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!
Joseph Addison

It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.
George Washington

It's not good for government to tell people that the world owes them a living and that things are free.
William Weld

Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.
Thomas Hardy

Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
Jim Backus

My husband used to take care of the business part of this, and after he died I found I wasn't really any good at it. I hate remembering who owes me what and bugging them if they haven't paid me.
Jane Haddam

My youth is escaping without giving me anything it owes me.
Ivy Compton-Burnett

Nobody owes anybody a living, but everybody is entitled to a chance.
Jack Dempsey

Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.
Theodor Adorno

Nothing is more important in the preservation of peace than to secure among the great mass of the people living under constitutional government a just conception of the rights which their nation has against others and of the duties their nation owes to others.
Elihu Root

Our nation owes a debt of gratitude to the 9/11 Commission members for their valuable service and important recommendations to improve homeland security.
Jim Ramstad

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.
Samuel Johnson

Shadow owes its birth to light.
John Gay

Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
Albert Schweitzer

The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them.
Jean Genet

The Government of Iraq also owes a debt to the American and coalition forces who are fighting the insurgency and helping put that country back together after decades of repression.
Ike Skelton

The idea that a war can be won by standing on the defensive and waiting for the enemy to attack is a dangerous fallacy, which owes its inception to the desire to evade the price of victory.
Douglas Haig

The men who start out with the notion that the world owes them a living generally find that the world pays its debt in the penitentiary or the poor house.
William Graham Sumner

The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.
Will Rogers