Quotes About Debt

The freedom I live with and enjoy was established in their blood. They didn't even know me, but they were paying a debt for generations to come.

He owes me, but that could prove a liability. Some people do not enjoy being indebted.

Debt . . . . that peculiar nexus where money, narrative or story, and religious belief intersect, often with explosive force.

WITHOUT MEMORY, there is no debt. Put another way: without story, there is no debt.

There is always something to be thankful for. If you can't pay your bills, you can be thankful you are not one of your creditors.

For many of us gratitude to others comes with a sense of debt that can never be fully paid and therefore the things we are thankful for are never really ours.

Never do anything for another with the expectation of gratitude. The expectation itself turns the gift into an exchange and suggests a debt is owed you.

Students who acquire large debts putting themselves through school are unlikely to think about changing society. When you trap people in a system of debt, they can't afford the time to think.

Instead of bailing out Wall Street for the fourth time.. let's bail out the students.

Let us live in as small a circle as we will, we are either debtors or creditors before we have had time to look around.

No pecuniary consideration is more urgent, than the regular redemption and discharge of the public debt: on none can delay be more injurious, or an economy of time more valuable.

There is slow growth, but it is positive slow growth. At the same time, ratios of debt-to-incomes go down. That's a beautiful deleveraging.

We're all living on borrowed time. The trick is to come up with works of sufficient interest to pay off the debt.

College started as universitas magistrorum et scholarium—a community of masters and scholars. It was a refuge; it was a place you went to get lost in ideas, to discover and wander, and to plot a course as an academic. Today it's a place you go to exchange a lifetime of debt for credit hours, a degree, and maybe a good job.

Life owes me a living worth living. Yes, Eden regarded life as her debtor, she its relentless paymaster.

The United States has an incredible debt. That is obviously not the way to live. You have to eliminate waste in your life as the United States has to eliminate waste in its spending.

Once you finish paying for college you could reduce your life insurance.

I am your brother. I was supposed to be your brother before either of us was born. Karmic debt. It appears I was Vlad the Impaler or Genghis Khan in a past life.

When you are infinitely indebted for your body, for Knowledge, for things you have received, and for your own life, then you bask in the abundance of the Creator

I fear debt. I don't like being indebted to banks. I have a rule in life that I will get it when I can afford it.

At some point, the world is going to have to bite the bullet and accept a huge downsizing in its way of life to bring the assets-to-debt ratio back in touch with reality.

The quickest and easiest way to screw up your life is to take on too much debt.

To rob Peter and pay Paul.

mortgage The word literally means "dead pledge," and if it were called that maybe more people would think twice about getting one. It is a classic example of a financial entity that would scare people off if they thought more clearly about what it is: a highly leveraged form of long-term borrowing with regular demands for cash payment against an illiquid asset that is known to be even more illiquid in difficult times.