Quotes, Sayings, Phrases

World Bank financial assistance

2007-08-29T13:16:00.000-05:00

Well the specific role of the World Bank is to be ready with financial assistance immediately after this emergency takes place because you need to reconnect water, you need to reconnect power, you need roads, you need bridges, and that has to be done urgently.

James Wolfensohn

banking system

2007-08-29T13:14:00.000-05:00

From the beginning, I had complained about the banking system on two grounds. One complaint was that the banking system was denying financial services to the poor people through certain rules it had set up. The second allegation was that the banking system also was not treating women fairly.

Muhammad Yunus

Entertainment vibrant economy

2007-08-25T11:44:00.000-05:00

In California, of all places, entertainment is the key to a vibrant economy. If we do not develop young adults capable of entering that world, the financial base of this state is sure to suffer and impact all of us.

David Cassidy

reserve currency

2007-08-16T14:15:00.000-05:00

The major material advantage, financial advantage from having a reserve currency is that between 200 and 300 billion dollar bills, that may be twenty, fifty, hundred dollar bills as well as ones, exist in the world - a lot of them in Russia as you all know I'm sure.

Robert C. Solomon

financial information

2007-08-15T19:06:00.000-05:00

The concept for the book came from my realizing that there's been an explosion of financial information and we are in information overload.
Maria Bartiromo

financial and economic history

2007-08-14T11:25:00.000-05:00

At many points during our nation's history, there have been times - known in our history textbooks as "panics" - when adverse conditions affecting the financial and economic sectors of the country have caused individuals to hoard more than they need.

Jo Bonner

cooperate US e a EU

2007-08-13T19:54:00.000-05:00

If the EU and the US can cooperate successfully on regulating financial markets, everyone else will follow.

John Bruton

international financial Phrases

2007-08-10T20:35:00.000-05:00

Our strength in finance has led us to set up an international financial centre with medium and long-term objectives, especially to develop Islamic financial and insurance services.

Hassanal Bolkiah

Music financial benefit

2007-08-07T12:21:00.000-05:00

Music video directors, who conceive, write and direct these works, enjoy no creative rights, receive no ongoing financial benefit from the sale of our work, and many times are not even credited.

Michael Apted

Air company Quotes

2007-08-07T12:18:00.000-05:00

Our planes should be full, which among other things means we have a golden opportunity... to build on the momentum reflected in the financial results we are reporting today.

Gerard Arpey

financial education

2007-08-07T12:16:00.000-05:00

My undergraduate education, at the City College in New York, was made possible only by the existence of that excellent free institution and the financial sacrifices of my parents.

Kenneth Joseph Arrow

Financial Data Quotes

2007-08-06T08:32:00.000-05:00

Social security, bank account, and credit card numbers aren't just data. In the wrong hands they can wipe out someone's life savings, wreck their credit and cause financial ruin.

Melissa Bean

financial assistance

2007-08-05T19:13:00.000-05:00

State and local government, with financial support from the federal government, should offer a program to educate and train foster children for employment and provide them with financial assistance, as needed, until they reach age 21.

Charles Foster Bass

financial results

2007-08-04T20:47:00.000-05:00

Look at the product pipeline, look at the fantastic financial results we've had for the last five years. You only get that kind of performance on the innovation side, on the financial side, if you're really listening and reacting to the best ideas of the people we have.

Steve Ballmer

Music financial benefit

2007-08-03T22:46:00.000-05:00

Jules Verne write

2007-08-03T07:54:00.000-05:00

Jules Verne really and truly was a good friend of Alexander Dumas, he was trying to write for Dumas, but Dumas got into financial troubles and told Verne to go write his own stuff instead. Then Dumas fled France.

Kevin J. Anderson

consumers bankruptcy

2007-08-01T19:54:00.000-05:00

It is imperative that we make consumers more aware of the long-term effects of their financial decisions, particularly in managing their credit card debt, so that they can avoid financial pitfalls that may lead to bankruptcy.

Daniel Akaka

Bertrand Russell

2007-07-31T12:25:00.000-05:00

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

Bertrand Russell

Memorie Sayings

2007-07-30T12:24:00.000-05:00

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.

Michel de Montaigne

Financial Sayings EU

2007-07-29T10:20:00.000-05:00

It was actually the financial mechanism, it was the Maastricht referendum. In Nice we would have stopped enlargement.

Bertie Ahern

Laurence Peter

2007-07-29T10:19:00.000-05:00

Humility is the embarrassment you feel when you tell people how wonderful you are.

Laurence Peter

Benjamin Stolberg

2007-07-27T17:22:00.000-05:00

An expert is a person who avoids small error as he sweeps on to the grand fallacy.

Benjamin Stolberg

Television Quotes

2007-07-26T10:49:00.000-05:00

Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want.

Clive Barnes

bureaucracy Quotes

2007-07-25T05:26:00.000-05:00

The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.

