Credit Quotes - Page 19

• Given all the money printing that is going on globally - and not just in the US - and given that the total credit as a percent of the advanced economies is now 30% higher than in 2007 before the crisis hit, I think that gold is a good insurance.

  Marc Faber

  Thinking, Gold, Economy

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• The Patriot Act, passed overwhelmingly but hastily after 9/11, allows the FBI to obtain telecommunication, financial, and credit records without a court order.

  Rebecca MacKinnon

  Order, Records, Financial

  "We're losing control of our digital privacy" by Rebecca MacKinnon, www.cnn.com. January 29, 2012.

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• Besides the general infusion of wit to heighten civility, the direct splendor of intellectual power is ever welcome in fine society, as the costliest addition to its rule and its credit.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Intellectual, Society, Splendor

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Essays (Annotated Edition)”, p.256, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Puerto Rico loses out on billions of dollars annually because it is treated unequally under a range of federal programs, including tax credits available to millions of households in the States that do not pay federal income taxes.

  Pedro Pierluisi

  Dollars, Income, Pay

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• Nothing teaches great writing like the very best books do. Yet, good teachers often help students cross that bridge, and I have to say that I had a few extraordinary English teachers in high school whom I still credit for their guidance.

  Julia Glass

  Teacher, Book, School

  "Washington Post Magazine: Real Life". Online chat, www.washingtonpost.com. July 14, 2008.

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• Pessimism like calumny is easy to do, and attracts immediate attention. The gossiper and the writer may find this out soon enough, and a little encouragement from the current mood will procure them successes that bring endless imitators in their trail. On the other hand saying good things about life in general and individuals in particular and making it interesting is a serious task which few can achieve with credit.

  Bernard Berenson

  Encouragement, Hands, Calumny Is

  Bernard Berenson (1963). “Sunset and Twilight: From the Diaries of 1947-1958”, New York : Harcourt, Brace & World

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• Increasingly, editing means going to lunch. It means editing with a credit card, not with a pencil.

  Robert Gottlieb

  Mean, Editing, Lunch

  "Editor in the spotlight" by William Skidelsky, www.theguardian.com. January 23, 2007.

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• God never estimates what we give from impulse. We are given credit for what we determine in our hearts to give; for the giving that is governed by a fixed determination. The Spirit of God revolutionises our philanthropic instincts. Much of our philanthropy is simply the impulse to save ourselves an uncomfortable feeling. The Spirit of God alters all that. As saints our attitude towards giving is that we give for Jesus Christ's sake, and from no other motive.

  Oswald Chambers

  Jesus, Determination, Attitude

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.148, Discovery House

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• During the 1970s and 1980s, the popular television soap opera As The World Turns portrayed sunrise during the opening credits and sunset during the closing credits... The soap-opera sunrise showed the sun moving toward the left as it rose rather than to the right. They obviously had gotten a piece of film showing a sunset and played it in reverse... Had they called their local astrophysicists, any one of us might have recommended that if they needed to save money, they could have shown the sunset in a mirror before they showed it running backward.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Running, Moving, Sunset

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• But to measure cause and effect... you must ensure that a simple correlation, however tempting it may be, is not mistaken for a cause. In the 1990s the stork population of Germany increased and the German at-home birth rate rose as well. Shall we credit storks for airlifting the babies?

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Baby, Home, Simple

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• Knives are like credit cards; don't leave home without 'em and always carry several

  Richard Marcinko

  Home, Knives, Cards

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• We all love people who give credit to others for their success. Companies would probably do better with CEOs who didn't blow their own horn and ask for ridiculous salaries and new yachts every year.

  Adora Svitak

  Blow, Years, Giving

  "It’s Not Girls’ Fault" by Adora Svitak, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 23, 2011.

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• Almost all the opinions we have are taken on authority and on credit.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Trust, Truth, Taken

  Michel de Montaigne (1603). “Essayes”

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• I'm a pop enigma. I live and breathe every element in life. I rock a bespoke suit and I go to Harold's for fried chicken. It's all these things at once, because, as a taste maker, I find the best of everything. There's certain things that black people are the best at and certain things that white people are the best at. Whatever we as black people are the best at, I'ma go get that. Like, on Christmas I don't want any food that tastes white. And when I go to purchase a house, I don't want my credit to look black.

  Kanye West

  Rocks, White, People

  "Entertainer of the Year: Kanye West". Interview with John Mcalley, www.spin.com. December 21, 2007.

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• Over the last 30 odd years, Democrats have moved to the right and the right has moved into the mental hospital. So what we have is one perfectly good party for hedge fund managers, credit card companies, banks, defense contractors, big agriculture and the pharmaceutical lobby... That's the Democrats. And they sit across the aisle from a small group of religious lunatics, flat-earthers and civil war re-enactors who mostly communicate by AM radio and call themselves the Republicans and who actually worry that Obama is a socialist. Socialist? He's not even a liberal.

  Bill Maher

  Religious, War, Party

  "Real Time with Bill Maher".

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• Certainly people are always very envious of me. When I join a new theater company, the other actors look down the program, see my Return of the Jedi credit and say, 'Oh, you were part of Star Wars.' I smile and say, 'Yes, but only for twenty-six and a half seconds.'

  Caroline Blakiston

  Stars, War, People

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• Unless we have a Central Bank with adequate control of credit resources, this country is going to undergo the most severe and far reaching money panic in its history.

  Jacob Schiff

  Country, Adequate, Panic

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• I do believe CDSs [credit default swaps] have been miscast, much as poor workmen tend to blame their tools.

  Blythe Masters

  Believe, Tools, Blame

  "The woman who built financial 'weapon of mass destruction'" by David Teather, www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2008.

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• All I need are chocolates, credit card, and stilettos.

  Maryse Ouellet

  Chocolate, Needs, Cards

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• I don't even know what that means. People who get credit have to get it from somewhere. Does a credit bubble mean that people save too much during that period? I don't know what a credit bubble means. I don't even know what a bubble means. These words have become popular. I don't think they have any meaning.

  Eugene Fama

  Mean, Thinking, People

  Interview with John Cassidy, www.newyorker.com. January 13, 2010.

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• Forget the credit, they (male actors) take all the money as well. We don't get paid even one-third of what male actors get. It's not so much about the money, but it's about (being a) woman.

  Kangana Ranaut

  Males, Actors, Forget

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• In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order to gain credit in the world.

  Angela Carter

  Order, Miracle, Age

  Angela Carter (1984). “Nights at the circus”, Vintage

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• There are some who maintain that trade will regulate itself, and it is not to be benefited by the encouragements or restraints of government. Such persons will imagine that there is no need of a common directing power. This is one of those wild speculative paradoxes, which have grown into credit among us, contrary to the uniform practice and sense of the most enlightened nations.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Encouragement, Government, Practice

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1875). “The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States : a Collection of Essays”, p.154

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• For myself the delay [in assuming the office of the President] may be compared with a reprieve; for in confidence I assure you, with the world it would obtain little credit that my movements to the chair of Government will be accompanied by feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the place of his execution: so unwilling am I, in the evening of a life nearly consumed in public cares, to quit a peaceful abode for an Ocean of difficulties, without that competency of political skill, abilities and inclination which is necessary to manage the helm.

  George Washington

  Ocean, Government, Skills

  Comment to General Henry Knox on the delay in assuming office, March 1789.

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• As a very important source of strength and security, cherish public credit.

  George Washington

  Government Debt, Important, Cherish

  George Washington, John Jay, Jared Sparks (1850). “Washington's Farewell Address to the People of the United States of America”, p.36, New York : J. Wiley

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