#deb

Someone walking toward you is such a simple, happy-to-be-alive thing. ↗

— Deb Caletti

#the-nature-of-jade #nature

Oh, the fools, like a lot of good little schoolboys, scared to death of anything they've been taught is wrong! ↗

— Émile Zola

#reactionary #right #death

I like my players to be married and in debt. That's the way you motivate them. ↗

— Ernie Banks

#i #like #married #motivate #players

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 of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one. The family economy evades calculation in the gross planetary product. It's the only deal I know where, when you give more than you get, you aren't bankrupted - but rather, vastly enriched. ↗

— Lois McMaster Bujold

#debt #economy #family #parents #family

A man's indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself actively to the job of gratitude. ↗

— Ruth Benedict

#begins #gratitude #himself #his #indebtedness

Debra Winger doesn't let anything interfere with her performance, which is the way it should be. ↗

— Tom Berenger

#debra #her #interfere #performance #should

If it took multiple debt ceiling hikes, I'd rather achieve the savings. ↗

— Bob Corker

#ceiling #debt #debt ceiling #hikes #i

No matter how you cut it, this real debate on personal accounts is about the legitimacy of Social Security; it's not about the solvency of Social Security. ↗

— Joe Biden

#accounts #cut #debate #how #legitimacy

Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#debt #ingenious #substitute #whip

I do think that Social Security reform needs to be bipartisan, and we are going to have to reach that in this debate at some time before we can find really meaningful reform. ↗

— Judy Biggert

#bipartisan #debate #find #going #i