Top Owes Quotes
Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.
Theodor Adorno
It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Mark Twain
Nobody owes anybody a living, but everybody is entitled to a chance.
Jack Dempsey
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Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.
Theodor Adorno 
79% of people like this quote
It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.
Ralph Waldo Emerson 
71% of people like this quote
The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
Nathaniel Hawthorne 
67% of people like this quote
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Mark Twain 
65% of people like this quote
Nobody owes anybody a living, but everybody is entitled to a chance.
Jack Dempsey 
62% of people like this quote
My husband used to take care of the business part of this, and after he died I found I wasn't really any good at it. I hate remembering who owes me what and bugging them if they haven't paid me.
Jane Haddam 
60% of people like this quote
Every youth owes it to himself and to the world to make the most possible out of the stuff that is in him.
Orison Swett Marden 
60% of people like this quote
The Government of Iraq also owes a debt to the American and coalition forces who are fighting the insurgency and helping put that country back together after decades of repression.
Ike Skelton 
59% of people like this quote
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