Borrowed Quotes - Page 11

• 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?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Chinese, Literature

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2612, Delphi Classics

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• Meditation is just a courage to be silent and alone. Slowly slowly, you start feeling a new quality to yourself, a new aliveness, a new beauty, a new intelligence—which is not borrowed from anybody, which is growing within you. It has roots in your existence.

  Rajneesh

  Roots, Meditation, Feelings

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• Here was I worrying about my journey, while God was helping me all the way. It made me realize that I am very weak; my courage is only borrowed from Him, but, oh, the peace that flooded my soul; and although I know that I may be held up at the border , I am at peace within, because I know that He never faileth.

  Gladys Aylward

  Christian, Believe, Journey

  "Gladys Aylward, One of the Undefeated: The Story of Gladys Aylward as Told by Her to R.O. Latham".

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• We borrowed money, it helped us with bonds and what not, and the Federal Government backed it, but it was a guarantee, it was not a grant. And we not only paid it off, but we paid it off ahead of time.

  David Dinkins

  Government, Ties, Guarantees

  PBS interview, www.thirteen.org.

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• I want to share with the American people that President Bush and the Republican majority in just 4 years have borrowed $1.05 trillion from foreign nations. That is selling our country to other nations because of the spending that is going on.

  Kendrick Meek

  Country, Years, People

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• I borrowed a guitar at age 16 and taught myself to play because I wanted to write songs.

  Adrian Belew

  Song, Writing, Guitar

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

  Ronnie Montrose

  Guitar, Broke

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• Shark Tale feels borrowed, sampled and dittoed from the collective funniness of the past 10 years in studio-made animation.

  Desson Thomson

  Past, Sharks, Years

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• In truth, money is not created until the instant it is borrowed. It is the act of borrowing which causes it to spring into existence. And, incidentally, it is the act of paying off the debt that causes it to vanish.

  G. Edward Griffin

  Spring, Debt, Causes

  "The Creature from Jekyll Island". Book by G. Edward Griffin, 1994.

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• You must take risks, both with your own money or with borrowed money. Risk taking is essential to business growth.

  J. Paul Getty

  Risk, Growth, Essentials

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• You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Sound, Libertarian, Prosperity

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

  Rajneesh

  Reality, Fire, Meditation

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• I am among those who believe that our Western civilization is on its way to perishing. It has many commendable qualities, most of which it has borrowed from the Christian ethic, but it lacks the element of moral wisdom that would give it permanence. Future historians will record that we of the twentieth century had intelligence enough to create a great civilization but not the moral wisdom to preserve it.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Believe, Civilization

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• A witty and informative professor posits that more authors do not choose titles borrowed from Shakespeare's sonnets and plays for the reason some people claim not to have partners: "All the good ones are taken."

  Thomas C Foster

  Witty, Taken, Play

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• Borrowed thoughts, like borrowed money, only show the poverty of the borrower.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Inspirational, Acceptance, Poverty

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

  Albert Gubay

  Half, Pounds, Made

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• 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.

  Charlton Laird

  Latin, Made, Grammar

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• The bees pillage the flowers here and there but they make honey of them which is all their own; it is no longer thyme or marjolaine: so the pieces borrowed from others he will transform and mix up into a work all his own.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Flower, Here And There, Thyme

  "Essays", Book I, Chapter XXV, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 598-600, 1922.

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• The inevitable result of borrowed faith is lost faith. People born into a family anchored in Christendom tend to assume they're right with God, regardless of whether they personally turn from sin and trust in Jesus.

  Mark Driscoll

  Jesus, People, Assuming

  Mark Driscoll (2013). “A Call to Resurgence: Will Christianity Have a Funeral or a Future?”, p.16, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• True beauty lives on high. Ours is but a flame borrowed thence.

  George Herbert

  Beauty, Flames, True Beauty

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• Bless his heart, I have respect for Mitt Romney, but I do not have respect for what he has done through this debt increase debate. He did this. He waited until it was a done deal that we would increase the debt ceiling, and more money would be spent, more money borrowed and then spent on bigger government. And then he came out and he made a statement, that he didn't like the deal after all. You know, you can't defer an issue and assume that the problem is going to be then avoided.

  Sarah Palin

  Heart, Issues, Government

  "The Hannity Show", www.foxnews.com. August 2, 2011.

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• Few minds are sunlike, sources of light in themselves and to others: many more are moons that shine with a borrowed radiance. One may easily distinguish the two: the former are always full; the latter only now and then, when their suns are shining full upon them.

  Augustus William Hare

  Moon, Light, Two

  Augustus William Hare (1827). “Guesses at Truth”, p.301

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• 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.

  Aravind Adiga

  School, Library, Members

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• 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.

  Drake

  Hangover, Worry, Tonight

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• Knowledge is also borrowed. It is not a flower that grows in your soul, it is something plastic that has been imposed upon you.

  Rajneesh

  Flower, Knowledge, Soul

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