Indebtedness Quotes

Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.

Benefits received are a delight to us as long as we think we can requite them; when that possibility is far exceeded, they are repaid with hatred instead of gratitude.

Always pay; for first or last you must pay your entire debt.

The UFC does not owe me a thing. Nothing. I am in debt to them.

It is always easier to requite an injury than a service: gratitude is a burden, but revenge is found to pay.

Forget favors given; remember those received.

The debt immense of endless gratitude, So burthensome, still paying, still to owe; Forgetful what from him I still receivd, And understood not that a grateful mind By owing owes not, but still pays, at once Indebted and dischargd; what burden then?

There have been many men who left behind them that which hundreds of years have not worn out. The earth has Socrates and Plato to this day. The world is richer yet by Moses and the old prophets than by the wisest statesmen. We are indebted to the past. We stand in the greatness of ages that are gone rather than in that of our own. But of how many of us shall it be said that, being dead, we yet speak?

Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.

Lying rides upon debt's back.

You can't be in debt and win. It doesn't work.

As far as 'Final Destination' and its creator, Jeffrey Reddick, are concerned, whenever Jeffrey calls, because of our friendship, I have to listen.

To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it.

When men receive favours from someone they expected to do them ill, they are under a greater obligation to their benefactor.

Nicaragua is a World Bank and International Monetary Fund designated 'heavily indebted poor country,' with little legal ability to control its economic future: Everything is for sale. And once Nicaraguans decide to cash in and sell their houses or farms, they have to look far inland for anything affordable.

Borrowing 40 cents out of every dollar we spend for missiles or food stamps is unsustainable. And being indebted for generations to China and OPEC does not make American a stronger nation.

I owe a lot to my teachers and mean to pay them back some day.

Our Sheffield and London homes are worth well over a million but the bank owns most of them - we are mortgaged up to the gills.

Donald Trump doesn't release his tax returns and is indebted to foreign banks and foreign lenders.

We have trouble, my friends, in the country, because we have too much money owing, the greatest indebtedness that has every been given to civilization … Two hundred and seventy-two thousand millions of dollars of debts are owed by the various people of this country today. Why, my friends, that cannot be paid. It is not possible for that kind of debt to be paid.

Even if you feel someone has wronged you or owes you something, no one is going to give you anything for free.

Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones - with ingratitude.

Debt is the slavery of the free.