Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Kettering

Bankers regard research as most dangerous a thing that makes banking hazardous due to the rapid changes it brings about in industry.

Doug Liman

I understand that it's a huge luxury for people to dwell on the problems in Washington. Things have to be pretty tidy in your own life that you have the time to worry about what's going on in Washington. Most of us spend our time worrying about the things that are directly around us: our love lives, our careers, and our banking accounts.

Uday Kotak

I do believe that banks are special - they are very leveraged institutions by nature; therefore, it's even more critical to ensure that the governance and the process of running a banking company are well-organised, managed and regulated.

Charles Alexander

We're setting up investment banking now ... people will be on the ground this year. It's one of the big opportunities our senior management sees globally.

Sylvia Mathews Burwell

In Mexico, a network of government-operated rural convenience stores is offering banking services to rural communities.

Spencer White

Less than 5 percent of the population is using banking services. The growth opportunities for mortgages, car loans, consumer loans, are huge.

Robert Rubin

We very strongly want to see good financial services modernization legislation passed this year, ... The bill that came out of the Senate banking committee does not meet these requisites.

Irv DeGraw

We're having a science fiction week in investment banking land. They're throwing so much out it's confusing the market.

Przemyslaw Gosiewski

This probe will reveal whether Poland had to change its banking sector this way over the last 17 years, or are there people who have erred. Surely, no foreign investor will be worse off because of it.

David Hockney

When you're very young, you suddenly find this marvellous freedom. It's quite exciting, and you're prepared to do anything.

Arnold J. Toynbee

We human beings do have some genuine freedom of choice and therefore some effective control over our own destinies. I am not a determinist. But I also believe that the decisive choice is seldom the latest choice in the series. More often than not, it will turn out to be some choice made relatively far back in the past.

Arnold J. Toynbee

The last stage but one of every civilisation, is characterised by the forced political unification of its constituent parts, into a single greater whole.

Arnold J. Toynbee

The extinction of race consciousness as between Muslims is one of the outstanding achievements of Islam, and in the contemporary world there is, as it happens, a crying need for the propagation of this Islamic virtue.

Arnold J. Toynbee

As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility.

Dennis Kucinich

There's a type of freedom that occurs when everything that you've believed in and worked for is shattered, because then you have the opportunity to rebuild and to put yourself back together in a new way.

Dennis Kucinich

That is the America which stands not in pursuit of an axis of evil, but which is itself at the axis of hope and faith and peace and freedom.

Alan Coren

Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear.

Alan Dean Foster

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Audrey Hepburn

My greatest victory has been to be able to live with myself, to accept my shortcomings. I'm a long way from the human being I'd liked to be, but I've decided I'm not so bad after all.

Warren Haynes

Making that record was one of the greatest musical moments in my life,

Bryant H. McGill

There are amazingly wonderful people in all walks of life; some familiar to us and others not. Stretch yourself and really get to know people. People are in many ways one of our greatest treasures.

Gerald Curtis

One of his greatest opportunities now is to push agricultural reform,

Sally Schneider

One of my greatest joys is when someone like your wife takes one idea or one piece of a recipe and does it her way. That's what I'm encouraging.

George Granville

Of all pains, the greatest pain Is to love, and love in vain.

Mike Perez

One through six, they really hate to lose. They all are very competitive. They may not be the greatest practice players, but in matches, I know they are going to get it done.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Music, of all the liberal arts, has the greatest influence over the passions

Michael Flatley

My heart is saddened with the news of the Pope's passing. He was truly the greatest man on the planet, the nearest to a saint.

Arthur Rubinstein

Don't tell me how talented you are. Tell me how hard you work.

Derek Bok

Ever since economists revealed how much universities contribute to economic growth, politicians have paid close attention to higher education.

Dee Hock

Failure is not to be feared. It is from failure that most growth comes.

Al Gore

I saw the logarithmic growth of computer power...

Sun Microsystems

We're going after revenue growth and customers. We're all about sharing.

Jim Clement

We're looking at growth here. We're not saying, 'No, we don't want development. My guess is it's going to happen.

Pam Dixon

Making money on identity theft is a growth industry and it's just not pretty.

David Hilal

Licensing is the story. All that other growth from services and maintenance comes from having new software business.

Jane Addams

The new growth in the plant swelling against the sheath, which at the same time imprisons and protects it, must still be the truest type of progress.

David Ricardo

For price is everywhere regulated by the return obtained by this last portion of capital, for which no rent whatever is paid.

Barry Commoner

If environmentalism is a fad, it will be the last one.

Antony Garrett Lisi

Science is our last and greatest frontier.

Alan Dershowitz

The court of last resort is no longer the Supreme Court. It's 'Nightline.'

Charles Darwin

Thus disbelief crept over me at a very slow rate, but at last was complete. The rate was so slow that I felt no distress, and have never since doubted even for a single second that my conclusion was correct.

Channing Tatum

Actually I have a tradition that I always steal my last costume on the last day of filming.

Blaise Pascal

The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. There is nothing so conformable to reason as this disavowal of reason.

Blaise Pascal

Reason's last step is to acknowledge that there are infinitely many things beyond it.

Blaise Pascal

The last advance of reason is to recognize that it is surpassed by innumerable things; it is feeble if it cannot realize that.

David DeFazio

Many of the statements (appeared) to have been provided to her.

Paul O'Grady

I can eat beef, provided it's minced in disguise. I couldn't eat a gammon steak. Forget it.

Tom Zilla

I thought it provided a lot of justification for making the improvements.

Joseph Kabila

Whatever happens, if there are summits we will be there, provided it takes place after the funeral,

Rachel Johnson

Our parents provided us with the essentials, then got on with their own lives. Which makes me realise that my parents were brilliant, not for what they did, but more for what they didn't do.

McGregor Scott

Trends in communications and convergence provided a one-two punch.

Thomas Kelly

We provided about a quarter of the community's blood.

Al Jourgensen

I'm an all-or-nothing guy. When I'm working, I work, work, work, work, work, and when I'm not, I'm the laziest sloth this planet has ever provided us.

Michael Burgess

When Medicare was first enacted in 1965, it provided coverage for hospitalization, doctor visits and surgeries, but there was no coverage for prescription medications.