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Quotes About Debt

To her, saving grace meant you got to live out your life like a normal person: You were healthy and strong, an the prospect of death was just some far-off, barely acknowledged hypothetical. A debt to be paid off in a future you couldn't imagine
~ J.R. Ward
To her, saving grace meant you got to live out your life like a normal person: You were healthy and strong, and the prospect of death was just some far-off, barely acknowledged hypothetical. A debt to be paid off in a future you couldn't imagine.
~ J.R. Ward
Il mondo mi deve un paio di cose.
~ Jack Kerouac
So here my check. Overdue and overdrawn. Cash it in hell.
~ Jack Ketchum
Weedon Scott had set himself the task of redeeming White Fang - or rather, of redeeming mankind from the wrong it had done White Fang. It was a matter of principle and conscience. He felt that the ill done White Fang was a debt incurred by man and that it must be paid.
~ Jack London
The CCP has become the political incarnation of the deadly coronavirus, infecting the world with illegal trade practices, arm twisting smaller nations, debt - a.k.a death - traps and sinister imperialist ambition.
~ Vivek Agnihotri
About two-thirds of bachelor's degree holders borrow to go to school, and on average they're graduating with more than $26,000 in debt.
~ Arne Duncan
Britain is a textbook case of how growing inequality leads to economic crisis. The years before the crash were marked by a sharp rise in remortgaging and the growth of 0 percent balance transfer credit cards. By 2008 the UK had the highest ratio of household debt to GDP of any major economy.
~ Frances O'Grady
Repaying the debt of these ultimate sacrifices seems nearly impossible but we must try.
~ Michael N. Castle
State constitutions typically provide that the state first has to service its debt, then make it pension payments, and then pay for services. What we don't know is whether that order will be enforced. And ultimately, the busted state is going to be looking to the federal government for a bailout. Think Greece, but on a much bigger scale.
~ Eugene Fama
It is a fraud to borrow what we are unable to pay.
~ Publilius Syrus
I think what's important to understand is if the United States hits the debt ceiling and is unable to pay its debts, the consequences will be immediate and dramatic.
~ Kenneth Chenault
There were times when we didn't have enough food on the table. When it came to the end of the month, I could see my parents were sad because they were unable to give us the best. They had lots of debts. Sometimes they had arguments about it.
~ Felipe Anderson
Southern Europe has not done enough to enhance its competitiveness, while northern Europe has not done enough to boost demand. Debt burdens remain crushing, and Europe's economy remains unable to grow.
~ Barry Eichengreen
The people of Illinois sent me to Springfield to end the era of unbalanced budgets and runaway debt.
~ Bruce Rauner
When men receive favours from someone they expected to do them ill, they are under a greater obligation to their benefactor.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
Besides, we had a large debt, contracted at home and abroad in our War of Independence; therefore the great power of taxation was conferred upon this Government.
~ Robert Toombs
They understood what had really held the market together before. Violence. After all, what good was a debt if the creditor couldn't compel it to be paid?
~ Alex London, Guardian
Enemies, ' the wizard said, 'are the price of honour.
~ Terry Goodkind, Debt of Bones
When after many battles past Both tir'd with blows make peace at last What is it after all the people get? Why! taxes widows wooden legs and debt.
~ Francis Moore
A great debt is a great evil and a great national debt is a great national evil.
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The thought of a mortgage round my neck makes me edgy.
~ Tana French
A woman doesn't always have a choice, not in a meaningful way. Sometimes there is a debt that must be paid, a comfort that she is obliged to provide, a safe passage that must be secured. Every one of us has lain down for a reason that was not love.
~ Tayari Jones
The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.
~ Taylor Caldwell