to the precious stones. It sends forth its own light, whereas other stones only reflect borrowed light.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#66. There is an unearthly, mystical element in Friedman's thought. The mere existence of a stock of money somehow promotes expenditure. But insofar as he offers an intelligible theory, it is made up of elements borrowed from Keynes.
Joan Robinson
#67. Whether brainstormed or borrowed, record each exciting idea onto an index card. You're welcome to fill the index card up completely, or you can simply write the main hook for each idea, before moving onto the next.
Emlyn Chand
#69. I don't save money. Save is a four letter word! I like to borrow money because I can get richer faster on borrowed money. I have what is called retained earnings, so I don't have to save money. If I need money, I will go out and borrow it.
Robert Kiyosaki
#70. If your knowledge of fire has been turned to certainty by words alone, then seek to be cooked by the fire itself. Don't abide in borrowed certainty. There is no real certainty until you burn; if you wish for this, sit down in the fire.
Rumi
#71. With ceremony, with forms of politeness and reassurance, they borrowed the waters of the River and its little confluents to drink and be clean and irrigate with, using water mindfully, carefully. They lived in a land that answers greed with drought and death. A difficult land: aloof yet sensitive.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#73. What if every creative idea that someone has is unconsciously borrowed from that person's experiences in another reality? Maybe all ideas are plagiarized without us knowing it, because they come to us through some cryptic and unprovable reality slippage?
Elan Mastai
#74. Father had borrowed Uncle Gabriel's new carriage so he could take James from Alicante to the Academy, just the two of them. Father had not asked if he could borrow Uncle Gabriel's carriage.
Cassandra Clare
#75. The leaders of Jamestown had borrowed directly from the Roman model of slavery: abandoned children and debtors were made slaves.
Nancy Isenberg
#76. Our philosophy has been to be fiscally conservative, so we can be operationally aggressive. We're not using borrowed money to grow. So we'll put up a store just to get there before the competition. If it doesn't work, we'll close it and lose a little equity. It won't kill us.
Wayne Huizenga
#77. Better to live your life open rather than exist on borrowed time, waiting for the great unmasking.
Kate Jacobs
#78. The book borrower ... proves himself to be an inveterate collector of books not so much by the fervor with which he guards his borrowed treasures ... as by his failure to read these books.
Walter Benjamin
#79. She writes only in pencil, as if the words might need to be revoked--borrowed words, for the most part, plucked out of other mouths...
Dawn Tripp
#80. I went to Colby College in Waterville, ME and did picture it when I was writing 'Cum Laude.' So many of the physical details were included, like the loop where people jogged. The story of the chapel is also borrowed from Colby ... but the students and cast of characters are fictional.
Cecily Von Ziegesar
#81. Imagine how much capital a country like Argentina might attract - if instead of defaulting seriatim and affecting a pose of anger toward creditors, it borrowed responsibly and honored its obligations.
Paul Singer
#82. [...] I have found that there is a rock that supports my faith. But it's a borrowed rock, kind of a sedimentary rock composed in good measure of the faith of others.
Robert W. Griggs
#83. As far as I know, we have never before decided to fight a war with borrowed money and ask generations that come after us to pay for it.
Byron Dorgan
#84. When someone yells "STOP," I never know if it's in the name of love, if it's Hammertime or if I should collaborate and listen...
(borrowed from Pinterest.)
Jackie Schnupp
#85. Imitation is not inspiration, and inspiration only can give birth to a work of art. The least of man's original emanation is better than the best of borrowed thought.
Albert Pinkham Ryder
#86. I'm outraged that we're building roads, schools, and hospitals in Iraq and Afghanistan, and that we're doing it with borrowed money from China that we're paying interest on. I'm outraged.
Gary Johnson
#88. I've seen more people fail because of liquor and leverage
leverage being borrowed money. You really don't need leverage in this world much. If you're smart, you're going to make a lot of money without borrowing.
Warren Buffett
#89. True beauty dwells on high: ours is a flame
But borrowed thence to light us thither.
Beauty and beauteous words should go together.
George Herbert
#90. Stale is stale and borrowed is borrowed, no matter how original your models may have been.
Robert Silverberg
#91. The unique danger today is the possibility that we may face longer-term stagnation as a consequence of relying too heavily on borrowed money.
Mortimer Zuckerman
#92. Why can a man not act himself, be himself, and think for himself? It seems to me that naturalness alone is power; that a borrowed word is weaker than our own weakness, however small we may be.
Maria Mitchell
#93. Momentum was part of the exhilaration and the exhaustion of the twentieth century which Coward decoded for the British but borrowed wholesale from the Americans.
John Lahr
#94. I want to live like there's no tomorrow. Love like I'm on borrowed time. It's good to be alive.
Jason Gray
#95. I ope ya don't mind, Charlie, but I borrowed one a ya effs.'
'Ya did?'
'Yeah.' he smiled. 'I told 'im to start finkin' smart.
Robert Newton
#96. Like hermit crabs, addictions are resourceful impersonators hidden in vacated snail shells, protecting soft bodies in borrowed homes. Not
Caryl Ann Casbon
#97. As by some might be saide of me: that here I have but gathered a nosegay of strange floures, and have put nothing of mine unto it, but the thred to binde them. Certes, I have given unto publike opinion, that these borrowed ornaments accompany me; but I meane not they should cover or hide me ...
Michel De Montaigne
#98. Courtesies cannot be borrowed like snow shovels; you must have some of your own.
John Wanamaker
#99. And through meditation comes wisdom - not through studying books, not through scriptures. Through scriptures one can become knowledgeable but no wise. and knowledgeable people are sad, they are bound to be sad because all their knowledge is borrowed. There can be no song in it.
Rajneesh
#100. Grief denied will surface in borrowed clothes, the mad, sad clothes of paranoia, fear or loneliness
Johnny Rich
