Quotes About Owes

#1. The United States owes a great debt to its inventors. Far from being grateful to them, it places every obstruction in their way and makes it enormously difficult to secure a patent.

Preston Sturges

#2. On the other hand, the concept owes its meaning and its justification exclusively to the totality of the sense impressions which we associate with it.

Albert Einstein

#3. Harriet laughed, remembering suddenly that a novelist owes a duty to her newspaper reporters.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#4. One of these days, she'll let me perform a favor for her without calculating what she owes me, which is always going to be nothing. Except for maybe a kiss, if our relationship ever reaches that level - pinnacle? - where favors can be repaid sexually (in a respectful manner).

Jay Clark

#5. One day I realized that I wasn't getting anywhere by blaming other people for my circumstances. I finally understood: Even if you feel someone has wronged you or owes you something, no one is going to give you anything for free.

Mary J. Blige

#6. One of the most important things a man must bear in mind is this very thing - that he owes his fellow a transforming encounter.

Ogwo David Emenike

#7. It may be that them whose pleasure brings you into this world owes you a living, but it don't mean the world is responsible.

Owen Wister

#8. Mathematics is not a separate entity. It owes a great deal of its power and its beauty to other disciplines.

Mark Kac

#9. We may never be able to pay directly for the gifts of true friendship - but pay we must, even though we make our payment to someone who owes us nothing, in some other place and at some other time.

Yousuf Karsh

#10. He who is chaste in flesh should not be proud, for he should know that he owes the gift of continence to another.

Pope Clement I

#11. He owes me nothing, yet gives me everything in return. - SHEA

Michelle Warren

#12. A sword sword owes his lord the truth.

George R R Martin

#13. I believe the defenders of intelligent design deserve our gratitude for challenging a scientific world view that owes some of the passion displayed by its adherents precisely to the fact that it is thought to liberate us from religion. That world view is ripe for displacement ...

Thomas Nagel

#14. A society is always eager to cover misdeeds with a cloak of forgetfulness, but no society can fully repress an ugly past when the ravages persist into the present. America owes a debt of justice which it has only begun to pay.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#15. I know that fewer people are won over by the written word than by the spoken word and that every great movement on this earth owes its growth to great speakers and not to great writers.

Adolf Hitler

#16. A sworn sworn owes his liege our service and obedience, but this is madness.

George R R Martin

#17. Every youth owes it to himself and to the world to make the most possible out of the stuff that is in him.

Orison Swett Marden

#18. Man owes his success to his creativity. No one doubts the need for it. It is most useful in good times and essential in bad.

Edward De Bono

#19. Job security lasts only as long as the customer is satisfied. Nobody owes anybody else a living.

Sam Walton

#20. Much of the beauty of light owes its existence to the dark.

Brene Brown

#21. The top seed this weekend is Richard Krajicek,12 a 6'5" Dutchman who wears a tiny white billed hat in the sun and rushes the net like it owes him money and in general plays like a rabid crane.

David Foster Wallace

#22. You've been acting like Jesus owes you a favor, but he's a little smart for you to fool.

Jimmy Buffett

#23. Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.

Theodor Adorno

#24. So I guess you could say Neel owes me a few favors, except that so many favors have passed between us now that they are no longer distinguishable as individual acts, just a bright haze of loyalty. Our friendship is a nebula.

Robin Sloan

#25. While the rest of the country waves the flag of Americana, we understand we are not part of that. We don't owe America anything - America owes us.

Al Sharpton

#26. The novel, as a living force, if not as a work of art, owes an incalculable debt to what we call, mistakenly, the new psychology, to Freud, in his earlier interpretations, and more truly, I think, to Jung.

Ellen Glasgow

#27. The world begins again. Humanity owes its existence to a bit of cosmic whimsy. To a rock. It

Rick Yancey

#28. I had no idea of the historical evolution of the civilized world's music and had not realized that all modern music owes everything to Bach.

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

#29. One no more owes one's beauty to a lover than one's wit to an echo

William Congreve

#30. How much the fiction of Sir Walter Scott owes to Froissart, and to Philip de Comines after Froissart, those only can understand who have read both the old chronicles and the modern romances. It was one of the congenial labors of

William Cleaver Wilkinson

#31. Today I will remember the world owes me nothing, does not respond to my will,
and goes merrily on with or without my consent.
On the other hand,
I am free to change myself as I see fit.

Ken Montrose

#32. It must be eight years since I last saw Joseph Taboys. How pleasant it would be to meet his jovial face again, to clasp his strong hand, and to hear his cheery laugh once more! He owes me 14 shillings, too.

Jerome K. Jerome

#33. The smallest amount of vanity is fatal in aeroplane fighting. Selfdistrust rather is the quality to which many a pilot owes his protracted existence.

