In the long run an opinion often borrows credit from the forbearance of its patrons.
The government doesn't save enough, it borrows too much and it doesn't invest enough in the next generation. It's like what parents are trying to get their kids not to do, but if they look at the federal government, that's what they're doing.
A glory gilds the sacred page, Majestic like the sun, It gives a light to every age, It gives, but borrows none.
One of the traps or the pitfalls of writing a trilogy - or a triptych, or whatever term you want to use - is that the second book can be a long second act to get you from book one to book three, which borrows all of its energy from the first book.
Fancy borrows much from memory, and so looks back to the past.
Though painting borrows help indeed from colours. . . it has nothing more wide of its real aim or more remote from its intention than to make a show of colours. . . to raise a separate and flattering pleasure to the sense.
The root of masculine is stronger, and of feminine weaker. The sun is a governing planet to certain planets, while the moon borrows her light from the sun, and is less or weaker.
Nature, through all her works, in great degree, Borrows a blessing from variety. Music itself her needful aid requires To rouse the soul, and wake our dying fires.
There's not a plant or flower below but makes Thy glories known, And clouds arise, and tempests blow by order from Thy throne; While all that borrows life from Thee is ever in Thy care; And everywhere that we can be, Thou, God art present there.
A big talent steals, a small talent borrows.
Genius Borrows nobly.
Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
We have a government that borrows $4 billion a day. We have a government that owes trillions of dollars in debt, half of that to foreigners, most of that to Chinese investors. I don't - that is extreme. Not only is it extreme. It's insane and it's unsustainable.
