#lending

Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor. ↗

— John Ruskin

#fortunes #founded #labor #land #large

International lending banks need to focus on areas where private investment doesn't go, such as infrastructure projects, education and poverty relief. ↗

— Joseph Stiglitz

#banks #education #focus #go #infrastructure

The Small Business Lending Fund was cleverly named by its authors last Congress. Since its implementation, however, it would appear a more appropriate name would be the Bailed Out Bank Refinancing Fund. ↗

— Ed Royce

#appropriate #authors #bailed #bank #business

But miracles are not for the asking; they come only when the stern eyes of God droop shut for a moment, and Our Lady takes advantage of His inattention to grant an illicit mercy. God...is an Anglican, whereas Our Lady is of the True Faith; the two of Them have an uneasy relationship, unable to agree on anything, except that if They divorce, the Devil will leap gleefully into the breach. ↗

— Michel Faber

#faith #marriage #miracles #religion #faith

I get paid to do the thing I love most, and maybe that makes blending into the crowd impossible sometimes, but I wouldn't trade it for the world. ↗

— Anna Paquin

#crowd #get #i #i love #impossible

It is conventional to call "monster" any blending of dissonant elements. I call "monster" every original inexhaustible beauty. ↗

— Alfred Jarry

#beauty #blending #call #conventional #elements

The banks are not lending, at least from what I see. They were so wild and reckless back in the good times that they got burned terribly. ↗

— Ben Stein

#banks #burned #good #good times #got

One of the biggest problems out there that I hear from my friends in the business community is that there's no lending, that it's tough to get a loan today. ↗

— Alexi Giannoulias

#biggest problems #business #business community #community #friends

There's another way we are getting behind business - by sorting out the banks. Taxpayers bailed you out. Now it's time for you to repay the favour and start lending to Britain's small businesses. ↗

— David Cameron

#another way #bailed #banks #behind #britain

I could have just received royalty checks every month by lending my name to a collection, but I didn't want to do that. My name is a reflection of me. ↗

— Nicky Hilton

#collection #could #every #i #just