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Quotes About Repayment

The Seventh Year In Deuteronomy 15, there was a law God gave the people of Israel that said every seventh year they had to release any Hebrew slaves. If you were Hebrew and owed another person money that you couldn't repay, they could take you in as a slave and make you work full-time until you paid them back. But every seventh year, if you were a part of God's chosen people, you had a special advantage. You got released. No matter
~ Joel Osteen
There is no escape—we pay for the violence of our ancestors. —FROM "COLLECTED SAYINGS OF MUAD'DIB" BY THE PRINCESS IRULAN
~ Frank Herbert
There's nothing worse in the world than to owe and be beholden to anyone.
~ Frank McCourt
The most important loan to pay is your student loan. It's more important than your mortgage, car and credit card payments. You cannot discharge student loan debt in the majority of cases.
~ Suze Orman
People avenge themselves for the favors done them.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
this book. I will try to repay all of you with sustenance
~ Amy Tan
Nature has granted the use of life like a loan, without fixing any day for repayment.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
It's like that, I guess, when the past come to collect what you owe.
~ Esi Edugyan, Half Blood Blues
You can owe nothing, if you give back its light to the sun.
~ Antonio Porchia
Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
In a way, owing a hundred million is easier than a hundred thousand, because you stop imagining that you will ever be able to pay the money back.
~ Peter Sunde
The sin they do two by two they must pay for one by one.
~ Rudyard Kipling
A man's indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself actively to the job of gratitude.
~ Ruth Benedict
You've given aid and they've received it. And yet, like an idiot, you keep holding out for more: to be credited with a Good Deed, to be repaid in kind. Why?
~ Marcus Aurelius
He owes me, but that could prove a liability. Some people do not enjoy being indebted.
~ Margaret Atwood
What a way to pay a man back for helping you. Gah, I suck as a human being.' (Shahara)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
So I saved your life, and you repaid me by raising Kronos. That's fair.
~ Rick Riordan
The seven extra years that Jacob had to serve Laban appear as a repayment for his treatment of Esau. His past had caught up with him, and he had to accept the results and serve Laban seven more years.
~ John H. Sailhamer
Tit for tat.
~ John Heywood
If I owe you a pound, I have a problem; but if I owe you a million, the problem is yours.
~ John Maynard Keynes
Sorry doesn't cut it in my world. Pay me back, or get the hell out of my life.
~ Elizabeth Bear
When a bank calls in a loan, it obviously hurts the customer in question. But it also adversely affects other banks that have lent to this borrower. They are now less likely to be repaid and so can't as readily lend to their own customers.
~ Eric Maskin
Unfailing love, O Lord, is yours. Surely you repay all people according to what they have done. —Psalm 62:12
~ Gary Chapman
Just as the room of the Inquisitor in Dr. Talos's play, with its high judicial bench, lurked somewhere at the lowest level of the House Absolute, so we have each of us in the dustiest cellars of our minds a counter at which we strive to repay the debts of the past with the debased currency of the present.
~ Gene Wolfe