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She owed him nothing - less than nothing. — Brynn Kelly

The angry person is acutely sensitive to all they are owed by the world, and blind to all they have received — Jules Evans

Helen didn't yet understand that conjuring up the future was the duty of the living, what they owed to the dead. — Tatjana Soli

Grudges are for those who insist that they are owed something; forgiveness, however, is for those who are substantial enough to move on. — Criss Jami

Odd people, as I said, and I owe them a great deal, though they would be offended and distressed to think anyone owed them anything. — Ann Leckie

The only thing you can justifiably claim that life owes you is an equal measure of what you have given out. And even that is debatable. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Governor Romney has paid 100 percent of his taxes that are owed. He has complied 100 percent with what the law requires. — Jason Chaffetz

Some debts should never be tallied, he says. I myself, I know what is owed me, but by God I know what I owe. — Hilary Mantel

Others owed thanks include William Swelbar — Mark Gerchick

You're owed a refund on your manhood. — Lee Goldberg

She couldn't help a grin, knowing that she had done this. She had brought this monstrosity back to life. It owed her now and it seemed to know it. — Marissa Meyer

I owe America more than she has ever owed me. — John McCain

Europe has always owed to oriental genius its divine impulses. What these holy bards said, all sane men found agreeable and true. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I owed it to my father that I was elected to Parliament in the first place, but I owed it to my mother that I stuck it out once I got there. — Agnes Macphail

The way Gansey saw it was this: If you had a special knack for finding things, it meant you owed the world to look. "Hey, — Maggie Stiefvater

I owed her big-time. Jane had left me the house and the money and the skull. I — Charlaine Harris

Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and to humanity. — James Bryce

No one asked me to be an actor, so no one owed me. There was no entitlement. — James Earl Jones

I stabbed a piece of broccoli like it owed me money. — C.J. Roberts

Two things are owed to truthfulness: lasting marriages and short friendships. — Robert Breault

I love Black Sabbath. They made an amazing contribution to music today. Almost every band that made it big in the Nineties owed a debt to them — Dave Grohl

He looked like a man who had gained confidence through exposure to a hostile environment; like one who no longer owed anything to anyone. — Amor Towles

He didn't make me pay all that I owed, but maybe I had to be willing to pay the full price. That's how repentance is different from regret. — Brent Weeks

Di wrestled with her knitting as if it were Fate, and she were paying off the grudge she owed — Louisa May Alcott

Never in the history of human credit has so much been owed. — Margaret Thatcher

Writers owed their readers a duty of care, of mercy. — Ian McEwan

It is because I owe America more than she has ever owed me that I am a candidate for president to the United States. — John McCain

It saddens me that Christians need to be reminded that awe is owed also to those who disagree with them, who believe otherwise than they do. — Marilynne Robinson

Deserve.' How preoccupied we are with that. With what we should have, with what we are owed. I wonder if any word has ever caused more heartache. — Robert Jackson Bennett

The assumption of 'rights' is the cancer of privilege. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

The farmer's way of saving money: to be owed by someone he trusted. — Hugh MacLennan

Sleep evaded him like an old friend who owed him money. — James Newman

I have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned tool. — John Steinbeck

Byron owed the vast influence which he exercised over his contemporaries at least as much to his gloomy egotism as to the real power of his poetry. — Thomas B. Macaulay

Even the development of the steam engine owed but little to the advancement of science. — James Bryant Conant

He stood quite still, freezing, and somebody somewhere owed him infinite love. — Lars Gustafsson

I acknowledged that I owed my presidency to People Power. I resolved during my presidency that I would in turn empower the people. — Corazon Aquino

Accountability was a foreign thing, and back in the day I avoided it like I owed it money. — Jay Crownover

I so owed Arianna, that undead little genius. — Kiersten White

The idea that any performer type is owed anything is a joke to me. — Henry Rollins

To discover what becomes of men who do not pay debts owed to Ratilla, one must visit the underworld. — A.H. Septimius

I always assumed it owed more to the fact that he didn't like me. — Rick Yancey

The root of anger is the perception that something has been taken. Something is owed you, and now a debt to debtor relationship has been established. — Andy Stanley

I had the cab driver drive me here backwards, and the dude owed me $27.50. — Mitch Hedberg

Yes. I owed my life, Angel's life, and my mother's life to a mutant's ability to create industrial-strength snot. — James Patterson

My success was also owed to career women who maybe had big legs or ample thighs, who felt well-protected by my fluid clothing that hid their flaws. — Giorgio Armani

The insignia meant a lot to the men who were fighting ... I had to do it ... I owed it to them. — Walt Disney

If people work for me over the years, I expect them to be paid what they're owed, but I don't expect them to be paid more than they earn. — Dolly Parton

Affection is so much easier to give when it is not owed. — Priya Parmar

Love is neither owed nor earned. It either is or it's not. I gave you the world. But you wanted the stars. — Beau Taplin

