Quotes About Repaying

#1. Perhaps you couldn't help being angry... but you could certainly stop yourself from repaying one offense with another.

Gail Carson Levine

#2. Let the man, who would be grateful, think of repaying a kindness, even while receiving it.

Seneca The Younger

#3. In biblical times, I stoned people to death. Now they are repaying me by hurling pucks at my head.

Gilles Gratton

#4. The ocean, king of mountains and the mighty continents Are not heavy burdens to bear when compared To the burden of not repaying the world's kindness.

Gautama Buddha

#5. The bad stuff never stops happening: it lives in its own dimension, repaying itself over and over.

Tim O'Brien

#6. Acting without design, occupying oneself without making a business of it, finding the great in what is small and the many in the few, repaying injury with kindness, effecting difficult things while they are easy, and managing great things in their beginnings; this is the method of Tao.

Laozi

#7. Someone has to pick up the tab when people get out of repaying their own debts.

Chuck Grassley

#8. Repaying the debt of these ultimate sacrifices seems nearly impossible but we must try.

Michael N. Castle

#9. The church is not supposed to be a society of perfect people doing great work. It's a society of forgiven sinners repaying their unpayable debt of love by working for Jesus's kingdom in every way they can, knowing themselves to be unworthy of the task.

N. T. Wright

#10. The mind has transformed the world, and the world is repaying it with interest. It has led man where he had no idea how to go.

Paul Valery

#11. Like a human being, the mountain is a composite creature, only to be known after many a view from many a different point, and repaying this loving study, if it is anything of a mountain at all, by a gradual revelation of personality, an increase of significance ...

Freya Stark

#12. The best thing about saying thank goodness in place of thank God this that here really are lots of ways of repaying your debt of goodness - by setting to create more of it, for the benefit of those to come.

Daniel Dennett

#13. Want to make today a great day? Learn something new, reconnect with a light from your past, right a wrong, serve someone incapable of repaying you, smile at your own image and thank God for who you are and all that you have.

Toni Sorenson

#14. But repaying a debt
means giving up things.
Making sacrifices.
If I sacrifice my heart
for Jackson,
will I be dead
too?

Lisa Schroeder

#15. If you really want to upset a witch, do her a favor which she has no means of repaying. The unfulfilled obligation will nag at her like a hangnail.

Terry Pratchett

#16. Almost everyone takes pleasure in repaying trifling obligations, very many feel gratitude for those that are moderate; but there is scarcely anyone who is not ungrateful for those that are weighty.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#17. In other words, the uninsured private bankers had to be bailed out illegally and utterly unethically. But the taxpayers who were forced to carry that can should not even be given better terms for repaying the odious, private debt they were forced to acquire in order to bail the bankers out.

Yanis Varoufakis

#18. Think today's interest rates are high? The Pilgrims borrowed $7000 from a London company of 70 investors in 1620, and devoted the next 23 years to repaying it at 43 percent.

L. M. Boyd

#19. If I'm on holiday, I'm active on the beach, I play tennis, I run, I swim a lot. It's just about making the workouts fun, I think, and then it doesn't really feel that bad.

Candice Swanepoel

#20. Just to be with you. That's what you do for me. You simply outweigh everything else. That's how love should be, I guess. I guess, that's what love means.

Laurie Frankel

#21. Saying, "I don't agree with you," or going so far as to say, "I think your belief structure is childish," does not amount to persecution. Insensitivity is not the same as harassment or oppression.

Gudjon Bergmann

#22. I was in Britain that year [1963] and some music publishing people in Denmark Street in London suggested me to the BBC. So I found myself in front of a British television show, which was a nice surprise.

Gordon Lightfoot

#23. For the Romans, gravitas denoted a man's metaphorical "heaviness" - a strength of purpose, sense of authority, depth of character, and commitment to the task at hand that together formed a structure sturdy enough to bear the weight of his significant responsibilities

Brett McKay

#24. Though auditing a class at the Sorbonne taught by Luce Irigaray and titled The Mother-Daughter Relationship: The Darkest of Dark Continents, Claire had followed maternal example by setting out guest towels.

Jeffrey Eugenides