Borrowed Quotes

• Genius is to other gifts what the carbuncle is to the precious stones. It sends forth its own light, whereas other stones only reflect borrowed light.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Light, Precious Stones, Genius

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• Nothing is ever perfect. It is what you make of it.

  Emily Giffin

  Perfect

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• It's like when someone dies, the initial stages of grief seem to be the worst. But in some ways, it's sadder as time goes by and you consider how much they've missed in your life. In the world.

  Emily Giffin

  Grief, World, Way

  Emily Giffin (2015). “Borrowed & Blue: Something Borrowed, Something Blue”, p.307, St. Martin's Griffin

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• My wants are simple: a job that I like and a guy whom I love.

  Emily Giffin

  Jobs, Simple, Guy

  Emily Giffin (2010). “Something Borrowed: A Novel”, p.12, Macmillan

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• When you are in a relationship, you are aware that it might end. You might grow apart, find someone else, simply fall out of love. But a friendship isn't a zero-sum game, and as such, you assume that it will last forever, especially an old friendship. You take its permanence for grandted, whuch might be the very thing so dear about it.

  Emily Giffin

  Falling In Love, Zero, Games

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• Maybe the thing to do after you roll the dice-and lose-is simply pick them up and roll them again.

  Emily Giffin

  Dice, Things To Do, Picks

  Emily Giffin (2010). “Something Borrowed: A Novel”, p.272, Macmillan

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• How much would you pay to avoid a second Depression?

  Ben Bernanke

  Pay, Great Depression

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• You're not the only one falling

  Kami Garcia

  Fall, New Girl, Acknowledge You

  Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl (2011). “Beautiful Chaos”, p.293, Hachette UK

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• When you’re in love, sometimes you have to swallow your pride, and sometimes you have to keep your pride. It’s a balance. But when the relationship is right, you find the balance.

  Emily Giffin

  Pride, Balance, Sometimes

  Emily Giffin (2010). “Something Borrowed: A Novel”, p.295, Macmillan

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• What are a friend's books for if not to be borrowed?

  Tom Stoppard

  Book, Ifs

  Tom Stoppard (2013). “Tom Stoppard Plays 5: The Real Thing; Night & Day; Hapgood; Indian Ink; Arcadia”, p.57, Faber & Faber

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• Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Eye, Sorrow, World

  Cormac McCarthy (2007). “The Road”, p.110, Vintage

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• The problem is that borrowing money to pay back more borrowed money that will oblige you in the future to borrow even more money doesn't sound kosher. Because it isn't.

  John Podhoretz

  Sound, Pay, Problem

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• Sunlight fell upon the wall; the wall received a borrowed splendor. Why set your heart on a piece of earth, O simple one? Seek out the source which shines forever.

  Rumi

  Wall, Heart, Simple

  Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (2008). “The Pocket Rumi”, p.133, Shambhala Publications

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• Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Summer, Children, Flower

  Samuel Rutherford (1765). “Joshua redivivus, or Mr Rutherford's letters”, p.56

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• What did the taxpayers get out of the Obama stimulus? More debt. That money wasn't just spent and wasted – it was borrowed, spent, and wasted.

  Paul Ryan

  Debt, Taxpayers, Stimulus

  Paul Ryan's Speech at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida, www.npr.org. August 29, 2012.

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• We owe at least this much to future generations, from whom we have borrowed a fragile planet called Earth.

  Maurice Strong

  Generations, Earth, Stewardship

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• We can choose a future where we export more products and outsource fewer jobs. After a decade that was defined by what we bought and borrowed, we're getting back to basics, and doing what America has always done best: We're making things again.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, America, Done

  Second Democratic Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, delivered 6 September 2012, Charlotte, North Carolina

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• John Candy knew he was going to die. He told me on his 40th birthday. He said, well, Maureen, I'm on borrowed time.

  Maureen O'Hara

  Birthday, Sentimental, Said

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• Families out there know that if they get in trouble and they've spent up a bunch of money and they've borrowed and they are up to hock to their necks, the thing they've got to do is start paying off what they owe and cut back their spending.

  Mike Huckabee

  Cutting, Necks, Trouble

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• Once a book falls into our possession, it is ours, the same way children lay their claim: 'That's my book.' As if it were organically part of them. That must be why we have so much trouble returning borrowed books. It's not exactly theft (of course not, we're not thieves, what are you implying?); it's simply a slippage in ownership or, better still, a transfer of substance. That which belonged to someone else becomes mine when I look at it. And if I like what I read, naturally I'll have difficulty giving it back.

  Daniel Pennac

  Children, Book, Fall

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• I have only ever borrowed money for investment. I have been sound money all my life.

  Ken Livingstone

  Sound, Investment, Borrowed Money

  "Ken Livingstone: It's policies that matter this time, not personalities". Interview with Andrew Sparrow, www.theguardian.com. January 30, 2012.

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• Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music.

  Herbie Hancock

  Music, Jazz, Genre

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• Look, I'm very much in favor of tax cuts, but not with borrowed money. And the problem that we've gotten into in recent years is spending programs with borrowed money, tax cuts with borrowed money, and at the end of the day that proves disastrous. And my view is I don't think we can play subtle policy here.

  Alan Greenspan

  Cutting, Thinking, Views

  "Bush tax cuts - a decider for the midterms?". www.nbcnews.com. August 2, 2010.

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• I can't catch her by copying her, I can't draw her with a borrowed stencil. She is all the things a lover should be and quite a few a lover should not. Pin her down? She's not a butterfly. I'm not a wrestler. She's not a target. I'm not a gun. Tell you what she is? She's not Lot no. 27 and I'm not one to brag.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Butterfly, Gun, Copying

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• Touched by her fingers, the two surviving chocolate people copulate desperately, losing themselves in a melting frenzy of lust, spending the last of their brief borrowed lives in a spasm of raspberry cream and fear.

  Neil Gaiman

  Sex, Two, People

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