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Quotes About Borrowed

Knowledge is borrowed wisdom is earned.
~ Debasish Mridha
Unless it grows out of yourself no knowledge is really yours, it is only borrowed plumage.
~ D.T. Suzuki
What voice have I borrowed to express a necessary silence?
~ Jay Wright
The word "psychosomatic" has been around long enough to be generally understood; unfortunately, it is another semantic spook. The concept of "psyche" or "soul" was borrowed from the theologians, who, being bankrupt, are in no position to lend anything.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
Nobody really owns anything. We give back our bodies at the end of our lives. We own our thoughts, but everything else is just borrowed. We use it for a while, then pass it on.
~ Deborah Ellis
Besides the mathematical arts there is no infallible knowledge, except that it be borrowed from them.
~ Robert Recorde
No one knows anything, really. It's all rented, or borrowed.
~ Ian Mcewan
For as long as the Source entrusts something to your hands, treat it as something borrowed, like a traveller at an inn.
~ Epictetus
Am încercat s? le explic p?rinÈ›ilor mei ce-i viaÈ›a, un cadou foarte tare. La început, supraestim?m cadoul asta: credem c-am primit via?? veÈ™nic?. De aceea îl subestim?m, ni se pare urât, prea scurt, mai c-am fi gata s?-l arunc?m. În sfârÈ™it, ne d?m seama c? n-am primit un cadou, ci un împrumut.
~ Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
The credit derivative market would never have evolved but for the preexistence of the derivative markets because so much of the technology was borrowed.
~ Blythe Masters
I had a drag mom but she didn't really teach me about makeup. She just basically stuck me into gigs. And then I borrowed clothes from her and her drag to play the gigs.
~ Willam Belli
I stood on the ground, pulling the borrowed trench coat around me. I stood on Holly's cloak, which he had thrown on the ground to keep my bare feet from the rough ground and the cold. "The cloak gets in the way of my ax," he'd said, as if he were afraid that I might think he was being gentlemanly. Then he moved forward to be with his brother and the other warriors. Only
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Hope not to succeed in borrowed plumes.
~ Aesop
Our life is a loan received from death with sleep as the daily interest on this loan.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
We can choose a future where we export more products and outsource fewer jobs. After a decade that was defined by what we bought and borrowed, we're getting back to basics, and doing what America has always done best: We're making things again.
~ Barack Obama
With climate change, we are living on borrowed time. If we do not address these issues today, it is going to be much more expensive later on, and that is why we need to take action now.
~ Johan Eliasch
The idea for Chipotle is a sort of combination of food borrowed from Stars and sort of a technique and a service format borrowed from the taquerias.
~ Steve Ells
When I put my trust in a critic, this is tantamount to saying that I defer to his judgement, even when I have made no judgement of my own. But my own judgement waits upon experience. It is only when I have heard the piece in question, in the moment of appreciation, that my borrowed opinion can actually become a judgement of mine.
~ Roger Scruton
sat alone until Peterson stuck his head in the hallway and called for him. He took the borrowed Highway Patrol
~ Lee Child
The scenario you just experienced was borrowed from a very old science fiction story," replied Dr. Brennan. "The Cold Equations by Tom Godwin. Relatively short, but considered a classic. Different
~ Douglas E. Richards
We're all operating on borrowed time and borrowed money. We need to make a choice.
~ Douglas Rushkoff
We may say that life has borrowed from inanimate processes the same basic mechanism used in producing those striking structures that are crystals, with their beautiful plane faces.
~ Linus Pauling
She lived among us for a while And brought joy where she went. We thought she was a gift of God But learned she was but lent.
~ Joan W. Blos
A man is lent, not given, life.
~ Ann Fairbairn