Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tina Brown

The 2008 financial crisis is usually attributed to vampire squid greed. There was certainly a lot of that. But it was also just as likely to have been caused by the chaos of process created by those big, sexy bank mergers when, in the name of 'economies of scale,' critical members of the trust and responsibility chain were cavalierly eliminated.

Timothy Noah

I won't dispute that bankers' privileged treatment in the 2008 crash merits populist scorn. But unfortunately, without a bank bailout, there probably would have been a worldwide depression.

Warren Stephens

What we prefer to do is operate our investment bank in a way that is like what investment banks used to be, which is a middle man - someone who is here to match people who need capital with people who have capital - and not position ourselves at the center of that by taking big positions on a trading stance.

Warren Stephens

We've always been modestly leveraged, and we've never believed in a great deal of leverage on either our private equity business or on our investment banking business. And I think it really goes back to my uncle and dad growing up in the Depression and just seeing what happened to people who were overly levered.

Warren Stephens

We don't think of ourselves as a regional investment bank. We think of ourselves as merchant bankers with clients all over the country.

William Kirby

The reform of state industry, and most directly related to that, the banking sector, is enormously daunting.

Zubin Mehta

Israel gives the West Bank water twice a week! One way of promoting good would be not to ration water.

Elizabeth Warren

I think a lot of Americans are not sure which side Washington is on: the side of banks or the side of the people.

Elizabeth Warren

Consumer banking - selling debt to middle class families - has been a gold mine.

Garry Hynes

I still get called 'a stick of dynamite' or 'pint-sized dynamo,' stuff like that. Actually, I was too busy to notice there was anything unusual about being a woman director until the early 1980s, when I looked around the professional theater and realized there weren't many of us. You have to make more of a case for yourself than any man.

William Wirt

He is a great simpleton who imagines that the chief power of wealth is to supply wants. In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it creates more wants than it supplies.

Wendell Mayes

We all know the Navy is never wrong, but in this case it was a little weak on being right.

Virginia Postrel

By giving unusual people an easy way to find one another, the Internet has also enabled them to pool rare talents, resources, and voices, then push their case into public consciousness. The response, in many cases, is a kind of hysteria.

Michael McLachlan

The policy language is specific and clear, and the jury verdict says that. I feel sorry for these people, I really do. This is a case we should have settled a long time ago.

Anthony Lewis

The Pentagon Papers case stands today as a barrier to silence by official edict.

Norman Ornstein

The pending complaint on DeLay was on the Texas case (over political fund raising),

John Danforth

The path is clear for us to get this case to a jury.

Dan Ravicher

The patent office's decision has no preclusive effect on a court, and there are indeed cases where the patent office made a decision in a re-examination supporting a patent and a court later looked at the same exact issue, disagreed with the PTO, and found the patent invalid.

Timothy Noah

In shuttering Yucca Mountain, Obama makes it extremely likely that nuclear power in the United States will continue its long, slow, and extremely welcome death.

Glenn Tipton

But this is what I want to do, and it is what I will continue doing until Judas Priest finishes, which, at the moment, I can't see that yet. It could be three years or five years, who knows?

Matt Groening

I gave away 'Life in Hell' when it was a little 'zine, and sold it at record stores for $1, and I knew from the time that I first did it that I would continue to do it, because it was fun.

Chuck Palahniuk

Think about George Orwell's three-minute hate from the novel '1984' and how that left everyone sort of exhausted and able to live their boring humdrum lives. If our lives are going to continue being unfulfilled and boring, perhaps we do need some sort of short-term violent chaos incorporated into them, to make them more palatable.

Wyclef Jean

With Yele Haiti, the first thing was I'm proud of the organization and the work that the organization has done, and in the future hope to continue doing.

Ralph Kauffman

The overall indication in January is continued economic growth in the non-manufacturing sector, but at slower rates of increase.

Ralph Kauffman

The overall indication in December is continued economic growth in the non-manufacturing sector with a cautiously optimistic outlook as we enter 2006.

Kofi Annan

the overall epidemic continues to expand with much of the world at risk of falling short of the targets set forth in the declaration.

