Quotes About Borrowing

#1. The lie that happiness is about borrowing money you haven't got to buy crap you don't need," says Ian. "The lie that we live in a democratic state. And the most weaselly lie of all, that there is no class war.

David Mitchell

#2. What people want to read often seems incongruous. A pair of biker-types taking away Thoughts of the Dalai Lama. People without access to instruments requesting sheet music. Aspiring poets sharing their work and then borrowing horror stories.

Alan Bennett

#3. We should not be borrowing money from the Chinese to bail out the Greeks. What's coming next? Intergalactic bailouts?

Jeb Hensarling

#4. It is admitted on all sides that we must equalize the revenue and expenditures. The scheme of borrowing to make up an increasing deficit must, in the end, if continued, prove ruinous.

John C. Calhoun

#5. It's always going to be easy to live like others or other's life, because creating or innovating something of own is always difficult in comparison to buying or borrowing anything from others.

Anuj

#6. American Black Chamber, borrowing the name from the sixteenth-century cabinet noir, the secret letter-opening and resealing facility of King Henry IV of France.

Gabriel Schoenfeld

#7. From borrowing one gets poorer and from work one gets richer.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

#8. It seemed not only as though they had everything figured out but were balancing it in their palms as well. The world was borrowing its time from them in order for anything outside of their lives to take place.

Daniel Kine

#9. We believed it was better to pay as you go than it was to pay your bills by borrowing and laying up debts for another day. To pay as you go, that policy is a safer business policy and a saner business policy, and we thought it was a saner national policy.

Scott Nearing

#10. She didn't own him. Had never owned him, she was only borrowing.
"I'm yours."
Her eyes flew open and he gazed at her without fear and without a lick of hesitancy.
"I've always been yours, Violin Girl. I've just been hoping you would take me.

Cari Quinn

#11. Chinese productivity is the highest in the world but the way they do it is by borrowing the technology from abroad, either by joint ventures or other means.

Alan Greenspan

#12. The American electorate are getting disgusted with weaklings who blow where the wind takes them while frittering away our precious lifeblood and borrowing money from our new owners, the Chinese.

Cindy Sheehan

#13. You don't want a slob, but you don't want a guy who is constantly borrowing your tweezers.

Lauren Conrad

#14. Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing.

Doris Lessing

#15. If the church is to be faithful it must be formed andordered from the inside of its experience and confession and not by borrowing from sources extenal to its own life.

Walter Brueggemann

#16. Don't cling to fame. You're just borrowing it. It's like money. You're going to die, and somebody else is going to get it.

Sonny Bono

#17. After about fourth grade, I do remember borrowing my mother's old portable Olivetti and typing stories out on the back of photocopies of journal articles.

Ann Leckie

#18. Public borrowing is costly these days, true, but interest rates on municipal bonds are still considerably lower than those borne by corporate debt.

Thomas Frank

#19. We do have some assistance from the World Bank but not from the IMF. We are not borrowing yet, but we are considering, in the future, borrowing from the Kuwait Fund to support our infrastructure development.

Jose Ramos-Horta

#20. Additionally, borrowing a page from U.S. foreign policy, I decided to send a message to a government that was becoming increasingly hostile.

Timothy McVeigh

#21. I was only 21 when I bought a five-bedroom detached house in Stoke-on-Trent that was way outside of my financial status in life. I did it by borrowing money from my family and the bank, taking out a huge mortgage.

John Caudwell

#22. Borrowing and spending is not the way to prosperity.

Paul Ryan

#23. The whole borrowing clothes thing is very unnatural for me. I don't feel comfortable with that. If you like something, I'd just give it to you rather than sharing it.

Zana Marjanovic

#24. I didn't feel like I was in my own body; my body was just a lonely, temporary container I happened to be borrowing.

Haruki Murakami

#25. I, who ne'erWent for myself a begging, go a borrowing,And that for others. Borrowing's much the sameAs begging; just as lending upon usuryIs much the same as thieving.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

#26. Why do we calculate our forces, and consult with flesh and blood to our grievous wounding? Jehovah has power enough without borrowing from our puny arm.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#27. A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#28. Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.

Henrik Ibsen

#29. The house is silent now and she feels like a stranger here. "This life was never ours," she whispers to the dog, who has been following her from room to room, and Luli wags her tail and stares at Miranda with wet brown eyes. "We were only ever borrowing it.

Emily St. John Mandel

#30. Except for the con men borrowing money they shouldn't get and the widows who have to visit with the handsome young men in the trust department, no sane person ever enjoyed visiting a bank.

Martin Mayer

#31. My idea of vacuuming is borrowing someone's dog for the day and having them eat all the crap off the floor.

Karina Halle

#32. Well, you have the public not wanting any new spending, you have the Republicans not wanting any new taxes, you have the Democrats not wanting any new spending cuts, you have the markets not wanting any new borrowing, and you have the economists wanting all of the above. And that leads to paralysis.

Michael Bloomberg

#33. SOAP is like a mortgage while REST is like borrowing $10 from a friend.

