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indebted QUOTES

21 " I don't have the type of ambition that will make me do anything at any cost to get what I want. I don't want to be beholden to people. I don't want to open a shop with your money because I don't want to be indebted to you." " I'm your husband; it's our money." " Morally, legally, maybe yes, but in here," she put a hand to her head " and here," she lay the flat of her hand over her heart, " it's your money. You earned it or were given it way before you met me. "

22 " I stared out of the window at the bright-blue Swiss sky and I told him a story of two people. Two people who shouldn’t have met, and who didn’t like each other much when they did, but who found they were the only two people in the world who could possibly have understood each other. And I told him of the adventures they had, the places they had gone, and the things I had seen that I had never expected to. I conjured for him electric skies and iridescent seas and evenings full of laughter and silly jokes. I drew a world for him, a world far from a Swiss industrial estate, a world in which he was still somehow the person he had wanted to be. I drew the world he had created for me, full of wonder and possibility. I let him know a hurt had been mended in a way that he couldn’t have known, and for that alone there would always be a piece of me indebted to him. And as I spoke I knew these would be the most important words I would ever say and that it was important that they were the right words, that they were not propaganda, an attempt to change his mind, but respectful of what Will had said. I told him something good... "

― Jojo Moyes

23 " My country ... gave me schooling independence of action and opportunity for service. ... I am indebted to my country beyond any human power to repay. "

24 " The Right Honorable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts. "

25 " The Right Honourable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts. "

26 " Next to God we are indebted to women first for life itself and then for making it worth living. "

27 " I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well. "

28 " Before and after emancipation, the Negro, in self-defense, was propelled toward the white employer. The endowments of wealthy white men have developed great institutions of learning for the Negro, but the freedom of action on the part of these same universities has been curtailed in proportion as they are indebted to white philanthropies. "

29 " There is not a single Muslim leader today who has the courage and commitment to defend Islam and Muslims, they are all in awe of the United States and other Western powers, and are indebted to them. "

30 " My father superintended the English part of my education, and to his care I am indebted for anything valuable which I may have acquired in my youth. He was my only intelligent companion, and was both a watchful parent and an affectionate friend. "

31 " To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression. "