Eugene McCarthy

love quote

2007-07-24T12:48:00.000-05:00

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

Kahlil Gibran

Francis Bacon

2007-07-23T04:54:00.000-05:00

There was never proud man thought so absurdly well of himself, as the lover doth of the person loved; and therefore it was well said, That it is impossible to love, and to be wise".

Francis Bacon

Financial quotes

2007-07-22T14:15:00.000-05:00

It was actually the financial mechanism, it was the Maastricht referendum. In Nice we would have stopped enlargement.
Bertie Ahern

Alfred Nobel

2007-07-21T13:37:00.001-05:00

Contentment is the only real wealth.

Alfred Nobel

Logical Sayings

2007-07-20T08:14:00.000-05:00

Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

Frank Outlaw

Harper Lee

2007-07-19T11:44:00.000-05:00

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.

Harper Lee

Vernon Howard

2007-07-18T17:17:00.000-05:00

A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.

Vernon Howard

Logical Quotes

2007-07-17T08:07:00.000-05:00

Seek first to understand and then to be understood.

Stephen R. Covey

Religious Sayings

2007-07-16T04:16:00.000-05:00

Again a different meaning has to be understood.

Buddha

Phrases of capital

2007-07-14T20:14:00.000-05:00

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.

Henry Ford

William Hazlitt

2007-07-13T21:11:00.000-05:00

No man is truly great who is great only in his own lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.

William Hazlitt

Tax Sayings

2007-07-12T18:06:00.000-05:00

The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has.

Will Rogers

Quotes about Film

2007-07-11T11:49:00.000-05:00

If my films make even one more person feel miserable, I'll feel I've done my job.

Woody Allen

Political quote

2007-07-10T18:36:00.000-05:00

In politics stupidity is not a handicap.

Napoleon

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

2007-07-09T19:52:00.000-05:00

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

life quotes

2007-07-08T16:53:00.000-05:00

Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

quotes in german

2007-07-07T16:47:00.000-05:00

The reason there is so little crime in Germany is that it's against the law.

Alex Levin

Funny quote

2007-07-06T16:44:00.000-05:00

Everything is funny as long as it is happening to Somebody Else.

Will Rogers

health qoutes and sayings

2007-07-05T18:17:00.000-05:00

Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with, that it's compounding a felony.

Robert Benchley

Sartre phrases

2007-07-04T18:14:00.000-05:00

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics.

Benjamin Disraeli

Atheism sayings

2007-07-03T17:37:00.000-05:00

I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish Church, by the Roman Church, by the Greek Church, by the Turkish Church, by the Protestant Church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church.

Thomas Paine

John Steinbeck

2007-07-02T13:38:00.000-05:00

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

John Steinbeck

Kevin Costner

2007-07-01T16:18:00.000-05:00

I'm happy about the things I've done. Not always happy about the results, but happy about the decisions, because I made them myself. And I think that's an important way to go through life.

Kevin Costner

life inspirational quotes

2007-06-30T07:46:00.000-05:00

We need to decide that we will not go to war, whatever reason is conjured up by the politicians or the media, because war in our time is always indiscriminate, a war against innocents, a war against children

Howard Zinn

Great qoutes

2007-06-29T16:08:00.000-05:00

Love is a madness; if thwarted it develops fast.

Mark Twain

Simpsons toons

2007-06-28T16:04:00.000-05:00

Oh, they have the Internet on computers now.

Homer Simpson

Phrases and quotes

2007-06-27T18:16:00.000-05:00

To love and be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.

Sydney Smith

Quotes and thoughts

2007-06-26T12:58:00.000-05:00

There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.

Douglas Adams

Love Phrase

2007-06-25T17:09:00.000-05:00

Love doesn't make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.

Franklin Jones

Muhammad Ali

2007-06-21T20:41:00.000-05:00

I don't always know what I'm talking about but I know I'm right.

Muhammad Ali

Aldous Huxley

2007-06-20T22:42:00.000-05:00

When truth is nothing but the truth, its unnatural, it's an abstraction that resembles nothing in the real world. In nature there are always so many other irrelevant things mixed up with the essential truth.

Aldous Huxley

Political Quotes

2007-06-19T16:52:00.000-05:00

Clearly, God is a Democrat.

Patrick Caddell

Phrases about Animals

2007-06-18T17:30:00.000-05:00

I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

Winston Churchill

beautiful life quotes

2007-06-16T08:27:00.000-05:00

The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.

Oscar Wilde

Inspirational phrases

2007-06-15T08:21:00.000-05:00

Those who are fired with an enthusiastic idea and who allow it to take hold and dominate their thoughts find that new worlds open for them. As long as enthusiasm holds out, so will new opportunities.

Norman Vincent Peale

Margaret Thatcher Quotes

2007-06-14T08:12:00.000-05:00

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.

