Top 100 Owe You Quotes
#1. I spent my childhood in New York, riding on subways and buses. And you know what you learn if you're a New Yorker? The world doesn't owe you a damn thing.
Lauren Bacall
#2. I think it's really important to stay active, even when you're very busy. I know it can get hectic and hard to find time, but make that time because you owe it to yourself.
Jennette McCurdy
#3. You owe it to yourself to make your creative development a top priority.
Nita Leland
#4. When you owe money to people, you're always going to owe money to people, so you should take care of it as soon as possible. It doesn't go away just because you ignore it.
Sophia Amoruso
#5. Every minute I decide not to kill you is a minute your life is saved. You owe me everything.
Christina L. Barr
#6. You owe it to yourself to live beautifully. And I am.
Jill Scott
#7. Sam: Do you always say exactly what you're thinking?
AJ: I try to. I like to know where I stand with people, and I figure I owe them the same courtesy. I mean, I'm never rude or hurtful about it, but I don't see any reason to be fake. That's a lot of work
Tamara Ireland Stone
#8. I had rather follow you to your grave than see you owe your life to any but a regular-bred physician.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
#9. Sleep on your stone pillow, and let the gulls peck out your eyes while the crabs feast on your flesh. You've feasted on enough of them, you owe them.
George R R Martin
#10. You believe me, don't you? You really do. Why do you believe me? Did Anechka do something to you? Now I owe you; and I may look little, but I know how to fight. I learned by fighting with Hargis. I'll kick her ass if she hurts you, Lane; just tell me - what did she do?
Blayne Giano O'hicidhe
Wynter Wilkins
#11. Look folks, we know who built this country and we know who is going to rebuild it. It's you. Instead of vilifying you, we should be thanking you. We owe you.
Joe Biden
#12. While it is good to apologize and ask forgiveness from God, it's just as important (perhaps more so) to extend it towards the person you wronged. Becoming a better person or trying to make amends with the universe only works when you start with the one you owe it to.
Donna Lynn Hope
#13. I believe you, Knox...And I don't care...Got it? I believe you're sorry. I. Don't. Care. I don't want your sorry. Live with your guilt. It's the one debt you owe me and I don't ever, ever want it repaid.
Alex London
#14. Every time you strip my sword, I owe you a kiss. How's that sound?" I bit my lip to keep from giggling.
"That sounds really dirty."
Patch waggled his brows. "Look whose mind just rolled into the gutter.
Becca Fitzpatrick
#15. Say from whence You owe this strange intelligence, or why Upon this blasted heath you stop our way With such prophetic greeting. Speak, I charge you.
William Shakespeare
#16. If hard work, integrity, thrift, and perseverance have caused you to succeed, then you don't owe anyone an apology for winning.
Dave Ramsey
#17. The more you know, the more you owe,
Li
#18. It feels good when the one you owe walks with you. It feels ecstatic when the one you don't owe walks.
Shweta Suvarna
#19. All I'm saying, Isaiah, is I want you to to think about it. You don't owe her anything." "Yes, I do. We all owe her. Me especially. It's more difficult to distinguish the good from the bad every day- and she needs people that she can trust. Because the world is full of people she can't.
Nathan Edmondson
#20. You're not Corbin," he mutters.
"No. I'm not. But I am your new neighbour, and from the looks of it, you're about to owe me at least fifty cups of sugar.
Colleen Hoover
#21. If you're in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent.
Warren Buffett
#22. Nobody can tell you what to do. No matter what they pay you. No matter what obligations you feel you owe them. Every second defines you. Be who you are, not who anyone else is, or who anyone else wants you to be.
James Altucher
#24. You realise you're going to owe me dinner after this, right?"
"How does McDonald's sound?"
"Inadequate.
Sarah Mayberry
#25. Silly bug, fly on the wall, our first fight and how quickly we are over it. Of course I don't hate you, dearest, beloved, most cherished, I owe you everything.
A.M. Homes
#26. This is God's universe; we just live in it. He doesn't owe us anything. We owe him everything. What did you make? Nothing. He made everything. For everything you have, you owe him.
Craig Groeschel
#27. It's like that, I guess, when the past come to collect what you owe.
Esi Edugyan
#29. What do I not owe you! You taught me a lesson, hard indeed at first, but most advantageous. By you, I was properly humbled. I came to you without a doubt of my reception. You showed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased. - Darcy
Jane Austen
#31. The amount of money you owe doesn't matter; as long as you use it for good
Sandra Chami Kassis
#32. A movie is not a book. If the source material is a book, you cannot be too respectful of the book. All you owe to the book is the spirit.
Graham Greene
#33. The stomach begs and clamors, and listens to no precepts. And yet it is not an obdurate creditor; for it is dismissed with small payment if you give it only what you owe, and not as much as you can.
Seneca The Younger
#34. Duty is a debt you owe to yourself to fulfill obligations you have assumed voluntarily.
