Quotes of: Owing Keyword

Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.

Theodor Adorno

And we owe science to the combined energies of individual men of genius, rather than to any tendency to progress inherent in civilization.

Chauncey Wright

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.

Ralph Chaplin

Bill Hanna and I owe an awful lot to television, but we both got our start and built the first phase of our partnership in the movies.

Joseph Barbera

Together or apart, no matter ow far apart, we live in one anther. We go n together.

Ann Brashares

It has been argued that British girls are incapable of deep feeling or brilliant acting owing to their lack of temperament. This, I am positive, is not true.

Ivor Novello

Rob: [From a deleted scene] Barry, you're over 30 years old. You owe it to yourself, to your friends, to your parents, NOT to play in a band called Sonic Death Monkey! Barry: I owe it to myself to go RIGHT to the edge, Rob! And this band does exactly...

High Fidelity

You never know, until it happens, what you will owe the dead.

The Autograph Man

The living owe it to those who no longer can speak to tell their story for them.

The Issa Valley

For it is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and at first began to philosophize.

Metaphysics

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

We owe our big brains less to inventiveness than to conflicts of interest among social minds engaged in an arms race to be the best at manipulating others.

Mark Pagel

As a writer, you owe it to yourself not to get stuck in a rut of looking at the world in a certain way.

Hilary Mantel

We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.

Lady Randolph Churchill

It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

We owe our children – the most vulnerable citizens in any society – a life free from violence and fear.

Nelson Mandela

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Samuel Johnson

Even if you feel someone has wronged you or owes you something, no one is going to give you anything for free.

Mary J. Blige

We do not owe any soul, except that which played the most vital role in our lives.

Michael Bassey Johnson

A penny saved is not a penny earned if at the end of the day you still owe a quarter.

Mary Landrieu