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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I know that in a poem, even when the speaker is speaking from the poet's experience, there's always something that's borrowed, some authority that sits outside of the poet that the poem has claimed. There's a dramatic pitch that makes the speaker capable of saying something more courageous or stranger or simply other than what the poet would be able to say.

  Tracy K. Smith

  Would Be, Able, Courageous

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Country, Class, Nomenclature

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• In economics, we borrowed from the Bourbons; in foreign policy, we drew on themes fashioned by the nomad warriors of the Eurasian steppes. In spiritual matters, we emulated the braying intolerance of our archenemies, the Shite fundamentalists.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Spiritual, War, Matter

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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• I kept my clothes on. I borrowed money.

  Estella Warren

  Clothes, Borrowed Money

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The unique danger today is the possibility that we may face longer-term stagnation as a consequence of relying too heavily on borrowed money.

  Mortimer Zuckerman

  Money, Unique, May

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• I love awards, especially if I get them. It's up to the courage of the filmmakers to make art in cinema, not just business. John was rejected by studios, he borrowed money and did movies with his own money. You're either courageous or not. You have to find a way.

  Ben Gazzara

  Art, Awards, Cinema

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• I think I actually made a very kind gesture out of nowhere; I decided in the middle of that match that for every ace I hit I want to donate money. I just think people should honestly look at themselves before they judge another person. I've never been spoiled. I want a Range Rover very bad, but I refuse to spend the money to buy a Range...The diamonds are borrowed. I won't buy them because I'm too cheap.

  Serena Williams

  Thinking, People, Judging

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• When I was a boy, my family took great care with our snapshots. We really planned them. We made compositions. We posed in front of expensive cars, homes, that werent ours. We borrowed dogs. Almost every family picture taken of us when I was young had a different borrowed dog in it.

  Richard Avedon

  Dog, Taken, Home

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• When debtors once have borrowed all we have to lend, they are very apt to grow shy of their creditors' company.

  John Vanbrugh

  Debtors, Shy, Creditors

  William. II Congreve William Wycherley (John Vanbrugh and Farquhar George), William. II Wycherley, William Congreve, George Farquhar, John Vanbrugh (1840). “Dramatic Works with Biographical and Critical Notices by Leigh Hunt. - London, Moxon 1840”, p.348

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• Stale is stale and borrowed is borrowed, no matter how original your models may have been.

  Robert Silverberg

  May, Matter, Stale

  "New Dimensions 1". Anthology edited by Robert Silverberg, 1971.

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• The president has borrowed more money to spend to less effect than anybody on the planet.

  Mark Steyn

  Political, President, More Money

  "Why the Stimulus Flopped" by Mark Steyn, www.nationalreview.com. August 22, 2009.

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• You must take risks, both with your own money or with borrowed money. Risk taking is essential to business growth.

  J. Paul Getty

  Risk, Growth, Essentials

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• Consultation and compliance can conduce little to the perfection of any literary performance; for whoever is so doubtful of his own abilities as to encourage the remarks of others, will find himself every day embarrassed with new difficulties, and will harass his mind, in vain, with the hopeless labour of uniting heterogeneous ideas, digesting independent hints, and collecting into one point the several rays of borrowed light, emitted often with contrary directions.

  Samuel Johnson

  Writing, Independent, Light

  Samuel Johnson (2009). “Samuel Johnson: Selected Writings”, p.183, Harvard University Press

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• To pay for my father's funeral I borrowed money from people he already owed money to. One called him a nobody. No, I said, he was a failure. You can't remember a nobody's name, that's why they're called nobodies. Failures are unforgettable.

  Philip Schultz

  Father, Names, People

  Philip Schultz (2009). “Failure”, p.48, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Only see you when I close my eyes. We on borrowed time when I delayed the sunlight.

  Bobby V

  Falling In Love, Eye, Sunlight

  Song: Anonymous, Album: Special Occasion, 2007

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• Baccarat is a game whereby the croupier gathers in money with a flexible sculling oar, then rakes it home. If I could have borrowed his oar I would have stayed.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Home, Gambling

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