Owes Quotes

279 quotes by 230 authors

There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun. — Thomas Browne
All scientific knowledge to which man owes his role as master of the world arose from playful activities. — Konrad Lorenz
Henry James once defined life as that predicament which precedes death, and certainly nobody owes you a debt of honor or gratitude for getting him… — Clarence Budington Kelland
What humanity owes to personalities like Buddha, Moses, and Jesus ranks for me higher than all the achievements of the enquiring and constructive mind. — Albert Einstein
No words can express how much the world owes to sorrow. Most of the Psalms were born in the wilderness. Most of the Epistles were… — George MacDonald
Our nation owes a debt to its fallen heroes that we can never fully repay, but we can honor their sacrifice. — Barack Obama
Anyone may arrange his affairs so that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose that pattern which best… — Learned Hand
There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn't just fall to a person's lot, that each man owes her… — Seneca the Younger
Man, no doubt, owes many other moral duties to his fellow men; such as to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, shelter the homeless, care… — Lysander Spooner
The tobacco business is a conspiracy against womanhood and manhood. It owes its origin to that scoundrel Sir Walter Raleigh, who was likewise the founder… — John Harvey Kellogg
I've always thought that a woman owes it to herself to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity. — Helena Rubinstein
The proclamation of the Gospel remains the primary service that the Church owes to humanity, to offer the salvation of Christ to the man of… — Pope Benedict XVI
The debt immense of endless gratitude, So burthensome, still paying, still to owe; Forgetful what from him I still receivd, And understood not that a… — John Milton
If we meet someone who owes us a debt of gratitude, we remember the fact at once. How often we can meet someone to whom… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Civilization owes to the Islamic world some of its most important tools and achievements...the Muslim genius has added much to the culture of all peoples. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
A grateful mind/ By owing owes not, but still pays, at once/ Indebted and discharg'd. — John Milton
The debt that each generation owes to the past, it must pay to the future. — Abigail Scott Duniway
The first thing baseball wants to do is make you a superstar and then say that you owe baseball something. I don't owe baseball anything.… — Hank Aaron
If successful people have one common trait, it's an utter lack of cynicism. The world owes them nothing. They go out and find what they… — Unknown Author
Science owes more to the steam engine than the steam engine owes to science. — Lawrence Joseph Henderson

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