Walter Scott Quotes

If you keep a thing seven years, you are sure to find a use for it.

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• The Central Bank should have a permanent window for discounting high quality securities where banks could go and discount these. It gives peace of mind to the banks. In the absence of this facility, what banks tend to do is to keep a liquidity cushion for emergency requirements. This is a very expensive way of managing liquidity.

  

  Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair
  • Mind
  • High
  • Peace

• It is true that when there's a drone attack, those - that the - the terrorists are killed, it's true. But 500 and 5,000 more people rises against it, and more terrorism occurs, and more - more bomb blasts occurs.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • People
  • True
  • Terrorism

• There was this cereal, and it had a special promotion with a CD inside the box that had a really simple music-making program on it. I got it, and that opened my mind to being able to make music on a computer and seeing all the different layers.

  

  Flume
  • Music
  • Different
  • Mind

• There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Heart
  • Something
  • Humility

• I'd never been published when I was young.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Never
  • Young
  • Published

• I can't imagine being mayor and not having had the experience working for President Clinton or President Obama, or, for that matter, working in Congress. On the other hand, I think I would have been a better adviser had I been mayor first. If I had had this job first, I could have seen the implications of things I was doing.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Job
  • Experience
  • Hand

• My first Olympics was Munich in 1972. I am better now than I was then, in knowledge and experience. The age of top riders generally tends to be older than in other sports because it takes a lot of time to be consistent.

  

  Ian Millar
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Age

• If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.

  

  Haim Ginott
  • Children
  • Want
  • You

• I've not sat with my agent going: 'Where is the next hopeless girl I can play?' They just come along.

  

  Laura Carmichael
  • Girl
  • I Can
  • Hopeless

• We run around so much - with the best intentions: I want to save the rain forest. I've gotta clean up the oceans. I've gotta save the dolphins. All worthy efforts, but if you're not centered and you don't have the serenity in your life you need to accomplish that task, you're not going to do a very good job.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• There is no myth relative to the manners and customs of the English that in my experience is more tenaciously held by the ordinary Frenchman than that the sale of a wife in the market-place is an habitual and an accepted fact in English life.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Wife

• I feel what a spouse can do for you, no child or parent can. Just that if you get the right connect with your spouse, you get it going right.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Feel
  • Child
  • Parent

• Does 'Shooting Fish' have less artistic merit than a play like 'Angels In America,' which I did? Well, probably. But it's good for something.

  

  Dan Futterman
  • Good
  • America
  • Fish

• Panic is a horrible thing.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Thing
  • Horrible
  • Panic

• On many accounts, Cornwall may be regarded as one of the most interesting counties of England, whether we regard it for its coast scenery, its products, or its antiquities.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • May
  • Interesting
  • Scenery

• It seems like the good things that have happened in my career are things that you don't try to plan and push, and make it happen, it just seems to happen.

  

  Wanda Jackson
  • Good
  • Career
  • Plan

• I wash my face day and night. I actually really love Dr. Lancer face wash, and I also love Neutrogena.

  

  Olivia Culpo
  • Love
  • Night
  • Day

• God and death kind of resemble each other, because the only time a lot of people will try and talk to God is when someone's died.

  

  Rachel Hunter
  • People
  • Time
  • God

• To do a studio film, something with Disney. My father is thrilled.

  

  Sam Riley
  • Father
  • Film
  • Something

• Lovers find secret places inside this violent world where they make transactions with beauty.

  

  Rumi
  • Beauty
  • Find
  • Lovers

• After the first proof of 'Sphere Spirals' my high expectations were, as always, greatly disappointed. I am now struggling on - with some feeling of despair - so that I at least achieve a passable result.

  

  M. C. Escher
  • High
  • Feeling

• If you keep a thing seven years, you are sure to find a use for it.

  

  Walter Scott
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