Borrowed Quotes

233 quotes by 203 authors

A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children. — John James Audubon
I never took a grant or borrowed a penny from anybody. It was partially because I didn't really know how to do that, but secondly,… — Bryan Adams
Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death. — Walter Benjamin
People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out. — Warren G. Bennis
You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money. — William J. H. Boetcker
The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I… — Dale Carnegie
I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the… — Agatha Christie
Posterity is the world to come; the world for whom we hold our ideals, from whom we have borrowed our planet, and to whom we… — William J. Clinton
It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past.... Each new historical era… — George Steiner
Still, even the most admirable of atheists is nothing more than a moral parasite, living his life based on borrowed ethics. This is why, when… — Theodore Beale
Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation is rich enough to pay… — Abraham Flexner
To substitute judgments of fact for judgments of value is a sign of pedantic and borrowed criticism. — George Santayana
Man is physical as well as metaphysical, a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, and a misfit from the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every morning when I wake up, now, I regard it as having another borrowed day. — Malcolm X
Baccarat is a game whereby the croupier gathers in money with a flexible sculling oar, then rakes it home. If I could have borrowed his… — Mark Twain
Education is not a discipline at all. Half vocational, half emptiness dressed up in garments borrowed from philosophy, psychology, literature. — Edward Blishen
First, Know well that Intellectuality is not intelligence. To be intellectual is to be phony; it is a pretending intelligence. It is not real because… — Rajneesh
If your knowledge of fire has been turned to certainty by words alone, then seek to be cooked by the fire itself. Don't abide in… — Rumi
There are no limitations set by this electric universe upon any man's multiplication power. Each man sets his own limitations in accordance with his desires.… — Walter Russell
We may say that life has borrowed from inanimate processes the same mechanism used in producing these striking structures that are crystals. — Linus Pauling

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