Quotes About Debt

Lillian did not know then that the one who believes he can pay this early debt meets a bottomless well. Because the first denial has set off a fatality of revenge which no amount of giving can placate.

Years away at sea, husbands coming back — if they came back — having seen things you cannot imagine, having wrestled with the unknown and, somehow, won? All this with barely enough money made to cover the debt accrued? I imagine it was like being married to a novelist.

It is time we realized that crimes without victims are like debts without creditors. They do not even exist.

ACCEPTILATION  (ACCEPTILA'TION)   n.s.[acceptilatio, Lat.]A term of the civil law,importing the remission of a debt by an acquittance from the creditor, testifying the receipt of money which has never been paid.

Johnson, Collins, Fielding, and Thomson, were certainly four of the most distinguished persons that England produced during the eighteenth century. It is well known that they were all four arrested for debt.

So deformity has overtaken love and love is a power that can't let us alone. It can't because we owe our existence to acts of love performed before us, because love is a standing debt of the soul.

as an organization, you incur capability debt, because people (managers and technical staff) can't improve their capabilities when they're overburdened with too much work to do.

The consequences arising from the continual accumulation of public debts in other countries ought to admonish us to be careful to prevent their growth in our own.

If it isn't the sheriff, it's the finance company I've got more attachments on me than a vacuum cleaner.

A PERSON WHO CANNOT FORGIVE HAS FORGOTTEN HOW GREAT A DEBT GOD HAS FORGIVEN THEM.

You know Chad's definition of the New Poor? People who are too far behind with time-payments on next year's model to make the down-payment on the one for the year after?

Men will never worship God with a sincere heart, or be roused to fear and obey Him with sufficient zeal until they properly understand how much they are indebted to His mercy.

O vencedor logo estaria à mercê, pois, com a luta cada vez mais ardente, chegava para ele o instante de pagar sua dívida ao prazer.

Perhaps it's true that all men love their fathers, no matter how terrible the things they do to their sons: there is a part of us that remains forever in debt to those responsible for our existence.

A man with a credit card is in hock to his own image of himself.

Nature has granted the use of life like a loan, without fixing any day for repayment.

Every person born in the USA is endowed with life, liberty, and a substantial share of the national debt.

Our debt was too great and the words thank you too small.

If the prodigal quits life in debt to others, the miser quits it still deeper in debt to himself.

Average household credit card debt topped the landmark of $10,000 in 2006, a hundredfold increase over the average consumer debt in the 1960s. One consequence: Much of the material buried in landfills in recent years was bought with those same credit cards, leading to the quintessentially American practice of consumers continuing to pay, sometimes for years, for purchases after they become trash.

Almost half of Americans would be unable to pay a $400 medical emergency bill without going into debt.67

The lesson of leverage is this: Assume that the worst imaginable outcome will occur and ask whether you can tolerate it. If the answer is no, then reduce your borrowing.

The man who builds, and lacks where with to pay, provides a home from which to run away.

Pero como en los tiempos más recientes, las mujeres no suelen ahorrar y, como toda mala pagadora, tiene más deseos que dinero; al hombre le falta mucho por aguantar; allá donde mira encuentra deudas. Lo que puede reunir, ella lo gasta, en su cuerpo o en su amante; y también come mejor y bebe más con el miserable ejército de galanteadores. Esto aumenta en mí el ansia de oro: soy masculino, soy el afán.