Debt Quotes
Are we as willing to go into debt for the work of God as we are for a vacation to Hawaii?
We, the American people, clearly see the daunting forces we will undoubtedly face: terrorists, crime, drug gangs, the possibility of Euro-style debt riots, civil unrest or natural disaster.
Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world.
All crises have involved debt that, in one fashion or another, has become dangerously out of scale in relation to the underlying means of payment.
No pecuniary consideration is more urgent, than the regular redemption and discharge of the public debt: on none can delay be more injurious, or an economy of time more valuable.
The wages of sin are the hardest debts on earth to pay, and they are always collected at inconvenient times and unexpected places.
We can pay the ecological debt by changing economic models, and by giving up luxury consumption, setting aside selfishness and individualism, and thinking about the people and the planet Earth.
I can get no remedy against this consumption of the purse: borrowing only lingers and lingers it out, but the disease is incurable.
Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger.
We don't have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven't taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much.
One of the reasons the rich get richer, the poor get poorer and the middle class struggles in debt is because the subject of money is taught at home, not at school.
No one should be held back from realising their potential by fears that they will not be able to afford to go to university or that they will graduate with unmanageable levels of debt.
As mercy is God's goodness confronting human misery and guilt, so grace is his goodness directed toward human debt and demerit.
The only team that believed in me was the Saints, and I feel like I owe them a great debt of gratitude. I want to give them what they saw in me-a guy who could lead this team to a championship.
Face the fact that there's only one sure-fire way to erase credit card debt. By picking up a big, shiny pair of scissors and cutting your wife in half.
People should watch out for three things: avoid a major addiction, don't get so deeply into debt that it controls your life, and don't start a family before you're ready to settle down.
It's God's will for you to live in prosperity instead of poverty. It's God's will for you to pay your bills and not be in debt.
My debt to you, Belovèd, Is one I cannot pay In any coin of any realm On any reckoning day.
I hope we will never again see such a depression. But I am troubled by the huge consumer installment debt which hangs over the people of the nation, including our own people.
In 1688 England contracted to the Netherlands the highest debt that one nation can owe to another. Herself not knowing how to recover her liberties, they were restored by men of the United Provinces.
Rich people always have a certain degree of debt. Apparently it helps to reduce taxes. I'm not so hot on the bean-counting side.
If you look internationally over the last 50 years there have been improvements in the third world, but in the last 20 years the reverse has happened, with debt crises and increased poverty.
Contentment may be the most powerful Financial Principle. You can give more, avoid debt, and live better.
If a good person does you wrong, act as though you had not noticed it. They will make note of this and not remain in your debt long.
When debts are not paid because they cannot be paid, the best thing to do is not talk about them, and shuffle the cards again.
Too much pleasure disagrees with us. Too many concords are annoying in music; too many benefits irritate us; we wish to have the wherewithal to overpay our debts.
Compound interest on debt was the banker's greatest invention, to capture, and enslave, a productive society.
Spain is finding it very difficult to finance itself with sovereign debt risk premium so high.
Those policies - more taxes, more regulation, more debt, more spending, more government - will make American worse. It just will, in my view.
There's nothing quite like a Scotch education. One is left with an irreparable debt. My head is full of irregular verbs still.
We're all living on borrowed time. The trick is to come up with works of sufficient interest to pay off the debt.
Solvency is maintained by means of a national debt, on the principle, "If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?"
Gratitude is like credit; it is the backbone of our relations; frequently we pay our debts not because equity demands that we should, but to facilitate future loans.
Be careful when you take on debt. If you take on debt personally, make sure it is small. If you take on large debt, make sure someone else is paying for it.
It's rather grisly, isnt it, how soon a living man becomes nothing more than a collection of stocks and bonds and debts and real estate?
