Banque Royale Quotes

#1. Bulls don't read. Bears read financial history. As markets fall to bits, the bears dust off the Dutch tulip mania of 1637, the Banque Royale of 1719-20, the railway speculation of the 1840s, the great crash of 1929.

James Buchan

#2. The word 'home', it seemed, once learned, was a hard one to forget.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#3. It is man's social nature which distinguishes him from the brute creation. If it is his privilege to be independent, it is equally his duty to be inter-dependent. Only an arrogant man will claim to be independent of everybody else and be self-contained.

Mahatma Gandhi

#4. The child had wanted attention. She had just asked to be noticed. But she was given an assessment. 'What a clever girl!

Peter Hoeg

#5. True affection and love have a purity which shall always prevail over bigotry.

Libba Bray

#6. The credulity of crowds is never-ending.

Peter Ackroyd

#7. Bonuses balance my budget in New York City. The bigger the bonuses on Wall Street, the more money I had to spend on poor people. The New York City budget is determined greatly by the bonuses given on Wall Street.

Rudy Giuliani

#8. Good-morning to you, Clarissa!

Virginia Woolf

#9. I can rely on me [being a director], unlike some actors. I never got anything less than what I needed from the lead actor.

Russell Crowe

#10. When the longest- and shortest-lived of us dies their loss is precisely equal. For the sole thing of which any of us can be deprived is the present, since this is all we own, and nobody can lose what is not theirs.

Marcus Aurelius

#11. I am dismayed to realize that much of the advice I used to parcel out to aspiring writers has passed its sell-by date.

Susan Orlean

#12. The greatest service you can render someone else is helping him help himself.

Baltasar Gracian

#13. Men were made for war; designed to struggle and strive to protect and provide.

James MacDonald