Owed Quotations

If you've been running a business for 38 years, you're approaching your 66th birthday, you've never owed a man a penny or done anyone any grievance in your life, and you feel hard done-by and try to protect yourself and your family, but go to prison, well if that's the society we're living in, I'm happy to accept that.

My own ideas on the mechanism of catalytic phenomena were very different from those at one time commonly held, ideas which I no doubt owed to the influence of the illustrious teacher who had guided my first steps in chemistry nearly twenty years before - I refer, of course, to Berthelot.

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

When I retired from active duty, I still felt that I owed something to my community. That's why I pursued education... I still miss the classroom and recall those days fondly.

We find that the Romans owed the conquest of the world to no other cause than continual military training, exact observance of discipline in their camps, and unwearied cultivation of the other arts of war.

Yes, I am scared of prison. It's the last thing if you are after building up a business over 38 years and you are approaching your 66th birthday and you never owed a man a penny and you feel hard done by and you try to protect yourself and your family and go to prison - if that is the society we are living in, I am happy to accept that.

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.

A voyage to Europe in the summer of 1921 gave me the first opportunity of observing the wonderful blue opalescence of the Mediterranean Sea. It seemed not unlikely that the phenomenon owed its origin to the scattering of sunlight by the molecules of the water.

I mean, I really liked those guys and the experience of doing Raiders was really good for me, but I did not really want to be involved - I only did Jedi, as I really owed George a favor.

I owed Lewis one thing, at least. Once you had suffered the experience of presenting a case at one of his Monday morning conferences, no other public appearance, whether on radio, TV or the lecture platform, could hold any terrors for you.

Socialism has no moral justification whatsoever; poor people are not morally superior to rich people, nor are they owed anything by rich people simply because of their lack of success. Charity is not a socialist concept - it is a religious one, an acknowledgment of God's sovereignty over property, a sovereignty the Left utterly rejects.

The vast majority of debt that Anglo maintains is owed is strenuously disputed. However, I cannot now pay those loans which are due, following Anglo taking control of the Quinn Group of companies, which I and a loyal team spent a lifetime building.

A short, glorious life in service of a greater good - say, the life of the Spartans at Thermopylae, or the pilots in the Battle of Britain, of whom Winston Churchill said 'Never have so many owed so much to so few,' - that is worth praising. But for glory alone? I think not.

If they thought it was unachievable, one could argue that Bissell owed it to JFK to tell him what they thought. There is no evidence that he did.

I don't know where they get all these trumped up charges. If they were putting everybody in jail that owed taxes, the jails would be really full.

Mr. Kennedy was out of control and acting out of desperation. He owed money and was fearful.

May you taste the sweetest pleasures that fortune ere bestowed, and may all your friends remember all the favors you are owed

There are so many leaders on this team - so many quality ballplayers - we said we owed it to each other. We deserved to do a better job, especially in front of these fans.

Frankly, it was never practicable for the AG's office to receive a vast sum of money and then try to disperse that money to individual investors, ... Those individual investors will have to go through some sort of fact-finding process to demonstrate who relied on who and is owed how much.

I feel like we were owed at least five of these. But it always feels good to know we won on the way back home. It makes the ride a little bit easier.

I felt I owed it to the family and this case to investigate the body.

I felt I owed it to the guys on the team because I hadn't been playing up to my potential.

I felt I owed my team more than anything, for being selfish and for not being there. I tried to help my team and help people outside the program and be a good person.

I felt like I owed the team something. I'm very relieved (to have scored the winning goal). People don't understand. ... This is something you do with passion.

had decided to write off all of the aid and development debt owed by Guatemala, Nicaragua, Honduras and El Salvador.

We told Justin he owed us one and he came up with a huge play and that's the attitude of our team right now. They just wanted this ball game more tonight. They came out and fought for everything they got and earned. They without a doubt earned this 'W' tonight.

We must demonstrate the political will and assume the responsibility for the historical wrongs that are owed to the victims of slavery, that an apology be extended by states which actively practiced and benefited themselves from slavery.

He's been asking to go on loan. I owed it to him, given his service to Boston and myself, to grant his request.

I was very, very motivated. I felt like I owed my teammates because I played so bad two nights ago. It was just one of those games. Nothing went my way. So I watched some film with (Popovich) to see what I could do better.

People have to come forward, they have to pay a big fine and application fees, they have to go through background checks, pay all of the back taxes that are owed if they were working off the books and prove they've been learning English. I don't think that when you have to do all that, you can consider that an amnesty.

KPMG and HVB have admitted that they and their co-conspirators used false and misleading documentation to cheat the government out of billions of dollars in taxes owed by America's wealthiest citizens.

Jamey was not going to make this team. And because of how strong our personal feelings were toward Jamey, we felt we owed it to him to make this move prior to the start of camp.

