Best We Owe Lines
229 We Owe quotes by 181 unique authors
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Firefighters are essential to the safety and security of our local communities. We owe it to these men and women to provide them with better…
— Carl Levin
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Our Nation must provide sufficient access to healthcare, adequate benefits, and the supplemental resources our veterans were promised and so dearly need. We owe our…
— Dan Lipinski
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We owe it to ourselves and to the next generation to conserve the environment so that we can bequeath our children a sustainable world that…
— Wangari Maathai
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We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.
— Andre Maurois
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Animals are sentient, intelligent, perceptive, funny and entertaining. We owe them a duty of care as we do to children.
— Michael Morpurgo
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The United States, for a French citizen, is a friend, an ally, to whom we owe, along with most Europeans, our freedom.
— Jean-Pierre Raffarin
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We owe at least this much to future generations, from whom we have borrowed a fragile planet called Earth.
— Maurice Strong
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Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for…
— Mother Teresa
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To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
— Voltaire
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My dream of politics all my life has been that it is the common business, that it is something we owe to each other to…
— Woodrow Wilson
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The world owes us nothing; we owe each other the world.
— Ani DiFranco
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we can't afford to do anyone harm because we owe them our lives each breath is recycled from someone else's lungs our enemies are the…
— Ani DiFranco
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I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred--that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and…
— Harriet Beecher Stowe
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i do it for the joy it brings because i'm a joyful girl because the world owes me nothing and we owe each other the…
— Ani DiFranco
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We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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... one doesn't want to read badly any more than live badly, since time will not relent. I don't know that we owe God or…
— Harold Bloom
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We owe it to each other to tell stories.
— Neil Gaiman
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That we can never know," answered the wolf angrily. "That's for the future. But what we can know is the importance of what we owe…
— David Clement-Davies
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Questioning the ostensibly unquestionable premises of our way of life is arguably the most urgent of services we owe our fellow humans and ourselves.
— Zygmunt Bauman
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In normal life we hardly realize how much more we receive than we give, and life cannot be rich without such gratitude. It is so…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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The angry men know that this golden age (of fossil fuels) has gone; but they cannot find the words for the constraints they hate. Clutching…
— George Monbiot
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We owe a huge debt to Galileo for emancipating us all from the stupid belief in an Earth-centered or man-centered (let alone God-centered) system. He…
— Christopher Hitchens
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By my troth, I care not; a man can die but once; we owe God a death and let it go which way it will…
— William Shakespeare
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We are never quits with those who oblige us," was Dantes' reply; "for when we do not owe them money, we owe them gratitude.
— Alexandre Dumas
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Charles de Foucauld, the found of the Little Brothers of Jesus, wrote a single sentence that's ahad a profound impact on my life. He said,…
— Brennan Manning
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