Sleepe without supping, and wake without owing.

But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on…

— George Eliot

She had heard it said that, before you could understand anybody, you needed to walk a mile in their shoes, which did not make…

— Terry Pratchett

The proof given by Wright, that non-adaptive differentiation will occur in small populations owing to "drift," or the chance fixation of some new mutation…

— Julian Huxley

A newspaper is a private enterprise owing nothing whatsoever to the public, which grants it no franchise. It is therefore affected with no public…

— William Peter Hamilton

“All that we saw was owing to your metaphysics.”

— William Blake

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government,…

— Theodore Roosevelt

I am already sensible of decay in the power of walking, and find my memory not so faithful as it used to be. This…

— Thomas Jefferson

Owing to the fact that leaders in the women's groups made a point of serving on the jury here whenever they were called, we…

— Anonymous

The enemy's spies who have come to spy on us must be sought out, tempted with bribes, led away and comfortably housed. Thus they…

— Sun Tzu

Chastity is oftener owing to diffidence and shame, than to fortitude of reason or virtue.

— Norm MacDonald

Men and women dream the same amount. The main difference in dream content relates to biology and life events. Women dream about their fertility,…

— Charles McPhee

The impossibility of separating the nomenclature of a science from the science itself, is owing to this, that every branch of physical science must…

— Antoine Lavoisier

The debt immense of endless gratitude, So burthensome, still paying, still to owe; Forgetful what from him I still receivd, And understood not that…

— John Milton

In our own time the whole of Greece has been subject to a low birth rate and a general decrease of the population, owing…

— Polybius

This great increase of the quantity of work which, in consequence of the division of labour, the same number of people are capable of…

— Adam Smith