Robert A. Heinlein
#35. If your heart, head and gut are telling you the same thing, then you owe it to yourself to chase it.
Marc Blucas
#36. Make the choice that you want to be happy. You owe it to yourself and you owe it to other people too.
Richard Koch
#37. The best friends you will ever have are the ones who don't make you feel like you owe them a damn thing.
Corey Taylor
#38. Thalia's shoulders relaxed. "I owe you one."
"Two."
"One and a half," Thalia said.
She smiled, and for a second, I remembered that I actually liked her when she wasn't yelling at me.
Rick Riordan
#39. You owe me and you know what I want in return."
He scowled at me. "Not the pants."
I nodded gravely. "Give me your pants.
Jennifer Echols
#40. Crito, I owe a cock to Asclepius; will you remember to pay the debt?
Plato
#42. If you would take a man's life, you owe it to him to look him in the face and hear his last words,
George R R Martin
#43. The more you head into the maelstrom, the more vulnerable you are, of course. But it's what you owe to whatever gift you have.
Ellen McLaughlin
#44. DJ saw the change in his expression the moment before he dropped the ax, reached out with his gloved hand and, cupping her neck, drew her to him. "I believe you owe me a kiss.
B. J. Daniels
#45. You load 16 tons, and what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt. St. Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go. I owe my soul to the company store.
Merle Travis
#46. It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#47. Being brave is not a part of your
personality, it's your job. It's what you owe the people who love you.
Kate Le Vann
#48. There are more valuable things in life than safety and comfort. Learn. You owe it to yourself.
Nnedi Okorafor
#49. You owe me!" -Stephanie
"Why do I owe you?" -Joe
"I caught your no good cousin." -Stephanie
"Yeah and in the process you burned down a funeral home, and damaged thousands of dollars of government property." -Joe
"Well if you are going to be picky about it ... " -Stephanie
Janet Evanovich
#50. No, I don't want your money. The world moves less by money than by what you owe people and what they owe you. I don't like to owe anybody anything, so I keep to myself as much on the lending side as I can.
Haruki Murakami
#51. It is easier with strangers, for they touch your life but for an instant. You will not disappoint them, for you owe them nothing; neither do they expect anything. Friends you can hurt, for they expect everything.
David Gemmell
#52. If you owe fifty dollars you're a piker; if you owe fifty thousand dollars you're a businessman; if you owe fifty million dollars you're a tycoon; if you owe fifty billion dollars you're the government.
Sam Levenson
#53. There is no cowardice in removing yourself from a wildly unhealthy and unwinnable situation . . . You shouldn't feel like you have to play . . . you don't owe anyone anything. You don't have to be available to everyone. You can stop.
Scaachi Koul
#54. You're cute when you're worried," she muttered. "Your eyebrows get all scrunched together."
You are not going to die while I owe you a favor," I said. "Why did you take that knife?"
You would've done the same for me.
Rick Riordan
#55. If you imitate someone, you owe them a royalty check. If you emulate them, you don't. There's a big difference. Check your lawyer.
Stephen Colbert
#56. If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.
J. Paul Getty
#57. You owe it to yourself to get rid of anything that is destroying & holding you back ferom progress. If it's not helping you grow...then let it go!
Timothy Pina
#58. Worrying is paying interest on a debt you might not even owe.
Mark Twain
#59. I think you owe me something for deceiving me so exquisitely.
Patrick Marber
#60. Many of us learned to repress our creativity. We were told it was secondary to more important skills. The good news is that many of us have untapped gifts just waiting to be expressed. You owe it to yourself to uncover and express your gifts
Renae A. Sauter
#61. Credit default swap gives you something to do. You can buy some credit default swaps from them to protect yourself against the bankruptcy of people who owe you money.
Robert F. Engle
#62. All right. I owe you a character. Should we buy another one?" Ross chuckled. "Now you're getting the hang of it." He sighed. "No, let's see if we can get out of town alive.
Daniel Suarez
#63. You said that I, who see more than you, am insane. I, who pushed the world so much further than you, am insane. I have dared more than you, I have pressed my unique seal so much deeper in the earth, where it will last longer than your dust ... you owe me awe.
Thomas Harris
#64. You don't get to have an opinion on whether .999 ... is equal to 1, for instance. It is equal to 1. People smarter than us have worked hard to figure this stuff out, and we owe it to them and to the universe to respect what they've figured out.
John Green
#65. Because when you love someone, you owe it to them to help them be the best version of themselves that they can be. And as much as it crushes me to admit this, the best version of you doesn't include me.
Colleen Hoover
#66. As cliche as this sounds, no one is going to live your life for you. You owe it to yourself to pay attention to what makes you happy and to do it. You have to trust your inner barometer of pleasure, and tune your life to that.
Joshua David Swift
#67. Even after all this time, the sun never says to the earth, 'You owe me.' Look what happens with a love like that. It lights the whole sky.
