Borrows Quotes

34 quotes by 32 authors

The sharpest sting of adversity it borrows from our own impatience. — George Horne
The root of masculine is stronger, and of feminine weaker. The sun is a governing planet to certain planets, while the moon borrows her light… — Joseph Smith, Jr.
The pessimist borrows trouble; the optimists lend encouragement. — William Arthur Ward
Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds and restores them to matter in the form of movements which it has stamped with… — Henri Bergson
Genius Borrows nobly. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The government doesn't save enough, it borrows too much and it doesn't invest enough in the next generation. It's like what parents are trying to… — Maya MacGuineas
It is an old error of man to forget to put quotation marks where he borrows from a woman's brain — Anna Garlin Spencer
The Beltway is waking up to the realities of Prsident Obam's budget plan, which taxes, spends, and borrows as far as the eye can see. — Matthew Continetti
Eiffel borrows quite openly from several earlier programming languages and I am sure that if we had found a good language construct in C we… — Bertrand Meyer
Talent borrows, genius steals! — Oscar Wilde
Well, Smoke n' Mirrors has very much a world music flavor and it doesn't park itself in one country. It borrows heavily from the Brazilian… — Lee Ritenour
The South creates the civilizations, the North conquers them, ruins them, borrows from them, spreads them: this is one summary of history. — Will Durant
Virtue cannot be followed but for herself, and if one sometimes borrows her mask to some other purpose, she presently pulls it away again. — Michel de Montaigne
I Am Number Four' definitely borrows from a whole bunch of genres and has a whole bunch of different themes throughout. And I think if… — Callan McAuliffe
There's not a plant or flower below but makes Thy glories known, And clouds arise, and tempests blow by order from Thy throne; While all… — Isaac Watts
A glory gilds the sacred page, Majestic like the sun, It gives a light to every age, It gives, but borrows none. — William Cowper
The Compleat Angler is acknowledged to be one of the world's books. Only the trouble is that the world doesn't read its books, it borrows… — Stephen Leacock
The least-bad scenario is a hard landing, global recession worse than the 1930s. The worst-case borrows from the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: war, famine,… — Kenneth S. Deffeyes
Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak. — Thomas Fuller
The federal government now spends one of every four dollars in the entire economy. It borrows one of every three dollars it spends. No nation,… — Mitch Daniels

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