Borrowed Quotes · Page 3

Modern writers are the moons of literature; they shine with reflected light, with light borrowed from the ancients.

— Samuel Johnson

I borrowed a guitar at age 16 and taught myself to play because I wanted to write songs.

— Adrian Belew

Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most [borrowed from Mark Twain]

— Gerard Way

Instead of Regret it, your friend did not return the borrowed amount, you can thank the sensitivity of taxes that you know

— Mak_786

Besides the mathematical arts there is no infallible knowledge, except that it be borrowed from them.

— Robert Recorde

We need to call sin what the Bible calls it and not soften it with modern expressions borrowed from our culture.

— Jerry Bridges

“Remember, whatever be your attainments, gifts, or graces, ye are decked with borrowed feathers: be not proud of them.”

— Thomas Boston

No reporter is flying around in borrowed twin-engine airplanes.

— Dee Dee Myers

My works are all expressly my own - pleasingly peculiar, not a borrowed stroke in one of them. I write as I…

— Amanda McKittrick Ros

Think today's interest rates are high? The Pilgrims borrowed $7000 from a London company of 70 investors in 1620, and devoted the…

— L. M. Boyd

We may say that life has borrowed from inanimate processes the same basic mechanism used in producing those striking structures that are…

— Linus Pauling

The unique danger today is the possibility that we may face longer-term stagnation as a consequence of relying too heavily on borrowed…

— Mortimer Zuckerman

There is a big problem. The problem is the country borrowed too much. We went on a borrowing binge, there was a…

— George Osborne

We live on borrowed time, hope turned to dust, Nothing is forgiven we fight for every crust. The way we are is…

— Motorhead

There is no life in thee, now, except that rocking life imparted by a gently rolling ship; by her, borrowed from the…

— Herman Melville

I love being in borrowed houses. I love being a bit out of my context. I miss my context dreadfully, but I'm…

— Joan Juliet Buck

Here was I worrying about my journey, while God was helping me all the way. It made me realize that I am…

— Gladys Aylward

I am among those who believe that our Western civilization is on its way to perishing. It has many commendable qualities, most…

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

If increased government spending with borrowed or newly created money is a 'stimulus,' then the Weimar Republic should have been stimulated to…

— Thomas Sowell

Few minds are sunlike, sources of light in themselves and to others: many more are moons that shine with a borrowed radiance.…

— Augustus William Hare

Let men learn that a legislature is not 'our God upon earth,' though, by the authority they ascribe to it, and the…

— Herbert Spencer

For the first time in history, the rational and the good are fully armed in the battle against evil. Here we finally…

— Andrew Bernstein

No doubt other writers have often put a thing more brilliantly, more subtly than even a very cunning artist in words can…

— Ethel Smyth

In this moment she felt that she had been robbed of an enormous number of valuable things, whether material or intangible: things…

— Katherine Anne Porter

Modern economics and the welfare state borrowed heavily on the future.

— Gregory Benford

Throughout its history, Islam has borrowed and adapted from other civilizations, both ancient and modern.

— Shereen El Feki

About two months into the Whisky, I borrowed some money and rented a remote recording truck.

— Anonymous

Don't be afraid to borrow. The great men, the most original, borrowed from everybody.

— John French Sloan

I borrowed 100 pounds and made the pact with God: Make me a millionaire - and you can have half of my money.

— Albert Gubay

Borrowed eloquence, if it contains as good stuff, is as good as own eloquence

— John Adams

The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates

— Dale Carnegie

Kids own nothing. Everything is either promised, borrowed, longed for or exaggerated.

— Jonathan Carroll

I've borrowed tons of jewelry. Most people [in Hollywood] do. But it's your responsibility to keep track of it.

— Rumer Willis

“These bones I carry were borrowed from women much stronger than I. Know that when you need them, you can borrow mine.”

— Nichole McElhaney

“He might find that rather difficult, as i borrowed his horse.”

— Cayla Kluver

It is Love and the Lover that live eternally - Don't lend your heart to anything else; all else is borrowed.

— Rumi

I think when Tom Ford was there I borrowed a Gucci tux one time, and they were very nice and he was…

— Jared Leto

Sometimes our weakness is considered strength, and we take delight in borrowed greatness.

— Meher Baba

I came to this world with nothing, and will leave with nothing but love. Everything else is just borrowed.

— Ed Sheeran

Live like there's no tomorrow. Love like you're on borrowed time. Always remember, It's good to be alive.

— Jason Gray