Top 1200 Debt Settlement Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

It is morally wrong for this country to require our citizens to take on tens of thousands of dollars of debt to achieve the American Dream.

A Tory..., since the revolution, may be defined in a few words, to be a lover of monarchy, though without abandoning liberty; anda partizan of the family of Stuart. As a Whig may be defined to be a lover of liberty though without renouncing monarchy; and a friend to the settlement in the protestant line.

A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid; it is only deferred, and we must come back and settle the account at last.

Hungary has a moral debt to the Jews that it helped send to death camps thirty years after the First World War.

War is not in itself a condition so much as the symptom of a condition, that of international anarchy. If we wish to substitute for war the settlement of disputes by justice, we must first substitute for the condition of international anarchy a condition of international order

I must express my protest against continually increasing the debt without taking positive steps to slow its growth.

The evergreen story of people in debt becomes even sexier in an economic downturn, when debts inevitably get harder to pay.

Beware of suretyship for thy best friend; he that payeth another man's debt seeketh his own decay.

Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt.

In many instances, marriage vows would be more accurate if the phrase were changed to 'Until debt do us part'.

No country can be complacent in making sure that excessive debt of the household doesn't create excesses and weaknesses in the financial system. Everything is interconnected.

Women owe Friedan an incalculable debt for The Feminine Mystique. Domesticity was not a satisfactory story of an intelligent woman's life.

I consider myself a product of Alaska. The love and the debt that I feel to my home state, you always want your hometown to be the proudest of you.

The debt they ran up in the first year of the Obama administration is bigger than the last four years of the Bush combined.

Our expense is almost all for conformity. It is for cake that we run in debt; 'tis not the intellect, not the heart, not beauty, not worship, that costs so much.

Hamas is regularly described as 'Iranian-backed Hamas, which is dedicated to the destruction of Israel.' One will be hard put to find something like 'democratically elected Hamas, which has long been calling for a two-state settlement in accord with the international consensus'—blocked for over 30 years by the US and Israel. All true, but not a useful contribution to the Party Line, hence dispensable.

Greece is a medium-sized country in Europe. Our debt accounts for only 2.5 percent of the total of all members of the euro zone.

Congress must do what we said we would and find ways to pay for bills we propose so we don't leave future generations mired in debt.

We should make sure that unscrupulous schools do not prey on uninformed students, leaving them with high debt and useless degrees.

Most of the major increases in the debt ceiling have been accompanied by structural changes in the way we raise and spend money.

Debt is not intrinsically bad. But I make clear to my children that they should only borrow as much as they will be able to pay back.

We have no exposure in Europe and not made any finances to the companies there. So the question of Greek debt crisis impacting the bank does not arise.

We still have a major problem in debt with America that we have to find efficiencies in government to get us back to a balanced budget.

All crises have involved debt that, in one fashion or another, has become dangerously out of scale in relation to the underlying means of payment.

Crisis for others is a source of despair. For me, it's an opportunity to bring reform. I owe this country a debt I cannot repay.

When I was 12, my mother passed away from heart failure, leaving us in grief and in debt from her medical bills.

Stress means something different if it is the result of rewarding work rather than struggling to keep the family out of debt.

There's just no question that the United States was trying desperately to prevent the independence of South Vietnam and to prevent a political settlement inside South Vietnam. And in fact it went to war precisely to prevent that. It finally bombed the North in 1965 with the purpose of trying to get the North to use its influence to call off the insurgency in the South.

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.

Rich people always have a certain degree of debt. Apparently it helps to reduce taxes. I'm not so hot on the bean-counting side.

The American capitalists are richer and stronger than their counterparts in other lands. They are also younger and more ignorant, and therefore more inclined to seek a rough settlement of difficulties without diplomatic subtlety and finesse. All that does not change the fact that American capitalism operates according to the same laws as the others, is confronted with the same fundamental problems, and is headed toward the same catastrophe.

She suffers according to the digits of my hate. I hear the filaments of alabaster. I would lie down with them and lift my madness off like a wig. I would lie outside in a room of wool and let the snow cover me. Paris white or flake white or argentine, all in the washbasin of my mouth, calling “Oh.” I am empty. I am witless. Death is here. There is no other settlement.

The perils of credit and debt, especially perilous in the computer age, have long been acknowledged in pop culture, but very infrequently by TV.

When I treat other people with kindness and love, it is part of my way of paying my debt to God and the world for the privilege of living on this planet.

Our system - of debt-fueled economic growth, of ineffective democracy, of overloading planet Earth - is eating itself alive.

You [Jill Stein] want to do something about student debt. And that affects conservative and liberal students. That's going to be a majoritarian position.

The problem is that people basically dangle debt in front of us. And the cost for the poor of course is much higher than for the wealthy.

Beefs against debt collectors are consistently among the top complaints received by both the FTC and state attorneys general.

Science does not know its debt to imagination. Goethe did not believe that a great naturalist could exist without this faculty.

America needs education reform on all levels to expand quality schools, build on past successes, and lower college debt.

The folks I read as a kid really set me up. I owe a huge debt to Ray Bradbury and Madeleine L'Engle.

President Obama's Department of Education pledged to solve the student debt crisis, but it was utterly inept in its effort to address the issue.

This is a very connected, tolerant, creative generation, but a lot of them feel really constrained because they've got this big debt.

The person, whom you favored with a loan, if he be a good man, will think himself in your debt after he has paid you.

Debt can be the most addictive thing in the universe, and it can kill you. You get used to living high off the hog. It was intoxicating.

The economic success of the Reagan Administration was largely dependent upon the pyramiding of massive debt and the siphoning of capital from the rest of the world.

We want our children to live in an America that isn't burdened by debt, that isn't weakened by inequality, that isn't threatened by the destructive power of a warming planet.

I believed the only thing that could turn around this government spending and mounting debt would be if the people rose up.

Some people are just stuck in their ways and have been brainwashed into believing that credit cards and debt are an unavoidable part of life.

I've come to give you your gift back, Mordeth," Cauthon whispered. "I consider our debt paid in full.

In a world where wealth is growing, you can get away with printing money. Doubling the debt over the next 20 years is not a problem.

Debt is a task master to be feared almost as much as the dictators themselves. It has enslaved thousands in its meshes. It has wrecked happy homes.

The fact is, we'll never build a lasting economic recovery by going deeper into debt at a faster rate than we ever have before.

Debt robs a man of much of the energy and support which he is otherwise able to give to the church and to other good causes.

College gives people learning and also takes away future opportunities by loading the next generation down with debt.

You cannot give anything to a magnanimous person. After you have served him, he at once puts you in debt by his magnanimity.

It's a bit much describing it as a moral challenge from a government that's tripled the deficit and added $100 billion to net debt.

The need for comprehensive reform must not blind us to the urgency of addressing the massive debt that's already crushing our young people.

History and the task of the future no longer signify the struggle of class against class or the conflict between one church dogma and another, but the settlement between blood and blood, race and race, Folk and Folk. And that means: the struggle of spiritual values against each other.

I just want to note that 43 million young people in debt is enough to win a three-way Presidential race.