Top 100 Owe Quotes
#1. To whom does he owe ultimate re- sponsibility? Since Romanticism, we have expected the artist not to celebrate God, king, family, and established values but to break taboos, to explore his or her deepest, most socially forbidden self.
Camille Paglia
#2. While we can never truly repay the debt we owe our heroes, the least we should do for our brave veterans is to ensure that the government takes a proactive approach to delivering the services and benefits they have earned, so they can access the care they need and so richly deserve.
Kirsten Gillibrand
#3. I owe the best of myself to geology, but everything it has taught me tends to turn me away from dead things.
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
#5. What I owe those I kill is understanding. I owe them the courtesy of recognition; acknowledgement that they were something other than just another thing I had to kill on the way to other things I had to kill.
John Scalzi
#6. Marco Rubio, as an example, he's got no money, zero.I think that's fine, that's OK, maybe it's good politically to say you owe money because you overborrowed on your credit cards. He's got nothing. I mean, he's got nothing.
Donald Trump
#7. You owe your attacker no debt, Miss Steele. It is, as I have proven, a logical impossibility? Promise to try?
Lyndsay Faye
#8. We owe to our Mother-Country the Duty of Subjects but will not pay her the Submission of Slaves.
George Mason
#9. It is unacceptable that disabled veterans in Illinois rank at the bottom of the list when it comes to disability pay. We owe our disabled veterans more than speeches, parades and monuments.
Dick Durbin
#11. I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.
Paul Cezanne
#12. I owe all my knowledge to the German inventor, Johannes Gutenberg!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#13. We owe America something because they turned us into a touring band. But at least we feel confident about appearing in Britain again now. Hyde park was the first time over here for ages.
Steve Marriott
#14. Will tell you, for I am not sure if you properly understand as yet how much we owe to the Lord for bringing us to a place where we are so free from business matters, occasions of sin and the society of worldly people.
Teresa Of Avila
#15. I came from Egypt and I owe Egypt a lot to what I am now.
Ahmed H. Zewail
#16. If those who owe us nothing gave us nothing, how poor we would be.
Antonio Porchia
#17. Christianity founds hospitals and atheists are cured in them, never knowing they owe their cure to Christ.
William Temple
#18. I study children, and they're my subjects in my studies. They're my colleagues, really, all these little kids. And I owe them.
Edward Zigler
#19. If children learn of sex as a relation between their parents to which they owe their own existence, they learn of it in its best form and in connection with its biological purpose.
Bertrand Russell
#20. All of us have to recognize that we owe our children more than we have been giving them.
Hillary Clinton
#22. Over a period of time, if you have a successful show, then you have a devoted audience. I feel you owe something to them. That goes for everybody - writers, camera operators, actors, studio executives, etc. Sadly, I've realized it's a responsibility that very few people live up to.
Raymond Burr
#23. There is always some kid who may be seeing me for the first time. I owe him my best.
Joe DiMaggio
#24. For, under the Lord, I owe it to such persons that I am not in hell; I was always very fond of asking them to commend me to God, and so I prevailed upon them to do so.
Teresa Of Avila
#25. Women owe Friedan an incalculable debt for The Feminine Mystique. Domesticity was not a satisfactory story of an intelligent woman's life.
Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
#26. I think I owe thanks to the people who have listened to me over the years, who tuned in on the radio. They have given me a warmth and loyalty that I've never been able to repay. The way they have reached out to me has certainly been the highlight of my life.
Ernie Harwell
#27. The men and women on the front lines of the war on terror continue to risk their lives to save ours - and for that we owe them a debt that we can never truly repay. Thanks to their efforts we have made tremendous progress. Yet, the job is not done.
Doc Hastings
#28. How the hell can I owe that much? That's not right.
Jon Jones
#29. The world owes you nothing. I'm following suit, I owe you Nothing.
Sharon
#31. In 1688 England contracted to the Netherlands the highest debt that one nation can owe to another. Herself not knowing how to recover her liberties, they were restored by men of the United Provinces.
George Bancroft
#32. As the safety and prosperity of nations ultimately and essentially depend on the protection and the blessing of Almighty God, and the national acknowledgment of this truth is not only an indispensable duty which the people owe to Him.
John Adams
#33. Whatever, in fact, is modern in our life we owe to the Greeks. Whatever is an anachronism is due to mediaevalism.
Oscar Wilde
#34. Fate, show thy force. Ourselves we do not owe. 317 What is decreed must be, and be this so. 318
William Shakespeare
#35. No one succeeds without effort ... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.
