#cia

The more that I know of politics, the more it makes me realize that being a politician is largely useless. ↗

— Sophia Bush

#i #know #largely #makes #me

A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#conduct #divinity #healing #his #influencing

People just kind of associate me with kicking some ass. ↗

— Yancy Butler

#associate #just #kicking #kind #me

There's a financial cost, but the only costs that are ever real are the costs of our soldiers. ↗

— Michael Ignatieff

#costs #ever #financial #only #our

I resent the implication that I'm less of a musician and a worse person for not appreciating certain works. ↗

— David Byrne

#certain #i #implication #less #musician

I think its important to keep an element of fear about yourself because it makes you appreciate the jobs. ↗

— Rose Byrne

#appreciate #because #element #fear #i

We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician. ↗

— Felix Frankfurter

#forget #lincoln #most #politician #professional

Housing associations have fingered the fact that they cannot use their assets as liquidity due to Bank of England rules unlike their continental equivalents. This has emerged to be one of the main bottlenecks to getting investment going in the U.K. It is a Bank of England issue. ↗

— Vince Cable

#associations #bank #cannot #continental #due

Investment banking has, in recent years, resembled a casino, and the massive scale of gambling losses has dragged down traditional business and retail lending activities as banks try to rebuild their balance sheets. This was one aspect of modern financial liberalisation that had dire consequences. ↗

— Vince Cable

#aspect #balance #balance sheets #banking #banks

Perhaps people, and kids especially, are spoiled today, because all the kids today have cars, it seems. When I was young you were lucky to have a bike. ↗

— James Cagney

#because #bike #cars #especially #i