Anonymous

#34. Perhaps art criticism cannot be reformed in a logical sense because it was never well-formed in the first place. Art criticism has long been a mongrel among academic pursuits, borrowing whatever it needed from other fields ...

James Elkins

#35. Almost any movie, no matter how original, is borrowing from some other movies.

Oren Peli

#36. It is no wonder that bank capital is regulated. When borrowing and lending is profitable, it is tempting for banks to scale up their operations and to borrow and lend too much in relation to their capital, in effect reducing the effectiveness of the potential capital cushion.

Evan Davis

#37. I was broke from 19 to 26, borrowing money from my parents or my brothers or sisters every week to pay the bills.

Chelsea Handler

#38. Borrowing for expansion is one thing; borrowing to make up for mismanagement and waste is quite another.

Henry Ford

#39. There is no practice more dangerous than that of borrowing money

George Washington

#40. In Manhattan last month I heard a woman borrowing the jargon of junkies to say to another, 'Want to do some chocolate?'

Diane Ackerman

#41. Who goes a-borrowing goes a-sorrowing.

Thomas Tusser

#42. Credit' comes from the Latin 'credere', 'to believe', for credit is the belief that the money you're borrowing will someday be returned, a belief that needs the future to function in.

Robert Rowland Smith

#43. Improvements in lending practices driven by information technology have enabled lenders to reach out to households with previously unrecognized borrowing capacities.

Alan Greenspan

#44. I can get no remedy against this consumption of the purse: borrowing only lingers and lingers it out, but the disease is incurable.

William Shakespeare

#45. Total borrowing has imploded. Private borrowing has collapsed. And, in effect, the Treasury Department is the last borrower left standing.

Peter Orszag

#46. Borrowing a line from Jim Croce's "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown," Watts dubbed Ritter the Junkyard Dog - and, ever the literalist, gave him a dog collar and junk cart.

David Shoemaker

#47. And if you are a parent, introduce your children to their neighborhood library. It will give them a real sense of independence to have their own library card and enjoy borrowing books.

Sarah Jessica Parker

#48. We'll set our approach to borrowing, to spending, to taxation, in a sensible way on a sensible timescale.

Douglas Alexander

#49. I always thought I'd buy my mother a house if I ever became successful - a big, beautiful house on the nicest street in town. It didn't exactly work out that way. I was still borrowing money from her in my 40s.

Tom Shales

#50. 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

#51. Guess - You know how people say, Don't borrow trouble? Well," said Morgan, "I guess it's the opposite of that. Doc is borrowing happiness." The

Mary Doria Russell

#52. How do you 'invest in the future'? By borrowing $188 million every hour. That's what the Government of the United States is doing. It's spending one-fifth of a billion dollars it doesn't have every hour of every day of every week - all for your future!

Mark Steyn

#53. I borrowed my friend's car the other day in an attempt to persuade my husband that we needed a car and literally this is true, in the first day of borrowing the car, I got three tickets and I rear-ended it.

Emily Mortimer

#54. Anything we have, we are only borrowing. Anything. Any time.

Elizabeth Berg

#55. Government spending cannot create additional jobs. If the government provides the funds required (think stimulus) by taxing the citizens or by borrowing from the public, it abolishes on the one hand as many jobs as it creates on the other.

Ludwig Von Mises

#56. But because we in the United States finance our current account deficit by borrowing in our own currency, we can move to a more competitive dollar without the adverse effects that followed currency declines in other countries.

Martin Feldstein

#57. In blues music, there's a lot of borrowing, so it's often difficult to identify the originator of a song.

Henry Rollins

#58. If the memoirist is borrowing narrative techniques from fiction, shouldn't the novelist borrow a few tricks from successful non-fiction?

Darin Strauss

#59. Nothing can do what a book can do. Lifts you out of your life ... to a whole new world, whole new perspective. A book is like a dream you're borrowing from a friend.

Dave Kellett

#60. When our markets work, people throughout our economy benefit - Americans seeking to buy a car or buy a home, families borrowing to pay for college, innovators borrowing on the strength of a good idea for a new product or technology, and businesses financing investments that create new jobs.

Henry Paulson

#61. Night was coming on in, borrowing the light. It had started out borrowing just a few cents worth of the light, but now it was borrowing thousands of dollars worth of the light every second. The light would soon be gone, the bank closed, the tellers unemployed, the bank president a suicide.

Richard Brautigan

#62. I have always played into the belief that you are only ever borrowing the jersey; you never own the jersey because someone has gone before you and there is going to be someone after you, so it's a case of giving the jersey maximum respect.

Brian O'Driscoll

#63. As I have said for many years throughout this land, we're borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf to burn it in ways that destroy the future of human civilization. Every bit of that has to change.

Al Gore

#64. Religious Jews are protected from serving creditors. One of the 613 mitzvah is not to borrow with interest (Deuteronomy 23:20). Unwise borrowing puts you in a position of servitude (Proverbs 22:7). Much

H.W. Charles

#65. I don't believe in originality in art. I think we exist on this earth to inspire each other, through our actions, through our deeds, and through who we are. We're always borrowing.