Ramana Maharshi
#36. And to all of you, what it really comes down to is: If you're buying a book with my name on it, I feel I owe it to you to have it be the best book that I can make it.
Peter David
#37. I owe a debt to the universe that only my attention could repay and also I owed a debt to everyone who didn't get to be a person anymore and everyone who hadn't got to be a person yet
John Green
#39. We owe it to the fans to do a tour around the world.
Steven Adler
#40. The chief service I owe you, O God, is that every thought and word of mine should speak of you.
Hilary Of Poitiers
#41. My fundamental philosophy is that you owe it to society to transfer to them any knowledge you have that might be useful.
Leroy Hood
#42. I cannot tell you how much I owe to the solemn word of my good mother.
Charles Spurgeon
#43. Do not be shy to call customers who owe you money. It works.
Felix Dennis
#44. Something I owe to the soil that grew
More to the life that fed
But most to Allah who gave me two
Separate sides to my head.
Rudyard Kipling
#45. I really owe everything to my parents and their devotion and drive to see to it that their children had the education which led to the opportunities that they never were able to have.
George J. Mitchell
#46. I live by the mercy of Jesus, to whom I owe everything and from whom I expect everything.
Pope John XXIII
#47. We owe to every businessperson and worker in America the best environment in the world to create a job. We owe that to American businesses. Thirty-five percent corporate tax rate is the second highest in the world. We need to lower it so they don't leave. The goal is to help the middle class.
Lindsey Graham
#48. The more debt we owe, the wealthier we are.
Pete Stark
#49. I owe my dogs much - more than I can say - but they are not my 'companions' - as if we voluntarily chose to hang out together but none of us has authority over the others. I bought and/or acquired them. I own them. I am profoundly responsible for their care and well being.
Jon Katz
#50. We do not owe allegiance to any candidate because they share our party or our color, but because they share our principles and our conscience.
Benjamin Todd Jealous
#51. I can act. I've been acting for a long time, but like anything else, don't nobody owe you nothing. You've go to pay your dues. You go from A to Z; you don't go from M to Z.
Bernie Mac
#52. The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.
Carl Jung
#54. When we realize how great a debt we owe to God, we become willing servants, eager to be poured out for God and His Kingdom.
J.D. Greear
#55. I am forced to get my living by the labour of my hand; and the sweat of my brow ... for bitter bread, earned under the frowns of some who have no natural or divine right to be above me, and entirely owe their grandeur and honor to grinding the faces of the poor ...
James Otis
#56. All men owe honor to the poets - honor and awe; for they are dearest to the Muse who puts upon their lips the ways of life.
Homer
#57. Contrary to your beliefs, I am stronger then what you give me credit for, but the real lesson here is the knowledge to know I don't owe you an explanation to anything.
Nikki Rowe
#58. The most successful detectives owe their success to noticing small signs. Scouts are natural detectives and never let the smallest detail escape them. These small things are called by Scouts 'Sign.'
Robert Baden-Powell
#59. Regarding factory-farmed animals We owe them a merciful death, and we owe them a merciful life. And when human beings cannot do something humanely, without degrading both the creatures and ourselves, then we should not do it at all.
Matthew Scully
#60. The debt immense of endless gratitude, So burthensome, still paying, still to owe; Forgetful what from him I still receivd, And understood not that a grateful mind By owing owes not, but still pays, at once Indebted and dischargd; what burden then?
John Milton
#61. He sounded like a man who had slept well and didn't owe too much money.
Raymond Chandler
#62. What you owe your critics are your RESULTS not explanations not defence just RESULTS.Evidence terminates Arguments.
Fela Durotoye
#63. To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
Voltaire
#64. After September, I've reflected on the campaign, and being a new father of twin boys, I really feel like I owe it to the kids in the city to give this a shot and make this district a better place.
Jeffrey O. Henley
#65. I was just a girl again, but this girl didn't owe her strength to fate or chance or a grand destiny. I'd been born with my power; the rest I'd earned.
Leigh Bardugo
#66. It is a fact that people are always well aware of what is due them.
Unfortunately, they remain oblivious of what they owe to others.
Francis De Sales
#67. A penny saved is not a penny earned if at the end of the day you still owe a quarter.
Mary Landrieu
#68. My mother's influence in molding my character was conspicuous. She forced me to learn daily long chapters of the Bible by heart. To that discipline and patient, accurate resolve I owe not only much of my general power of taking pains, but of the best part of my taste for literature.
