Borrowed Quotes - Page 13

• The world is not given by our fathers but borrowed from our children.

  Wendell Berry

  Children, Father, World

  "Biography/ Personal Quote". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Dale Carnegie

  Ideas, Mines

  Newsweek, August 08, 1955.

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• Better to live your life open rather than exist on borrowed time, waiting for the great unmasking.

  Kate Jacobs

  Waiting, Live Your Life, Unmasking

  Kate Jacobs (2012). “The Friday Night Knitting Club”, p.111, Hachette UK

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• To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Country, Class, Nomenclature

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• I know that in a poem, even when the speaker is speaking from the poet's experience, there's always something that's borrowed, some authority that sits outside of the poet that the poem has claimed. There's a dramatic pitch that makes the speaker capable of saying something more courageous or stranger or simply other than what the poet would be able to say.

  Tracy K. Smith

  Would Be, Able, Courageous

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The pitifulest thing out is a mob; that's what an army is--a mob; they don't fight with courage that's born in them, but with courage that's borrowed from their mass, and from their officers. But a mob without any MAN at the head of it is BENEATH pitifulness.

  Mark Twain

  Fighting, Army, Men

  Mark Twain (2015). “Annotated Huckleberry Finn with English Grammar Exercises: by Mark Twain (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, p.160, Powell Publications, LLC

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• 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.

  Joan Juliet Buck

  Love Is, House, Missing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The dog, who had sounded so ferocious in the winter distances, was a female German Shepherd. She was shivering. Her tail was between her legs. She had been borrowed that morning from a farmer. She had never been to war before. She had no idea what game was being played. Her name was Princess.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Dog, Morning, War

  KURT VONNEGUT JR (1969). “SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE”

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• I suddenly realized that we were on borrowed time, that time is always borrowed, and that the lending agency exacts its premium precisely when we are least prepared to pay and need to borrow more.

  André Aciman

  Agency, Needs, Pay

  André Aciman (2008). “Call Me by Your Name: A Novel”, p.162, Macmillan

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• When I was a boy, my family took great care with our snapshots. We really planned them. We made compositions. We posed in front of expensive cars, homes, that werent ours. We borrowed dogs. Almost every family picture taken of us when I was young had a different borrowed dog in it.

  Richard Avedon

  Dog, Taken, Home

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• I think I actually made a very kind gesture out of nowhere; I decided in the middle of that match that for every ace I hit I want to donate money. I just think people should honestly look at themselves before they judge another person. I've never been spoiled. I want a Range Rover very bad, but I refuse to spend the money to buy a Range...The diamonds are borrowed. I won't buy them because I'm too cheap.

  Serena Williams

  Thinking, People, Judging

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• I love awards, especially if I get them. It's up to the courage of the filmmakers to make art in cinema, not just business. John was rejected by studios, he borrowed money and did movies with his own money. You're either courageous or not. You have to find a way.

  Ben Gazzara

  Art, Awards, Cinema

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

  Mortimer Zuckerman

  Money, Unique, May

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• 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.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Home, Gambling

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• I kept my clothes on. I borrowed money.

  Estella Warren

  Clothes, Borrowed Money

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In economics, we borrowed from the Bourbons; in foreign policy, we drew on themes fashioned by the nomad warriors of the Eurasian steppes. In spiritual matters, we emulated the braying intolerance of our archenemies, the Shite fundamentalists.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Spiritual, War, Matter

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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• Only see you when I close my eyes. We on borrowed time when I delayed the sunlight.

  Bobby V

  Falling In Love, Eye, Sunlight

  Song: Anonymous, Album: Special Occasion, 2007

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• What you think of as they past is a memory trace, stored in the mind, of a former Now. When you remember the past, you reactivate a memory trace -- and you do so now. The future is an imagined Now, a projection of the mind. When the future comes, it comes as the Now. When you think about the future, you do it now. Past and future obviously have no reality of their own. Just as the moon has no light of its own, but can only reflect the light of the sun, so are past and future only pale reflections of the light, power, and reality of the eternal present. Their reality is "borrowed" from the Now.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Memories, Thinking, Reflection

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

  Anne Sexton

  Numb, Fees

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.115, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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