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.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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• Students graduating with high debt encounter difficulties in qualifying for home and automobile loans.

  

  Hank Johnson
  • Home
  • High
  • Students

• 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.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Money
  • Service
  • Debt

• 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.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Country
  • Control
  • Fighting

• Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Perfection
  • Grave
  • Dull

• The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Play
  • Imagination
  • Debt

• Ten million dollars after I'd become a star I was deeply in debt.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Star
  • Become
  • Debt

• Enough is enough. Enough of the waste. Enough of the spending. Enough of the debt. Enough of the arrogance in Washington, D.C.

  

  Dan Benishek
  • Enough
  • Debt
  • Arrogance

• What Enron was doing, what caused investors to embrace it in a rapture of baffled awe, was hiding debt.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Doing
  • Debt
  • Rapture

• Social Security is legally prohibited from contributing to the deficit. It cannot use debt to pay out benefits.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Security
  • Social
  • Debt

• We will do everything within our power to protect Floridians from unlawful debt collection practices that often employ scare tactics to manipulate individuals.

  

  Pam Bondi
  • Power
  • Will
  • Debt

• 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.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • Husband
  • Strength
  • Debt

• 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.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Compromise
  • Debt
  • Spending

• 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.

  

  Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair
  • Government
  • Debt
  • Banks

• 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.

  

  Fawn M. Brodie
  • Gold
  • Treasure
  • Debt

• 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.

  

  Arthur Rimbaud
  • Long
  • Suffering
  • Madness

• Today is like a reunion, ... I've met a lot of people at the grave itself through the years.

  

  Donald Davis
  • People
  • Today
  • Grave

• The new purchasers fully intend to pay the full debt ... and all the money owed on the property.

  

  John Young
  • Money
  • Pay
  • Debt

• 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.

  

  Peter Schiff
  • Giving
  • Debt
  • Buying

• I'm not fashionable.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Fashionable

• We live in a society that says "You Gotta get yours" and I'm not suggesting that you don't handle your business but I want to show people... Gandhi gave, Mother Theresa gave, Martin Luther King gave, Rosa Parks gave, Sojourner Truth gave, and these people had a rich life! They may have not had a Rolls Royce, Range Rover, or lived in the best neighborhoods but they changed history forever and they changed lives forever and that's what I aim to do.

  

  Eric Thomas
  • Business
  • History
  • Society

• Each individual has a responsibility to get out of bed, learn their ABCs, learn your math tables, not use race and racism as an excuse.

  

  Henry Louis Gates
  • Responsibility
  • Individual
  • Racism

• 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.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Debt
  • Grave
  • Poisons