#ma

Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few; but if he has only one enemy, he is lucky indeed if he has not one too many. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#few #friends #his #indeed #life

The maxim, that governments ought to train the people in the way in which they should go, sounds well. But is there any reason for believing that a government is more likely to lead the people in the right way than the people to fall into the right way of themselves? ↗

— Thomas Babington Macaulay

#believing #fall #go #government #governments

I don't think silicone makes a girl good or bad. ↗

— James Caan

#girl #good #i #makes #think

What I do quite honestly and seriously and not in any way being humble is not as important as what the garbage collector does. People make actors important. ↗

— James Caan

#being #collector #does #garbage #honestly

The banalities of a great man pass for wit. ↗

— Alexander Chase

#great man #man #man pass #pass #wit

I want to create a little chaos and make people's heads turn. ↗

— Scott Caan

#create #heads #i #little #make

People marry for a variety of reasons and with varying results. But to marry for love is to invite inevitable tragedy. ↗

— James Branch Cabell

#invite #love #love is #marry #people

Britain is no longer one of the world's price setters. It is painful. It is a challenge to us in government to explain all that, and it is a pity that the political class is not preparing the public for it to understand how massive the problem is. ↗

— Vince Cable

#challenge #class #explain #government #how

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