Borrowed Quotes
233 quotes by 203 authors
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The world is not given by our fathers, but borrowed from our children.
— Wendell Berry
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The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates
— Dale Carnegie
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My first student film was Orientation, which was basically the set-up for Animal House. There are a couple of scenes that we later borrowed in…
— Ivan Reitman
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You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more…
— Abraham Lincoln
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You must take risks, both with your own money or with borrowed money. Risk taking is essential to business growth.
— J. Paul Getty
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In truth, money is not created until the instant it is borrowed. It is the act of borrowing which causes it to spring into existence.…
— G. Edward Griffin
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I was too broke to buy a guitar so I more borrowed guitars from friends.
— Ronnie Montrose
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I borrowed a guitar at age 16 and taught myself to play because I wanted to write songs.
— Adrian Belew
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I want to share with the American people that President Bush and the Republican majority in just 4 years have borrowed $1.05 trillion from foreign…
— Kendrick Meek
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We borrowed money, it helped us with bonds and what not, and the Federal Government backed it, but it was a guarantee, it was not…
— David Dinkins
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Here I was worrying about my journey, while God was helping me all the way. I made me realize that I am very weak; my…
— Gladys Aylward
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Meditation is just a courage to be silent and alone. Slowly slowly, you start feeling a new quality to yourself, a new aliveness, a new…
— Rajneesh
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Is all literature eavesdropping, and all art Chinese imitation? our life a custom, and our body borrowed, like a beggar’s dinner, from a hundred charities?
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Most men are rich in borrowed sufficiency: a man may very well say a good thing, give a good answer, cite a good sentence, without…
— Michel de Montaigne
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A whoreson jackanapes must take me up for swearing; as if I borrowed mine oaths of him and might not spend them at my pleasure.…
— William Shakespeare
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As by some might be saide of me: that here I have but gathered a nosegay of strange floures, and have put nothing of mine…
— Michel de Montaigne
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Passing through the fire of meditation, everything that is not your authentic reality, everything that is borrowed, will be burned away.
— Rajneesh
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I am among those who believe that our Western civilization is on its way to perishing. It has many commendable qualities, most of which it…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Of late years (perhaps as a result of our political changes) art has borrowed from history more than ever.
— Alfred de Vigny
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The book borrower...proves himself to be an inveterate collector of books not so much by the fervor with which he guards his borrowed treasures...as by…
— Walter Benjamin
Who Wrote These Borrowed Quotes
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