Owing Quotes

114 quotes by 104 authors

When I was boxing I made five million and wound up broke, owing the government a million. — Joe Louis
I saw in 'the wandering Jew' the personification of the Jewish people, exiled in the Middle Ages. Nevertheless, they are once again extremely rich, owing… — George Sand
The multitude will hardly believe the excessive force of education, and in the difference of modesty between men and women, ascribe that to nature, which… — Bernard de Mandeville
The civil liberties types who are fighting this issue have to fight it, owing to the nature of the laws, as a matter of freedom… — Tom Lehrer
Nations, like individuals in a state of nature, are equal and independent, possessing certain rights and owing certain duties to each other. — Millard Fillmore
Owning is owing, having is hoarding. — Ursula K. Le Guin
There are highly gifted spirits who are always infertile simply because, owing to a weakness in temperament, they are too impatient to wait out their… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Common fluency of speech in many men and most women is owing to a scarcity of matter. — Jonathan Swift
The pleasure of eloquence is in greatest part owing often to the stimulus of the occasion which produces it- - to the magic of sympathy,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A fellow will hack half a year at a block of marble to make something in stone that hardly resembles a man. The value of… — Samuel Johnson
Owing to the imperfection of language the offspring is termed a new animal, but it is in truth a branch or elongation of the parent;… — Erasmus Darwin
To no circumstance is the wide diffusion of error in the world more owing than to our habit of adopting conclusions from insufficiently established data.… — Christian Nestell Bovee
'Green' issues at last are attracting serious attention, owing to critically important links between the environment and the economy, health, and our security. — Sylvia Earle
Owing to ignorance of the rope the rope appears to be a snake; owing to ignorance of the Self the transient state arises of the… — Guru Nanak
The moderation of people in prosperity is the effect of a smooth and composed temper, owing to the calm of their good fortune. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. — Theodore Roosevelt
We must become bigger than we have been: more courageous, greater in spirit, larger in outlook. We must become members of a new race, overcoming… — Haile Selassie
But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric… — George Eliot
it is much safer to be feared than loved because ...love is preserved by the link of obligation which, owing to the baseness of men,… — Niccolo Machiavelli

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