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Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed; nature never pretends.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
Unless it grows out of yourself no knowledge is really yours, it is only borrowed plumage.
— D.T. Suzuki
You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money.
— William J.H. Boetcker
A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
My technique is the outcome of thinking for myself, of my own logic and approach; it is not borrowed from what others are doing.
— Charlie Chaplin
It's strange how you're sometimes forced to assume an unsympathetic view of yourself through borrowed eyes.
— Thomas Ligotti
Knowledge is borrowed; wisdom is unique.
— Debasish Mridha
And the way she smiles at me suspends the rest of the world all around me, makes me feel like I've borrowed another life.
— Kelly Loy Gilbert
True beauty dwells on high: ours is a flameBut borrowed thence to light us thither.
Beauty and beauteous words should go together. — George Herbert
Man cannot breathe with borrowed lungs.
— Mahatma Gandhi
I no longer have a borrowed soul. I no longer have borrowed thoughts or ideas. I no longer speak in a borrowed language.
— Mobutu Sese Seko
It is impossible to live without brains, either one's own or borrowed.
— Baltasar Gracian
To substitute judgments of fact for judgments of value is a sign of pedantic and borrowed criticism.
— George Santayana
Benny explained that it wasn't her sweater. It was borrowed from a fellow. She wondered why she needed to tell so much to strangers.
— Maeve Binchy
Whatever you choose to claim of me is always yours;
nothing is truly mine
except my name. I only
borrowed this dust. — Stanley Kunitz
Who goeth a borrowing. Goeth a sorrowing.
— Thomas Tusser
Like hermit crabs, addictions are resourceful impersonators hidden in vacated snail shells, protecting soft bodies in borrowed homes. Not
— Caryl Ann Casbon
Flame is the lamp; rest is borrowed.
— R.N. Prasher
I didn't really steal it. I just borrowed it for all eternity
— Kurt Vonnegut
want to live like there's no tomorrow. Love like I'm on borrowed time. It's good to be alive." ~ Musician Jason Gray
— Jason Gray
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
I kept my clothes on. I borrowed money.
— Estella Warren
Besides the mathematical arts there is no infallible knowledge, except that it be borrowed from them.
— Robert Recorde
No reporter is flying around in borrowed twin-engine airplanes.
— Dee Dee Myers
One of the major problems with China is that its innovation is largely borrowed technology.
— Alan Greenspan
True beauty lives on high. Ours is but a flame borrowed thence.
— George Herbert
I borrowed a creaky laptop from my husband, went into the web, and never came back.
— Natalie Massenet
Borrowed garments never keep one warm.
— James Russell Lowell
You can't go through life on "Borrowed light.
— Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Sometimes our weakness is considered strength, and we take delight in borrowed greatness.
— Meher Baba
I feel like my body is borrowed and this life is very temporary.
— Beyonce Knowles
He borrowed me, but you own me. You. Fucking. Own. Me. Take back what's yours and don't ever let me go.
— Jewel E. Ann
These rovers are living on borrowed time. We're so past warranty on them. You try to push them hard every day because we're living day to day.
— Steven Squyres
Of late years (perhaps as a result of our political changes) art has borrowed from history more than ever.
— Alfred De Vigny
What we give the world, we have borrowed from no one; it is ours. It may be taken from us, stolen from us, but imitated? - never.
— Julien Green
Forgot the blush that virgin fears impartTo modest cheeks, and borrowed one from art. — William Cowper
I shed my borrowed life for an hour and put on the borrowed life of the book I'm reading.
— David Levithan
Every word which is used to express a moral or intellectual fact, if traced to its root, is found to be borrowed from some material appearance.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
World records are only borrowed.
— Sebastian Coe
Borrowed wit is the poorest wit.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
My songwriting and my style became more complex as I listened, learned, borrowed and stole and put my music together.
— Boz Scaggs
Worry is interest on money never borrowed.
— Anonymous
You own a Tic Tac. Gum is just borrowed. - Esther
— Sarah Dessen
We may say that life has borrowed from inanimate processes the same mechanism used in producing these striking structures that are crystals.
— Linus Pauling
The president has borrowed more money to spend to less effect than anybody on the planet.
— Mark Steyn
Fee-fi-fo-fum -Now I'm borrowed.
Now I'm numb. — Anne Sexton
Grief denied will surface in borrowed clothes, the mad, sad clothes of paranoia, fear or loneliness
— Johnny Rich
I borrowed 100 pounds and made the pact with God: Make me a millionaire - and you can have half of my money.
— Albert Gubay
Knowledge is borrowed; wisdom is earned.
— Debasish Mridha
As a rule we develop a borrowed European idea forward, and ... Europe develops a borrowed American idea backwards.
— Mark Twain
Short sellers sell stock they have borrowed, hoping to buy it back later when its price has fallen.
— Alex Berenson
Borrowed beliefs have no passion, therefore no power.
— John C. Maxwell
My works are all expressly my own - pleasingly peculiar, not a borrowed stroke in one of them. I write as I feel and as I don't feel.
— Amanda McKittrick Ros
You stole my car.""Borrowed it I did, return it I will."
"Okay Yoda, can I have the woman whose body you stole back? — Amelia Hutchins
Praxiteles borrowed the better elements of a hundred imperfect models in order to create a masterpiece.
— Marc-Charles-Gabriel Gleyre
We are all but borrowed energy
— Perry Covington
It was obvious that their profits were simply cash borrowed from destiny with some random payback time.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
You see yourself as very average, ordinary. And there is nothing ordinary about you, Rachel. (Something Borrowed) — Emily Giffin
We need to call sin what the Bible calls it and not soften it with modern expressions borrowed from our culture.
— Jerry Bridges
Stale is stale and borrowed is borrowed, no matter how original your models may have been.
— Robert Silverberg
To be oneself is being neither under bond nor borrowed nor sold nor hired. To be, means to be spiritually free.
— Theo Van Doesburg
Modern economics and the welfare state borrowed heavily on the future.
— Gregory Benford
Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music.
— Herbie Hancock
Every morning I wake up, I feel guilty; every breath of borrowed time is heavy in my chest.-Lo-The Wild Hunt
— Ashley Jeffery
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
He always had the sense that they were on borrowed time.
— Nicholas Sparks
I had rather be a mind provocateur than a celebrity because thoughts dwell longer in a person than a designer dress borrowed for one night.
— Gloria D. Gonsalves
Words borrowed of antiquity do lend a kind of majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.
— Ben Jonson
Throughout its history, Islam has borrowed and adapted from other civilizations, both ancient and modern.
— Shereen El Feki
Yesterday I did not want to be borrowed but this is the typewriter that sits before me and love is where yesterday is at.
— Anne Sexton
Tic Tacs you actually swallow, though," Esther pointed out. "You own a Tic Tac. Gum is just borrowed.
— Sarah Dessen
I was too broke to buy a guitar so I more borrowed guitars from friends.
— Ronnie Montrose
Kids own nothing. Everything is either promised, borrowed, longed for or exaggerated.
— Jonathan Carroll
I borrowed a guitar at age 16 and taught myself to play because I wanted to write songs.
— Adrian Belew
And the greatest pity that the obscure lgala language is a borrowed and stolen mixture of the WaZoBia.
— S.A. David
I started with capital of about $1,500, a princely sum for a student coming out of college, an amount I borrowed from my father.
— Sunil Mittal
