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Last updated on April 21, 2025.
He who is chaste in flesh should not be proud, for he should know that he owes the gift of continence to another.
Of all the arts poetry (which owes its origin almost entirely to genius and will least be guided by precept or example) maintains the first rank.
The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
There is nothing that puts a man more in your debt than that he owes you nothing.
I'd like to know why well-educated idiots keep apologizing for lazy and complaining people who think the world owes them a living.
Risk analysis can cater to any sort of hazard, but their profession owes its existence to a relatively narrow band of possible dangers.
The world owes us nothing; we owe each other the world.
The working class owes all honor and respect to the first men who planted the standard of labor solidarity on the hostile frontier of unorganized industry.
A sixty - eight, he wants you to go down on him but he won't return the favor. It would be sixty-nine but he owes you one.
Assad owes his continuation in power to the intervention of Russia in 2015 to prop up his regime.
The community owes us nothing. It's up to us to go out and earn their respect.
What humanity owes to personalities like Buddha, Moses, and Jesus ranks for me higher than all the achievements of the enquiring and constructive mind.
It may be that them whose pleasure brings you into this world owes you a living, but it don't mean the world is responsible.
While the rest of the country waves the flag of Americana, we understand we are not part of that. We don't owe America anything - America owes us.
The importance of an individual thinker owes something to chance. For it depends upon the fate of his ideas in the minds of his successors.
The smallest amount of vanity is fatal in aeroplane fighting. Selfdistrust rather is the quality to which many a pilot owes his protracted existence.
Life owes me something more than it has paid me and I'm going out to collect it.
Our National Motto - 'In God We Trust' - was not chosen lightly. It reflects a basic recognition that there is a divine authority in the universe to which this nation owes homage.
The oldest, truest, most beautiful organ of music, the origin to which alone our music owes its being, is the human voice.
Our nation owes a debt of gratitude to the 9/11 Commission members for their valuable service and important recommendations to improve homeland security.
The protection the government owes you and fails to provide, you are morally bound to provide for yourselves.
I think that Donald Trump has faced an unprecedented avalanche of critical coverage when he was running and frankly, I think, it in part he owes his victory to that.
Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
That is one of the flagrant misconceptions about Catholicism in America that if a man is a Catholic he owes allegiance to what they say a foreign sovereign, or something like that.
Every newspaper editor owes tribute to the devil.
[Fr., Tout faiseur de journaux doit tribut au Malin.]
God owes me nothing. He doesn't have to work for anything good in my life. That is only for those who are called according to His purpose.
A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself.
America owes most of its social prejudices to the exaggerated religious opinions of the different sects which were so instrumental in establishing the colonies.
A large country with such outstanding economic performance as Germany cannot forget that it owes some of its success to demand from other European countries.
Smart, well-meaning people get it wrong when they start believing that the world owes them something and that the rules are different for them.
If there is any responsibility in the cycle of life it must be that one generation owes to the next that strength by which it can come to face ultimate concerns in its own way.
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos owes Ohio $5.3 million for campaign finance violations, and Mike DeWine's office refuses to collect the fine.
I think baseball owes McGwire a gratitude of thanks for putting baseball back on the map where it should be.
Every right is married to a duty, every freedom owes a corresponding responsibility.
The tobacco business is a conspiracy against womanhood and manhood. It owes its origin to that scoundrel Sir Walter Raleigh, who was likewise the founder of American slavery.
Can you worship a God who isn't obligated to explain His actions to you? Could it be your arrogance that makes you think God owes you an explanation?
Nobody owes me anything. I am not at a disadvantage. I am equipped, empowered, and anointed.
Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.
Accept that no matter where you go to work, you are not an employee you are a business with one employee, you. Nobody owes you a career. You own it, as a sole proprietor.
Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.
A marriage ends up being a business deal: no matter how long or short it is, somebody owes somebody money.
Monotheism owes its existence not to philosophic speculation about the nature of reality or knowledge or virtue, but to acceptance of reality identified with a supreme being.
Man owes his success to his creativity. No one doubts the need for it. It is most useful in good times and essential in bad.
A good home owes it, as an expression of thankfulness for its own happiness, to try and make up something of the lack that is in other homes.
A free society, to be truly worthy of that name, owes healthy, competent individuals the right to end their lives on their own terms.
I put my money on Brexit. The EU Financial Stability Commissioner, Jonathan Hill from Britain, still owes me a pound.
The more humanity owes the poor man, the more society denies him.
Tragedy warms the soul, elevates the heart, can and ought to create heroes. In this sense, perhaps, France owes a part of her great actions to Corneille.
Death is no enemy, but the foundation of gratitude, sympathy, and art. Of all life's pleasures, only love owes no debt to death.
Civilization owes to the Islamic world some of its most important tools and achievements...the Muslim genius has added much to the culture of all peoples.
Happy the man whom indulgent fortune allows to pay to virtue what he owes to nature, and to make a generous gift of what must otherwise be ravished from him by cruel necessity.
If a man owes me money, I never seem to forget. But if I do the owing, I somehow never remember.
My youth is escaping without giving me anything it owes me.
Not even nothingness preceded life. Nothingness owes its very idea to existence.
The Government of Iraq also owes a debt to the American and coalition forces who are fighting the insurgency and helping put that country back together after decades of repression.
The human intellect owes its superiority over that of the lower animals in great measure to the stimulus which alcohol has given imagination.
All I'm saying is that you shouldn't stay with him for the wrong reasons, even if they are noble ones. No one owes it to someone else to be their girlfriend. It's a choice you remake every day.
I know it is easy to criticise and I accept it is a difficult job managing England but the man in charge must be passionate and realise he owes it to the nation to win the World Cup.
The idea that a war can be won by standing on the defensive and waiting for the enemy to attack is a dangerous fallacy, which owes its inception to the desire to evade the price of victory.
They do most by Books, who could do much without them, and he that chiefly owes himself unto himself, is the substantial Man.
