Quotes About Borrowed

Is all literature eavesdropping, and all art Chinese imitation? our life a custom, and our body borrowed, like a beggar's dinner, from a hundred charities?

"Superhero" is a term that's been borrowed in order to say "big and larger than life and loud and active and dumb." And I don't think that's a useful definition. That's more a dismissal.

Who exactly is Gorlog, dear?" she asked. "He's a northern god. I borrowed him from the Skandians. He's very useful if you want to blaspheme without offending people.

It was obvious that their profits were simply cash borrowed from destiny with some random payback time.

Trouble borrowed will be paid back with interest compounded on sorrow.

Trouble borrowed will be paid back with interest compounded on sorrow.' Don't worry. We're with you.

Humility consists in knowing that in what we call 'I' there is no source of energy by which we can rise. Everything, without exception, that is of value in me comes from somewhere other than myself, not as a gift, but as a loan which must be ceaselessly renewed.

Nöyryys on samaa kuin tieto, ettei siinä mitä sanotaan minäksi ole lainkaan sellaista energiaa, jonka avulla pääsisimme kohoamaan. Kaikki mitä minussa on arvokasta, on poikkeuksetta peräisin muualta; eikä se ole lahjaa vaa lainaa, joka on alituisesti uudistettava. Kaikki mitä minussa itsessäni on, on poikkeuksetta arvotonta; ja jos anastan omakseni muualta saamiani lahjoja, nekin heti muuttuvat arvottomiksi.

There is no life in thee, now, except that rocking life imparted by a gently rolling ship; by her, borrowed from the sea; by the sea, from the inscrutable tides of God.

Unser Leben ist uns nur für einen Moment geliehen. Niemand weiß, wann der Engel an unsere Tür klopft und die Schuld einfordert.

God is the conditioned creature par excellence, the slave of slaves, prisoner of His attributes, of what He is. Man, on the contrary, has a certain leeway insofar as he is not - insofar as, possessing only a borrowed existence, he struggles in pseudoreality.

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.

On an average day, we allow ourselves the fiction that we own a piece of our workplace. That's part of what it takes to get the job done. Deeper down, we know it's all on loan.

My mother had this phrase. You've heard me say it in the spring whenever it's too warm. These are borrowed days. And they'll have to be paid back later in the year. I think that's what we've had up here.

Just one question, you arrogant fucking cocksucker" said Locke. "I'll grant the Lamora part is easy to spot; the truth is, I didn't know about the apt translation when I took the name. I borrowed it from this old sausage dealer who was kind to me once, back in Catchfire before the plague. I just liked the way it sounded. "But what the fuck" he said slowly, "ever gave you the idea that Locke was the first name I was actually born with?

A trifle after noon the boys borrowed a small skiff from a citizen who was absent

The idolizers of facts never realize that their idols shine only in a borrowed light. They are indeed not supposed to realize that, for it would immediately make them perplexed and, accordingly, useless. But idolizers and idols are used only when the gods are absconding and so are announcing their nearness.

Our life is to be regarded as a loan received from death, with sleep as the daily interest on this loan.

The life of the individual is only borrowed from that of the species.

Eywa is central to the Navi and their world. Jake learns is the Navi see the world as a network of energy, flowing through all living things; the energy is only borrowed an you have to give it back. Eywa, the great mother, she protects the balance of life. As such, per haps she is a sister to our own Gaia.

I am uncomfortably, acutely aware of the passage of time, and have lived much of my life with a sense that the time that I have been granted is, as they say, borrowed.

Words borrowed of antiquity do lend a kind of majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.

Reading was artificial borrowed life, benefiting from ideas and sensations transmitted cerebrally, acquiring the treasures of human truth by purchase or swindle, not by work.

I think when Tom Ford was there I borrowed a Gucci tux one time, and they were very nice and he was very kind.