#tempting

It is no wonder that bank capital is regulated. When borrowing and lending is profitable, it is tempting for banks to scale up their operations and to borrow and lend too much in relation to their capital, in effect reducing the effectiveness of the potential capital cushion. ↗

— Evan Davis

#banks #borrow #borrowing #capital #cushion

As millions of Americans look for work, the Obama campaign and Democrats are attempting to distract attention away from this administration's dismal record. The attack they have launched against Mitt Romney shows just how worried they are about facing him in the general election. ↗

— Jeb Bradley

#administration #against #attack #attempting #attention

Attempting to get at truth means rejecting stereotypes and cliches. ↗

— Harold Evans

#cliches #get #means #rejecting #stereotypes

Everything that I'm attempting to do is based on my understanding of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and what he wanted for his people. ↗

— Louis Farrakhan

#based #elijah #everything #his #honorable

It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world. ↗

— William Cobbett

#leap #misery #much #produced #reach

It was a Friday night, she was at a club, and a good-looking man was currently giving her the I-want-to-take-you-home-and-I-hope-I-last-longer-than-five-minutes look… and she was thinking about pie, a young adult book, and feeding her cat. She was so turning into the cat lady at twenty-seven. Sweet. ↗

— J. Lynn

#jennifer-l-armentrout #tempting-the-player #young-adult

Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good. ↗

— Calvin Coolidge

#developing #evil #good #great #great hope

Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of surrealism something as solid, complete and classic as the works of museums. ↗

— Salvador Dali

#classic #complete #instead #make #museums

I don't want to be a silly temptress. I cannot see any sense in getting dressed up and doing nothing but tempting men in pictures. ↗

— Greta Garbo

#cannot #doing #dressed #getting #getting dressed

It is strange to reflect how much energy is thrown away in attempting to know the unknowable. ↗

— Joseph Barber Lightfoot

#away #energy #how #know #much