Borrowed Quotes
Often I sit up in my room reading the greatest part of the night, when the book was borrowed in the evening and to be returned early in the morning, lest it should be missed or wanted.
As far as I know, we have never before decided to fight a war with borrowed money and ask generations that come after us to pay for it.
Quite naturally, scholars assumed that Latin grammar was not merely Latin grammar, but that it was grammar itself. They borrowed it and made the most of it.
I learned at an early age that every breath that we take is borrowed. We need to be thankful for our life and never take it for granted.
Shark Tale feels borrowed, sampled and dittoed from the collective funniness of the past 10 years in studio-made animation.
Life is a Shylock; always it demands The fullest userer's interest for each pleasure. Gifts are not freely scattered by its hands; We make returns for every borrowed treasure.
Love has its name borrowed by a great number of dealings and affairs that are attributed to it--in which it has no greater part than the Doge in what is done at Venice.
True beauty dwells on high: ours is a flame But borrowed thence to light us thither. Beauty and beauteous words should go together.
I borrowed his brightness and used it to see my way, and then gradually, from the habit of looking at the world as he illuminated it, the light in my own mind rekindled.
The U.S. didn't save enough; we borrowed a lot. There were structural imbalances in Asia with exporters, with oil exporters for a whole variety of things.
There is no life in thee, now, except that rocking life imparted by a gently rolling ship; by her, borrowed from the sea; by the sea, from the inscrutable tides of God.
He saw that no one owned anything really. It's all rented, or borrowed. Our possessions will outlast us, we'll desert them in the end.
You know the old expression "We haven't inherited the world from our parents, we've borrowed it from our children"? Well it's just not true. We haven't borrowed anything.
I think when Tom Ford was there I borrowed a Gucci tux one time, and they were very nice and he was very kind.
I love being in borrowed houses. I love being a bit out of my context. I miss my context dreadfully, but I'm excited by that.
It's a funny semantic turn - when someone paints a landscape, no one says they "borrowed" it, only that they painted it.
Momentum was part of the exhilaration and the exhaustion of the twentieth century which Coward decoded for the British but borrowed wholesale from the Americans.
When debtors once have borrowed all we have to lend, they are very apt to grow shy of their creditors' company.
I have only ever borrowed money for investment. I have been sound money all my life.
"Superhero" is a term that's been borrowed in order to say "big and larger than life and loud and active and dumb." And I don't think that's a useful definition. That's more a dismissal.
Think today's interest rates are high? The Pilgrims borrowed $7000 from a London company of 70 investors in 1620, and devoted the next 23 years to repaying it at 43 percent.
Praxiteles borrowed the better elements of a hundred imperfect models in order to create a masterpiece.
The president has borrowed more money to spend to less effect than anybody on the planet.
As a rule we develop a borrowed European idea forward, and ... Europe develops a borrowed American idea backwards.
Any sizeable Portuguese town looks like a superstitious bride's finery - something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue.
Most men are rich in borrowed sufficiency: a man may very well say a good thing, give a good answer, cite a good sentence, without at all seeing the force of either the one or the other.
Republicans spent too much money, borrowed too much money, earmarked too much. In this race, I'm the only guy who hasn't spent time in Washington.
I was never completely destitute. I think I borrowed money once off a friend, but I've always been quite careful with my money, having come from not much of it.
What did the taxpayers get out of the Obama stimulus? More debt. That money wasn't just spent and wasted – it was borrowed, spent, and wasted.
Knowledge is also borrowed. It is not a flower that grows in your soul, it is something plastic that has been imposed upon you.
A certain awkwardness marks the use of borrowed thoughts; but as soon as we have learned what to do with them, they become our own.
Is all literature eavesdropping, and all art Chinese imitation? our life a custom, and our body borrowed, like a beggar’s dinner, from a hundred charities?
Updike worked this way, and I just kinda borrowed it from him. So the memoir will be relief from novel writing for a moment.
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I've borrowed tons of jewelry. Most people [in Hollywood] do. But it's your responsibility to keep track of it.
So scanty is our present allowance of happiness that in many situations life could scarcely be supported if hope were not allowed to relieve the present hour by pleasures borrowed from the future.
There was also the myth of the western films. But my films are borrowed not from the story of the West in America but from the story of cinema.
Throughout its history, Islam has borrowed and adapted from other civilizations, both ancient and modern.
These rovers are living on borrowed time. We're so past warranty on them. You try to push them hard every day because we're living day to day.