Famous Quotes & Sayings

The Question to be considered is, Whether the Government have reason by a Law, to prohibit the taking more than 4 l. per cent Interest for Money lent, or to leave the Borrower and Lender to make their own Bargains.

We've been borrowing our way out of the recession, and nothing else has kicked in to take over.

I borrowed a lot of money from my parents in the years leading up to the 2000 Olympics, and I worked odd jobs.

Charlie Wilson

Tulsa was the kind of place where you could go to any door and borrow a cup of sugar. Everybody knew everybody. Truthfully, I don't even remember dealing with any racism in our town; we all got along.

While we are pleased with the level of post-petition financing we were able to obtain, we must stop using borrowed money to fund our losses.

The government is unable to collect taxes and control the borrowing requirement and is making only limited progress in the rest of the economy and on privatization to generate revenue.

John Key

The Government has to stop borrowing as much money; if we don't, quite frankly New Zealand will be downgraded and interest rates will go up for all New Zealanders.

You can make great money in a utility type of business by borrowing cheaply and lending sensibly but that's not what's being done.

Women in their busy lives don't have time for themselves. It's a full-body workout, but with the support of other women. Some say you borrow will power from a friend it's true.

Brian O'Driscoll

I have always played into the belief that you are only ever borrowing the jersey; you never own the jersey because someone has gone before you and there is going to be someone after you, so it's a case of giving the jersey maximum respect.

This report shows that Kansans are playing by the rules and trying to pay off their bills. But in spite of their struggle, they come up short. Something's wrong when so many people use up their hard-earned savings, borrow from friends, take out loans and jeopardize their credit in order to pay off medical bills.

We saw a financial disaster in agriculture in the early 1980s as a result of inflated farmland values and the increased borrowing on those values. When the bottom dropped out of the farmland market, we saw loans called in and foreclosures to cover those loans.

Our profits are growing. We may borrow a little for expenditure.

I see a need and I feel that I've got the opportunity to do something about it and I should take it. Like the fire truck. I know these people don't have one they have to borrow from other areas.

Stagnant wages and skyrocketing healthcare, education and housing costs, plus greater job instability has pushed America's families right to the limit, and they're borrowing on high-cost credit just to make ends meet.

Loan repayment policies must be improved, so they do not push borrowers into poverty or discourage people from getting a college degree.

John Stamos

Mary-Kate and Ashley, who played Michelle, were great. I miss them, I love them, and I need to borrow some money from them.

Josh Billings

Live within your income, even if you have to borrow money to do so

It all comes down to the question of do you want to borrow the money, ... or have the money up front.

Leon Panetta

I think they're facing the largest challenge I've seen in recent history, in terms of an administration having to decide whether they continue to borrow and spend, or whether they face up to very difficult choices that have to be made to discipline the budget. I think we'll find out in the next few months what that decision is going to be.

It is better to return a borrowed pot with a little something you last cooked in it

It has always been more expensive for the poor to borrow money. We see this in everything from mortgage rates to credit cards.

Ella Wilcox

Laugh and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own

Laugh and the world laughs with you, be prompt and you dine alone. For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, but has trouble enough of its own.

Reconditioned models are like borrowing your neighbor's pressure washer, but instead, you pay a discounted price to keep it.

Voltaire

Originality is nothing by judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.

Jean Chatzky

Unlike other loans, a reverse mortgage doesn't have to be repaid until the borrower moves out of the home or passes away.

Roscoe Bartlett

We can borrow money, but not time and energy,

Peter Orszag

Total borrowing has imploded. Private borrowing has collapsed. And, in effect, the Treasury Department is the last borrower left standing.

Patty Loveless

I recalled how a lot of my older siblings would go to a friend's house and borrow records to play and sometimes borrow a turntable because we didn't have a turntable in the house until I was 8, about the same time we had a TV.

Sarah Thompson

We had tried everything to get help, from the insurance companies to borrowing money, but when help came, it was by God's hands.

James Tate

We have a lot of help from federal and local law enforcement, some of whom have worked other Super Bowls, and are coming into town. We're borrowing their expertise.

While concerns about the impact of rising interest rates will be a frequent theme of discussion in the press and financial markets, homebuilders and realtors are confident that favorable demographics and an improved economy/job market should help, at least for a while, to compensate for the dampening effect of the upturn in borrowing costs on housing demand,