Loan Quotes - Page 2

• The man who won't loan money isn't going to have many friends - or need them.

  Wilt Chamberlain

  Basketball, Sports, Men

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• Maybe [artistry] doesn't have to be quite so full of anguish if you never happened to believe, in the first place, that the most extraordinary aspects of your being came from you. But maybe if you just believed that they were on loan to you from some unimaginable source for some exquisite portion of your life to be passed along when you're finished ... it starts to change everything.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  God, Believe, Soul

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• And I do not want, and I will not accept, a deal in which I am asked to do nothing, in fact, I'm able to keep hundreds of thousands of dollars in additional income that I don't need, while a parent out there who is struggling to figure out how to send their kid to college suddenly finds that they've got a couple thousand dollars less in grants or student loans.

  Barack Obama

  Couple, Struggle, Kids

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• Hard-covered books break up friendships. You loan a hard covered book to a friend and when he doesn’t return it you get mad at him. It makes you mean and petty. But twenty-five cent books are different.

  John Steinbeck

  Book, Mean, Mad

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• Interlibrary loans are a wonder of the world and a glory of civilization.

  Jo Walton

  Civilization, World, Wonder

  Jo Walton (2011). “Among Others”, p.59, Macmillan

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• The body is given out on loan - don't waste it and expect to use it tomorrow.

  Carl Shapiro

  Running, Body, Waste

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• I never had the high-paying job or the company car. It took me over a decade to pay off my student loans. I never had to worry about where to dock my yacht to reduce my taxes.

  Christine O'Donnell

  Jobs, Worry, Car

  "O'Donnell hits the national stage" by David Catanese, www.politico.com. September 17, 2010.

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• What grinds me the most is that we’re sending kids out into the world who don’t know how to balance a checkbook, don’t know how to apply for a loan, don’t even know how to properly fill out a job application, but because they know the quadratic formula we consider them prepared for the world?

  Chris Colfer

  Jobs, Kids, Balance

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• A rolling loan gathers no loss.

  Kyle Bass

  Loss, Rolling

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• My vision for the future? Two things: to make credit a human right so that each individual human being will have the opportunity to take loans and implement his or her ideas so that self-exploration becomes possible. And second: that it will lead to a world where nobody has to suffer from poverty - a world completely free from poverty.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Opportunity, Self, Ideas

  "Muhammad Yunus, Banker to the World’s Poorest Citizens, Makes His Case". Interview with Linda O’Bryon, knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu. March 9, 2005.

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• As befits Silicon Valley, 'big data' is mostly big hype, but there is one possibility with genuine potential: that it might one day bring loans - and credit histories - to millions of people who currently lack access to them.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Data, Hype, People

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• Gratitude is like credit; it is the backbone of our relations; frequently we pay our debts not because equity demands that we should, but to facilitate future loans.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Gratitude, Credit, Debt

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• The publishers and others should quit worrying about losing customers to TV. The guy who can sit through a trio of deodorant commercials to look at Flashgun Casey or swallow a flock of beer and loan-shark spiels in order to watch a couple of fourth-rate club fighters rub noses on the ropes is not losing any time from book reading.

  Raymond Chandler

  Couple, Book, Reading

  Raymond Chandler, Tom Hiney, Frank MacShane (2002). “The Raymond Chandler Papers: Selected Letters and Nonfiction, 1909-1959”, p.69, Grove Press

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• In China, remember, the the banks are arms of state policy. They loan because the local party official or regional party official tells them we need a new stadium. They are instruments of state policy.

  James Chanos

  Party, Needs, Arms

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• We don't want to give a business that is not going to come through the troubled waters a loan that they can't pay back.

  Karen Mills

  Giving, Water, Want

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• The word "democracy" is a Western word obviously. It doesn't exist in Arabic. Democratiya is a loan word. We in the Western world make the great mistake of assuming that ours is the only form of good government; that democracy means what it means in the Anglo-American world and a few other places in the West, but not many others. Muslims have their own tradition on limited government. Now in Islam, there is a very strong political tradition. Because the different circumstances, Islam is political from the very beginning.

  Bernard Lewis

  Strong, Mistake, Mean

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• Every time a bank swoops down to snatch up a home, it should be met with a crowd of jeering, obstructive neighbors. And although this may be point 4.5, how about organizing a mass refusal to pay back student loans?

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Home, Crowds, May

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• I used to flirt with fundamentalism, and I had this idea that creation was something that happened. Now I see creation as something that is happening. Hundreds of millions of stars are still being born every day. Creation is an ongoing process. The Artist has not yet cleaned out the brushes. The paint is still wet. Human beings are the small clumps of clay and breath, and we have been handed brushes of our own, like young artist apprentices. The brushes aren't ours, nor the paint or canvas, but here they are in our hands, on loan. What shall we make?

  Michael Gungor

  Stars, Flirting, Artist

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• Between the Community Redevelopment Act, requiring banks to make what I would call very weak loans, and specific quotas that the Congress imposed on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, that created the market demand that really led to the subprime phenomenon.

  Wilbur Ross

  Community, Quota, Demand

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• The people who are taking these loans because it's the only way they can afford their house are exposing themselves to a lot of risk. They're not saving money and they're not building equity, which means they could find themselves in a scenario where they owe more money than their house is worth.

  Ric Edelman

  Mean, People, House

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• On one level, going bust didn't bother me. It was the 80s, and there wasn't the stigma about bankruptcy that you might think. My mates weren't bothered. My dad was in business.. he knew that it happened, too. He loaned me the money to bail me out, and I got a loan from the bank to pay him back.

  Simon Cowell

  Friendship, Dad, Business

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• No fate could rob us of our own--
  No circumstance can make it less;
  What time removes was but a loan,
  For what was ours we still possess.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Character, Fate, Circumstances

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2012). “Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)”, p.561, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Increasingly, the real estate developers can't get bank loans for their project financing in China. They're now going into the Hong Kong market to raise money in the bond market at very, very high rates, as high as 15, 20 percent.

  James Chanos

  Real, Hong Kong, Projects

  "Jim Chanos' One Big China Regret" by Joe Weisenthal, www.businessinsider.com. May 24, 2011.

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• What people don't realize is that China papered over its last two credit bubbles, those in 1999 and 2004. The banks were never bailed out - they just exchanged their bad loans for questionable bonds from quasi-state organizations.

  James Chanos

  Organization, Two, People

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• I had three jobs in college. The best day of my life was when I paid off my student loans, on my own.

  Jessica Seinfeld

  Jobs, College, Three

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