Randy Carlyle

The penalty parade took us out of the game. We can't continue to give a team the quality of Dallas that many power plays. They made us pay for it. ... We took too many. They got momentum from it.

Carrie Chapman Catt

The woman suffrage movement in the United States was a movement of the spirit of the Revolution which was striving to hold the nation to the ideals which won independence.

Marsha Blackburn

The American Dream is independence and being able to create that dream for yourself.

Richard Perle

We must do our utmost to preserve our British ally's strategic independence from Europe.

Monica Seles

For me, the biggest thing with money has always been independence - just the biggest.

E. F. Schumacher

Every increase of needs tends to increase one's independence on outside forces over which one cannont have control and therefore increases existential fear

Davy Crockett

Pop, pop, pop! Bom, bom, bom!/ Throughout the day/ no time for memorandums now./ Go ahead! Liberty and independence forever.

Edward Gibbon

It was no longer esteemed infamous for a Roman to survive his honor and independence.

Carol Vorderman

I do need my independence. I have to have that.

Charles Evers

I'm for economic independence.

Fabio Capello

We had other options but Vieira was the one I wanted,

Scott White

Toll roads may be an option we consider, ... Everything is on the table out the gate.

Joe Krier

Tolling is an option today we can do.

Alan Knipe

We have a lot of options with him.

Tom Woodruff

We have a lot of options in the infield.

Jill Mesaros

We have been working the past two years on several options which we will be weighing in making our decision.

Paul Gillmor

It does seem fair to give them the option of a better return.

Tony Blair

You don't ever take any option off the table.

Ronda Rousey

I'm selling a product, and I have to be out there; I don't have the option not to be.

Ron Wilson

We made a poor play on the power play and they took advantage. We could have quit, but we didn't.

Gary Parlin

(Barker) threw very poorly in practice on Tuesday.

Gerry Byrne

For the record, this is a poor decision.

Japanese Proverb

He is poor who does not feel content.

Andy Robinson

We were awful, we started poorly and never got in the game. At no stage did we put any pressure on the French.

Alan Kay

I hired finishers because I'm a good starter and a poor finisher.

August Wilson

Suffice it to say, I'm not poor.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What have they done to you, my poor child?

Carol Vorderman

If you're from a poor background, you have to work even harder. But that's what makes you who you are.

Neil Cavuto

If Edwards gained 60 pounds and lost all his hair, he'd look like Dick Cheney!

Dan Hendricks

I won't take him off for a pound or two.

Tom Ford

Keep your jacket buttoned. Always. It's just really flattering—it will take pounds off you.

Brian Anderson

He runs a 4.9 in the 40, bench-presses 450 pounds and squats and dead-lifts over 600,

Richard Smith

We're pounding on them. We want this thing on the shelf here, as soon as possible.

Bruce Bochy

When he's good, he's pounding the strike zone and picking.

Dave Barry

A full-grown manatee, which can weigh more than 1,000 pounds, looks like the result of a genetic experiment involving a walrus and the Goodyear Blimp.

Bryce Harper

I'll lose about 20 pounds during the season.

Carnie Wilson

Going from 300 pounds to 150 pounds was the biggest change of my whole life.

Catherine Helen Spence

A glass of whisky in Scotland in the thirties cost less than a cup of tea.

Charles Spurgeon

The old truth that Calvin preached, that Augustine preached, that Paul preached, is the truth that I must preach to-day, or else be false to my conscience and my God. I cannot shape the truth; I know of no such thing as paring off the rough edges of a doctrine. John Knox's gospel is my gospel. That which thundered through Scotland must thunder through England again.

Alan Hansen

The second half was easy to sum up - and absolute shambles! (on England losing to Denmark 4-1)

Charlotte Mary Yonge

James's expedition to Scotland is wholly imaginary, though there appears to have been space for it during Henry's progress to the North to pay his devotions at Beverley Minster.

Alan Cumming

I come more to Scotland than I ever used to, so I feel more connected to it, more part of the zeitgeist. You know when you realize you have a choice and I'm choosing my homeland. It's funny: when you get older these things creep up to you.

