Owing Quotes

114 Owing quotes by 104 unique authors

Every one wants to command, and no one wants to obey; and this is owing to the absence of that wonderful brahmacharya system of yore.… — Swami Vivekananda
People talk of the sacrifice I have made in spending so much of my life in Africa. Can that be called a sacrifice which is… — David Livingstone
We ask for what reason our Lord was unwilling to state the time of His coming (cf. Mk. 13:31-32). If we ask it, we shall… — Ambrose
The average net worth of the lower half of the distribution, representing 62 million households, was $11,000 in 2013. About one-fourth of these families reported… — Janet Yellen
Rich, 'the Old Man said dreamily, 'is not baying after what you can't have. Rich is having the time to do what you want to… — Robert Ruark
Upon the whole, I am inclined to think that the far greater part, if not all, of those difficulties which have hitherto amused philosophers, and… — George Berkeley
He's like one of those weird birds in India who dissolve themselves into thin air and nip through space in a sort of disembodied way… — P.G. Wodehouse
The main qualities that had earned him this universal respect in the service were, first, an extreme indulgence towards people, based on his awareness of… — Leo Tolstoy
I am interested only in the relations of a people to the rearing of the individual man, and among the Greeks the conditions were unusually… — Friedrich Nietzsche
In civilized society we all depend upon each other, and our happiness is very much owing to the good opinion of mankind. — Samuel Johnson
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

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