Debts Quotes
178 quotes by 149 authors
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We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
— John Buchan
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I mean, I'm a conservative. I believe that, you know, if you borrow too much, you just build up debts for your children to pay…
— David Cameron
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When debts are not paid because they cannot be paid, the best thing to do is not talk about them, and shuffle the cards again.
— Camilo Jose Cela
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When you authorised Congress to borrow money, and to contract debts, for carrying on the late war, you could not intend to abridge them of…
— David Ramsey
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With respect to the creation of the program, I introduced the bill in September 1945, immediately after the end of the war with Japan, in…
— J. William Fulbright
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Of course I am frustrated with regard to extreme poverty, to violence that never seems to cease. Greed is the key. It's easy to sit…
— Roger Moore
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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.
— E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
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Fortunately I experienced Max Wertheimer's teaching in Berlin and collaborated for over a decade with Wolfgang Köhler. I need not emphasize my debts to these…
— Kurt Lewin
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Of all the enemies to public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.…
— James Madison
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Government ought to be as much open to improvement as anything which appertains to man, instead of which it has been monopolized from age to…
— Thomas Paine
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It is always so pleasant to be generous, though very vexatious to pay debts.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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He that sells upon Credit expects to lose 5 per Cent. By bad Debts; therefore he charges, on all he sells upon Credit, an Advance…
— Benjamin Franklin
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By paying our other debts, we are equal with all mankind; but in refusing to pay a debt of revenge, we are superior.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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He that dies pays all debts.
— William Shakespeare
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The time has come to end this charade. The debts are unaffordable. If they won't cancel the debts I would suggest obstruction; you do it…
— Jeffrey Sachs
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The investment in our mining industry has been very positive for Australia but we need to be doing more if we want, as I do,…
— Gina Rinehart
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Families across America are feeling the pinch as they watch debts mount, bills pile up and savings disappear.
— Barack Obama
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Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
— Moliere
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Youth is in danger until it learns to look upon debts as furies.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Comparatively, we are so much quicker to return favors and to pay our debts to mortals - and we should be responsive and grateful. But…
— Neal A. Maxwell
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