Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ken Norton

Right now I'm scrambling to see if we can borrow sousaphones, ... You just can't all of a sudden go out and pick one up.

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.

Leon Panetta

None of this is being paid for. At some point, all of that borrowing comes back to haunt you.

Michael Penn

There is a real difference in mentality. Consumers from poorer European countries are more cautious and tend to save more and borrow less.

Jim Lee

I borrowed more money than I ever imagined borrowing. We finished three models and, within six months, the worst housing recession in the history of the state hit. You couldn't sell a house for what you built it for. It was terrible. We were going to lose everything.

I am using my own computer. I am using a borrowed projector. The Power Point (presentation) I assembled. In terms of whatever complaints they have about presentations that were given at City Council, they were done objectively presenting the facts,

Buoyant spending and borrowing have not yet been inflationary, and will not necessarily become inflationary, partly because of relatively low global inflation and strong price competition from imports.

Mortgage markets have been so flush with cash that home buyers are able to layer one risk on top of the other. It's possible to borrow more than the value of the home, put in no money of your own and pay a minimum monthly payment.

Michael Dyson

Maybe this time around in reaching back to borrow from old movies, maybe Lucas or his people had trouble separating stereotypes from the sort of things that would help strengthen the movie.

William Shakespeare

Neither a borrower, nor a lender be; for loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.

Never marry for money. You'll borrow it cheaper.

Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.

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.

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.

Mitt Romney

I'd like my grandkids to be able to watch PBS. But I'm not willing to borrow money from China, and make my kids have to pay the interest on that, and my grandkids, over generations, as opposed to saying to PBS, 'Look, you're going to have to raise more money from charitable contributions or from advertising.'

Woodrow Wilson

We should not only use the brains we have, but all that we can borrow

Why borrow if you are not in need of it? You must lend feet to the maximum of your bed only, and not to borrow except in the case of necessity.

Shorts wager on price declines by selling shares that they have borrowed in the hope of buying them back at far lower prices.

What it means is that they'll have to borrow a little more money and repay it at a higher interest rate.

Pete Shelley

I was involved in the students' union and I had a meeting in London, chaired by the president of the students' union Charles Clarke (now Home Secretary). Howard had no plans for the weekend, so we hatched this plot whereby I took the money for the train fare, but, instead of getting the train, he could borrow a car off a friend, the train fare would pay for petrol and we could stop at his friend Richard's house in Reading,

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

Najib Razak

People willy-nilly borrow for consumption. Civil servants willy-nilly borrow for consumption and then wonder why they don't have enough money at the end of the month.

Bruce Bennett

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

Publilius Syrus

It is a fraud to borrow what we are unable to repay

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.

He was concerned about going back to the board, ... I do remember saying 'You have to do something,' and he left. I was kind of surprised that there were any transactions from internal accounts. I thought the $1.5 million we borrowed at the start of the month and the $3 million that the school district borrowed later that month would have been sufficient.

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.

Gary Johnson

I'm outraged that we're building roads, schools, and hospitals in Iraq and Afghanistan, and that we're doing it with borrowed money from China that we're paying interest on. I'm outraged.

Ellen G. White

Do not borrow the productions of other men's brains and pens and recite them as a lesson; but make the most of the talents, the brain power, that God has given you.

Ferdinand Marcos

Filipinos are not worse than any other colonized people except that our colonization was a little longer, and the independence movement was always dictated in political terms, never in social ones. We borrowed terms, but we didn't understand them.

Donella Meadows

The human world is a long way from meeting the needs of the present, and it is borrowing massively from the future - not only by piling up money debt, but also by degrading the resources from which all real wealth ultimately comes.