Sydney Smith

I look upon Switzerland as an inferior sort of Scotland.

Alex Salmond

We are Scotland's independence generation. And our time is now

Alex Ferguson

But there is always that unpredictability about a derby match and that's what it was today.

Alistair Darling

The question is not whether Scotland can survive as a separate state. Of course it could.

Sathya Baba

You are all separate beads strung together on that one thread, God.

Roy Moore

The Church's role should be separated from the state's role.

Maiwenn

I don't separate things out between what's personal and what's my work. My passion is personal.

Chip Ganassi

Way separate situations, ... I stand by all my guys.

Harry M. Wyatt III

The United States Air Force didn't even become a separate service until 1947.

Seneca

Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.

Bruno Tonioli

I always sleep on my own. I can't sleep with somebody else. Always separate bedrooms, bathrooms and closets. I'm very individual and I want my own space.

Adlai E. Stevenson

An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.

Michael Moskowitz

There is tremendous overcapacity in the business. When times get tough it really separates the wannabes from the true professionals.

C. S. Lewis

Wherever any precept of traditional morality is simply challenged to produce its credentials, as though the burden of proof lay on it, we have taken the wrong position.

Cecelia Ahern

She had been given a wonderful gift: life. Sometimes it was cruelly taken away too soon, but it's what you did with it that counted, not how long it lasted.

Cecelia Ahern

Truth is, something that I thought was perfect was taken away from me, and I never wanted perfect again. I wanted middle of the road, stuff I didn’t care about so that I couldn’t lose anything I really loved ever again.

Carrie Brownstein

I think one of the reasons I haven't been doing music is because I think that some of my performance, like, needs are being taken care of in other mediums.

Carl Sagan

We are the first species to have taken our evolution into our own hands.

Carl Sagan

We are at a crossroads in human history. Never before has there been a moment so simultaneously perilous and promising. We are the first species to have taken evolution into our own hands.

Benjamin Rush

It would seem from this fact, that man is naturally a wild animal, and that when taken from the woods, he is never happy in his natural state, 'till he returns to them again.

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

I've spent more time than many will believe [making microscopic observations], but I've done them with joy, and I've taken no notice those who have said why take so much trouble and what good is it?

Antoni Tapies

At lucky moments this emanation could overwhelm the spectator in such a way, that because of all sorts of associations in his thinking, he could finally be taken to those areas which also had moved me so deeply and made me think I should draw the attention of others to it.

Islam Karimov

We have not made commitments to make our territory and airspace available,

Chord Overstreet

Its not weird being recognised, but its weird having to stop what youre doing to take pictures or sign something. But the fans are the reason you have your success, so it comes with the territory.

Anton LaVey

When walking in open territory, bother no one. If someone bothers you, ask him to stop. If he does not stop, destroy him.

Daniel J. Boorstin

The most promising words ever written on the maps of human knowledge are terra incognita, unknown territory.

Anders Fogh Rasmussen

I condemn the entry of a Russian so-called humanitarian convoy into Ukrainian territory without the consent of the Ukrainian authorities and without any involvement of the International Committee of the Red Cross.

Brian Eno

I'm fascinated by musicians who don't completely understand their territory; that's when you do your best work.

Bill Zollars

This, ... is kind of uncharted territory for all of us.

Marshall McLuhan

The bible belt is oral territory and therefore despised by the literati.

Pat Buchanan

Capitol Hill is Israeli occupied territory.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Don Rickles

I'm not one of those guys who wants to die on a stage.

Pervez Musharraf

Wherever or whoever wants to do that, let's do it.

Kristy Gaudiose

It is exciting. It is something everyone wants to be a part of.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.

Shaun Alexander

We're all just kind of in the groove. And no one wants to get off anything right now.

Gary Payton

I don't think Shaq really worries about it. I think he wants to play well, but he doesn't really worry about it. ... It's over.

Victor Rodriguez

For whoever wants to come, we're going to be here for them.

Brian Billick

He's got to look at what he wants to do.