Walter Wriston Quotes

Capital goes where it is welcome and stays where it is well treated.

Walter Wriston

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• We treated all of the dead with dignity.

  

  Harry Anderson
  • Dead
  • Dignity
  • Treated

• Since philosophy now criticizes everything it comes across, a critique of philosophy would be nothing less than a just reprisal.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Philosophy
  • Nothing
  • Now

• In Australia I was seen as somebody who did only very modern, contemporary stuff. Then as soon as I went overseas I did two period pieces so it was like, 'When are you going to get out of the corsets?' And I was thinking I just got into them!

  

  Frances O'Connor
  • Thinking
  • Period
  • Modern

• Today you can start a blog, build an audience, and give the advertising slots to AdBrite or Google AdSense.

  

  Jason Calacanis
  • Today

• I never saw an actor and thought, 'Wow, I want to be like that.' It's just I wanted it to be part of my life.

  

  Marc-Andre Grondin
  • Life

• I could not lose unless I was caught in bed with a dead girl or a live boy.

  

  Edwin Edwards
  • Live
  • Girl
  • Boy

• It is entertainment; we mustn't forget that. Dance is entertainment. You can have the best technicians in the world, but they'll be boring to watch. It has to be about entertainment as well, but it's quality, grace.

  

  Darcey Bussell
  • World
  • Quality
  • Dance

• The one thing you have to do if you write a book is put yourself in someone else's shoes. The reader's shoes. You've got to entertain them.

  

  Mark Haddon
  • Book
  • Shoes

• It's not the extremes and the treats that are the problem. It's the everyday.

  

  Jamie Oliver
  • Everyday

• I'm not an actor that tends to care. I don't ask 'Is this a close up? Is this a master? Is this a wide? What are you doing? If I look up and notice the camera I go 'Oh, it's a big one today, must be an IMAX.' And that's kinda it for me because it doesn't affect what I'm doing.

  

  Christian Bale
  • Up
  • Today

• The fact that a crime might have been committed with impunity in the past may make it seem more familiar and less gruesome, but surely does not give it any greater legitimacy.

  

  Jonathan Kozol
  • May
  • Past

• The capital amassed in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries through various forms of slave economy is still in circulation, said De Jong, still bearing interest, increasing many times over and continually burgeoning anew.

  

  W. G. Sebald
  • Form
  • Various
  • Capital

• Capital goes to where it can escape taxation and be used to pay employees in sacks of rice.

  

  Walter Wriston
  • Pay
  • Escape
  • Employees

• How is it that I became a conservative from being a liberal? It's because I witnessed how liberals behaved to a conservative. They treated him poorly. Had I not seen that, I wouldn't have opened my eyes.

  

  Andrew Breitbart
  • Eyes
  • Eye
  • Conservative

• Illiquid asset purchases are all about capital and encouraging private capital to come in.

  

  Henry Paulson
  • Encouraging
  • Capital
  • Purchases

• There are a number of institutions globally where the Federal Reserve typically leads the U.S. effort to work with financial regulators from other countries, and we try to, to the extent possible, establish international standards for how - the amount of capital a bank should hold, for example, or how much.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Work
  • Effort
  • Financial

• Does capital punishment tend to the security of the people? By no means. It hardens the hearts of men, and makes the loss of life appear light to them; and it renders life insecure, inasmuch as the law holds out that property is of greater value than life.

  

  Elizabeth Fry
  • People
  • Life
  • Men

• May I examine my mind in all actions and as soon as a negative state occurs, since it endangers myself and others, may I firmly face and avert it.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Mind
  • May
  • Negative

• I'm a forgiver. I might not forget, but I forgive. My mother, father and older brother always told me: 'Don't hold grudges. If you do that, you don't lower yourself down to your adversary. Just treat people the way you want to be treated.' I honestly think that's why I was able to survive and have some success.

  

  Monford Merrill "Monte" Irvin
  • People
  • Father
  • Brother

• Although I went to college in the United States - Carleton in Northfield, Minnesota - I returned to the Middle East for a year in 1970-71 to study at the American University of Beirut.

  

  Kai Bird
  • American
  • College
  • Study

• Television remains an incredible tool when it comes to ensure the best promo, but one thing was always clear to me, I didn't want reality stars; I wanted stars.

  

  Kelly Rowland Destiny's Child
  • Reality
  • Stars
  • Television

• Art is the creation of forms symbolic of human feeling.

  

  Susanne Langer
  • Art
  • Feelings
  • Creation

• Bowing, ceremonious, formal compliments, stiff civilities, will never be politeness; that must be easy, natural, unstudied; and what will give this but a mind benevolent and attentive to exert that amiable disposition in trifles to all you converse and live with?

  

  William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham
  • Compliment
  • Disposition
  • Politeness

• Capital goes where it is welcome and stays where it is well treated.

  

  Walter Wriston
  • Treated
  • Capital
  • Stays