Owes Quotes

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

America owes most of its social prejudices to the exaggerated religious opinions of the different sects which were so instrumental in establishing the colonies.

This country owes them all a debt of gratitude. The down payment on that debt is making sure that we live up to Lincoln's charge: to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan.

He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care.

If God doesn't destroy Hollywood Boulevard, he owes Sodom and Gomorrah an apology.

A champion owes everybody something. He can never pay back for all the help he got, for making him an idol.

Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country's ruin!

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

Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.

It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.

Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

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.

Every youth owes it to himself and to the world to make the most possible out of the stuff that is in him.

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

The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.

Yes, young men, Italy owes to you an undertaking which has merited the applause of the universe. You have conquered and you will conquer still, because you are prepared for the tactics that decide the fate of battles.

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.

You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don't seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.

Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.

Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.

The men who start out with the notion that the world owes them a living generally find that the world pays its debt in the penitentiary or the poor house.

Every vital organization owes its birth and life to an exciting and daring idea.

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

It's not good for government to tell people that the world owes them a living and that things are free.

Shadow owes its birth to light.

We have a government that borrows $4 billion a day. We have a government that owes trillions of dollars in debt, half of that to foreigners, most of that to Chinese investors. I don't - that is extreme. Not only is it extreme. It's insane and it's unsustainable.

Largely this is a class thing - writers tend to be cosseted little middle-class kiddies who think that the world owes them a royalty cheque. But just doing it - being in your room for years on end, locked in your head, alone with invented ghosts - it weakens and softens the body. And I know I can't just live in my head.

In 40-odd years in show business, some years I could do no wrong, and some years I could do nothing right. Show business. I owe it everything - it owes me nothing.

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

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