Best 772 quotes in «debt quotes» category

Paying debt service to banks leaves less income to buy goods and services.

People don't have an ongoing relation unless it's a form of debt because everything is an exchange, so ongoing relationships are incomplete exchanges, and therefore one party is probably to blame - more likely than not, both are. Sociality itself seems to become like a matter of sin, and inherently wrong.

People have tried to control other people by trapping them with debt. A loan can become a harmful and dangerous weapon.

People talk of the sacrifice I have made in spending so much of my life in Africa. Can that be called a sacrifice which is simply paid back as a small part of a great debt owing to our God, which we can never repay? All these are nothing when compared with the glory which shall be revealed in and for us. I never made a sacrifice.

Poets, like friends to whom you are in debt, you hate.

Philosophers who pay for their semantics by drawing checks on Darwin are in debt way over their heads.

Poe wrote like a drunkard and a man who is not accustomed to pay his debts.

Poetry which owes no man anything, owes nevertheless one debt - an image of the world in which men can again believe.

Praise is a debt we owe unto the virtue of others, and due unto our own from all whom malice hath not made mutes, or envy struck dumb.

Praise in the beginning is agreeable enough; and we receive it as a favor; but when it comes in great quantities, we regard it only as a debt, which nothing but our merit could extort.

President Obama flew to a rally in Las Vegas last night. However, he did not visit any of the casinos. You know why? When you're $16 trillion in debt, they don't let you in.

Public borrowing is costly these days, true, but interest rates on municipal bonds are still considerably lower than those borne by corporate debt.

Public debt [is] a burden on all the people.

Put God in your debt. Every stroke shall be repaid. The longer the payment is with-held, the better for you; for compound interest on compound interest is the rate and usage of this exchequer.

public work brings a vicarious but assured sense of immortality. We may be poor, weak, timid, in debt to our landlady, bullied by our nieces, stiff in the joints, shortsighted and distressed; we shall perish, but the cause endures; the cause is great.

Pull in your belt, spend less, and reduce debt.

Refinancing doesn't reduce your debt, it just restructures it, so be clear about what you want to achieve with a refi.

Raising the debt limit on some levels is a ministerial act. It doesn't involve any new spending.

Right now the problem in Thailand is we have high debt, but we don't know how to earn the new source of revenue back to Thailand. This is my job.

Remember, Republican economic policies quadrupled the debt before I took office and doubled it after I left. We simply can't afford to double-down on trickle-down.

Remember that in most cases, student loan debt is not dischargeable in bankruptcy. So you continue to pay it off anyway. Those who have very low interest rates (2-2.5 percent) on student loans and know everything is secure, great.

Repaying the debt of these ultimate sacrifices seems nearly impossible but we must try.

Revenge is a debt, in the paying of which the greatest knave is honest and sincere, and, so far as he is able, punctual.

Rolling all of your debts into a single loan is a good idea - in theory. In fact, it can be a great idea.

Said an opponent to me after my last protest was sent in, what party would you vote for, if you could? Neither. I would have a moral sentiment party. I would know the private character of my candidate, would know also whether he takes care of his own property - whether he had failed in business - if so, whether he had paid back every dollar of debt as fast as he had earned them. Yes, every candidate should be examined morally, and if it be found that he has not been true to the monitions of conscience in one direction, he cannot or will not be in another.

Seeing that he owns absolutely nothing to ‘repay’ his debt, ‘his own consciousness’ of the fact ‘that he is himself the very substance’ of debt, so must he ‘repay’ with himself, so must he ‘return’ himself to Him Who owns him absolutely.

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

Should we really let our people starve so we can pay our debts.

Since there is no orderly way to liquidate the federal debt, we must brace for a payment crisis.

Simply put, unsustainable debt is helping to keep too many poor countries and poor people in poverty.

Slight was the thing I bought, small was the debt I thought, Poor was the loan at best - God! but the interest!

Slow growth and inflation have a tendency to accompany large deficits and increasing debt as a percentage of GDP.

Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger.

Social Science … led us to the fallacy that, since all men have their being in culture and as a result of culture, they owe a debt to that culture which even a lifetime of altruism could not repay.

So this was fame at last! Nothing but a vast debt to be paid to the world in energy, blood, and time.

So far as the object of taxation is to raise a revenue for discharging the debts and defraying the expenses of the community, its operation should be adapted as much as possible to suit the burden with equal hand upon all in proportion with their ability of bearing it without oppression.

Some are unwisely liberal, and more delight to give presents than to pay debts.

Someone has to pick up the tab when people get out of repaying their own debts.

So, is there hope for a truly democratic Africa? Long answer: Only if continent-wide improvements in education, human rights and public health are coupled with an aggressive and far-sighted debt-relief program that breaks the cycle of subsistence farming and urban squalor. Short answer: No.

Solving a problem created by debt... by creating more debt is a fool's errand.

Some refuse the loan of life to avoid the debt of death.

[S]ound policy condemns the practice of accumulating debts.

Spain is finding it very difficult to finance itself with sovereign debt risk premium so high.

The [Barack] Obama administration, from the time they've come in, is over 230 years' worth of debt, and he's topped it. He's doubled it in a course of almost eight years, seven-and-a-half years, to be semi- exact.

Stay on the path that the Democratic Party has us on, we're going to be in a mountain range of debt.

That thou remember them, some claim as debt; I think it mercy, if thou wilt forget.

The 1980s are to debt what the 1960s were to sex. The 1960s left a hangover. So will the 1980s.

The American people care about the fact that we have $17 trillion in debt and 10 percent of every tax dollar that's coming in is going to pay for past overspending.

Ten million dollars after I'd become a star I was deeply in debt.

The American people will not tolerate a clean increase in the debt limit.