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

  Emily Giffin

  Perfect

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

  Ben Bernanke

  Pay, Great Depression

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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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• 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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• Let men learn that a legislature is not 'our God upon earth,' though, by the authority they ascribe to it, and the things they expect from it, they would seem to think it is. Let them learn rather that it is an institution serving a purely temporary purpose, whose power, when not stolen, is at the best borrowed.

  Herbert Spencer

  Men, Thinking, Purpose

  Herbert Spencer (1873). “Social Statics; Or, The Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified, & the First of Them Developed”, p.230

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• The bees pillage the flowers here and there but they make honey of them which is all their own; it is no longer thyme or marjolaine: so the pieces borrowed from others he will transform and mix up into a work all his own.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Flower, Here And There, Thyme

  "Essays", Book I, Chapter XXV, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 598-600, 1922.

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• Our top-down pyramid style of management is a very old concept borrowed from centuries of war and monarchies.

  James Hunter

  War, Top Down, Pyramids

  James C. Hunter (2008). “The Servant: A Simple Story About the True Essence of Leadership”, p.56, Crown Business

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• A witty and informative professor posits that more authors do not choose titles borrowed from Shakespeare's sonnets and plays for the reason some people claim not to have partners: "All the good ones are taken."

  Thomas C Foster

  Witty, Taken, Play

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• The inevitable result of borrowed faith is lost faith. People born into a family anchored in Christendom tend to assume they're right with God, regardless of whether they personally turn from sin and trust in Jesus.

  Mark Driscoll

  Jesus, People, Assuming

  Mark Driscoll (2013). “A Call to Resurgence: Will Christianity Have a Funeral or a Future?”, p.16, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Quite naturally, scholars assumed that Latin grammar was not merely Latin grammar, but that it was grammar itself. They borrowed it and made the most of it.

  Charlton Laird

  Latin, Made, Grammar

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• I borrowed 100 pounds and made the pact with God: Make me a millionaire - and you can have half of my money.

  Albert Gubay

  Half, Pounds, Made

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• Borrowed thoughts, like borrowed money, only show the poverty of the borrower.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Inspirational, Acceptance, Poverty

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• Amongst so many borrowed things, am glad if I can steal one, disguising and altering it for some new service.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Stealing, Plagiarism, Glad

  Michel de Montaigne, William Hazlitt, Orlando Williams Wight (1866). “Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising his essays, journey into Italy, and letters”, p.389

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• The photographic enthusiast likes to lure us into a darkened room in order to display his slides on a silver screen. Aided by the adaptability of the eye and by the borrowed light from the intense projector bulb, he can achieve those relationships in brightness that will make us dutifully admire the wonderful autumn tints he photographed on his latest trip. As soon as we look at a print of these photographs by day, the light seems to go out of them. It is one of the miracles of art that the same does not happen there.

  Ernst Gombrich

  Art, Eye, Autumn

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• We live in a world with "free" content, and this freedom is not an imperfection. We listen to the radio without paying for the songs we hear; we hear friends humming tunes that they have not licensed. We tell jokes that reference movie plots without the permission of the directors. We read our children books, borrowed from a library, without paying the original copyright holder for the performance rights.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Song, Children, Book

  "May the Source Be With You". www.wired.com. December 21, 2001.

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• I went to art school for about a year. I was born and raised in the Willamette Valley in Oregon into a middle-class family who didn't have the funds to say, "Here, kid. Here's your money for school." So I worked real hard during the summer and saved money and was able to go to school for a year and borrowed a little money which I paid back after that first year.

  Mike Royer

  Summer, Art, Real

  "Interview: Mike Royer Talks Classic Cartoons, Jack Kirby and Much More". Interview with Bryan Stroud, comicsbulletin.com. January 30, 2015.

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• They [some countries] borrowed money to go acquire things, Indian power plants and Danish newspapers and British soccer teams. And they did it willy-nilly, and they themselves a story, that Icelandic history and culture and DNA leaves us very well-suited to being investment bankers.

  Michael Lewis

  Soccer, Country, Team

  "Michael Lewis’ 'Boomerang': 'Money Thrown Out in Hope, Coming Back in Anger'". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. October 21, 2011.

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• One of the effects of religions getting together is that they borrow from one another. An example is the growing number of Catholics who are practicing Yoga and meditation techniques borrowed from Buddhism and Hinduism. So there are these borrowings which I think fertilize the religions.

  Ninian Smart

  Yoga, Buddhism, Thinking

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

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• No doubt other writers have often put a thing more brilliantly, more subtly than even a very cunning artist in words can hope to emulate, a supreme phrase being a bit of luck that only happens now and then. And inasmuch as the condiments and secret travail of human nature are always the same, and that certain psychological moments must ever and ever recur, what more tempting than to pin down such a moment with the blow of a borrowed hammer?

  Ethel Smyth

  Artist, Blow, Doubt

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• To forget, or pretend to do so, to return a borrowed article, is the meanest sort of petty theft.

  Samuel Johnson

  Return, Forget, Theft

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