Bill Viola

#66. To write without any awareness of a tradition you are trying to become a part of would be self-defeating. Every artist alive responds to the history of his or her art - borrowing, stealing, rebelling against, and building on what other artists have done.

Dorianne Laux

#67. Borrowing has a bad name, but you would be surprised how it helps in a pinch.

Will Cuppy

#68. We are borrowing $40,000 per second.

Rand Paul

#69. I am not that good a manager for me to be comfortable borrowing someone else's money.

Jack Dangermond

#70. Government spending is always a "tax" burden on the American people and is never equally or fairly distributed. The poor and low-middle income workers always suffer the most from the deceitful tax of inflation and borrowing.

Ron Paul

#71. few days, or even weeks." Weeks. "And now we beg, borrow or steal another vehicle and slip out of town?" "Bingo." Ray flipped the glove compartment open and dug around inside, extracting a flashlight, some maps and a first aid kit. "Though borrowing is out. We don't wanna lead men

Norah Wilson

#72. I am no longer going to go along with this idea that we're going to keep spending and borrowing and taking over and raising taxes, that I'm going to do everything I can to change things.

Chris Matthews

#73. No debt, no borrowing. There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.

Henrik Ibsen

#74. One stipulation to my borrowing your clothes is that you have to have worn the item at least once before I borrow it. I'm not a monster.

Mindy Kaling

#75. Reading means borrowing.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

#76. If, before 2020, there is a choice between further spending cuts, more borrowing and tax rises, the priority must be to avoid tax increases. They would disrupt consumption, employment and investment.

Theresa May

#77. A cash advance on a credit card is one of the worst types of borrowing because the interest rate is typically 21 percent or more.

Suze Orman

#78. If borrowing and spending all this money led to more jobs than we would be at full employment already.

Paul Ryan

#79. I'm not stealing it. We're stranded. This is called borrowing."
"This is called you're crazy.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#80. Corporate engineers have looked at how women are with each other, borrowing the best tips from female neighborhood culture and then transporting them back into the bosom of capitalism. They've feminized capitalism.

Arlie Russell Hochschild

#81. Nature has arranged that when you overcome a given inertia the resulting momentum is proportionate. If I were to begin borrowing money I would end by devising means of persuading the Secretary of the Treasury to lend me the gold reserve.

Rex Stout

#82. Big banks are more dangerous than standing armies, and the practice of borrowing and spending money to be paid back by the next generation is stealing from their future.

Thomas Jefferson

#83. Seeing other people do great work is its own form of inspiration and far more powerful than borrowing their ideas.

Kody Chamberlain

#84. In Chinese love stories the one who loves always starts by borrowing a book from the beloved.

Dai Sijie

#85. We're a me-me-me generation. We're borrowing the savings of every nation in the world. We're ... piling up a big tab. Now, I may think we're too big to have a run on us. You may think that. But it's possible that God does not.

Paul Samuelson

#86. The problem is that borrowing money to pay back more borrowed money that will oblige you in the future to borrow even more money doesn't sound kosher. Because it isn't.

John Podhoretz

#87. We Americans are not about to stop borrowing as long as they give us money for nothing.

Kenneth Rogoff

#88. We call those works of art concrete that came into being on the basis of their inherent resources and rules - without external borrowing from natural phenomena, without transforming those phenomena, in other words: not by abstraction.

Max Bill

#89. A man with nothing to lend should refrain from borrowing.

Michel De Montaigne

#90. Before borrowing money from a friend it's best to decide which you need most.

Joe Moore

#91. The Gillard government must give up its addiction to wasteful spending borrowing and taxing.

Julie Bishop

#92. Well, Harry Reid and other members of congress, they're just furious over this Olympic uniform deal. He says we should burn the uniforms, and it's an embarrassment and a disgrace. Not as embarrassing as congress constantly borrowing money from the Chinese, but still embarrassing.

Jay Leno

#93. In the end, everyone is aware of this: nobody keeps any of what he has, and life is only a borrowing of bones. - PABLO NERUDA

Mark Nepo

#94. That's the real secret to job creation - not borrowing and spending more money in Washington.

Paul Ryan

#95. Not a single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born. It would be a bit too easy if we could go about borrowing ready-made souls.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#96. In borrowing from a food culture, pay attention to how a culture eats as well as to what it eats.

Michael Pollan

#97. [I'm concerned with] aesthetics and this idea of how the passage between life and death goes. I can visually present that by borrowing this Buddhist statue.

Hiroshi Sugimoto

#98. Infatuation is not quite the same thing as love; it's more like love's shady second cousin who's always borrowing money and can't hold down a job.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#99. After the Versailles treaty, the U.S. could have chosen to become a global economic loan shark, but we didn't, and let a lot of the tab slide. So not all lending and borrowing is bad.

Louis Navellier

#100. I haven't inherited the earth from my parents, I am borrowing it from my children.

Mark Udall