Owed Quotes

126 Owed quotes by 111 unique authors

Whatever a man has in superabundance is owed, of natural right, to the poor for their sustenance. — Thomas Aquinas
Whatever a man has in superabundance is owed, of natural right, to the poor for their sustenance. So Ambrosius says, and it is also to… — Thomas Aquinas
The insignia meant a lot to the men who were fighting ... I had to do it ... I owed it to them. — Walt Disney
All, the intelligent and stupid, diligent and idle, have been swept along on a current of increased output that, in the usual case, owed nothing… — John Kenneth Galbraith
We only borrow the breaths we take in life. Every breath we borrow we give back, including our last. In the end, no matter how… — Craig Stone
When I was in N.W.A. and didn't get paid all the money I was owed, that's when the business side of showbiz hit me. — Ice Cube
God gave me a talent to draw. I 'owed' it to him to develop the talent. — Annie Dillard
He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody. — Joseph Heller
No one asked me to be an actor, so no one owed me. There was no entitlement. — James Earl Jones
When I was born I owed twelve dollars. — George S. Kaufman
I have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned… — John Steinbeck
Of course, with agriculture came the first big civilizations, the first cities built of mud and brick, the first empires. And it was the administers… — Howard Rheingold
Your strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others. — Joseph Conrad
I was still owed an explanation, I thought, but so what? What good was it going to do me? It wouldn't have made me any… — Nick Hornby
As the Brotherhood got down to business, he found himself putting his hand on the dog’s big head and stroking the soft fur…playing with an… — J R Ward
Yes. I owed my life, Angel's life, and my mother's life to a mutant's ability to create industrial-strength snot. — James Patterson
Some things you didn't give away, no matter how much you owed. — Joe Hill
Maybe I was naïve to think that silence was implicit complacence, instead of a festering question. Maybe I was silly to believe that friends owed… — Jodi Picoult
I could not understand how people could not like something as beautiful as the aerodrome. But I had lately become convinced that in general people… — Ismail KadarÃ©
I, a product of the New Frontier and Great Society, honestly believed that the world pretty much owed me a living--all I had to do… — Anthony Bourdain
The truth of course was otherwise, but Lecha had never felt she owed anyone the truth, unless it was truth about their own lives, and… — Leslie Marmon Silko
If you loved someone, you couldn’t let lies come between you. No matter what happened—even if you’d already lost each other forever—you owed each other… — Claudia Gray
This was why I was here. This was why I would take whatever reception waited for me when I got back. Because, underneath all the… — Stephenie Meyer
Never before in human history have so few owed so much to so many, Mr. Jiabao. A handful of men in this country have trained… — Aravind Adiga
I tended to give a book a chance and another chance and another, sometimes seeing it all the way to the end, still hoping for… — Deb Caletti

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