Borrowed Quotes

I'm no innovator. If anything I'm a stealer, or borrower. I've stolen or borrowed from more people than you can shake a stick at.

You've taxed too much, borrowed too much and are a roadblock to reform.

I'm so sick of mermaid dresses, trains, borrowed bling-bling, and a pose.

I feel like my body is borrowed and this life is very temporary.

Nothing is ever perfect. It is what you make of it.

The cheat ambition, eager to espouse dominion, courts it with a lying show, and shines in borrowed pomp to serve a turn.

We need to call sin what the Bible calls it and not soften it with modern expressions borrowed from our culture.

Baccarat is a game whereby the croupier gathers in money with a flexible sculling oar, then rakes it home. If I could have borrowed his oar I would have stayed.

The unique danger today is the possibility that we may face longer-term stagnation as a consequence of relying too heavily on borrowed money.

And I kissed away a thousand tears My lady of the Various Sorrows Some begged, some borrowed, some stolen Some kept safe for tomorrow.

Passing through the fire of meditation, everything that is not your authentic reality, everything that is borrowed, will be burned away.

I was too broke to buy a guitar so I more borrowed guitars from friends.

You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money.

Genius is to other gifts what the carbuncle is to the precious stones. It sends forth its own light, whereas other stones only reflect borrowed light.

Education is not a discipline at all. Half vocational, half emptiness dressed up in garments borrowed from philosophy, psychology, literature.

Most men's conscience, habits, and opinions are borrowed from convention and gather continually comforting assurances from the same social consensus that originally suggested them.

The reason why borrowed books are seldom returned, is that it is easier to retain books themselves than what is inside of them.

My first student film was Orientation, which was basically the set-up for Animal House. There are a couple of scenes that we later borrowed in some form.

The problem is that borrowing money to pay back more borrowed money that will oblige you in the future to borrow even more money doesn't sound kosher. Because it isn't.

About two months into the Whisky, I borrowed some money and rented a remote recording truck.

Kids own nothing. Everything is either promised, borrowed, longed for or exaggerated.

Quotations have always been supremely effective rhetorical devices, instruments of one-upmanship, ways of supporting any position under the sun with borrowed or stolen authority.

Nothing is mine, I have only nothing but it is enough, it is beautiful and it is all mine. Do I even walk about in my own skin or is it something I have borrowed to spare my modesty?

It was obvious that their profits were simply cash borrowed from destiny with some random payback time.

I joined church by myself in a borrowed suit at 13. I had my neighbor's bible. So my walk and my faith have always been very real.

Modern writers are the moons of literature; they shine with reflected light, with light borrowed from the ancients.

The book borrower...proves himself to be an inveterate collector of books not so much by the fervor with which he guards his borrowed treasures...as by his failure to read these books.

My works are all expressly my own - pleasingly peculiar, not a borrowed stroke in one of them. I write as I feel and as I don't feel.

Yesterday I did not want to be borrowed but this is the typewriter that sits before me and love is where yesterday is at.

It is impossible to live without brains, either one's own or borrowed.

How much would you pay to avoid a second Depression?

The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book.

You can't go through life on "Borrowed light.

How bout you and all your morals in that outfit that you borrowed/Make the most out of tonight and worry bout it all tomorrow.

How well Shakespeare knew how to improve and exalt little circumstances, when he borrowed them from circumstantial or vulgar historians.

Kabbalah helps you confront your fears. If a girl borrowed my clothes and never gave them back, and I saw her wearing them months later, I would confront her.

I borrowed 100 pounds and made the pact with God: Make me a millionaire - and you can have half of my money.

There is a big problem. The problem is the country borrowed too much. We went on a borrowing binge, there was a housing boom. You want to help people de-leverage and deal with those debts over time.

To substitute judgments of fact for judgments of value is a sign of pedantic and borrowed criticism.

Modern economics and the welfare state borrowed heavily on the future.

Man cannot breathe with borrowed lungs.

English has borrowed from everywhere and now goes everywhere.

Stale is stale and borrowed is borrowed, no matter how original your models may have been.

I awoke from The Sickness at the age of forty-five, calm and sane, and in reasonably good health except for a weakened liver and the look of borrowed flesh common to all who survive The Sickness.

I kept my clothes on. I borrowed money.

I had learnt at the onset not to carry on public work with borrowed money.

He'd made sure i had something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue.

Of late years (perhaps as a result of our political changes) art has borrowed from history more than ever.

Fee-fi-fo-fum - Now I'm borrowed. Now I'm numb.

Like most of my friends in school, I was a member of multiple circulating libraries; and all of us, to begin with, borrowed and read the same things.