#rates

There was a single blue line of crayon drawn across every wall in the house. What does it mean? I asked. A pirate needs the sight of the sea, he said and then he pulled his eye patch down and turned and sailed away. ↗

— Brian Andreas

#pirates #sea #imagination

God takes away the minds of poets, and uses them as his ministers, as he also uses diviners and holy prophets, in order that we who hear them may know them to be speaking not of themselves who utter these priceless words in a state of unconsciousness, but that God himself is the speaker, and that through them he is conversing with us. ↗

— Socrates

#inspiration #poet #prophet #socrates #inspirational

It was strange watching somebody sleep. It felt intrusive, as if you had caught them at their most defenseless. And as you watched them, motionless, you couldn't help but wonder -if only for a moment- whether they had died, and watch furiously for signs of life ↗

— Justin Somper

#life

Three,' reckoned the captain, 'ourselves make seven, counting Hawkins, here. Now, about honest hands?' Most likely Trelawney's own men," said the doctor; 'those he had picked up for himself, before he lit on Silver.' Nay,' replied the squire. 'Hands was one of mine.' I did think I could have trusted Hands,' added the captain. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#humour #pirates #pun #wit #wordplay

The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary. ↗

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#carbohydrates #diabesity #dr-hyman #dr-robert-lustig #labor

Our rate moves will have an impact on the economy in 2013. Whether we raise or lower rates depends on how the economic situation develops. ↗

— Marek Belka

#develops #economic #economic situation #economy #how

The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#conscious #difference #great #immeasurably #jesus

Increasingly, the real estate developers can't get bank loans for their project financing in China. They're now going into the Hong Kong market to raise money in the bond market at very, very high rates, as high as 15, 20 percent. ↗

— James Chanos

#bond #china #developers #estate #financing

The ear disapproves but tolerates certain musical pieces; transfer them into the domain of our nose, and we will be forced to flee. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#domain #ear #flee #forced #into

Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair. ↗

— William Cowper

#death #despair #frustrates #hope #love