A nation' s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others.
Indira Gandhi

A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
Ambrose Bierce

Affluence separates people. Poverty knits 'em together. You got some sugar and I don't; I borrow some of yours. Next month you might not have any flour; well, I'll give you some of mine.
Ray Charles

Before the arrival of the Credit Union, people who were from the poor background or a working class background couldn't borrow from banks.
John Hume

Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours.
Rudyard Kipling

Don't borrow someone else's spectacles to view yourself with.
Simon Travaglia

Financial service providers act as the lubricating oil in the economy. They link consumers who want to invest their savings for a good return with companies who want to borrow on best terms for expansion.
John Bruton

First, I identify an analogous problem in nature and borrow from it.
Philip Emeagwali

Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.
Aaron Sorkin

I borrow bits from everyone.
Janice Dickinson

I didn't need to borrow money from the record company, because if I had my own publishing company, and I had my own writers, I'd have enough to get and do whatever I wanted to do.
Solomon Burke

I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.
B. B. King

I even played bass for a while. Besides playing electric guitar, I'd also get asked to play some acoustic stuff. But, since I didn't have an acoustic guitar at the time, I used to borrow one from a friend so I could play folk joints.
Mark Knopfler

I have a small house so I borrow everything except art, that's what I love.
Salma Hayek

I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is the dark menace of the future that makes cowards of us.
Dorothy Dix

I know that my Republican colleagues are as ashamed as I am that the United States is forced to borrow over $1 trillion from foreign nations to pay for our national priorities like reconstruction of the gulf coast and the war in Iraq.
Dennis Cardoza

I need to borrow a camera to take some pix of my studio, which is basically the kitchen table.
Francesca da Rimini

I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
Woodrow Wilson

I should like to spend the whole of my life in traveling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend afterwards at home.
William Hazlitt