Owes Quotes

279 quotes by 235 authors

Some of our earliest writing, in cuneiform, was about who owes what. — Margaret Atwood
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
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
Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense. — Theodor Adorno
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
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
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
A great burden was lifted from my shoulders the day I realized that no one owes me anything. — Harry Browne
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
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
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
Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success. — Jim Backus
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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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