Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wislawa Szymborska

Take it not amiss, O speech, that I borrow weighty words, and later try hard to make them seem light.

The are probably keeping their plans close to their chest maybe because they are borrowing from the military strategy of a surprise attack.

Patty Loveless

I recalled how a lot of my older siblings would go to a friend's house and borrow records to play and sometimes borrow a turntable because we didn't have a turntable in the house until I was 8, about the same time we had a TV.

James Tate

We have a lot of help from federal and local law enforcement, some of whom have worked other Super Bowls, and are coming into town. We're borrowing their expertise.

Peter Orszag

Total borrowing has imploded. Private borrowing has collapsed. And, in effect, the Treasury Department is the last borrower left standing.

Most borrowers have some financial cushion so the impact won't be immediate; spending an extra $380 is manageable at first. But it's safe to say there are some who will find themselves in budgetary difficulties a year or two down the road.

You can call the lender and the borrower co-victims. The reason is that lenders and borrowers have the same interest in a transaction ... both have put money on the table and both have a long-term interest in that mortgage. With the tremendous growth of fraud, both the lender and the consumer are losing.

You can borrow more, but you still have to pay it back.

You can borrow for college, but you can't borrow for retirement.

You can borrow a camcorder or a still camera and take pictures of everything. Or you can walk from room to room with a tape recorder and note everything you see.

We feel he has been living on borrowed time for about 32 years, or whatever it was, and we were happy to have him.

Leon Panetta

I think they're facing the largest challenge I've seen in recent history, in terms of an administration having to decide whether they continue to borrow and spend, or whether they face up to very difficult choices that have to be made to discipline the budget. I think we'll find out in the next few months what that decision is going to be.

It is better to return a borrowed pot with a little something you last cooked in it

Roscoe Bartlett

We can borrow money, but not time and energy,

We need the money now or we will be forced to scale down food deliveries. So far, we have been operating on reserves, and borrowing ... and the pipeline is drying up.

Ben Bernanke

Home purchases that are very highly leveraged or unaffordable subject the borrower and lender to a great deal of risk. Moreover, even in a strong economy, unforeseen life events and risks in local real estate markets make highly leveraged borrowers vulnerable.

It does pull a lot of money out of people's pockets. Even if it doesn't go back up much, it translates to a 50-to-60-cents-a-gallon gas tax. But for the borrowing that people were willing to do, it probably would have led to recession.

I think if they are going to borrow money, it should be for something substantial. What I think they should do is leave the existing facility in place and start (building) a new school on the property. They are throwing money away. They are putting Band-Aids on the problem.

We can raise rates, we can borrow more money, or we can mitigate. In the long-run, we can lower costs if we mitigate heavily in this state.

We played great character football in the second half. We had some kids, who are not starters (and) who were not defensive specialists. They were kids that we had to borrow to put in there to makeshift and do some things. We had a lot of people playing the whole way. We probably should have started it like that.

While concerns about the impact of rising interest rates will be a frequent theme of discussion in the press and financial markets, homebuilders and realtors are confident that favorable demographics and an improved economy/job market should help, at least for a while, to compensate for the dampening effect of the upturn in borrowing costs on housing demand,

Terry Bradshaw

We're dealing with all the money those Cup teams have. But we're begging, borrowing and stealing trying to make it.

We don't have that kind of borrowing power.

Hesham Qandil

We want to increase our investment so the next year we'll borrow less. We want to make sure that we provide more jobs for our people. We need to bring fresh money.

Bill Withers

Please swallow your pride If I have things you need to borrow For no one can fill those of your needs That you won't let show.

Dambisa Moyo

I would say issues around human rights - either you're going to take a hard stance, or you're not. You can't borrow money from China the way the U.S. has done and then turn around and say, 'But you've got a human-rights problem.' You can't be half pregnant.

Jack Zipes

I have a daughter, Hanna, and I never read fairy tales to her. But I did tell her bedtime tales and made up many tales involving 'Gory the Goblin' and other creatures that I borrowed from the Grimms' tales and other tales I knew.

Rand Paul

If any Republican nominee wants to run on the idea that borrowing money and printing it up and sending it to foreign countries that often hate us and burn our flag and think it's a good idea, feel free to run on that issue. But it's not really popular with the people.

Bruce Bennett

He's a great guy, but don't let him borrow the checkbook.

It can't pay every vendor until we borrow more money.

Ken Russell

There is no excuse these days for someone who wants to make movies; you just need yourself, one tape and a borrowed camera.

We think borrowers sitting down with their financial advisers or loan officers can make the decisions that are right for them.

John Adams

Had we known it was 9/11 money, we would not have borrowed it.