Owing Quotes

Nations, like individuals in a state of nature, are equal and independent, possessing certain rights and owing certain duties to each other.

Scepticism is an ability, or mental attitude, which opposes appearances to judgments in any way whatsoever, with the result that,owing to the equipollence of the objects and reasons thus opposed we are brought firstly to a state of mental suspense and next to a state of "unperturbedness" or quietude.

All I worried about was what Owings was doing to me, instead of what I was doing to him. When you start worrying about that stuff, you're going down the wrong path.

Owing to this struggle for life, any variation, however slight and from whatever cause proceeding, if it be in any degree profitable to an individual of any species, in its infinitely complex relationship to other organic beings and to external nature, will tend to the preservation of that individual, and will generally be inherited by its offspring.

Owning is owing, having is hoarding.

Mass badly celebrated is an enormous evil. Ah! it is not a matter of indifference how it is said! . . . I have had a great vision on the mystery of Holy Mass and I have seen that whatever good has existed since creation is owing to it.

I must decline your invitation owing to a subsequent engagement.

The moderation of people in prosperity is the effect of a smooth and composed temper,
owing to the calm of their good fortune.

Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements,
yet these are,
in truth,
very often owing not so much to design as chance.

A beam of luminous hydrogen canal rays has, owing to its velocity, exactly the same direction as that of the electric field in which it may be made to move.

“If I had been on 'Bowling for Dollars,' I'd wind up owing them money.”

Chastity is oftener owing to diffidence and shame, than to fortitude of reason or virtue.

Every one wants to command, and no one wants to obey; and this is owing to the absence of that wonderful brahmacharya system of yore. First, learn to obey. The command will come by itself. Always first learn to be a servant, and then you will be fit to be a master.

The experiment left no doubt that, as far as accuracy of measurement went, the resistance disappeared. At the same time, however, something unexpected occurred. The disappearance did not take place gradually but abruptly. From 1/500 the resistance at 4.2K, it could be established that the resistance had become less than a thousand-millionth part of that at normal temperature. Thus the mercury at 4.2K has entered a new state, which, owing to its particular electrical properties, can be called the state of superconductivity.

Conversation is a traffick; and if you enter into it, without some stock of knowledge, to ballance the account perpetually betwixtyou,--the trade drops at once: and this is the reasonwhy travellers have so little [good] conversation with natives,--owing to their [the natives'] suspicionthat there is nothing to be extracted from the conversationworth the trouble of their bad language.

One of the greatest disservices you can do a man is to lend him money that he can't pay back.

What then is the source of my errors? They are owing simply to the fact that,
since the will extends further than the intellect,
I do not contain the will within the same boundaries;
rather,
I also extend it to things I do not understand.
Because the will is indifferent in regard to such matters,
it easily turns away from the true and the good;
and in this way I am deceived and I sin.

The ability of dandelions to tell the time is somewhat exaggerated, owing to the fact that there is always one seed that refuses to be blown off; the time usually turns out to be 37 o'clock.

Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime.

It is owing to our limitations that a thing appears to us as single and separate when in truth it is not a separate thing at all.

When I was boxing I made five million and wound up broke, owing the government a million.

A newspaper is a private enterprise owing nothing whatsoever to the public, which grants it no franchise. It is therefore affected with no public interest.

there is ten times more in the world than would maintain all in yet unknown luxury. Yet how much misery there is in our midst; not because there is not enough, but owing to the misdirection of it.

Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one

The pleasure of eloquence is in greatest part owing often to the stimulus of the occasion which produces it- - to the magic of sympathy, which exalts the feeling of each by radiating on him the feeling of all.

If a man owes me money, I never seem to forget. But if I do the owing, I somehow never remember.

If you got into a taxi and the driver started driving backward, would the taxi driver end up owing you money?

Success in business is seldom owing to uncommon talents or original power which is untractable and self-willed, but to the greatest degree of commonplace capacity.

Take modern courtships! They resulted in the same thing as under George the Second, but took longer to reach it, owing to the motor-cycle and the standing lunch.

The Galilean is not a favorite of mine. So far from owing him any thanks for his favor, I cannot avoid confessing that I owe a secret grudge to his carpentership.

She had heard it said that, before you could understand anybody, you needed to walk a mile in their shoes, which did not make a whole lot of sense, because probably AFTER you had walked a mile in their shoes, you would understand that they were chasing you and accusing you of the theft of a pair of shoes--although, of course, you could probably outrun them, owing to their lack of footwear.

I hate any kind of owing of anything.

Professors go batty too, perhaps more often than other people, although owing to their profession, their madness is less often remarked.

Physics, owing to the simplicity of its subject matter, has reached a higher state of development than any other science.

Common fluency of speech in many men and most women is owing to a scarcity of matter.

Sleepe without supping, and wake without owing.

He begged to know to which of his fair cousins the excellency of its cookery was owing. Briefly forgetting her manners, Mary grabbed her fork and leapt from her chair onto the table. Lydia, who was seated nearest her, grabbed her ankle before she could dive at Mr. Collins and, presumably, stab him about the head and neck for such an insult.

Now and again there will be the occasional joke about owing someone two dollars from the days in '63 when I was a broke blues singer with a washboard, but it's good. I'm happy.

A Christian is free and independent in every respect, a bond servant to none. A Christian is a dutiful servant in every respect, owing a duty to everyone.

Owing to the fact he was a mute they were able to give him all the qualities they wanted him to have.

Good results are sometimes owing to a failure of judgment, because the faculty of judgment often hinders us from undertaking many things which would succeed if carried through without thinking.

In civilized society we all depend upon each other, and our happiness is very much owing to the good opinion of mankind.

I think it is owing to the good sense of the English that they have not painted better.

Scientists may be in the business of laughing at their predecessors, but owing to an array of human mental dispositions, few realize that someone will laugh at their beliefs in the (disappointingly near) future.