Hafez
#68. There's an unwritten compact between you and the reader. If someone enters a bookstore and sets down hard earned money (energy) for your book, you owe that person some entertainment and as much more as you can give.
Frank Herbert
#69. In terms of screenwriting adaptations it's trying to cut out stuff that's extraneous, without doing damage to the original piece, because you owe a debt of some respect to the original author. That's why it was bought.
Rod Serling
#70. You do not owe anyone your time. When you realize that, others will respect your time much more.
Martha Beck
#71. Give me kisses! Nay, 'tis true
I am just as rich as you;
And for every kiss I owe,
I can pay you back, you know.
Kiss me, then,
Every moment, and again.
John Godfrey Saxe
#73. It's enough now of being unhealthy. I have a family, and I owe it to them to be as healthy as I can. A great sense of clarity comes when you have a child. It shows the important stuff to be important.
James Corden
#75. His hands, which had been on her hips, suddenly grasped the slim strap of her panties and snapped the material apart.
"You owe me another pair," she gasped.
"Stop wearing them and it won't be a problem.
Savannah Stuart
#76. The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. If you would take a man's life, you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear his final words. And if you cannot bear to do that, then perhaps the man does not deserve to die.
George R R Martin
#77. I could love you, I could kill you. I want this. This is how I make my mark, this is where I plant my flag, this is how I stake my claim, this is how I deny you, this is how I claim you, this is what you owe me, this is what I am taking, this is how I know I'm alive.
Louise Dean
#78. Lecture all you want, you picked me up when I was down and I guess I owe you that, but don't tell me about pain. Nobody knows unless they're on the inside.
Stephen King
#79. Buddy, that's life. You always work to balance the scales. You don't wanna owe someone something, even it it's only in your head that you owe 'em and they don't give a shit. It'll fuck with you. So you give back to balance the scales.
Kristen Ashley
#80. I believe you owe her an apology, the fighter said in his quiet, even tone.
Marissa Meyer
#81. Don't let your negative self beliefs haunt you out of taking action. You owe it to yourself to live the life that you desire.
Joel Brown
#82. God gave us imaginations because he wants us to see the photos of our destinies respectively and make proper graphical designs of them. You owe it to yourself to enlarge that image you carry into bigger sizes.
Israelmore Ayivor
#83. If she cries, I want to wear pants for a week," I offered.
"Done," Maxon said. "And if she doesn't, you owe me a walk around the grounds tomorrow afternoon."
"You drive a hard bargain, sir, but I accept.
Kiera Cass
#84. You know, gentlemen, that I do not owe any personal income tax. But nevertheless, I send a small check, now and then, to the Internal Revenue Service out of the kindness of my heart.
David Rockefeller
#85. A dead man is the worst enemy alive, I thought. You can't alter his power over you. You can't alter what you love or owe. And it's too late to ask him for his absolution. He has beaten you all ways.
John Le Carre
#86. After several years in the league, when a player becomes a vested veteran in the NFL, they play under a different set of rules. For instance, if you cut a vested veteran mid-season and they don't get picked up by another team, you owe them the remainder of their salary.
Brendan Daly
#87. God doesn't owe you an explanation or reason for everything he asks you to do. Understanding can wait, but obedience can't.
Rick Warren
#88. If I have made an appointment with you, I owe you punctuality, I have no right to throw away your time, if I do my own.
Richard Cecil
#89. Perhaps we can start counting those kisses once more. I think you owe me a few.
Jean M. Grant
#90. The government says they have loaned over One Billion dollars to the Farmers. In other words, we can't help you make any money, but we will show you where you can owe some more.
Will Rogers
#91. But Johannes had said, Politeness is something you owe other people, because when you show a little courtesy, everything becomes easier and better. But first and foremost, it's something you owe yourself. You are David.
Anne Holm
#92. I owe you a debt," he told Vader. "It took you to bring me back to the Force." "And you to firm my faith in the power of the dark side, Master Shryne.
James Luceno
#93. Make love like you have no secrets like you've never been left never been hurt like the world don't owe you a single wretched thing.
Warsan Shire
#94. Sir, I am a true laborer; I earn that I eat, get that I wear; owe no man hate, envy no man's happiness; glad of other men's good, content with my harm; and the greatest of my pride is to see my ewes graze and my lambs suck. (As You Like It, Act 3, Sc. 2.)
William Shakespeare
#95. Because loving you saved me. It's made me see myself differently, see the world differently. I owe you everything for that.
Jasmine Warga
#97. I owe you everything." "Uh ... wow." "I owe all of you everything." "But mostly me," Fletcher said.
Derek Landy
#98. Well, I'm a daughter of the great migration as, really, the majority of African Americans that you meet in the north and west are products of the great migration. It's that massive. Many of us owe our very existence to the fact that people migrated.
Isabel Wilkerson
#99. You owe it to yourself not to permit your emotions to place your happiness in the keeping of another person.
Napoleon Hill
#100. You owe me nothing, but I want everything.
Anne Fortier
