So now, as an infallible way of making little ease great ease, I began to contract a quantity of debt.

In fact this is precisely the logic on which the Bank of England—the first successful modern central bank—was originally founded. In 1694, a consortium of English bankers made a loan of £1,200,000 to the king....

You want to have the resources to hire the professionals you need and to service debt, make lease payments and put up cash collateral, as required to keep operating the business. And you need to...

We, being the Western world, wouldn’t let Russia off the hook on debt. So there were demands on debt servicing in the early days until they ran out of reserves. There was no real aid...

Something I owe to the soil that grew–More to the life that fed–But most to Allah who gave me two Separate sides of my head. I would go without shirt or shoes, Friends, tobacco, or...

Once she was gone, I knelt next to Annabeth and felt her forehead. She was still burning up.”You’re cute when you’re worried,” she muttered. “Your eyebrows get all scrunched together.””You are not going to die...

The cost of servicing this debt, while still low, nevertheless increased from six and three quarters per cent of disposable income in the third quarter of 2005 to 7% in the fourth quarter.

It’s useful to remember where we were in 2003 with liberation. In 2003, Iraq had the highest debt … as a share of gross domestic product in the world. And today about two-thirds of that...

Time debt is as big a problem as financial debt.

He was out to get back everything he’d lost; there was no end to his loss; this thing would drag on forever.

People are snapping up medium-term debt on bets the BOJ will take its time raising rates after a shift in policy.

The ideas of debtor and creditor as to what constitutes a good time never coincide.

He who feels pain when paying off debts is not fit to leverage on debts as an investment strategy

Mr Moss’s courtyard is railed in like a cage, lest the gentlemen who are boarding with him should take a fancy to escape from his hospitality.

The state’s doing it tough. And the fundamentals of weak house prices and record household debt mean there’s not much light at the end of the tunnel.

She says, “Do you have any rubbers?” I say, I thought she was barren. “Sure, I’m sterile,” she says, “but I’ve had unprotected sex with a million guys. I could have some terrible fatal disease.”...

fiscally irresponsible … with the debt we’re carrying and the uncertainty — we really don’t know yet how much more the Iraq war costs.

Despite our efforts to generate revenue, obtain debt and equity funding, and sell or license selected assets at reasonable prices, our revenue and liquid assets are not sufficient to sustain our current operations.

Being instinctively lazy, I see no point in working longer hours just to get out of debt !

We inherited a strong and flourishing country, and instead of making the investments – that is, the sacrifices – to maintain it, we chose to suck it dry and stick our children with the bill....

‎We must make our choice between economy and liberty or confusion and servitude…If we run into such debts, we must be taxed in our meat and drink, in our necessities and comforts, in our labor...

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.{His teacher was the legendary philosopher Aristotle}

The criminalization of debt, then, was the criminalization of the very basis of human society. It cannot be overemphasized that in a small community, everyone normally was both a lender and borrower. One can only...

The bad debt overhang has this market trapped in a range. It flew on hopes for (Prime Minister Junichiro) Koizumi reforms, but has little chance of breaking out until he maps out a more concrete...

I had a sense of debt to the medical profession and to surgery particularly. I would not be as ambient as I am without it.

AWB could not inform DFAT and the UN that that debt was being paid out of these two (wheat) contracts without disclosing that the actions in 1995/1996 had themselves been outside the sanctions.

Civilizations rise and fall on confidence. America had figured out a way to borrow money to manufacture it.

OWE, v. To have (and to hold) a debt. The word formerly signified not indebtedness, but possession; it meant “own,” and in the minds of debtors there is still a good deal of confusion between...

I don’t know if we’re going to need to take on some debt or not. The board would prefer that we not.

Some of you, we all know, are poor, find it hard to live, are sometimes, as it were, gasping for breath. I have no doubt that some of you who read this book are unable...

We’re a debt-free township and we strive in our budget to keep it that way.

You don’t pay back your parents. You can’t. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It’s a sort of entailment. Or if you don’t have children...

What makes a good leverage financier? One who can effectively control debts and do not allow the debts to control him…

Debt is the worst poverty.

This debt deal will benefit tens of millions of the poorest people on the planet,

An emotional debt is hard to square.

You’ll see creditors get more aggressive at collecting debt, the reason being that they can.

The bailout of Fannie Mae is completely off the books. It’s going to cost us hundreds of billions of dollars. Yet nobody is placing this in any type of column in accounting for federal debt.

As Charles Darwin said, ‘The economy shown by Nature in her resources is striking,’ says the Spirit. ‘All wealth comes from Nature. Without it, there wouldn’t be any economics. The primary wealth is food, not...

If repairing one’s credit is as easy as sending some dispute letters to the credit bureaus then why doesn’t everyone have good credit?

We have already compared the benefits of theology and science. When the theologian governed the world, it was covered with huts and hovels for the many, palaces and cathedrals for the few. To nearly all...

Money is sacred as everyone knows… So then must be the hunger for it and the means we use to obtain it. Once a man is in debt he becomes a flesh and blood form...

If history shows anything, it is that there’s no better way to justify relations founded on violence, to make such relations seem moral, than by reframing them in the language of debt—above all, because it...

The company’s sales were affected by deflation in food prices, lower disposable income for consumers and higher consumer debt levels because of previous purchases of durable goods on credit.

He came out first with quite a few broad-brush themes, saying Japan has too much debt and spends it public money the wrong way,

Debt is a mistake between lender and borrower, and both should suffer.

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

It’s the giving that makes one stronger, but sometimes the taking can make one weaker, if even vulnerable or blinding.

Parenting is the greatest pay it forward system on earth. We don’t owe our parents anything. We owe our children everything. The same was true for our parents. The same will be true for our...

Some people use one half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it.