Quotes About Indebtedness

There's nothing worse in the world than to owe and be beholden to anyone.

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

There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.

A man's indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself actively to the job of gratitude.

I am indebted to a host of professionals who

Canberra and Chicago, but it also allowed us to enjoy several cherished meetings with Professor Liu Ts'un-yan before his passing a few months later. My indebtedness to Professor Liu's scholarship should be apparent in the introduction

But love and loyalty could not be earned by indebtedness.

David Moyes is someone I'm forever indebted to.

Here, in 2001, entered Goldman Sachs, which engaged in a series of apparently legal but nonetheless repellent deals designed to hide the Greek government's true level of indebtedness. For these trades Goldman Sachs—which, in effect, handed Greece a $1 billion loan—carved out a reported $300 million in fees.

I am contracting continually a debt of gratitude which time will never see canceled. There is a treasury from which it will be repaid, but I do not dispense its stores.

To be aware of others' accomplishments and the indebtedness we have to so many people is to appreciate and begin to respect all members of the human family.

The next signal I explain to Kelly is one I call loan-sharking: "He wanted to be allowed to help you because that would place you in his debt, and the fact that you owe a person something makes it hard to ask him to leave you alone.

He was proud of the fact that he did not owe anyone anything

The borrower is servant to die lender.

When I was born I owed twelve dollars.

I feel like I owe him something, and I hate owing people.

causing it to become heavily indebted, mostly to the United States.

Only debt is forever.

A man in debt is so far a slave.

Goethe said there would be little left of him if he were to discard what he owed to others.

Wars come and wars go but the world does not change: it will always forget an indebtedness which it thinks it expedient not to remember.

Pull in your belt, spend less, and reduce debt.

A man's indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself actively to the job of gratitude.

If the indebted Asian immigrant thinks they owe their life to America, the child thinks they owe their livelihood to their parents for their suffering. The indebted Asian American is therefore the ideal neoliberal subject. I accept that the burden of history is solely on my shoulders; that it's up to me to earn back reparations for the losses my parents incurred, and to do so, I must, without complaint, prove myself in the workforce.