Peg Collier was owed almost $17,000 and there was no way to pay her. In any world that's a lot of money.

I think with the sophomores playing in their last home game, they were a little more focused on that than the actual game at first. We tried to tell them at halftime that there's been a lot of people who have supported them since they've been here, and they owed it to them to go 100 percent the rest of the way.

It has always been one trouble or the other since I made my debut for Nigeria, from being owed a ticket refund to the Italian papers saying that I am an age cheat, ... I am no longer interested in playing for a country that intends to ruin my career.

We were good in all aspects of the game tonight. Earlier in the year, they embarrassed us at home so we felt we owed them one and wanted to come in here tonight and get us one. We weren't going to take them lightly.

will consider reducing the debts owed to by Iraq out of humanitarian concern.

We came into a must-win game and I felt like I owed it to my team to step up and have a good performance.

We really felt that we owed this team. We played terrible at their place and wanted to prove to them that we're not the same team.

We did get our last paychecks, and I did receive part of the travel expenses that are owed to me. I am waiting to see if they are going to reimburse me for the rest of my travel expenses.

We definitely came in here thinking we owed these guys. They got us twice last year. It's a heated rivalry. It's the best of the East Bay versus the best of San Francisco and the Peninsula. We came out ready.

We practice it too much for me to miss the extra point, so when we went for the field goal I owed it to myself to make it.

We're still unraveling this whole mess, ... The special audit is identifying who is owed what amounts of money, how much was taken from the commission, the clerk's office, the state and in what amounts. It's a complex puzzle.

We owed Douglass one and we wanted to get the runs for Martinez, because we all knew he was going to throw a great game. We've all just picked each other up all the way through this, and today was no different. I'm at a loss for words right now.

We owed them one. We saw how they played earlier in the season. We knew we could compete with them.

We owed the Saints twofold. They kept us out of the playoffs in last year's final game, so the payback was doubly sweet. If a certain two of our cheerleaders can double their pleasure, why can't we?

Though I continue to tell stories about Iraq, I sometimes fear this makes me a fraud. I feel guilty about the sorrow I feel because I know it is manufactured, and I feel guilty about the sorrow I do not feel because it is owed, it is the barest beginnings of what is owed to the fallen.

We know that many workers are walking around being owed a year or two years' wages. It is not uncommon at all.

Eddie saved our bacon so many times over the last two or three years. It's about time we owed him one back. That's something we deserved to get him, that's for sure.

EPA does not have authority to pay MRC for money owed by Asarco.

At one level this is a very technical, dry case about when deference is owed (to an executive interpretation of federal law). But Kennedy is trying to rise above the technicalities to make a point about executive overreaching. Kennedy likes to remind people of the big picture.

This year's continued success for the girls is owed to a combination of new talent and returning runners who have worked hard to improve.

Either I would not have finished the race at all or finished second because I owed it to him,

To John I owed great obligation; but John, unhappily, thought fit to publish it to all the nation: Sure John and I are more than quit.

I've been giving him assists for five years; he owed me one.

We've been owed this money for a while now, but because of the fiscal crisis at the time, it was never granted to us.

As the mayor has said ...he's going to do what it takes to get the school money we are owed from Albany.

The service was sold entirely by customer pull not vendor push, and the objective of billing was to add up what the punter owed you after you were kind enough to offer service.

The state does not create veterans, the country does, and so the debt that is owed to our veterans and families is not a state debt, it is a national debt. So everywhere possible where a veteran is in a nursing home or a boarding home that is a care setting, we should first look to the Department of Veteran Affairs rather than the state to incur the costs.

There are actually two lawsuits, one from 1996 and the one in 1999. Over time and between the two lawsuits, the amount owed has increased to more than $1 million.

Another calm night. I think we deserved that one after the last two times that we played them. We felt we stole this one tonight. But we felt they stole two from us, so we owed them that one.

Various individuals owed money and would be told hey had to pay. References were made to threats of violence.

We wanted to send the seniors off the right way. It was their last night at Beaver Stadium. ...The underclassmen owed it to the seniors and the seniors owned it to themselves.

Both current conditions and expectations remain above their wartime lows, but the reversal of previous gains undercuts the notion that the slowdown early this year owed only to geopolitical concerns. Consumers are clearly troubled by the absence of new hiring, and worry about income prospects.

I wanted to get back on him. I felt like I owed him one.

Some people wait until the end of the year and accept the $2, $3 finance charge, but we have accounts that are owed in the thousands of dollars, some reaching up to over 20 years. Sometimes, people take the approach that if they don't pay, nothing will happen to them.

I've never before given anybody anything without expecting anything in return. I always thought somebody owed me something. My role was a drug addict and I fit in at the crack house.

