Owes Quotes

279 Owes quotes by 230 unique authors

Art owes its origin to Nature herself... this beautiful creation, the world, supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence which… — Giorgio Vasari
This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
If there is anyone who owes everything to Bach, it is certainly God. — Emile M. Cioran
The young women of today, free to study, to speak, to write, to choose their occupation, should remember that every inch of this freedom was… — Abigail Scott Duniway
The earth, in its natural, uncultivated state was, and ever would have continued to be, the common property of the human race." As the land… — Thomas Paine
Every citizen owes to the country a vigilant watch and close scrutiny of its public servants and a fair and reasonable estimate of their fidelity. — Grover Cleveland
ROMANCE, n. Fiction that owes no allegiance to the God of Things as They Are. In the novel the writer's thought is tethered to probability,… — Ambrose Bierce
Men who have flattered themselves into this opinion of their own abilities, look down on all who waste their lives over books, as a race… — Samuel Johnson
On the other hand, the concept owes its meaning and its justification exclusively to the totality of the sense impressions which we associate with it. — Albert Einstein
If there is anything in us, it is not our own; it is a gift of God. But if it is a gift of God,… — Martin Luther
Every right is married to a duty, every freedom owes a corresponding responsibility. — Russell Kirk
The oldest, truest, most beautiful organ of music, the origin to which alone our music owes its being, is the human voice. — Richard Wagner
Every intellectual has a very special responsibility. He has the privilege and the opportunity of studying. In return, he owes it to his fellow men… — Karl Popper
The first service that one owes to others in the fellowship consists of listening to them. Just as love of God begins with listening to… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The men who start out with the notion that the world owes them a living generally find that the world pays its 'debt' in the… — William Graham Sumner
I am speaking to those among you who have retained some sovereign shred of their soul, unsold and unstamped: '- to the order of others'.… — Ayn Rand
The world owes nothing to any man, but every man owes something to the world. — Thomas A. Edison
My youth is escaping without giving me anything it owes me. — Ivy Compton-Burnett
He looks the whole world in the face for he owes not any man. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
God's ways do not change... Still he shows his freedom and lordship by discriminating between sinners, causing some to hear the gospel while others do… — J I Packer

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