Quotes About Arrears

#1. No! let me taste the whole of it, fare like my peers,
The heroes of old,
Bear the brunt, in a minute pay glad life's arrears
Of pain, darkness and cold.

Robert Browning

#2. The process of building a self and its works is always too slow. One is always in arrears to oneself.

Susan Sontag

#3. Taxing people for having a spare bedroom and forcing them into rent arrears or the possibility of losing homes they have lived in for years has always been a cruel and heartless measure, and so it is good that the Scottish Parliament has been able to step in.

Nicola Sturgeon

#4. Old Time, in whose banks we deposit our notes
Is a miser who always wants guineas for groats;
He keeps all his customers still in arrears
By lending them minutes and charging them years.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

#5. I'm a war baby: I was brought up with rationing, and my parents always had to struggle. I remember when I was sent to boarding school - Prior Park College in Bath - my father was asked how he was going to pay the fees, and he replied: 'In arrears.'

Cameron Mackintosh

#6. I can never afford to be in arrears with anything that I have to do; I must always be abreast or ahead of my tasks.

Theodore Roosevelt

#7. Fortune, in fact, is a pestilent shrew, and, withal, an inexorable creditor; and though for a time she may be all smiles and courtesies, and indulge us in long credits, yet sooner or later she brings up her arrears with a vengeance, and washes out her scores with our tears.

Washington Irving

#8. Why does Mosley always speak as though he were a feudal landlord abusing tenants who are in arrears with their rent ?

Clement Attlee

#9. I started rapping when I was about 12 or 13, just playing around with it.

Young Buck

#10. I wish I was more stupid because I'm either completely ecstatic and joyous and absolutely high as a kite or I'm a bit morbid. There's never anything in between.

Paloma Faith

#11. The carpeting on the stair risers caught, racing up to the first-floor level as if to tell dreadful good news.

Stephen King

#12. When doctors take the Hippocratic Oath, they swear an oath to the Greek god Apollo

Adam Anderson

#13. A true calling is aimed at the genius qualities already set within each person ...

Michael Meade

#14. So stop waiting for Fridays, and stop waiting for summers, and stop waiting for someone to fall in love with you, because those things will happen. But in the meantime, enjoy right now.

Lucy Sutcliffe

#15. If your opinions and commitments appear to change from year to year or decade to decade, what are the more abstract underlying convictions that have held steady, that might never have become visible without the surface variation?

Mary Catherine Bateson