Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Greenspan

Regulation - which is based on force and fear - undermines the moral base of business dealings. It becomes cheaper to bribe a building inspector than to meet his standards of construction. Protection of the consumer by regulation is thus illusory.

Jamie Dimon

I've been regulated my whole life. We have progressive taxes. It's not a free-market free-for-all. I completely understand that society has a perfectly legitimate right to put in structures and regulations and rules that make it fairer, better, cleaner.

Al Gore

I'm a big fan of Bitcoin ... Regulation of money supply needs to be depoliticized.

Bob Corker

I find it very difficult to see a scenario where financial regulation doesn't pass the Senate.

Antonin Scalia

You could have 50 different states having 50 different regulations... until they were all litigated out.

Dick Pound

We can now (impose punishment) under the world anti-doping code. I'm not sure what the UCI regulation at the time may have been.

Frank Penela

There's no regulation on where they put the dealerships.

Alexander Cockburn

Regulation of sexual behavior is the preferred route to wider social control.

Jonathan Frenkel

Legislation or regulation may not be a solution in all cases, but it may be warranted in appropriate circumstances.

John Pearson

We usually say of ancient persons, that they have already one foot in the grave, and the rest of their life is nothing else but the bringing of these feet together.

Marguerite Gardiner

The Temple of Diana is in the vicinity of the fountain, which has given rise to the conjecture that it originally constituted a portion of the ancient baths.

Hans-Ulrich Obrist

I remember going to a monastery library when I was very young and being surrounded by ancient books. I fell in love.

Alan Titchmarsh

I love Paris for its wide boulevards and cafes, and Rome for the ancient history, as seen at the Forum.

Marie de France

Now will I rehearse before you a very ancient Breton Lay. As the tale was told to me, so, in turn, will I tell it over again, to the best of my art and knowledge. Hearken now to my story, its why and its reason.

Harvey Pitt

Unless there's a reason to re-open ancient history, we should move on,

Matthieu Vaslin

At first it was all a bit of a local curiosity. People would come to see these strange-looking birds that reminded them of ancient Egypt. But it's long since stopped being a joke. There are simply too many of them.

Francis Bacon

Ask a counsel of both times-of the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

ACADEME, n. An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught.

Edward Everett

Ever the characteristic manners of cowardice.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

The greater person is one of courtesy.

Ali ibn Abi Talib

There is no nobility with bad manners.

Duke of Wellington

I have no small talk and Peel has no manners.

Darren Criss

I never let my politics supersede my manners.

Tom Robbins

Ellen Cherry was from the south and had good manners. She didn´t have any panties on, but she had good manners.

Theophile Gautier

It is gentle manners which prove so irresistible in women.

Margaret Mead

Manners, really good ones, make it possible to live with almost anyone, gracefully and pleasantly ...

John Ray

Manners make often fortunes.