Owed Quotes

We find that the Romans owed the conquest of the world to no other cause than continual military training, exact observance of discipline in their camps, and unwearied cultivation of the other arts of war.

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

Governor Romney has paid 100 percent of his taxes that are owed. He has complied 100 percent with what the law requires.

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

I owed Lewis one thing, at least. Once you had suffered the experience of presenting a case at one of his Monday morning conferences, no other public appearance, whether on radio, TV or the lecture platform, could hold any terrors for you.

Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other. That's why true love is never based, as associations for utility or pleasure are, on a fair exchange.

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

Every great movement in the history of Western civilization from the Carolingian age to the nineteenth century has been an international movement which owed its existence and its development to the cooperation of many different peoples.

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

When I was born I owed twelve dollars.

A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysics. Buddhism owed its success to its catholic spirit and its beautiful morality.

Every American born today owes $43,000 to the federal government the day she or he is born. And we are transferring a tremendous amount of debt to the new generation, much of it owed to overseas creditors who expect to be repaid by our children with interest.

We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver.

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.

I realized the only thing I owed my audience was my own judgment and my own best effort.

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

Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and to humanity.

I mean, I really liked those guys and the experience of doing Raiders was really good for me, but I did not really want to be involved - I only did Jedi, as I really owed George a favor.

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.

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

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.

No one asked me to be an actor, so no one owed me. There was no entitlement.

Right now, a majority of the debt is owed to foreign interests, Japan being the largest purchaser of government debt today, soon to be surpassed by China as the number one purchaser of our debt in this Nation.