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

  Ben Bernanke

  Pay, Great Depression

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I suddenly realized that we were on borrowed time, that time is always borrowed, and that the lending agency exacts its premium precisely when we are least prepared to pay and need to borrow more.

  André Aciman

  Agency, Needs, Pay

  André Aciman (2008). “Call Me by Your Name: A Novel”, p.162, Macmillan

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• I love being in borrowed houses. I love being a bit out of my context. I miss my context dreadfully, but I'm excited by that.

  Joan Juliet Buck

  Love Is, House, Missing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• What you think of as they past is a memory trace, stored in the mind, of a former Now. When you remember the past, you reactivate a memory trace -- and you do so now. The future is an imagined Now, a projection of the mind. When the future comes, it comes as the Now. When you think about the future, you do it now. Past and future obviously have no reality of their own. Just as the moon has no light of its own, but can only reflect the light of the sun, so are past and future only pale reflections of the light, power, and reality of the eternal present. Their reality is "borrowed" from the Now.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Memories, Thinking, Reflection

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• Fee-fi-fo-fum - Now I'm borrowed. Now I'm numb.

  Anne Sexton

  Numb, Fees

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.115, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The pitifulest thing out is a mob; that's what an army is--a mob; they don't fight with courage that's born in them, but with courage that's borrowed from their mass, and from their officers. But a mob without any MAN at the head of it is BENEATH pitifulness.

  Mark Twain

  Fighting, Army, Men

  Mark Twain (2015). “Annotated Huckleberry Finn with English Grammar Exercises: by Mark Twain (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, p.160, Powell Publications, LLC

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• The dog, who had sounded so ferocious in the winter distances, was a female German Shepherd. She was shivering. Her tail was between her legs. She had been borrowed that morning from a farmer. She had never been to war before. She had no idea what game was being played. Her name was Princess.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Dog, Morning, War

  KURT VONNEGUT JR (1969). “SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE”

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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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