Owed Quotes

126 Owed quotes by 111 unique authors

Which reminded me...I still owed the gods a debt. "You're a genius," I (Percy) told Annabeth. — Rick Riordan
I couldn't look at her. I'd been jealous and hurt, and I had dragged Liv into the middle of my own broken mess of a… — Kami Garcia
No one can obtain felicity by pursuit. This explains why one of the elements of being happy is the feeling that a debt of gratitude… — Josef Pieper
...more than six people cannot agree on anything, three is better and one is perfect for a job that one can do. This is why… — Robert A. Heinlein
Thinking that it would console him, she took a piece of charcoal and erased the innumerable loves that he still owed her for, and she… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Sikh gave him the money. When Menon asked for his address so that he could repay the man, the Sikh said that Menon owed… — Robert Fulghum
And I agreed, but still, she owed us an explanation. If she was up there, down there, out there, somewhere, maybe she would laugh. — John Green
The truth is that nobody is owed an apology for anything. Apologies are lovely when they happen. But they change nothing. They do not reverse… — Augusten Burroughs
Bitterblue had never seen a man naked, and she was curious. She decided the universe owed her a few minutes, just a few, to satisfy… — Kristin Cashore
I so owed Arianna, that undead little genius. — Kiersten White
She navigated away from the Parish Council message board and dropped into her favorite medical website, where she painstakingly entered the words "brain" and "death"… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Who said we were owed happiness? — Cassandra Clare
The wide world was changing, and she wanted a different place in it. Not just wanted, but felt she deserved. If the world didn't owe… — James Robertson
Instead I ought to be grateful to Him who never owed me anything for having been so generous to me, rather than think that He… — Rene Descartes
Why did you do it?" I say. "You want me dead. You were willing to do it yourself! What changed?" He presses his lips together… — Veronica Roth
The way Gansey saw it was this: if you had a special knack for finding things, it meant you owed the world to look. — Maggie Stiefvater
The root of anger is the perception that something has been taken. Something is owed you, and now a debt to debtor relationship has been… — Andy Stanley
In 1492, the natives discovered they were indians, discovered they lived in America, discovered they were naked, discovered that the Sin existed, discovered they owed… — Eduardo Galeano
Tyson charged at the Cyclops leader, Ma Gasket, her chain-mail dress spattered with mud and decorated with broken spears. She gawked at Tyson and started… — Rick Riordan
He had to think he was Michael Wayland’s son, or the Lightwoods would not have protected him as they did. It was Michael they owed… — Cassandra Clare
Two things are owed to truthfulness: lasting marriages and short friendships. — Robert Breault
Our loyalties are to the species and the planet. We speak for Earth. Our obligation to survive is owed not just to ourselves but also… — Carl Sagan
The idea that any performer type is owed anything is a joke to me. — Henry Rollins
If you are a musician who has released albums, it would perhaps be morbidly interesting to know how much you would be owed if everyone… — Henry Rollins
Empty heads, cognitive science has taught us, learn nothing. The powerful cultural and personal flexibility of our species is owed at least in part to… — Paul Bloom

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