Quotes About Debtors Prison

#1. No 22-year-old should have to enter the real world already in a virtual debtors' prison.

Michael Moore

#2. We are
debtors who cannot pay, yet we have been released from the threat of debtors' prison. It is an insult to God for us to withhold forgiveness and grace from those who ask us, while claiming to be forgiven and saved by grace ourselves.

R.C. Sproul

#3. Ah, fortune and fame shall follow me ... and I shall dwell in the world of the chosen for a few moments of fleeting ecstasy; ere the seven burly lads turn into creditors and hustle me off to debtors' prison at last.

Hunter S. Thompson

#4. As women, we cannot afford to neglect ourselves.

Michelle Obama

#5. To connect with the characters, you need to connect with the world. If the world feels vaguely familiar, I believe the characters will feel relatable.

Shawn Levy

#6. She feared no danger, for she knew no sin.

John Dryden

#7. I fear I shall be a clinger to the outsides of words all my life.

Virginia Woolf

#8. There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.

Paulo Coelho

#9. Pouring arms into the spreading cauldron of war risks exacerbating the crisis in Iraq. A fully inclusive international diplomatic process should be attempted and is urgently needed now, before the fires of war and militancy spread further in the region.

David Cortright

#10. I found the most difficult thing when you became successful - when I had the record album, it won Album of the Year - that you were cut off from the source of your material. Your material was everyday people, and you were kind of cut off from that, and you had to work at it.

Bob Newhart

#11. Is there an intelligent man or woman now in the world who believes in the Garden of Eden story? If you find any man who believes it, strike his forehead and you will hear an echo. Something is for rent.

Robert G. Ingersoll

#12. Albert B. Saye, who has searched hardest for debtors among the colonists, estimates that not more than a dozen debtors released from prison by Parliament ever came to Georgia, if indeed that many came.

Kenneth Coleman

#13. Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it ... Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.

Marcus Aurelius

#14. Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment.

Madonna Ciccone

#15. Because life is more than the shoes your feet are in. More than the person you are. It's the togetherness. The parts of yourself in another. Memories and walls and cupboards and drawers with compartments for cutlery, so you know where everything is.

Fredrik Backman