Quotes About Owing A Debt

#1. A small debt produces a debtor; a large one, an enemy.

Publilius Syrus

#2. The debt immense of endless gratitude, So burthensome, still paying, still to owe; Forgetful what from him I still receivd, And understood not that a grateful mind By owing owes not, but still pays, at once Indebted and dischargd; what burden then?

John Milton

#3. Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime.

Benjamin Disraeli

#4. It didn't matter that he'd never see her again because she was safe, and she didn't have to live this kind of life. Her life would be good. She was safe.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#5. The East contemplated the forest the West counted the trees ... the mind that knows that trees and the forest is a new mind.

Marilyn Ferguson

#6. When a man is in love or in debt, someone else has the advantage.

Bill Ballance

#7. I know I will be severely criticized by the interventionists in America when I say we should not enter a war unless we have a reasonable chance of winning.

Charles Lindbergh

#8. We live in a world which is full of misery and ignorance, and the plain duty of each and all of us is to try to make the little corner he can influence somewhat less miserable and somewhat less ignorant than it was before he entered.

Thomas Henry Huxley

#9. The truth, Prime Minister, is that you have run out of our money. The country as a whole is now in negative equity. Every British child is born owing around 20,000 pounds. Servicing the interest on that debt is going to cost more than educating the child.

Daniel Hannan

#10. But I can't say that gratitude was my motive for infringing on the Law of Cultural Embargo. I was not paying my debt to him. Such debts remain owing. Estraven and I had simply arrived at the point where we shared whatever we had that was worth sharing.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#11. We are born in debt, owing the world a death. This is the shadow that darkens every cradle. Trauma is what happens when you catch a surprise glimpse of that darkness, the coming annihilation not only of the body and the mind but also, seemingly, of the world.

David J. Morris

#12. One of the greatest disservices you can do a man is to lend him money that he can't pay back.

Jesse H. Jones

#13. My profession lent itself nicely to my vocation for heights. It freed me of any bitterness towards my fellow men, who were alwaysin my debt, without my owing them anything. It placed me above the judge whom, I in turn judged, above the defendant whom I forced into gratitude.

Albert Camus

#14. I have always been interested in religion, especially in forms of ecstatic religion, where people are touched directly by the Spirit and go completely out of themselves.

Lee Smith

#15. This may sound a little harsh, but I don't care about my career. Really, I don't like actors who are always planning what they're going to do next or always worrying about doing something that will go against the image they've created. To me, that's almost like an attack of narcissism.

Antonio Banderas

#16. Everything about you fascinates me, Sophie. The smell of your skin. The sound of your voice. Your long legs. Your sense of humor. Your personality. You don't seem to need me, and if you don't need me, it is much more gratifying that you want me.

Elisa Marie Hopkins

#17. Debt is like any other trap, easy enough to get into, but hard enough to get out of.

Josh Billings

#18. You will never solve problems unless you face them head on.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#19. Teachers have almost stopped reading aloud to their classes because of the pressure of testing and tight curricula, but it is the books we read together and talk about together that bring us closer together.

Katherine Paterson

#20. My heart's never smiled so hard Baby. Lovin' you is fun.

Easton Corbin

#21. No tears are shed when an enemy dies.

Publilius Syrus

#22. What if...what if that is the price one has to pay for staying on? Perhaps that is how they look at it: perhaps that is how I should look at it too. They see me as owing something. They see themselves as debt collectors, tax collectors. Why should I be allowed to live here without paying?

J.M. Coetzee

#23. Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience; you will find it a calamity.

Samuel Johnson

#24. When it's for the good of your state, you put partisan differences aside.

Amy Klobuchar

#25. You will need, after your journey, to refresh yourself by making your toilet.

Bram Stoker

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

Aristophanes

#27. Who goeth a borrowing. Goeth a sorrowing.

Thomas Tusser

#28. Voiding likewise the accumulation of debt, not only by shunning occasions of expense, but by vigorous exertions in time of peace to discharge the debts, which unavoidable wars may have occasioned, not ungenerously throwing upon posterity the burthen, which we ourselves ought to bear.

George Washington

#29. All the great things we know have come to us from neurotics. It is they who have founded religions and created great works of art.

Marcel Proust

#30. Already I fear that I have made things too easy for men. This

Brandon Sanderson