Quotes About Borrowing

all of us, when it comes to constructing our sense of self, borrow bits and pieces, ideas and phrases, rituals and products from the world around us — over-the-counter-ethnicities that shape, in some small but meaningful way, our identities

All our tongues and cultures are constant shoplifters from other tongues and cultures.

Nobody wanted to gamble on that first Wal-Mart. I think Bud put in 3 percent, and Don Whitaker—whom I had hired to manage the store from a TG&Y store out in Abilene, Texas—put in 2 percent, and I had to put up 95 percent of the dollars. Helen had to sign all the notes along with me, and her statement allowed us to borrow more than I could have alone. We pledged houses and property, everything we had. But in those days we were always borrowed to the hilt.

Or maybe you wouldn't mind lending me a few of your dresses until I can find a seamstress in town? You haven't exactly been wearing your clothes lately, so I'm sure you won't miss them!

The lesson of leverage is this: Assume that the worst imaginable outcome will occur and ask whether you can tolerate it. If the answer is no, then reduce your borrowing.

La biblioteca per lei era una grande risorsa. Chiacchiera dietro chiacchiera, mi mostrò fieramente tutte le tessere che aveva, quattro: una sua, una intestata a Rino, una a suo padre e una a sua madre. Con ciascuna prendeva un libro in prestito, così da averne quattro tutti insieme. Li divorava e la domenica successiva li riportava e ne prendeva altri quattro.

He who lends a book is an idiot. He who returns the book is more of an idiot.

Let us all be happy and live within our means, Even if we have to borrow money to do it with.

Some people, they got housing loans, and I think they're responsible for taking a loan they didn't qualify for?

I like to borrow forms and quotes and use a lot of allusions, in both poetry and music.

I still like getting dressed up and having the opportunity to borrow beautiful dresses, but as a mother - and as somebody who's schedule isn't always my own - I don't shop a lot, or think about clothes a lot.

I own a car: a minivan. But don't tell anyone, 'cause they're gonna ask to borrow it.

and most modern and all surrealist art is nothing but attempted witchcraft, borrowing its forms from the primitive witchdoctor and its ideas from the modern theosophist." He

Communism is strong only when it borrows some of the moral indignation that has been inherited from the Hebraic-Christian traditions;

There's a laundry list of reasons why not to borrow from your 401(k). While the money is on loan, it's not working for you - and if you leave your job, you'll have to pay it back in 60 days or treat it as a taxable withdrawal.

Let us all be happy, and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do it with.

Companies typically borrow money at less than their return on equity and therefore compound their return at the expense of lenders.

When you're an actor, you get your ideas from everywhere - even from someone on the street. We're total thieves!

Borrowed books and umbrellas are seldom returned

To try to borrow money from Henri was like appealing to the desert for a cooling draught.

However, imagine that instead of working a problem, you are reviewing an example. Your working memory is free to carefully study the example and learn from it. In fact, by providing an example as a model, the student has an opportunity to build their own mental model from it. In other words, the example is a vehicle to enable borrowing knowledge acquired by others.

Everything a politician promises at election time has to be paid for either by higher taxation or by borrowing.

I never lend books I expect to require again.

How frightening it is to have reached the height of human accomplishment in art that must forever borrow from life's abundance.