Borrowed Quotes - Page 10

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

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Light

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• It was possible, he understood, for a person's life to become just a long series of mistakes, and that the end, when it came, was just one more mistake in a chain of bad choices. The thing was, most of these mistakes were actually borrowed from other people. You took their bad ideas, and for whatever reason, made them your own.

  Justin Cronin

  Mistake, Ideas, Long

  "The Passage". Book by Justin Cronin, 2010.

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

  Anne Sexton

  Love Is, Typewriters, Yesterday

  Anne Sexton (1999). “Love Poems”, p.11, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A work of art wastes away and becomes lustreless in surroundings where it has a price but not a value. It radiates only when surrounded by love. It is bound to wilt in a world where the rich have no time and the cultivated no money. But it never harmonizes with borrowed greatness.

  Ernst Junger

  Art, Greatness, World

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• I didn't expect to recover from my second operation but since I did, I consider that I'm living on borrowed time. Every day that dawns is a gift to me and I take it in that way. I accept it gratefully without looking beyond it. I completely forget my physical suffering and all the unpleasantness of my present condition and I think only of the joy of seeing the sun rise once more and of being able to work a little bit, even under difficult conditions.

  Henri Matisse

  Thinking, Joy, Suffering

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• But I gotta say, I am so proud right now.” Axel flattened his hand over his heart. “You borrowed my patented move, proving I’m made of more than awesome. I’m awesalicious. Is that a word? It’s probably a girl word, but who cares! Seriously. Do you see a tear in my eye? Because I’m pretty sure I feel one.

  Gena Showalter

  Girl, Moving, Heart

  Gena Showalter (2013). “Beauty Awakened”, p.252, HQN Books

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

  Abbi Glines

  Blue, Something New, Made

  Abbi Glines (2014). “The Fallen Too Far Trilogy: Includes Fallen Too Far, Never Too Far and Forever Too Far”, p.447, Simon and Schuster

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• To great sections of the church the art of worship has been lost entirely, and in its place has come that strange and foreign thing called the 'program.' This word has been borrowed from the stage and applied with sad wisdom to the type of public service which now passes for worship among us.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Art, Worship Music, Church

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• We may say that life has borrowed from inanimate processes the same basic mechanism used in producing those striking structures that are crystals, with their beautiful plane faces.

  Linus Pauling

  Life, Science, May

  "Linus Pauling: Biomolecular sciences".

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• There are no limitations set by this electric universe upon any man's multiplication power. Each man sets his own limitations in accordance with his desires. He be a thin wire which gathers little energy and carries a weak current, or he may be a heavy one. That is true of all energy borrowed from the universe by all of us. It is there in unlimited quantities, but the gauge of the kind of wire each of us is set by ourselves.

  Walter Russell

  Men, Secret, Desire

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• If your knowledge of fire has been turned to certainty by words alone, then seek to be cooked by the fire itself. Don't abide in borrowed certainty. There is no real certainty until you burn; if you wish for this, sit down in the fire.

  Rumi

  Courage, Real, Fire

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• First, Know well that Intellectuality is not intelligence. To be intellectual is to be phony; it is a pretending intelligence. It is not real because it is not yours; it is borrowed. Intelligence is the growth of inner consciousness. It has nothing to do with knowledge, it has something to do with meditativeness. An intelligent person does not function out of his past experience; he functions in the present. He does not react, he responds. Hence he is always unpredictable; one can never be certain what he is going to do.

  Rajneesh

  Real, Intelligent, Past

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

  Edward Blishen

  Education, Philosophy, Discipline

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• Every morning when I wake up, now, I regard it as having another borrowed day.

  Malcolm X

  Morning, Dying, Wake Up

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.387, Ballantine Books

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• Man is physical as well as metaphysical, a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, and a misfit from the start.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Misfits, Metaphysical

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.202, Graphic Arts Books

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

  George Santayana

  Criticism, Facts, Judgment

  George Santayana (2012). “The Sense of Beauty”, p.14, Courier Corporation

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• Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.

  Abraham Flexner

  Education, Peace, Money

  Abraham Flexner (1994). “Universities: American, English, German”, p.302, Transaction Publishers

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• Still, even the most admirable of atheists is nothing more than a moral parasite, living his life based on borrowed ethics. This is why, when pressed, the atheist will often attempt to hide his lack of conviction in his own beliefs behind some poorly formulated utilitarianism, or argue that he acts out of altruistic self-interest. But this is only post-facto rationalization, not reason or rational behavior.

  Theodore Beale

  Atheist, Self, Religion

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• It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past. Each new historical era mirrors itself in the picture and active mythology of its past or of a past borrowed from other cultures. It tests its sense of identity, of regress or new achievement against that past.

  George Steiner

  Past, Mirrors, Other Cultures

  George Steiner (1974). “In Bluebeard's Castle: Some Notes Towards the Redefinition of Culture”, p.3, Yale University Press

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• The seeker says, "I do not know." That takes honesty. The master says, "I do not know." That takes a mystic's mind that knows things through non-knowing. The disciple says, "I know." That takes ignorance, in the form of borrowed knowledge.

  Anthony de Mello

  Spiritual, Honesty, Ignorance

  Anthony De Mello (2016). “The Song of the Bird”, p.44, Image

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• A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.

  John James Audubon

  Nature, Children, Father

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• Our top-down pyramid style of management is a very old concept borrowed from centuries of war and monarchies.

  James Hunter

  War, Top Down, Pyramids

  James C. Hunter (2008). “The Servant: A Simple Story About the True Essence of Leadership”, p.56, Crown Business

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• As by some might be saide of me: that here I have but gathered a nosegay of strange floures, and have put nothing of mine unto it, but the thred to binde them. Certes, I have given unto publike opinion, that these borrowed ornaments accompany me; but I meane not they should cover or hide me.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Ornaments, Might, Opinion

  Michel de Montaigne (1928). “The Essayes of Michel, Lord of Montaigne”

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• A whoreson jackanapes must take me up for swearing; as if I borrowed mine oaths of him and might not spend them at my pleasure. When a gentleman is disposed to swear, it is not for any standers-by to curtail his oaths, ha?

  William Shakespeare

  Gentleman, Might, Pleasure

  1610 Cloten. Cymbeline, act 2, sc.1, l.10-11.

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• 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.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Giving, Answers

  Michel de Montaigne “Annotated Essays of Michel de Montaigne with English Grammar Exercises: by Michel de Montaigne (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC

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