Eddie Rickenbacker

#34. Peter Kemp observed that 'Literature owes an enormous debt to Henry James's bowels.' As the correspondence revealed, the young Henry suffered from chronic constipation. To alleviate it his parents dispatched him on a grand tour of Europe (doubtless hoping the foreign food would loosen his entrails).

Anonymous

#35. The world does not owe men a living, but business, if it is to fulfill its ideal, owes men an opportunity to earn a living.

Owen D. Young

#36. The protection the government owes you and fails to provide, you are morally bound to provide for yourselves ...

Eugene V. Debs

#37. If there is anyone who owes everything to Bach, it is certainly God.

Emil Cioran

#38. Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained by the wisdom of his friends and the folly of his enemies, and the giant will often be seen to be a pygmy.

Charles Caleb Colton

#39. Fake Math owes its existence to a number of things and people who have inspired and assisted this book on its way into the world.

Ryan Fitzpatrick

#40. The young patriots now returning from war in Iraq and Afghanistan and other deployments worldwide are joining the ranks of veterans to whom America owes an immense debt of gratitude.

Steve Buyer

#41. It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.

George Washington

#42. The world is growing gentle, But few know what she owes To the understanding lily And the judgment of the rose.

Nathalia Crane

#43. No reader owes me anything - I am owed nothing for my noble efforts, because my writing was always unconditional, always coming out of inner necessity.

Aleksandar Hemon

#44. It is to the eccentrics that the world owes most of its knowledge.

Rose Macaulay

#45. I don't think baseball owes colored people anything. I don't think colored people owe baseball anything, either.

Bob Feller

#46. Nothing is more important in the preservation of peace than to secure among the great mass of the people living under constitutional government a just conception of the rights which their nation has against others and of the duties their nation owes to others.

Elihu Root

#47. A grateful mind by owing owes not, but still pays, at once indebted and discharged; what burden then?

John Milton

#48. We don't deserve punishment, we don't deserve happiness, life owes us nothing. Realize that.

Nicole Williams

#49. A laborer might last ten years or so before expiring. But individual workers in the death camp of sugar were survived by their culture, which was constantly re-Africanized by fresh arrivals. To that plantation culture, the music of our hemisphere owes no small debt.

Ned Sublette

#50. If anything is due to a corporation, it is not due to the individual members thereof, nor do the members individually owe what the corporation owes.

Justinian I

#51. Man's first law is to watch over his own preservation; his first care he owes to himself; and as soon as he reaches the age of reason, he becomes the only judge of the best means to preserve himself; he becomes his own master.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#52. Many a man owes his advancement very largely to his ability to converse well. The ability to interest people in your conversation, to hold them, is a great power.

Orison Swett Marden

#53. I do enjoy working with Ryan although he owes me money.

Colin Mochrie

#54. One of history's secrets is that the revolutionaries appeal in the eyes of posterity owes much to the traits they share with the world they overthrew.

Christopher Caldwell

#55. The lawgiver, of all beings, most owes the law allegiance.
He of all men should behave as though the law compelled him.
But it is the universal weakness of mankind that what we are
given to administer we presently imagine we own.

H.G.Wells

#56. The sad news is, nobody owes you a career. Your career is literally your business. You own it as a sole proprietor. You have one employee: yourself. You need to accept ownership of your career, your skills and the timing of your moves.

Andy Grove

#57. Every U.S. citizen owes allegiance to our nation. Some Americans consider that anything less than high treason is allegiance.

Cullen Hightower

#58. Man owes two solemn debts
one to society, and one to-nature. It is only when he pays the second that he covers the first.

Douglas William Jerrold

#59. Guinea pigs are practically synonymous with experiments. Lab rats have become the workhorses of modern medicine. Genetics owes a huge debt to the humble fruit fly. There's almost no branch of the life sciences, in fact, that hasn't leaned heavily on one animal or another.

Sam Kean

#60. The world owes its progress to the men who have dared,

Dale Carnegie

#61. I now find peace in the realization that countless potential masterpieces happen each moment the world over and go unphotographed. The world owes a great debt to all those who have, from a state of exceptional awareness, preserved stillness for us to hold.

Dan Winters

#62. Hell, girl, everybody feels sorry for you, but nobody owes you a damn thing.

Maya Angelou

#63. If a man owes me money, I never seem to forget. But if I do the owing, I somehow never remember.

Aristophanes

#64. Every morning I look in the mirror and remind myself: "No one owes you sh*t!" In this way, I am never disappointed. Never placing blame.

Brandi L. Bates

#65. Almost all the civil liberty now enjoyed in the world owes its origin to the principles of the christian religion.

Noah Webster

#66. The main theme remains constant: man owes it to himself to reject despair; better to rely on miracles than opt for resignation. By changing himself, man can change the world.

Elie Wiesel

#67. I think the biggest lesson that I've learned is that no one owes you anything. It doesn't matter if you've worked with this person, or you have a piece of work that you think is great. It doesn't mean they're going to agree with you and give you money to do it.