Zimbabwe Cricket has really had it now. The players relented from a similar position to give ZC a further three weeks until the end of the month to pay the large sums of money owed them. But they are now simply walking away.

That was a big play; especially since it was Melton's man (James) who scored on the previous lay-up. So she kind of owed us that one, but she came through for us when it mattered.

A lot of people who are eligible for the EITC think of it as charity or a tax break and don't file for it, or don't know about it. Nothing could be farther than the truth. This is money they are owed for working.

Every American born today owes $43,000 to the federal government the day she or he is born. And we are transferring a tremendous amount of debt to the new generation, much of it owed to overseas creditors who expect to be repaid by our children with interest.

Essentially, what the court found is that Mrs. King borrowed money from the clerk and she owed that money to the clerk.

There's no question that the people of New York have to decide whether or not they think it's appropriate for someone from Arkansas to represent them in the Senate, ... And finally, there's the question of all the trips -- about $220,000 owed to the federal government for 11 trips to New York this year." ()

The way we played against Milwaukee, we owed it to ourselves, the fans and the organization to come out and play better.

I owed my team because I didn't play too well. This was an early Christmas present for those guys.

I owed my team, I didn't play too well. So it was an early Christmas present for those guys. Didn't play well the whole game. But I obviously I've got to find a way to get it going.

I missed one before and Dee said I owed him one. When we were in the huddle I said to him, 'I got you.

In order to receive a refund, your tax return must be filed within three years of its due date. And if you file a return, and later realize you made an error on the return (and are owed money), the deadline for claiming any refund due is three years after the return was filed, or two years after the tax was paid, whichever expires later.

If you're a director of a company you have a lot of responsibility. A director of a company is personally liable for wages owed to an employee.

No, I probably owed the bank about a million dollars then, yeah.

At a time when most workers in the country are receiving their annual bonuses, the cricket players are still owed match fees from three months ago and they feel they have not been given adequate attention and time to address the issues.

No apology is owed for protecting the safety of elementary students.

The baseball gods owed us one, but I think we earned it, too.

The bond market is keenly aware that cash flows have improved and that the chances of investors getting back money they are owed is better. That's not at all irrelevant to stockholders,

Anyone owed money by the company when it filed for bankruptcy cannot be paid until the bankruptcy is resolved.

The new purchasers fully intend to pay the full debt ... and all the money owed on the property.

It was good to get them under our belt. North Carolina wasn't really a close match. We owed them a little revenge there because we lost to them earlier in the year, so it was a big win.

It ended up working out that way. I enjoyed my time at Maine, but it wasn't what I was looking for in a college atmosphere, or really a football atmosphere. I just felt I owed it to myself to take that next step and try to keep going.

I just felt like we owed it to him since he was so nice to us.

I hope that after I die, people will say of me: 'That guy sure owed me a lot of money.

California club pop chirper Dev's debut is as stark as it is sweet. This is owed partly to the casually giddy lightness of her talk-singing - familiar from her slizzered 2010 cameo on Far East Movement's smash 'Like a G6,' and around-the way-girl frisky like 1980s Latin freestyle.

House rules are, every man has a right to come into the system and do his time without having to worry about being attacked, injured or ultimately murdered. I told them I owed them that, and I owed their family and friends that.

They have to usually pay off their debt for being brought over by working. And those are the dangerous traffickers, the ones that are owed a lot of money. A lot of them are in New York City. We don't keep any Chinese children in the New York home; that's why.

It was one of those nights. Nothing went my way. It was just a bad game, so I watched game film with (Popovich) and saw what I could do better. I was very, very motivated because I felt like I owed it to my team.

I really wanted to show everyone Jones was right to believe in me. First of all, nobody wanted to recruit me out of high school. Then here comes June Jones walking into my high school. He took a chance on a guy who just tore his ACL. I think I weighed, like, 145. He offered me a scholarship. I felt I owed him a lot. I was going to give him everything I have.

Any player who thinks he is owed anything is wrong. You talk about the best players in the world, and they understand that. They always think they are a week away from going into the stands.

As directed in a letter on March 7 demanding payment of wages, arrangements have been made to ensure that all employees are paid wages owed them.

So much is owed to this legend. Althea helped me and other women to understand you can be all you can dream and more. The benefits of her contributions to tennis are still being realized and enjoyed by modern-day players.

A sales tax is a tax on the consumer and a rental tax is a tax on the business itself. The tax is calculated based on the rental fee charged. For example, if a business leases a piece of equipment for $100 a day, the rental tax owed for that lease is 4 percent or $4,

The girls were on a mission to send a message that we are still a team to be reckoned with. Having Permian was kind of a challenge for us, and I think the girls felt like we owed them one from that first game. I was proud of their effort.