Paul A. Volcker Quotes

Well, by the standards of a lot of countries, by Latin American standards, it wasn't so bad.

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• And although I've been very fortunate in the film work that's come my way, I need to get back to the stage. If I'm away for a maximum of two years, I feel something's wrong.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Work
  • Feel
  • Stage

• I have a song about being in love. I have a song about being supportive. There's inspiring ones, and there's some that show a little bit more fun and daring. It really is a range of who I am.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Fun
  • Song
  • Inspiring

• Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • May
  • Know
  • Same

• I think if you give in and accept society's stereotypes, then you start thinking, 'I cannot dance till late at night because I'm 70.'

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Thinking
  • Night
  • Society

• They say I am a regulator and I think it is just an effort not to comply with the decree. I do not do anything except what the decree requires me to do.

  

  Harold H. Greene
  • Effort
  • Decree
  • Regulator

• We have to reappropriate the concept of laicite (secularism) so we can explain to our young pupils that whatever their faith, they belong to this idea, and they're not excluded. Secularism is not something against them; it protects them.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Faith
  • Young
  • Explain

• I take my kids to school... I make them breakfast. Unfortunately, dad is a big spoiler, and most days, I make four different breakfasts.

  

  Carlos Ponce
  • Different
  • School
  • Kids

• In 2009, during my inaugural address, I expressed the importance of unprecedented partnerships. Since then, Utah's government, business, and education leaders in communities statewide have worked together more frequently and with better results than ever before.

  

  Gary Herbert
  • Business
  • Together
  • Education

• Boxing is one of the few sports that is one on one.

  

  Irwin Winkler
  • Sports
  • Boxing
  • Few

• There's such a fan base for 'Dark Shadows'. I remember watching the show as a kid, but I wasn't an ardent fan. I didn't run home from school to watch it.

  

  Jackie Earle Haley
  • School
  • Home
  • Remember

• I hate to repeat lines, to say the same damned thing. I try to rewrite cliches and make what I say sound fresh.

  

  Gary McCord
  • Hate
  • Same
  • Sound

• I travel regularly and have learnt to be very methodical as far as packing is concerned. For example, I always check the weather in advance of where I'm going to ensure that I've packed the right clothes.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Travel
  • Clothes
  • Weather

• I've got some gift for languages. You follow your gift. But Latin's not easy.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • You
  • Easy
  • Gift

• It is no surprise that companies do not often respond to moral pressure alone. We need to hit them hard in their pocketbook and on their balance sheet. We need to show them that their stock prices will be affected if their actions encourage Iran's nuclear weapons ambitions.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Alone
  • Moral
  • Balance

• In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Up
  • Europe
  • Improve

• No more turkey, but I'd like some more of the bread it ate.

  

  Hank Ketcham
  • Like
  • Bread
  • Turkey

• I turned sadness into an anthem for not letting anything or anyone slow you down.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Down
  • Sadness
  • Slow

• There are lots of things I'm acquainting myself with now to be a more well-rounded person.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Myself
  • Person
  • Now

• One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds.

  

  Aldo Leopold
  • World
  • Education
  • Alone

• If good music has charms to soothe the savage breast, bad music has no less powerful spells for filling the mildest breast with rage, the happiest with horror and disgust. Oh, those mammy songs, those love longings, those loud hilarities! How was it possible that human emotions intrinsically decent could be so ignobly parodied.

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • Good
  • Music
  • Bad

• Rising interest rates are considered bad for stocks because they raise the cost of doing business and depress corporate earnings and because higher yields make bonds relatively more attractive than stocks to investors.

  

  Alex Berenson
  • Business
  • Bad

• Do the bishops seriously imagine that legalising gay marriage will result in thousands of parties to heterosexual marriages suddenly deciding to get divorced so they can marry a person of the same sex?

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Marriage
  • Sex
  • Gay

• I have faith in the universe, for it is rational. Law underlies each happening. And I have faith in my purpose here on earth. I have faith in my intuition, the language of my conscience, but I have no faith in speculation about Heaven and Hell. I'm concerned with this time-here and now.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Earth
  • Faith
  • Universe

• Well, by the standards of a lot of countries, by Latin American standards, it wasn't so bad.

  

  Paul A. Volcker
  • American
  • Bad
  • Latin