Debtors Quotations

The Bible says forgive your debtors; the world says "sue them for their dough."

My experience with debtors is that even if you get your life back on track, the experience of bankruptcy and the sense of failure stays with you.

Katrina will be a significant test of how flexible our bankruptcy rules are. Banks have a lot of experience dealing with debtors in difficulty because of natural disasters. The first focus will be on making sure people can meet their immediate financial needs.

The world's largest debtor is a distinction of sorts, but not the one we like having...

We have discharged one generation of debtors after another, but we do not find that their numbers lessen. We find only that we forget, when times are good, that times were ever bad.

Argentina's problems seem to be mounting with negative consequences for the country's debtors and many quoted European companies.

Now debtors will have to go through a very complicated process to determine if they have any money to pay their creditors, ... It involves looking at their monthly income for the past six months.

As many as two out of every three Europeans who came to the colonies were debtors on arrival: they paid for their passage by becoming indentured servants.

Forgetfulness. A gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.

The American taxpayer should not be treated more shabbily than debtors from other nations and we should be encouraging other nations to help rebuild Iraq's economy.

Life owes me a living worth living. Yes, Eden regarded life as her debtor, she its relentless paymaster.

Not everyone is a debtor who wishes to be; not everyone who wishes makes creditors.

Some troubles, like a protested note of a solvent debtor, bear interest.

A small debt produces a debtor; a large one, an enemy.

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

What was to be a relatively innocuous federal government, operating from a defined enumeration of specific grants of power, has become an ever-present and unaccountable force. It is the nation’s largest creditor, debtor, lender, employer, consumer, contractor, grantor, property owner, tenant, insurer, health-care provider, and pension guarantor. Moreover, with aggrandized police powers, what it does not control directly it bans or mandates by regulation.

When debtors once have borrowed all we have to lend, they are very apt to grow shy of their creditors' company.

The creditor hath a better memory than the debtor.

The discussions between the company and the unions and GM are active and vibrant, and I'm not going to comment further on them. The debtors will do the appropriate thing next Friday.

There is but one true Giver in the universe; all else are debtors.

It is the debtor that is ruined by hard times.

Every sensible banker understands that Greece should not have received any more money: a bankrupt state that can never be expected to repay loans is not a good debtor.

The borrower is slave to the lender and the debtor to the creditor.

A short squeeze could happen with the U.S. dollar if lenders suddenly forced debtors to pay in cash.

Yajna having come to us with our birth, we are debtors all our lives, and thus for ever bound to serve the universe.

Every novel is a debtor to Homer.

When we are exalted by ideas, we do not owe this to Plato, but to the idea, to which also Plato was debtor.

The fellow who eggs you on to avenge yourself will rob you of what you were going to say - as we forgive our debtors . When you have forfeited that, all your sins will be held against you; absolutely nothing is forgiven.

Let him who desires to be harsh in making demands upon his debtors consider that he is God’s debtor.