#taken

Lenders, including major credit companies as well as payday lenders, have taken over the traditional role of the street-corner loan shark, charging the poor insanely high rates of interest. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#companies #credit #high #including #insanely

Yet food is something that is taken for granted by most world leaders despite the fact that more than half of the population of the world is hungry. ↗

— Norman Borlaug

#fact #food #granted #half #hungry

I don't feel like singing should be taken lightly. It's one of the hardest things I've ever done, but it's coming along. ↗

— Wes Borland

#coming #done #ever #feel #hardest

I'm terrified of bugs and I travel with sprays, lotions, potions; the lot. I have to check the room before I go to sleep and if I come across a bug and fail to remove it I have to sleep in a separate room as I'm paranoid that I'll be taken advantage of as I sleep. ↗

— Freema Agyeman

#advantage #before #bug #bugs #check

I hope this view of the question may be a mistaken one, because it does not seem to me very unlikely that the suffrage will be granted to women. ↗

— John Bright

#does #granted #hope #i #may

People like Arvo Part would not have been taken seriously 20 years ago. ↗

— Gavin Bryars

#been #like #part #people #seriously

We've taken on the major health problems of the poorest - tuberculosis, maternal mortality, AIDS, malaria - in four countries. We've scored some victories in the sense that we've cured or treated thousands and changed the discourse about what is possible. ↗

— Paul Farmer

#aids #changed #countries #cured #discourse

This program that the Republican majority has taken us toward as a country is leading us to fiscal bankruptcy. ↗

— Chaka Fattah

#country #fiscal #leading #majority #program

I've known those pieces ever since I was about 16 or 17; I also at that time was taken to meet Charles Ives whom I got to know fairly well. He was the one who wrote a recommendation for me to get into college. ↗

— Elliott Carter

#also #charles #college #ever #fairly

I enjoy those small chats you have when people come up and talk to you about your work. It only involves a few seconds of effort to be nice to those people, and I am very grateful for the kind words that people have taken the trouble to express to me in person. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#am #be nice #come #effort #enjoy