Owes Quotes
279 quotes by 230 authors
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There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
— Thomas Browne
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All scientific knowledge to which man owes his role as master of the world arose from playful activities.
— Konrad Lorenz
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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
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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
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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
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Our nation owes a debt to its fallen heroes that we can never fully repay, but we can honor their sacrifice.
— Barack Obama
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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
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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
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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
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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
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I've always thought that a woman owes it to herself to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity.
— Helena Rubinstein
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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
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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
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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
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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
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A grateful mind/ By owing owes not, but still pays, at once/ Indebted and discharg'd.
— John Milton
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The debt that each generation owes to the past, it must pay to the future.
— Abigail Scott Duniway
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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
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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
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Science owes more to the steam engine than the steam engine owes to science.
— Lawrence Joseph Henderson
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