Borrowed Quotes - Page 12

• The book borrower...proves himself to be an inveterate collector of books not so much by the fervor with which he guards his borrowed treasures...as by his failure to read these books.

  Walter Benjamin

  Book, Treasure, Prove

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• Of late years (perhaps as a result of our political changes) art has borrowed from history more than ever.

  Alfred de Vigny

  Art, Years, Political

  Alfred de Vigny (1923). “Cinq Mars”

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• My first student film was Orientation, which was basically the set-up for Animal House. There are a couple of scenes that we later borrowed in some form.

  Ivan Reitman

  Couple, Animal, House

  Interview with Joshua Klein, www.avclub.com. May 17, 2000.

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• A wise Providence consoles our present afflictions by joys borrowed from the future.

  Hosea Ballou

  Wise, Joy, Affliction

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• I awoke from The Sickness at the age of forty-five, calm and sane, and in reasonably good health except for a weakened liver and the look of borrowed flesh common to all who survive The Sickness.

  William S. Burroughs

  Age, Looks, Flesh

  William S. Burroughs (2007). “Naked Lunch: The Restored Text”, p.199, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• What is wild cannot be bought or sold, borrowed or copied. It is. Unmistakeable, unforgettable, unshamable, elemental as earth and ice, water, fire and air, a quintessence, pure spirit, resolving into no constituents.
  Don't waste your wildness: it is precious and necessary.

  Jay Griffiths

  Fire, Ice Water, Air

  Jay Griffiths (2007). “Wild: An Elemental Journey”, p.168, Penguin UK

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• Live like there's no tomorrow. Love like you're on borrowed time. Always remember, It's good to be alive.

  Jason Gray

  Alive, Tomorrow, Remember

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• Nobody really owns anything. We give back our bodies at the end of our lives. We own our thoughts, but everything else is just borrowed. We use it for a while, then pass it on.
  Everything.
  We borrow the sun that shines on us today from the people on the other side of the world while they borrow the moon from us. Then we give it back. We can't keep the sun, no matter how afraid we are of the dark.

  Deborah Ellis

  Dark, Moon, Shine On

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• A certain awkwardness marks the use of borrowed thoughts; but as soon as we have learned what to do with them, they become our own.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Learning, Use, Mark

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.107

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• Let me say to you, that many of you will see the time when you will have all the trouble, trial and persecution that you can stand, and plenty of opportunities to show that you are true to God and his work. This Church has before it many close places through which it will have to pass before the work of God is crowned with victory. The time will come when no man nor woman will be able to endure on borrowed light. Each will have to be guided by the light within himself. If you do not have it, how can you stand?

  Heber C. Kimball

  God, Religious, Work

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• Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed; nature never pretends.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Nature, Has Beens, Pretension

  "Mental Recreation; or, Select Maxims". Anonymous author, p. 234, 1831.

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• The Merchant, to Secure His Treasure The merchant, to secure his treasure, Conveys it in a borrowed name: Euphelia serves to grace my measure, But Cloe is my real flame. My softest verse, my darling lyre Upon Euphelia's toilet lay - When Cloe noted her desire That I should sing, that I should play. My lyre I tune, my voice I raise, But with my numbers mix my sighs; And whilst I sing Euphelia's praise, I fix my soul on Cloe's eyes. Fair Cloe blushed; Euphelia frowned: I sung, and gazed; I played, and trembled: And Venus to the Loves around Remarked how ill we all dissembled.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Love, Real, Eye

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• It is Love and the Lover that live eternally -
  Don't lend your heart to anything else; all else is borrowed.

  Rumi

  Love, Heart, Awareness

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• Imagine if you borrowed your parents' car without permission and ran it into a tree, how much better you'd feel if you were incorporated.

  Peter Lynch

  Car, Tree, Parent

  Peter Lynch, John Rothchild (2012). “Learn to Earn: A Beginner's Guide to the Basics of Investing and”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• Imitation is not inspiration, and inspiration only can give birth to a work of art. The least of man's original emanation is better than the best of borrowed thought.

  Albert Pinkham Ryder

  Art, Inspiration, Men

  Albert Pinkham Ryder (1961). “Albert Pinkham Ryder: Exhibition April 8-May 12, 1961”

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• When I finally gathered, invented, stole, simplified, borrowed, and found a publisher for a clutch of reasonably foolproof recipes, I learned I had friends I hadn't known about - more proof that a mutual dislike can be quite as sound a basis for friendship as a mutual devotion.

  Peg Bracken

  Sound, Recipes, Devotion

  "I Didn't Come Here to Argue (My Feud With Food)". Book by Peg Bracken (p. 22), 1969.

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• If knowing yourself and being yourself were as easy to do as to talk about, there wouldn't be nearly so many people walking around in borrowed postures, spouting secondhand ideas, trying desperately to fit in rather than to stand out.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Being Yourself, Ideas, Knowing

  Warren G. Bennis, Patricia Ward Biederman (2009). “The Essential Bennis”, p.212, John Wiley & Sons

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• The reason why borrowed books are seldom returned, is that it is easier to retain books themselves than what is inside of them.

  Gilles Menage

  Book, Library, Reason Why

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• History does not provide any example of capital accumulation brought about by a government. As far as governments invested in the construction of roads, railroads, and other useful public works, the capital needed was provided by the savings of individual citizens and borrowed by the government.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Government, Example, Doe

  Ludwig Von Mises (1963). “Human action: a treatise on economics”

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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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• Whenever you permit yourself to think what persons, things, conditions, or circumstances may suggest, you are not following what you want to think. You are not following your own desires but borrowed desires. Use your imagination in determining what you want to think or do.

  Christian D. Larson

  Thinking, Imagination, Desire

  Christian D. Larson (2009). “Your Forces and How to Use Them”, p.285, The Floating Press

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• Put down the pen someone else gave you.
  No one ever drafted a life worth living on borrowed ink.

  Jack Kerouac

  Ink, Life Worth Living, Living On

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• The gods tempt us. They offer us riches and sweet smelling women, tres leches, each milk sweeter than the one before. But you cannot beat the gods. The grander house and the bigger deal only mean more borrowed time, more risk. When you build your life on a house of cards, you never know when the joker will turn up.

  Paul Levine

  Sweet, Mean, House Of Cards

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• We need to call sin what the Bible calls it and not soften it with modern expressions borrowed from our culture.

  Jerry Bridges

  Expression, Needs, Culture

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• As not every instance of similitude can be considered as a proof of imitation, so not every imitation ought to be stigmatised as plagiarism. The adoption of a noble sentiment, or the insertion of a borrowed ornament, may sometimes display so much judgment as will almost compensate for invention; and an inferior genius may, without any imputation of servility, pursue the paths of the ancients, provided he declines to tread in their footsteps.

  Samuel Johnson

  Writing, Adoption, Ornaments

  Samuel Johnson (1782). “The Beauties of Johnson: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous”, p.117

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