#borrow

As I have said for many years throughout this land, we're borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf to burn it in ways that destroy the future of human civilization. Every bit of that has to change. ↗

— Al Gore

#borrowing #burn #buy #change #china

Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse. ↗

— Alan Greenspan

#abuse #any #borrower #fraud #informed

Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts. ↗

— Edward F. Halifax

#debts #men #never #opinions #repay

I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#anywhere #borrow #could #home #i

Borrowing knowledge of reality from all sources, taking the best from every study, Science of Mind brings together the highest enlightenment of the ages. ↗

— Ernest Holmes

#best #borrowing #brings #enlightenment #every

When the clock stops on a life, all things emanating from it become precious, finite, and cordoned off for preservation. Each aspect of the dead person is removed from the flux of the everyday, which, of course, is where we miss him most. The quarantine around death makes it feel unlucky and wrong--a freakish incursion--and the dead, thus quarantined, come to seem more dead than they already are.... Borrowing from the dead is a way of keeping them engaged in life's daily transactions--in other words, alive. ↗

— Jennifer Egan

#death #everyday #loved-ones #death

These kids understood what is not immediately obvious; that they were going to pay the bills for tax cuts that had been passed today or in the last 4 years, and for the war in Iraq, because essentially we are borrowing money to do those things. ↗

— Tom Allen

#been #bills #borrowing #cuts #essentially

I borrowed a guitar at age 16 and taught myself to play because I wanted to write songs. ↗

— Adrian Belew

#because #borrowed #guitar #i #myself

You can't borrow your way to prosperity. ↗

— Terry Branstad

#prosperity #way #you #your

In the 1920s you could buy stocks on margin. You could put 10 percent down and borrow the rest against your stocks. ↗

— Ron Chernow

#borrow #buy #could #down #margin