Reagan Gomez-Preston

#68. America owes most of its social prejudices to the exaggerated religious opinions of the different sects which were so instrumental in establishing the colonies.

James F. Cooper

#69. I think every entrepreneur in Canada owes the next generation a road map of how to do it again.

Kevin O'Leary

#70. Because the world owes me nothing, and we owe each other the world.

Ani DiFranco

#71. I've discovered most Christians don't know what to do with difficult situations because they have bought into the lie that God owes us (for our good behaviour). The reality of life is that if you live long enough you are going to bleed, cry and hurt. AND God is still God IN that.

Matt Chandler

#72. It's the least that someone can do, someone like me that owes so much to this people and to the revolution: study hard, but more than that, defend them under any circumstance.

Elian Gonzalez

#73. Katniss Everdeen owes her last name to Bathsheba Everdene, the lead character in 'Far From the Madding Crowd.' The two are very different, but both struggle with knowing their hearts.

Suzanne Collins

#74. Happy the man whom indulgent fortune allows to pay to virtue what he owes to nature, and to make a generous gift of what must otherwise be ravished from him by cruel necessity.

David Hume

#75. An author owes a duty to the truth.

Walter Moers

#76. The principle here is that a new generation owes a measure of thanks to every member of the previous generation. Our

Amor Towles

#77. Yes, young men, Italy owes to you an undertaking which has merited the applause of the universe. You have conquered and you will conquer still, because you are prepared for the tactics that decide the fate of battles.

Giuseppe Garibaldi

#78. You'll see a lot more blood in 'Saw' movies or something like that than you will in either of the 'Last House' movies. I kind of think it owes more to 'The Virgin Spring' which is the original source material, the Bergman movie.

Garret Dillahunt

#79. Men did not make the earth. It is the value of the improvements only, and not the earth itself, that is individual property. Every proprietor owes to the community a ground rent for the land which he holds.

Thomas Paine

#80. Aschenbach stated outright that nearly everything great owes its existence to "despites": despite misery

Thomas Mann

#81. I actually think that the president owes the Jews of Europe an apology. They deserve better from the President of the United States. Anti-semitism is on the rise, and somebody must stick up for them.

Dana Perino

#82. Any human being who accepts the help of another, knows that good will is the giver's only motive and that good will is the payment he owes in return.

Ayn Rand

#83. Every American born today owes $43,000 to the federal government the day she or he is born. And we are transferring a tremendous amount of debt to the new generation, much of it owed to overseas creditors who expect to be repaid by our children with interest.

Mark Kirk

#84. Target your random acts of kindness, to keep a tally of who owes what

Josh Stern

#85. Art owes its origin to Nature herself ... this beautiful creation, the world, supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence which has not only made us superior to the other animals, but like God Himself, if I may venture to say it.

Giorgio Vasari

#86. Pettigrew owes his life to you. You have sent Voldemort a deputy who is in your debt. When one wizard saves another wizard's life, it creates a certain bond between them . . . and I'm much mistaken if Voldemort wants his servant in the debt of Harry Potter.

J.K. Rowling

#87. If it turns out that the Mayans are right and the world is going to end, you know what this means?
Lindsay Lohan is a genius. She's been partying her brains out. She owes taxes. She's crashing cars. She's a genius!

Jay Leno

#88. Remember that no one owes your dream anything, by measure of ensuring that you succeed; that is entirely up to you.

Bidemi Mark-Mordi

#89. You have been in politics long enough to know that no man in public office owes the public anything.

Mark Hanna

#90. The desire the law makers have in having only dispensary owners to control marijuana is part of the game our law makers play to create a bureau of specific business created that owes its allegiance to the political process and therefore will make sure that process continues.

Steven Machat

#91. Our possessions are wholly in our performances. He owns nothing to whom the world owes nothing.

William Gilmore Simms

#92. My youth is escaping without giving me anything it owes me.

Ivy Compton-Burnett

#93. Don't go around thinking the world owes you a living. It was here first.

Mark Twain

#94. I was there when God was put on trial ... At the end of the trial, they used the word chayav, rather than 'guilty'. It means 'He owes us something'. Then we went to pray.

Elie Wiesel

#95. What humanity owes to personalities like Buddha, Moses, and Jesus ranks for me higher than all the achievements of the enquiring and constructive mind.

Albert Einstein

#96. The decline of violence may owe something to an expansion of empathy, but it also owes much to harder-boiled faculties like prudence, reason, fairness, self-control, norms and taboos, and conceptions of human rights. This

Steven Pinker

#97. The feeling that someone owes us something, the pain for the harm that others caused us, etc., stops the inner progress of the soul.

Samael Aun Weor

#98. The Government of Iraq also owes a debt to the American and coalition forces who are fighting the insurgency and helping put that country back together after decades of repression.

Ike Skelton

#99. Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.

Samuel Johnson

#100. You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don't seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.

Henry Ford