Abraham Flexner
Abraham Flexner

Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.

Adrian Belew
Adrian Belew

I borrowed a guitar at age 16 and taught myself to play because I wanted to write songs.

Alan Greenspan
Alan Greenspan

Look, I'm very much in favor of tax cuts, but not with borrowed money. And the problem that we've gotten into in recent years is spending programs with borrowed money, tax cuts with borrowed money, and at the end of the day that proves disastrous. And my view is I don't think we can play subtle policy here.

Alan Greenspan
Alan Greenspan

One of the major problems with China is that its innovation is largely borrowed technology.

Albert Gubay
Albert Gubay

I borrowed 100 pounds and made the pact with God: Make me a millionaire - and you can have half of my money.

Aleksandr Lebed
Aleksandr Lebed

I counted on sixty days only, but I held out for 133. I didn't go into power, but to get power I borrowed some power from the President and made him sign a number of decrees and give me enough power to create a system capable of handling crisis situations.

Alex Berenson
Alex Berenson

Short sellers sell stock they have borrowed, hoping to buy it back later when its price has fallen.

Alex Lifeson
Alex Lifeson

I dreamed of having a Gibson. I had a cheap Kent - you know, a Japanese guitar - and then a Kanora, a Japanese guitar. I borrowed a friend's Harmony for years. To have a Gibson was really, really my dream as a kid.

Alexander Chee
Alexander Chee

The Narrator of 'A Sport and a Pastime' is an American photographer living in a borrowed house in what he calls 'the real France,' Autun, a small town where he hopes to take some career-changing photographs in the spirit of Atget.

Amitava Kumar
Amitava Kumar

In the way in which we are living in a much more explosive and more tension-filled society, a society that is driven with more and more contradictions, it is but unavoidable that some of this will also come into cinema. I would, in fact, argue that a part of it is borrowed from Hollywood. It's as if Quentin Tarantino has come to Mumbai.