Debt Quote by John Buchan Download Open image “We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.” — John Buchan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Debt Future Past Pay Time
The debt that each generation owes to the past, it must pay to the future. — Abigail Scott Duniway Copy Share Image
This time, instead of moving oceans and healing planets, let's get our bills in order and pay down the debt so we control our… — Artur Davis Copy Share Image
We often pay our debts not because it is only fair that we should, but to make future loans easier. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Let us avoid debt as we would avoid a plague; where we are now in debt, let us get out of debt; if not… — J. Reuben Clark Copy Share Image
By getting an opportunity to serve society, we get a chance to repay our debt. — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
We're all living on borrowed time. The trick is to come up with works of sufficient interest to pay off the debt. — John M. Ford Copy Share Image
...our societies appear to be intent on immediate consumption rather than on investment for the future. We are piling up enormous debts and exploiting… — Lesslie Newbigin Copy Share Image
We have been maintaining a standard of living by putting things on the debt of the next generation. — Richard Lamm Copy Share Image
“All this was very loose guessing, and I don't pretend it was ingenious or scientific. I wasn't any kind of Sherlock Holmes. But I… — John Buchan Copy Share Image
You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet… — John Buchan Copy Share Image
“I began to get really keen, for every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective.” — John Buchan Copy Share Image
“How will you deal with him?" Belses asked. Jock lifted a brawny fist and regarded it lovingly. "Knock him out-- truss him up-- whatever… — John Buchan Copy Share Image
The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather than for what unites them. — John Buchan Copy Share Image
You see only the productions of second-rate folk who are in a hurry to get wealth and fame. The true knowledge, the deadly knowledge,… — John Buchan Copy Share Image
I always try to suit my clothes to my company. It is the only way to be inconspicuous. — John Buchan Copy Share Image
“But let none, he added, pray to have the full music; for it will make him who hears it a footsore traveller in” — John Buchan Copy Share Image
“though I was afraid of many things, the thing I feared most mortally was being afraid. I” — John Buchan Copy Share Image
I was a peaceful sedentary man, a lover of a quiet life, with no appetite for perils and commotions. But I was beginning to… — John Buchan Copy Share Image
I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had… — Rupert Murdoch Copy Share Image
There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
It is perhaps my greatest hope, Mr. President, that some day we'll consider tax and spending measures with no one else in mind but… — John McCain Copy Share Image
The American people reject the idea of giving Washington a blank check to increase the debt limit. — Martha Roby Copy Share Image
Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
I love Black Sabbath. They made an amazing contribution to music today. Almost every band that made it big in the Nineties owed a… — Dave Grohl Copy Share Image
“The human eye is restricted to see the useen, because there’s a price to be paid to the rulers of this image and if… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
It is a well-settled principle of the international code that where one nation owes another a liquidated debt which it refuses or neglects to… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
Student loans have been helpful to many. But they offer neither incentive nor assistance to those students who, by reason of family or other… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Our sins are debts that none can pay but Christ. It is not our tears, but His blood; it is not our sighs, but… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image