Best 772 quotes in «debt quotes» category

Governments can inflate their way out of debt, but that has consequences, doesn't it?

Gratitude is a debt which usually goes on accumulating like blackmail; the more you pay, the more is exacted.

Greece could default on its debts and even exit currency bloc if it cannot deliver reforms.

Greece is a medium-sized country in Europe. Our debt accounts for only 2.5 percent of the total of all members of the euro zone.

Greece's debts are all denominated in euros, but it isn't clear who holds how much of those debts. For that reason, the consequences of a national bankruptcy would be incalculable. Greece is just as systemically important as a major bank.

Growing up, books were my lifeline, and I owe a debt to those writers that can never be repaid. They saved my sanity and gave me a world I could escape to. If I can pay that forward to another person, that's all I ask.

Growth based on debt is unsustainable, artificial.

Have you noticed the debt is exploding? And it's not all because of Medicare.

He had to think he was Michael Wayland’s son, or the Lightwoods would not have protected him as they did. It was Michael they owed a debt to, not me. It was on Michael’s account that they loved him, not mine.” “Maybe they loved him on his own account,” said Clary.

He is like some sherry-crazed old dowager who has lost the family silver at roulette, and who now decides to double up by betting the house as well.

He that dies pays all debts.

Higher projected corporate and personal income tax receipts and lower public debt charges.

Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders talked about free public higher education going forward, but not dealing with this burden of debt, which has really locked a generation into kind of a hopeless future right now.

History tells us that the threat to prosperity is not debt but socialism.

How much in this world is charged to chance or fortune, or veiled under a more devout name, and accorded to Providence; while, when we come to look honestly into affairs, we find it to be a debt of our own accumulation, and one which we must inevitably pay.

Humans are such creatures of habit that once they get us in all this debt that we accumulate from going college that we have to work it off for the rest of our lives.

I am a firm believer in reincarnation for people who either have more work to do or have so much debt to pay back that they have to be here.

I acknowledge immense debt to the griots [tribal poets] of Africa - where today it is rightly said that when a griot dies, it is as if a library has burned to the ground.

I am perfectly happy to compromise and work with anybody. Republicans, Democrats, Libertarians. I’ll work with Martians. If — and the if is critical — they're willing to cut spending and reduce the debt.

I am interested in tax policy that raises money because I don't like being in debt.

I am open to conviction on all points except dinner and debts. I hold that the one must be eaten and the other paid.

I can get no remedy against this consumption of the purse: borrowing only lingers and lingers it out, but the disease is incurable.

I borrow to pay my honest debts and not to squander foolishly. What's more, I confine my borrowing to those who can well afford it. I don't go around sponging on widows and orphans unless they have plenty.

I can tell you this, if it wasn't for my book royalties, I'd be in debt.

I consider myself a product of Alaska. The love and the debt that I feel to my home state, you always want your hometown to be the proudest of you.

I can tell you if you look at the polls, Democrats, Republicans, Independents, they do not think we should increase the debt limit.

I don't intend to spend my morning being lectured to by a president whose failed policies have put our children and grandchildren in a huge burden of debt.

I do not add a penny to the national debt.

I don't have more money. I won't have more money than any of the candidates, even the Republican candidates. We know that already. But we are building this campaign team like I would build a business. And that is, we are building it so far with no debt.

I do have an obligation, however, a debt that cannot be settled by my lyrical decisions. My life will be judged by my obedience, not my ability to confine my lyrics to this box or that.

I do not intend to spare myself, not to avoid emotions or difficulties. I don't care much whether I live a longer or shorter time... the world concerns me only in so far as I feel a certain debt toward it, because I have walked on this earth for thirty years, and out of gratitude I want to leave some souvenir.

I don't like having debts. I don't like buying anything that I can't buy in cash.

If I was in Congress, I would not vote to raise the debt ceiling.

I don't need debt. And if I need debt, if I want debt, I can get it from banks in New York City very easily.

I don't want euro bonds that serve to mutualize the entire debt of the countries in the euro zone. That can only work in the longer-term. I want euro bonds to be used to finance targeted investments in future-oriented growth projects. It isn't the same thing. Let's call them 'project bonds' instead of euro bonds.

I felt okay for the first 45 seconds, and then my vision grew fussy. My lungs felt like deflated balloons. I would have sucked oxygen through my ears, if that were possible. I was experiencing oxygen debt, or perhaps better stated, oxygen death.

If I get clear of my debts, I care not though men call me bold, glib of tongue, audacious, impudent, shameless, a fabricator of falsehoods, inventor of words, practised in lawsuits, a pettifogger, a rattle, a fox, a sharper, a knave, a dissembler, a slippery fellow, an imposter, a rogue that deserves the cat-o-nine-tails, a blackguard, a twister, a licker-up of hashes; they call all this when they meet me, if they please, I care not.

If it isn't the sheriff, it's the finance company; I've got more attachments on me than a vacuum cleaner.

If it took multiple debt ceiling hikes, I'd rather achieve the savings.

I don't want to leave my successor and my children to pay for France's debt.

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

I fear debt. I don't like being indebted to banks. I have a rule in life that I will get it when I can afford it.

If Koboi defeats and presumably murders us both then you can consider the debt null and void.

I found this national debt doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office.

If the prodigal quits life in debt to others, the miser quits it still deeper in debt to himself.

If the current birth rate, which is the lowest in the major developed countries, continues, there will be no Japanese. Who will pay the enormous debt?

If there is one common theme to the vast range of crises...it is that excessive debt accumulation, whether it be by the government, banks, corporations, or consumers, often poses greater systemic risks than it seems during a boom.

If we get into the habit of thinking of ourselves as always owing a debt of love to our spouses, we will be less inclined to take offense when they say or do something that we do not like.

If Thomas Jefferson thought taxation without representation was bad, he should see how it is with representation.

If we didn't propose these reforms, we would not have proposed a budget that got the debt under control.