Lucas Papademos Quotes

The ECB's interventions in sovereign bond markets should not be perceived or interpreted as a 'freebie' for governments. They are temporary.

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• How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.

  

  V. S. Pritchett
  • Most
  • Guilt
  • Extraordinary

• Desire then is the invasion of the whole self by the wish, which, as it invades, sets going more and more of the psychical processes; but at the same time, so long as it remains desire, does not succeed in getting possession of the self.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • Time
  • Long
  • Desire

• Since the end of the Cold War, metropolitan elites everywhere have identified progress and modernity with the cornucopia of global capitalism, the consolidation of liberal democratic regimes and the secular ethic of consumerism.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • War
  • Progress
  • End

• The song of the blues, the song of the music, was something a lot of people missed out on. They thought they had to swagger a certain way or bark at the mic, and you don't have to do that.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • People
  • Music
  • Song

• Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Believe
  • Why
  • Art

• I had to push exposition through dialogue, which is really, really hard for an actor do.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Actor
  • Hard
  • Push

• I want to work with my friends because Canadian genre publishing is a really small pool.

  

  Ed Greenwood
  • Work
  • Friends
  • Small

• If I hadn't turned out to be a filmmaker, I would have been a musician.

  

  Bahman Ghobadi
  • Would
  • Been
  • Filmmaker

• I write for a radio show that, no matter what, will go on the air Saturday at five o'clock central time. You learn to write toward that deadline, to let the adrenaline pick you up on Friday morning and carry you through, to cook up a monologue about Lake Wobegon and get to the theater on time.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Up
  • Time
  • Morning

• Women put guys through tests all the time.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Time
  • Women
  • Tests

• Longing is like the rosy dawn. After the dawn out comes the sun. Longing is followed by the vision of God.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • God
  • Vision
  • Sun

• My popularity has to do with the divorce between modern art, where everything is obscure, and the viewer who often feels he needs a professor to tell them whether it's good or not. I believe a painting has to talk directly to the viewer, with composition, color and design, without a professor to explain it.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Art

• I've never been in jeopardy, but being an actor is a pretty shady place to be because you never know where your next job is.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Job
  • Pretty
  • Know

• If I could have anyone on speed dial it would be George Clooney. He seems like a cool guy who would give good advice.

  

  Adam Garcia
  • Good
  • Guy
  • Cool

• Changing from the ghosts of faith to the spectres of reason is just changing cells.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Faith

• 'No!' shouted Arthur. 'What's wrong with you? They're people! You can't just kill hundreds or thousands of Piper's children because the Piper might... just might... make some of them do something!' 'Can't we?' asked Dame Primus. She sounded genuinely puzzled.

  

  Garth Nix
  • People
  • Children
  • She

• The Ball no question makes of Ayes and Noes, But Here or There as strikes the Player goes; And He that toss'd you down into the Field, He knows about it all - He knows - HE knows!

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Question
  • Player

• I am a very simple person. In spite of all that has happened to me, I have tried to remain the simple person I started out.

  

  Luciano Pavarotti
  • Simple

• We are pleased with the very positive reception our offer has received, and are confident that progress is being made towards establishing the regulatory framework for the offer.

  

  Lakshmi Mittal
  • Positive
  • Progress

• I am quite a cheerful, dark person. On the outside, I'm optimistic but I expect the worst to happen.

  

  Meg Rosoff
  • Dark
  • Optimistic

• Science doesn't deliver even that much "truth"; it delivers empirically adequate generalisations, and that is all we need.

  

  John Wilkins
  • Needs
  • Adequate
  • Generalisation

• The only thing one can usually change in one's situation is oneself. And yet one can't change that either-only ask Our Lord to do so.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Situation
  • Lord
  • Can't Change

• The ECB's interventions in sovereign bond markets should not be perceived or interpreted as a 'freebie' for governments. They are temporary.

  

  Lucas Papademos