Owes Quotes
279 quotes by 235 authors
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Some of our earliest writing, in cuneiform, was about who owes what.
— Margaret Atwood
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Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his…
— Joseph Addison
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A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself.
— Alexander Graham Bell
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Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.
— Theodor Adorno
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One day I realized that I wasn't getting anywhere by blaming other people for my circumstances. I finally understood: Even if you feel someone has…
— Mary J. Blige
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In the inner city, there's a mentality that the government owes you something. My breakthrough came when I stopped feeling sorry for myself and took…
— Mary J. Blige
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When people do things for you, it's because they want to - because you, in some way, give them something meaningful that makes them want…
— Harry Browne
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A great burden was lifted from my shoulders the day I realized that no one owes me anything.
— Harry Browne
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Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
— Edmund Burke
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The young patriots now returning from war in Iraq and Afghanistan and other deployments worldwide are joining the ranks of veterans to whom America owes…
— Steve Buyer
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The working class owes all honor and respect to the first men who planted the standard of labor solidarity on the hostile frontier of unorganized…
— Ralph Chaplin
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Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
— Jim Backus
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It is for the good of nations, and not for the emolument or aggrandizement of particular individuals, that government ought to be established, and that…
— Thomas Paine
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A society is always eager to cover misdeeds with a cloak of forgetfulness, but no society can fully repress an ugly past when the ravages…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The more humanity owes him, the more society denies him. Every door is shut against him, even when he has a right to its being…
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them.
— Jean Genet
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Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained by the wisdom…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Even today a good many distinguished minds seem unable to accept or even to understand that from a source of noise natural selection alone and…
— Jacques Monod
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My sister was drowning in the ocean once, and my brother and I dove in and saved her. True story. She owes us her life.…
— Matt Barr
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Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his…
— Thomas Jefferson
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