Some things you didn't give away, no matter how much you owed. — Joe Hill

Which reminded me ... I still owed the gods a debt.
"You're a genius," I (Percy) told Annabeth. — Rick Riordan

Never in the annals of software engineering was so much owed by so many to so few lines of code — Martin Fowler

He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody. — Joseph Heller

I was surrounded by too many people who felt that they had a strong sense of entitlement. That I owed them something. — Curtis Jackson

Everything owed is due again. — Linda Robinson

Give obedience where 'tis truly owed. — William Shakespeare

I don't think there is anything owed to us. You've got to go out and work hard for every round win. — Larry Dixon

the principal duty which a parent owed to a child was to make him happy. Not — Anthony Trollope

Thus you are just not because you give what is owed, but because you do what is appropriate to you as the highest good. — Anselm Of Canterbury

My father once told me that anyone who worked for three dollars an hour owed it to himself to put in four dollars' worth of work. — Bill Russell

I personally do not owe the debt that was owed by the campaign. — Alan Keyes

Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver. — Sophocles

The greatest respect is owed to a child. — Juvenal

After four hundred years of slave labor, we have some back pay coming, a bill owed to us that must be collected. — Malcolm X

I owed the greater apology, but at the same time I knew that was done was done, that no matter what I said now I would never be able to make it right. — Jhumpa Lahiri

We are all debts owed to death. — Simonides

If you had a special knack for finding things, it meant you owed the world to look. — Maggie Stiefvater

There was no evidence I could do anything to change destiny, but I owed it to myself to try. — Michelle Madow

I owed no morality to those who would extort it by force — Steve Aylett

Time owed an alliance to the undying. — Thomm Quackenbush

My mother's pregnancy, it seems, was fated; my birth, however, owed a good deal to accident. — Salman Rushdie

I was a glaring blot on the perfection. But I didn't care: I didn't feel I owed him beauty. — Naomi Novik

When I was born I owed twelve dollars. — George S. Kaufman

God gave me a talent to draw. I 'owed' it to him to develop the talent. — Annie Dillard

I guess I lost my way, there were so many roads. I was living to run, and running to live, never worried about paying or even how much I owed. — Bob Seger

I realized the only thing I owed my audience was my own judgment and my own best effort. — Len Wein

I did not feel that he owed it to me. And I did not feel like I owed it to him. We owed it to each other, which is something different. — Jonathan Safran Foer

Goethe said there would be little left of him if he were to discard what he owed to others. — Charlotte Saunders Cushman

A child is owed the greatest respect; if you have ever have something disgraceful in mind, don't ignore your son's tender years. — Juvenal

I don't expect any red carpet to the big leagues. If the opportunity comes, then it comes. But I don't think I'm owed anything. — Ryne Sandberg

The lad, like many another, owed nothing to his father but his mere existence - Heaven knows whether that gift is oftenest a curse or a boon. — Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

Look your audience straight in the eyes, and begin to talk as if every one of them owed you money. — Dale Carnegie

To her [Florence Nightingale] chiefly I owed the awakening to the fact that sanitation is the supreme goal of medicine its foundation and its crown. — Elizabeth Blackwell

Your strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others. — Joseph Conrad

The debt of friendship is never collected," he interrupted. "And nothing is ever owed. — Sharon Shinn

He had been willing to hold on to hope even when it looked like all hope was lost. She owed him no less. — Teresa Medeiros

At 18, Kendrick had the business mind and smarts of a 40-year-old man. He was logical, strong, and he showed respect when it was owed. — Shvonne Latrice

The true rose, the miracle of nature, owed nothing to the hand of man. — Iris Murdoch

Anger fed him and clothed him and he owed it much. — Stephen Fry

He was hungering for the fight they had never had. The one she owed him, but could never give him. — Sonali Dev

Demonstrated that the more you owed a country the more business you did with it. — William L. Shirer

Many of the greatest men have owed their success to industry rather than to cleverness. — John Lubbock

With human beings, a natural death was a death with dignity. But animals were innocents, and as their stewards, people owed them mercy. — Dean Koontz

Muscles burned and her knees ached, but she did not stop. She owed that much to him and would not abandon him a second — Tess Gerritsen

These were bankers we were talking about, and I owed taxes. They'd hunt me to the ends of the earth! — Mark Lawrence

When I was in N.W.A. and didn't get paid all the money I was owed, that's when the business side of showbiz hit me. — Ice Cube

Any titles, money, or privilege you inherit are actually hindrances. They delude you into believing you are owed respect. — Robert Greene

people who hated cats were often control freaks who felt the world owed them a living. — Tom Cox

If you're lazy, don't expect much in terms of success. You're owed nothing and success will not be given to you. It's earned. — Robert Kiyosaki