Owes

Famous quotes containing the word owes:

    True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be or assume that one is.
    —R.D. (Ronald David)

    To you, ye stars, man owes his subtlest raptures, thoughts unspeakable, yet full of faith.
    Herman Melville (1819–1891)

    Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.
    Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)