Owing Quotes

114 quotes by 105 authors

Strictly speaking, there is but one real evil: I mean acute pain. All other complaints are so considerably diminished by time that it is plain… — Mary Wortley Montagu
Then we are assured by Sartre that owing to the final disappearance of God our liberty is absolute! At this the entire audience waves its… — Wyndham Lewis
I have heard of a man lost in the woods and dying of famine and exhaustion at the foot of a tree, whose loneliness was… — Henry David Thoreau
The deceit is sometimes unconscious, but not always, since some people, owing to their sectarianism, purposely overlook reality and refuse to acknowledge the inadequacies and… — Pierre-Paul Grasse
Owing to this struggle for life, any variation, however slight and from whatever cause proceeding, if it be in any degree profitable to an individual… — Charles Darwin
Physics, owing to the simplicity of its subject matter, has reached a higher state of development than any other science. — Bertrand Russell
A beam of luminous hydrogen canal rays has, owing to its velocity, exactly the same direction as that of the electric field in which it… — Johannes Stark
For the last month I have been a strict vegetarian. The moral effects of this regime are immense, owing to the voluntary subjugation of the… — Gustav Mahler
Owing to the difficulty of dealing with substances of high molecular weight we are still a long way from having determined the chemical characteristics and… — Karl Landsteiner
Today our duty is to destroy the myth of evolution, considered as a simple, understood, and explained phenomenon which keeps rapidly unfolding before us. Biologists… — Louis Agassiz
All I worried about was what Owings was doing to me, instead of what I was doing to him. When you start worrying about that… — Dan Gable
A newspaper is a private enterprise owing nothing whatsoever to the public, which grants it no franchise. It is therefore affected with no public interest. — William Peter Hamilton
It has been argued that British girls are incapable of deep feeling or brilliant acting owing to their lack of temperament. This, I am positive,… — Ivor Novello
Mass badly celebrated is an enormous evil. Ah! it is not a matter of indifference how it is said! . . . I have had… — Anne Catherine Emmerich
And, indeed, what little of beauty and peace is to be found in the societies of men is owing to the daily performance of small… — Rabindranath Tagore
If we get into the habit of thinking of ourselves as always owing a debt of love to our spouses, we will be less inclined… — Myles Munroe
Let us take some event in the life of humanity. For instance, war. There is a war going on at the present moment. What does… — G I Gurdjieff
The ability of dandelions to tell the time is somewhat exaggerated, owing to the fact that there is always one seed that refuses to be… — Miles Kington
There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words. To this chiefly it is owing that we find sects… — Thomas Reid
What will it cost [a person] to be a true Christian? It will cost him his self-righteousn ess. He must cast away all pride and… — J C Ryle

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