Top 439 Owes Quotes & Sayings

This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.

It is to the eccentrics that the world owes most of its knowledge.

However patriarchal the world, at home the child knows that his mother is the source of all power. The hand that rocks the cradlerules his world. . . . The son never forgets that he owes his life to his mother, not just the creation of it but the maintenance of it, and that he owes her a debt he cannot conceivably repay, but which she may call in at any time.

The world owes an ecological debt to the African continent.

Messi owes something to Argentina. He knows that.

London owes everything to its press: it owes as much to its press as it does to its being the seat of government and the law.

If there is anyone who owes everything to Bach, it is certainly God.

Don't be misled into believing that somehow the world owes you a living. The boy who believes that his parents, or the government, or any one else owes him his livelihood and that he can collect it without labor will wake up one day and find himself working for another boy who did not have that belief and, therefore, earned the right to have others work for him.

I do enjoy working with Ryan although he owes me money.

The first service that one owes to others consists in listening to them.

Some of our earliest writing, in cuneiform, was about who owes what.

A man who owes a little can clear it off in a very little time, and, if he is a prudent man, will; whereas a man, who by long negligence, owes a great deal, despairs of ever being able to pay, and therefore never looks into his accounts at all.

You think the world owes you something, and it just doesn't work that way.

Still to the sufferer comes, as due from God, a glory that to suffering owes its birth.

Some people feel that the world owes them a living.

Humanity owes the child the best it has to give.

Everyone who receives the protection of society owes a return for the benefit.

What the artist owes the world is his work; not a model for living.

This is sweet to see your foe, perish and pay to justice all he owes.

A refined soul is distressed to know that someone owes it thanks; a crude soul, to know that it owes someone thanks.

He that owes nothing, if he makes not mouthes at us, is courteous.

State government owes it to every taxpayer to be as fiscally responsible as possible.

The world owes nothing to any man, but every man owes something to the world.

The Physitian owes all to the patient, but the patient owes nothing to him but a little mony.

love as a passion—it is our European specialty—must absolutely be of noble origin; as is well known, its invention is due to the Provencal poet-cavaliers, those brilliant, ingenious men of the "gai saber," to whom Europe owes so much, and almost owes itself.

Poetry which owes no man anything, owes nevertheless one debt - an image of the world in which men can again believe.

Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another's pain.

Shadow owes its birth to light.

The Bible is clear about two principles: (1) We always need to forgive, but (2) we don’t always achieve reconciliation. Forgiveness is something that we do in our hearts; we release someone from a debt that they owe us. We write off the person’s debt, and she no longer owes us. We no longer condemn her. She is clean. Only one party is needed for forgiveness: me. The person who owes me a debt does not have to ask my forgiveness. It is a work of grace in my heart.

The world has no idea how much it owes to the presence of righteous men in it.

Thus shadow owes its birth to light.

One doesn't wish to see those to whom one owes so much.

A bad book owes to many trees | A forest of apologies.

Owes unions who endorsed him; that's why he's in politics.

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living.

He who uses the office he owes to the voters wrongfully and against them is a thief.

He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.

Comfort, or revelation: God owes us one of these, but surely not both.

The media owes the responsibility to constantly tell the public the truth.

A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.

The only thing an actor owes his public is not to bore them.

The first-person shooter genre owes itself to 'Duke Nukem.'

Tomorrow owes you the sum of your yesterdays. No more than that. And no less.

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained by the wisdom of his friends and the folly of his enemies, and the giant will often be seen to be a pygmy.

I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.

Any creator owes a debt to past creation.

Of all life's pleasures, only love owes no debt to death.

Nobody owes anybody a living, but everybody is entitled to a chance.

A refined nature is vexed by knowing that some one owes it thanks, a coarse nature by knowing that it owes thanks to some one.

To Barack and Michelle Obama - America owes you an enormous debt of gratitude.

I feel like everybody that's successful owes everything to God.

Life owes you nothing. You owe yourself everything.

Music owes as much to Bach as religion to its founder.

The debt that each generation owes to the past, it must pay to the future.

An employer has no business with a man's personality. Employment is a specific contract calling for a specific performance... Any attempt to go beyond that is usurpation. It is immoral as well as an illegal intrusion of privacy. It is abuse of power. An employee owes no "loyalty," he owes no "love" and no "attitudes" - he owes performance and nothing else. .... The task is not to change personality, but to enable a person to achieve and to perform.

Science owes more to the steam engine than the steam engine owes to science.

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.

Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one.

He looks the whole world in the face for he owes not any man.