Top 1200 Owing A Debt Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

Death is no enemy, but the foundation of gratitude, sympathy, and art. Of all life's pleasures, only love owes no debt to death.

I never had credit card debt... I was very much about trying to gain my freedom, so it was about saving.

A government debt is a government claim against personal income and private property - an unpaid tax bill.

The spirit in which a thing is given determines that in which the debt is acknowledged; it's the intention, not the face-value of the gift, that's weighed.

First they didn't believe in evolution. Then they didn't believe in global warming. Now the debt ceiling. What I call 'the moron trifecta.'

Then we are assured by Sartre that owing to the final disappearance of God our liberty is absolute! At this the entire audience waves its hat or claps its hands. But this natural enthusiasm is turned abruptly into something much less buoyant when it is learnt that this liberty weighs us down immediately with tremendous responsibilities. We now have to take all God's worries on our shoulders -now that we are become men like gods. It is at this point that the Anxiety and Despondency begin, ending in utter despair.

There is lots of evidence that it is this fear of going into debt that most puts people from poorer backgrounds off going to university.

Honest people can disagree on policy. But where there can be no honest disagreement is the need to change our nation's debt course.

While President Bush's tax give-aways for the rich are pushing us further into debt, he compensates by increasing the out-of-pocket costs to our veterans.

The curse of the cable industry over all these years as an operating reality is that every year the debt goes up (and) all the money generated gets reinvested, and then some.

I have no illusions about my art. I am what the public made me and, consequently, I am not likely to forget my debt to them.

A debt should be paid off till the last penny; An enemy should be destroyed without a trace

What Africa needs to do is to grow, to grow out of debt.

Congress needs to stop kicking the proverbial spending can down the road and make the hard decisions necessary to rein in our debt and balance the federal budget.

Mr. Macri's government caused damage similar to what Argentina suffered in 2001: a debt default, no foreign-currency reserves, a steep devaluation and increased poverty.

Never do anything for another with the expectation of gratitude. The expectation itself turns the gift into an exchange and suggests a debt is owed you.

Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.

Women can succeed in villages all over the world today without relying on heavy machinery or debt. They can take leadership roles in agriculture, eliminating hunger and inequity.

I think if we can get people focused to do what we need to do to keep our kids from being stuck with this debt that they didn't accrue, you might be surprised at how far we can move this conversation.

There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.

Simply put, unsustainable debt is helping to keep too many poor countries and poor people in poverty.

[Debt] It has driven thousands to drink, and the worry and anxiety it has created have literally taken the lives of many of our ablest men. It has prostrated individuals, enterprises and nations.

I learned early on what debt means, how vulnerable it makes people, what the security of owning a home means.

I think I should pay more taxes... but everything they take from me should go to reduce the debt.

Ever since going up to university, I have accumulated new debt, and new means of becoming indebted.

This is what the election of 2010 was about. We didn't send conservatives to Washington to flirt with Democrat proposals for higher taxes and more debt. We sent leaders to stop them.

Live within your means, never be in debt, and by husbanding your money you can always lay it out well.

We ask for what reason our Lord was unwilling to state the time of His coming (cf. Mk. 13:31-32). If we ask it, we shall not find it is owing to ignorance, but to wisdom. For it was not to our advantage to know; in order that we being ignorant of the actual moments of judgment to come, might ever be as it were on guard, and set on the watch-tower of virtue, and so avoid the habits of sin; lest the day of the Lord should come upon us in the midst of our wickedness.

The starry heaven, though it occurs so very frequently to our view, never fails to excite an idea of grandeur. This cannot be owing to the stars themselves, separately considered. The number is certainly the cause. The apparent disorder augments the grandeur, for the appearance of care is highly contrary to our ideas of magnificence. Besides, the stars lie in such apparent confusion, as makes it impossible on ordinary occasions to reckon them. This gives them the advantage of a sort of infinity.

My father, to whom I owe so much, never told me the difference between right and wrong; now I think that's why I remain so greatly in his debt.

We should have a debt that grows our productivity, we cant borrow to pay salaries. I can borrow to build power plants.

I was a first-generation college student. This was supposed to be the ticket to prosperity. But it wasn't. I left college with a mountain of debt and no practical skills.

A world in which government is burdened by historic debt, philanthropy has limited resources, and the private sector is only interested in its own personal gain is simply unsustainable.

People have tried to control other people by trapping them with debt. A loan can become a harmful and dangerous weapon.

In software engineering, we have the term 'technical debt.' When you don't do a job correctly, unaddressed problems become harder and harder to solve.

Our whole Depression was brought on by gambling, not in the stock market alone but in expanding and borrowing and going in debt... all just to make some easy money quick.

We've got a lot of work to do: not only on education, but on the economy, on our tax code, and on reducing our crushing debt.

I have never had personal debt and never will.

Obama and his Democrats need to be placed on the defensive. They are the primary drivers of this spending; they are the obstructers of entitlement reform and the national debt continues to burn while they fiddle.

For your kindness, I'm in debt to you. For your selflessness, my admiration.

My dream is to one day own a country house on the shore in England, have gotten married, wipe some debt off and get a few more good films.

What's just about a generation of people who rack up government debt for their own health care and retirement - while leaving their children and grandchildren to foot the bill?

When you take a look at the problems our country is facing, debt is No. 1. The math is downright scary and the credit markets aren't going to keep on giving us cheap rates.

We have, during his regime, during President Obama's regime, we've doubled our national debt. We're up to $20 trillion.

There's nothing progressive about spending more on servicing your debt than on educating your children.

I go on the principle that a public debt is a public curse and in a republican government more than in any other.

As a young single mum struggling to get by, I didn't get to go to university, but that level of debt would have been unimaginable.

Markets themselves are looking for stability, and I think we have underestimated the capacity of Europe... to actually create a more stable framework for the whole issue of debt management, bonds, and so on.

At some point, the world is going to have to bite the bullet and accept a huge downsizing in its way of life to bring the assets-to-debt ratio back in touch with reality.

America has so much debt, if she were a person she'd need a co-signer to get a car loan.

The American people care about the fact that we have $17 trillion in debt and 10 percent of every tax dollar that's coming in is going to pay for past overspending.

Debt is one person's liability, but another person's asset.

It is important to understand that the most important currency is social debt. Doing things for others. In order to get, you have to give.

I was delighted with the film [Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth]; it almost made me want to be a film-maker!

To this day, I still have a massive respect for anything I buy and I have never got into debt. I understand money does not come easily. I put a lot of that down to my parents.

We will do everything within our power to protect Floridians from unlawful debt collection practices that often employ scare tactics to manipulate individuals.

A.I.G. was even larger than Lehman, with a substantial presence in derivatives and debt markets, as well as in insurance markets.

He is blind indeed who does not see, in the signs of the times, a strong tendency to plunge the Union as deep in debt as are many of the States, and to subjugate the whole to the paper system.

We have determined as a society, as a country, as a people, that the incarceration and the supervision and the specific fines for a particular crime are that person's debt to society.

I wanted to avoid all that literary stuff. I didn't want the self pity of 'The Portrait,' all the moaning and the whingeing. I'm not knocking Joyce: we all owe him a debt. He's the one who made so much possible.