Top 225 Owed Quotes & Sayings

Never in the annals of software engineering was so much owed by so many to so few lines of code

Some things you didn't give away, no matter how much you owed.

Give obedience where 'tis truly owed.

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

Your strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others.

The Democrat Party were gonna show Hillary Clinton gratitude. There might even be some people who actually think she's gonna be a good president, too. But for the most part it was they owed her. They owed her big time. They still do, and so does he.

Many of the greatest men have owed their success to industry rather than to cleverness.

The greatest respect is owed to a child.

'Barton Fink' owed something to Roman Polanski. As a director, he always goes beyond the obvious narrative drift.

To her [Florence Nightingale] chiefly I owed the awakening to the fact that sanitation is the supreme goal of medicine its foundation and its crown.

Any titles, money, or privilege you inherit are actually hindrances. They delude you into believing you are owed respect.

When I was born I owed twelve dollars.

I don't expect any red carpet to the big leagues. If the opportunity comes, then it comes. But I don't think I'm owed anything.

Europe has always owed to oriental genius its divine impulses. What these holy bards said, all sane men found agreeable and true.

Repatriating the Ram HD is the right thing to do... it should never have been moved to Mexico. This was owed to the U.S. government - and the taxpayers.

Never in the history of human credit has so much been owed.

I was surrounded by too many people who felt that they had a strong sense of entitlement. That I owed them something.

I have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned tool.

To my great-grandfather I owed the advice to dispense with the education of the schools and have good masters at home instead - and to realize that no expense should be grudged for this purpose.

I am not owed anything in this life, especially in wrestling.

When I was in N.W.A. and didn't get paid all the money I was owed, that's when the business side of showbiz hit me.

Thus you are just not because you give what is owed, but because you do what is appropriate to you as the highest good.

Who said we were owed happiness?

Of course, with agriculture came the first big civilizations, the first cities built of mud and brick, the first empires. And it was the administers of these empires who began hiring people to keep track of the wheat and sheep and wine that was owed and the taxes that was owed on them by making marks; marks on clay in that time.

And just as there are no crimes so detestable that they can prevent the gift of grace, so too there can be no works so eminent that they are owed in condign [deserved] judgment that which is given freely. Would it not be a debasement of redemption in Christ’s blood, and would not God’s mercy be made secondary to human works, if justification, which is through grace, were owed in view of preceding merits, so that it were not the gift of a Donor, but the wages of a laborer?

I owed it to my father that I was elected to Parliament in the first place, but I owed it to my mother that I stuck it out once I got there.

The insignia meant a lot to the men who were fighting ... I had to do it ... I owed it to them.

So much of my game is owed to Thierry. We text regularly.

In fact, there's no way that banks can be paid everything that they're owed.

Below-target inflation increases the real value of debts owed by households and businesses and reduces the ability of central banks to respond to downturns.

The farmer's way of saving money: to be owed by someone he trusted.

Even the development of the steam engine owed but little to the advancement of science.

The way Gansey saw it was this: if you had a special knack for finding things, it meant you owed the world to look.

I look at where I'm at today and realize that most of my success is owed to the mentors that was in my life.

I owe America more than she has ever owed me.

All, the intelligent and stupid, diligent and idle, have been swept along on a current of increased output that, in the usual case, owed nothing whatever to their efforts.

Goethe said there would be little left of him if he were to discard what he owed to others.

Look your audience straight in the eyes, and begin to talk as if every one of them owed you money.

It is because I owe America more than she has ever owed me that I am a candidate for president to the United States.

Which reminded me...I still owed the gods a debt. "You're a genius," I (Percy) told Annabeth.

One of the traditional rites of passage for political candidates is the revelation of financial status - a catechism-like recital of money mistakes made and debts owed.

God gave me a talent to draw. I 'owed' it to him to develop the talent.

I realized that a lot of people in my family had sacrificed for me to have the opportunity to go to a place like Duke. I owed it to them to finish. I graduated with a 3.6.

I tended to give a book a chance and another chance and another, sometimes seeing it all the way to the end, still hoping for for it turn out different. Maybe I was confused about what you owed a book. What you owed people, for that matter, real or fictional.

I was thinking about the universe wanting to be noticed, and how I had to notice it as best I could. I felt that I owed a debt to the universe that only my attention could repay, and also that I owed a debt to everybody who didn’t get to be a person anymore and everyone who hadn’t gotten to be a person yet.

Though I continue to tell stories about Iraq, I sometimes fear this makes me a fraud. I feel guilty about the sorrow I feel because I know it is manufactured, and I feel guilty about the sorrow I do not feel because it is owed, it is the barest beginnings of what is owed to the fallen.

Two things are owed to truthfulness: lasting marriages and short friendships.

I don't think there is anything owed to us. You've got to go out and work hard for every round win.

It saddens me that Christians need to be reminded that awe is owed also to those who disagree with them, who believe otherwise than they do.

I personally do not owe the debt that was owed by the campaign.

The grieving are surely owed our empathy, but capital punishment can neither right a wrong nor prevent another from happening.

At 17 I was earning money I didn't know how to handle and before I knew it I owed thousands to the taxman.

Whatever a man has in superabundance is owed, of natural right, to the poor for their sustenance.

He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

What I want to do more than anything as president of the United States is to restore the honor and dignity and respect that this country is owed around the world.

Anything less than total candor was bullshit. I owed that to my readers, I owed that to myself, and I owed that most specifically to my mother. I've had some thrilling moments in my 18-year literary career to this point, and nothing comes close to giving Geneva Hilliker Ellroy, the farm girl from Tunnel City, Wisconsin, to the world.

I so owed Arianna, that undead little genius.

After four hundred years of slave labor, we have some back pay coming, a bill owed to us that must be collected.

The idea that any performer type is owed anything is a joke to me.

A child is owed the greatest respect; if you have ever have something disgraceful in mind, don't ignore your son's tender years.