Owing Quotes

114 quotes by 104 authors

You have lost your reason and taken the wrong path. You have taken lies for truth, and hideousness for beauty. You would marvel if, owing… — Anton Chekhov
I die, as I have lived, a free spirit, an Anarchist, owing no allegiance to rulers, heavenly or earthly. — Voltairine de Cleyre
He was very much a man of moods, possibly owing to what is styled the artistic temperment. I have never seen, myself, why the possession… — Agatha Christie
I must decline your invitation owing to a subsequent engagement. — Oscar Wilde
Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to… — Theodore Roosevelt
No pill can help me deal with the problem of not wanting to take pills; likewise, no amount of psychotherapy alone can prevent my manias… — Kay Redfield Jamison
Professors go batty too, perhaps more often than other people, although owing to their profession, their madness is less often remarked. — Michael Gruber
Scientists may be in the business of laughing at their predecessors, but owing to an array of human mental dispositions, few realize that someone will… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Rise above the deceptions and temptations of the mind. This is your duty. You are born for this only; all other duties are self-created and… — Sivananda
She had heard it said that, before you could understand anybody, you needed to walk a mile in their shoes, which did not make a… — Terry Pratchett
I feel like I owe him something, and I hate owing people. Maybe if I had thanked him at some point, I'd be feeling less… — Suzanne Collins
He begged to know to which of his fair cousins the excellency of its cookery was owing. Briefly forgetting her manners, Mary grabbed her fork… — Seth Grahame-Smith
Owing to the fact he was a mute they were able to give him all the qualities they wanted him to have. — Carson McCullers
What then is the source of my errors? They are owing simply to the fact that, since the will extends further than the intellect, I… — Rene Descartes
Every decent man of our age must be a coward and a slave. That is his normal condition. Of that I am firmly persuaded. He… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
The whole gospel of Karl Marx can be summed up in a single sentence: Hate the man who is better off than you are. Never… — Henry Hazlitt
Evolution as a process that has always gone on in the history of the earth can only be doubted by those who are ignorant of… — Theodosius Dobzhansky
James Brown died owing me $50,000. But I loved James Brown. — Don King
Taste is one of the five senses, and the man who tells us with priggish pride that he does not care what he eats is… — Edward Frederic Benson
In the main the Academy helped to frame only laws of an economic or social nature, since owing to the development of the totalitarian regime… — Hans Frank

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