Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes
Debt is to man what the serpent is to the bird; its eye fascinates, its breath poisons, its coil crushes sinew and bone, its jaw is the pitiless grave.
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Students graduating with high debt encounter difficulties in qualifying for home and automobile loans.
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Not raising the debt ceiling does not trigger a default, because we've got enough money to service our debts. Default is when you can't service your debt.
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It has been suggested that those of us who are fighting to defend liberty - fighting to turn around the out-of-control spending and out-of-control debt in this country, fighting to defend the Constitution, it has been suggested that we are wacko birds.
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Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.
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The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.
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Ten million dollars after I'd become a star I was deeply in debt.
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Enough is enough. Enough of the waste. Enough of the spending. Enough of the debt. Enough of the arrogance in Washington, D.C.
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What Enron was doing, what caused investors to embrace it in a rapture of baffled awe, was hiding debt.
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Social Security is legally prohibited from contributing to the deficit. It cannot use debt to pay out benefits.
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We will do everything within our power to protect Floridians from unlawful debt collection practices that often employ scare tactics to manipulate individuals.
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My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim.
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I am perfectly happy to compromise and work with anybody: Republicans, Democrats, Libertarians - I'll work with Martians if - and the if is critical - they're willing to cut spending and reduce the debt.
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One way to ease liquidity for banks is that the government can buy all highly rated securities held by the banks. Every single bank in the U.A.E. has some sovereign debts in their portfolios. I am not asking them to buy any junk bonds, rather the high quality U.A.E. government debt.
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There is, of course, a gold mine or a buried treasure on every mortgaged homestead. Whether the farmer ever digs for it or not, it is there, haunting his daydreams when the burden of debt is most unbearable.
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The poet makes himself a voyant through a long, immense reasoned deranging of all his senses. All the forms of love, of suffering, of madness; he tries to find himself, he exhausts in himself all the poisons, to keep only their quintessences.
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Today is like a reunion, ... I've met a lot of people at the grave itself through the years.
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The new purchasers fully intend to pay the full debt ... and all the money owed on the property.
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At some point, the dollar has to give. You can't just keep printing money, and monetizing debt, and buying bonds, without the dollar imploding.
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Everybody in Vanity Fair must have remarked how well those live who are comfortably and thoroughly in debt; how they deny themselves nothing; how jolly and easy they are in their minds.
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He that dies pays all debts.
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Drama can feel like therapy whereas comedy feels like there's been a pressure and a weight lifted off of you. You come to work and you laugh all day, you go home and you feel light and there's a certain feeling when you're sitting with the audience and they leave after 90 minutes and it's just pure escapism and they're happy.
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The time you wait subtracts the joy The heads the angel you destroy...
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Debt is to man what the serpent is to the bird; its eye fascinates, its breath poisons, its coil crushes sinew and bone, its jaw is the pitiless grave.
