Quotes About Paying Debts

#1. Sometimes the way to do what you hope to do will be clear cut, and sometimes it will be almost impossible to decide whether or not you are doing the correct thing, because you'll have to balance your goals and hopes with feeding yourself, paying debts, finding work, settling for what you can get.

Neil Gaiman

#2. Bankruptcy - a peculiar institution that enabled an individual, who had failed in competitive industry, to forego paying his debts. The effect was to ameliorate the too savage conditions of the fang-and-claw social struggle.

Jack London

#3. Lobola ("bride price") is a retired broke father's last hope to paying off his debts.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#4. By paying our other debts, we are equal with all mankind; but in refusing to pay a debt of revenge, we are superior.

Charles Caleb Colton

#5. Being unemployed is even more disastrous for individuals than you'd expect. Aside from the obvious harm - poverty, difficulty paying off debts - it seems to directly affect people's health, particularly that of older workers.

James Surowiecki

#6. The Congo is very wealthy from oil money but is not paying its debts and at the same time is applying for special status at the World Bank. That's shocking and disingenuous.

Paul Singer

#7. 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

#8. Electrical fire and the fire of greed kindle economies. In that flux, nations become digitized commodities on stock-exchange floors and on investors' rating screens. A country becomes a product to be rated for its obedience to paying of deficits and debts.

B.W. Powe

#9. So much of what I create has been due to the influence of Miles Davis and Donald Byrd, and so many of those that have passed on. Their music, their legacy lives on with the rest of us because we are so highly influenced by their experience and what they have given us.

Herbie Hancock

#10. Pay your utilities, gas and other basic needs before paying on your debts.

Dave Ramsey

#11. Anyone who presumes to teach art has no understanding of it.

Eleanora Duse

#12. Life is gift. Accepts the sacred existence.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#13. Do you have to regret spending money when you earn money? And when it is time to spend, you should be strong that you got the opportunity to pay off your debt. Income is one's responsibility and expense is the means to clear off the responsibility.

Dada Bhagwan

#14. Many delight more in giving of presents than in paying their debts.

Philip Sidney

#15. The lovely thing about writing is, well, two things. One, writing fiction allows us to bring an order to our lives that doesn't exist in real life. And two, it allows us to create human characters that we know better than we will ever know anyone in real life.

Octavia E. Butler

#16. But then, I said, speaking the truth and paying your debts is not a correct definition of justice. Quite correct, Socrates, if Simonides is to be believed, said Polemarchus interposing. I

Plato

#17. In each of us lies a creditor and a debtor at once and the art is for the reckoning to tally inside us. We enter the world as a minute part of the life we are given, and from then on we are ever paying off debts. To ourselves. For ourselves. In order for the final reckoning to tally.' 'Is

Andrzej Sapkowski

#18. When you forgive, you must cancel the debt. Do not spend your life paying and collecting debts.

Joyce Meyer

#19. The United States established itself as a trustworthy new nation in its first two decades after the Revolutionary War by paying its debts, even when many in the country believed it had no obligation to do so. Alexander Hamilton, the founder of this newspaper, insisted on it.

John Podhoretz

#20. When you hear the phrase "rescue the financial system," translate it in your mind into "keep the debts on the books." They are trying to find a way for you (and debtor nations too) to keep paying and for the debt to keep growing.

Charles Eisenstein

#21. The most wonderful and the strongest things in the world, you know, are just the things which no one can see.

Charles Kingsley

#22. To read means to borrow; to create out of one s readings is paying off one's debts.

Georg C. Lichtenberg