Margaret Thatcher

Funny Phrases

2007-06-13T07:14:00.000-05:00

One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.

Mark Twain

quotes of Orthography

2007-06-12T16:13:00.000-05:00

Orthography: The science of spelling by the eye instead of the ear.

Ambrose Bierce

Phrases

2007-06-11T15:39:00.000-05:00

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

Prime Minister phrases

2007-06-09T17:56:00.000-05:00

The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation.

Pierre Elliott Trudeau - Prime Minister of Canada

Inspirational qoutes

2007-06-07T08:26:00.000-05:00

Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.

William James

Life quotations

2007-06-04T04:31:00.000-05:00

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.

Henry Ford

Mother quotes

2007-06-01T18:46:00.000-05:00

You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.

Albert Einstein

Sad love sayings

2007-05-31T04:38:00.000-05:00

He that shuts love out, in turn shall be Shut out from love, and on her threshold lie, Howling in outer darkness.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

Quotations life

2007-05-30T04:37:00.000-05:00

Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.

H. Jackson Browne

Famous american quotes

2007-05-29T04:36:00.000-05:00

There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.

Gore Vidal

love quotation

2007-05-28T04:34:00.000-05:00

A mind might ponder its thought for an epoch, and not gain so much self-knowledge as the passion of love shall teach in a day.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Irish sayings

2007-05-27T04:33:00.000-05:00

The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

George Bernard Shaw

Funny political quotes

2007-05-25T04:30:00.000-05:00

Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of congress. But I repeat myself.

Mark Twain

Painting Phrases

2007-05-24T04:25:00.000-05:00

Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.

George Bernard Shaw

sayings inspirational

2007-05-23T08:30:00.000-05:00

Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.

John Maynard Keynes

Best sayings

2007-05-22T03:25:00.000-05:00

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

Aldous Huxley

business phrases

2007-05-21T03:53:00.000-05:00

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

Henry Ford

Ocean Phrases

2007-05-20T08:17:00.000-05:00

Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.

Ambrose Bierce

Sympathy quotes religious

2007-05-19T06:34:00.000-05:00

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

Napoleon

Funny stocks Quotes

2007-05-19T06:24:00.000-05:00

October. This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks. Other dangerous months are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August and February.

Mark Twain

Wise Sayings

2007-05-18T03:45:00.000-05:00

Any fool can paint a picture, but it takes a wise man to be able to sell it.

Samuel Butler

Funny love phrases

2007-05-17T03:32:00.000-05:00

My love life is terrible. The last time I was inside a woman was when I visited the Statue of Liberty.

Woody Allen

Famous phrases history

2007-05-16T04:53:00.000-05:00

Veni, vidi, vici.

Julius Caesar, Roman

Inspirational sayings star

2007-05-15T04:03:00.000-05:00

Political Phrases

2007-05-14T03:29:00.000-05:00

Politics are almost as exciting as war and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics - many times.

Winston Churchill

Cinema Quotes

2007-05-12T11:38:00.000-05:00

I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.

Audrey Hepburn

Men Phrases

2007-05-11T02:48:00.000-05:00

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.

Mark Twain

Irish phrases

2007-05-10T01:16:00.000-05:00

The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.

Thomas Moore (1779-1852)

Love Quote

2007-05-08T19:26:00.001-05:00

One kind kiss before we part, Drop a tear and bid adieu; though we sever, my fond heart till we meet shall pant for you.

Robert Dodsley

Wise Saying

2007-05-08T03:31:00.000-05:00

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.

Henry Ford

Beautiful Sayings

2007-05-07T03:22:00.000-05:00

Money is what you'd get on beautifully without if only other people weren't so crazy about it.

Margaret Case Harriman

Love quotes

2007-05-06T07:09:00.000-05:00

Love' has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.

Katharine Hepburn

Political Sayings

2007-05-05T07:56:00.000-05:00

If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn't swim.

Margaret Thatcher

Douglas Adams

2007-05-02T19:38:00.000-05:00

Cartoons Simpson

2007-04-30T05:49:00.000-05:00

What if you're a really good person, but you get into a really, really bad fight and your leg gets gangrene and it has to be amputated. Will it be waiting for you in heaven?

Bart Simpson

Phrases Elizabeth Stone

2007-04-29T09:12:00.000-05:00

The particular human chain we're part of is central to our individual identity.

Elizabeth Stone

Governement Phrases

2007-04-26T06:27:00.000-05:00

I never give them [the public] hell. I just tell the truth, and they think it is hell.

Harry S. Truman

Actor Phrases

2007-04-25T09:59:00.000-05:00

If I ever caught myself dressed like that, I'd have to kick my own ass!

Adam Sandler

Mahatma Gandhi

2007-04-24T16:41:00.000-05:00

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.

Mahatma Gandhi

Freedom

2007-04-23T16:33:00.000-05:00

Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires

Bertrand Russell