John Ruskin
#69. I wouldn't want to get stuck being an oldie-goldie group, but I don't mind. I think all the trouble you go through these days to go to one of these concerts, I think I owe them a bit of what they came to hear.
Tom Petty
#70. Let none henceforth seek needless cause to approve The faith they owe; when earnestly they seek Such proof, conclude, they then begin to fail.
John Milton
#71. It may take hundreds of pages before you begin to get a handle on the craft of writing, and your first scripts may not work. The next five to twenty may not either. However, the ones that do work owe everything to the ones that didn't.
Geoffrey S. Fletcher
#72. The idea of restraining the legislative authority, in the means of providing for the national defense, is one of those refinements which owe their origin to a zeal for liberty more ardent than enlightened.
Alexander Hamilton
#73. While we can't begin to repay the debt we owe our veterans for their brave service, we can certainly take steps to ease the physical, psychological and financial hardships they may be experiencing.
Kirsten Gillibrand
#75. I consider it a mutual duty, that we owe to each other, to communicate in a spirit of the utmost frankness and candor. Let it ever be done with unlocked hearts.
Charles Frazier
#76. Education equals choices. I have been blessed with the choice to be anything I ever wanted to be, and I truly owe my happiness to my family and education.
Aimee Garcia
#77. I've never had very high regard for therapists. I owe my health, my mental survival, to my friends and loved ones.
Salman Rushdie
#78. It is my hope and my belief that you will be able to report that I died with dignity, without animal fear and without bravado. I owe that much to myself.
Caryl Chessman
#79. I don't feel I owe my readers details of my family's private life.
J.K. Rowling
#80. The belly will not listen to advice; it makes demands, it importunes. And yet it is not a troublesome creditor; you can send it away at small cost, provided only that you give it what you owe, not merely all you are able to
Seneca.
#81. Sometimes the debt you pay ain't exactly the one you owe, but it works out jus' the same anyway. Lord knows I done caused my share of heartache in this life.
Cassie Dandridge Selleck
#82. Nothing is more natural to men in office, than to look with peculiar deference towards that authority to which they owe their official existence.
Alexander Hamilton
#83. I am supposed to owe the government something like $100 million. I couldn't squeeze out a dime.
Dennis Kozlowski
#84. Stop talking about tomorrow. You owe it to yourself to do whatever you can to live you can to live a better life today.
Bob Harper
#85. In 40-odd years in show business, some years I could do no wrong, and some years I could do nothing right. Show business. I owe it everything - it owes me nothing.
Patsy Kelly
#86. Everyone has to start somewhere. If you let people bring you down now, you'll never know how high you could climb. And you owe it to yourself to try.
Michelle Madow
#87. To whom do I owe the first apology? No one's been crueler than I've been to me.
Alanis Morissette
#88. We owe at least this much to future generations, from whom we have borrowed a fragile planet called Earth.
Maurice Strong
#89. You don't owe me forever right now, but God, I hope you'll give it to me willingly some day.
Elizabeth Finn
#90. Odd people, as I said, and I owe them a great deal, though they would be offended and distressed to think anyone owed them anything.
Ann Leckie
#91. You can owe nothing, if you give back its light to the sun.
Antonio Porchia
#92. I've been very lucky, and therefore I owe it to try and reduce the inequity in the world. And that's kind of a religious belief. I mean, it's at least a moral belief.
Bill Gates
#93. Through devotion, your family cares become more peaceful, mutual love between husband and wife becomes more sincere, the service we owe to the prince more faithful, and our work, no matter what it is, becomes more pleasant and agreeable.
Saint Francis De Sales
#94. What we are in ourselves, and what we owe to others makes us a complete whole.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#95. I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again.
Elie Wiesel
#96. As you have to pay more interest and amortization on what you owe, you're left with less and less money to buy goods and services - unless you borrow even more and go further into debt.
Michael Hudson
#97. We all owe life a death, an inevitable death which we can meet. But the unnecessary death that wastes life denies all consolation.
Laura Bohannan
#98. I don't feel like I owe anybody other than my child and my family anything.
Solange Knowles
#99. Had 'Bridesmaids' not ended up being so amazing and successful, we would never have been able to make 'Bachelorette.' So we are in awe of 'Bridesmaids' and totally owe them so much.
Lizzy Caplan
#100. People owe us nothing: they can blow through our lives, make us feel hopeful and loved, and then disappear with no explanation or apology.
Ryan O'Connell
