No words can express how much the world owes to sorrow. Most of the Psalms were born in the wilderness. Most of the Epistles were written in a prison. The greatest thoughts of the greatest thinkers have all passed through fire. The greatest poets have "learned in suffering what they taught in song. " In bonds Bunyan lived the allegory that he afterwards wrote, and we may thank Bedford Jail for the Pilgrim's Progress. Take comfort, afflicted Christian! When God is about to make pre-eminent use of a person, He put them in the fire.
Life owes me something more than it has paid me and I'm going out to collect it.
The special theory of relativity owes its origins to Maxwell's equations of the electromagnetic field.
The world owes us nothing; we owe each other the world.
A refined soul is distressed to know that someone owes it thanks; a crude soul, to know that it owes someone thanks.
From now on, I'm not doing anything I don't want to do! The world owes me happiness, fulfillment and success. . . . I'm just here to cash in.
Every right is married to a duty; every freedom owes a corresponding responsibility; and there cannot be genuine freedom unless there exists also genuine order, in the moral realm and in the social realm.
A nation is not in danger of financial disaster merely because it owes itself money.
To Barack and Michelle Obama - America owes you an enormous debt of gratitude.
The best thing we're put here for's to see; The strongest thing that's given us to see with's a telescope. Someone in every town, seems to me, owes it to the town to keep one.
There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a mind to do it. If a man borrows a paltry sum of money, there must needs be bonds and securities, and every common civility is presently charged upon account. But he who has my time thinks he owes me nothing for it, though it be a debt that gratitude itself can never repay.
A public relations firm said that rock star David Lee Roth owes them over $110,000. The strange thing is that it's the first time that David Lee Roth has had any publicity in ten years.
He that owes nothing, if he makes not mouthes at us, is courteous.
Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.
Life owes you nothing. You owe yourself everything.
Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country's ruin!
Humanity owes the child the best it has to give.
Owes unions who endorsed him; that's why he's in politics.
Poetry which owes no man anything, owes nevertheless one debt - an image of the world in which men can again believe.
The more humanity owes the poor man, the more society denies him.
