Barcap Quotes

#1. My obligation is to the owners of Barclays, my shareholders. They hired me. People who criticise compensation for individuals in isolation at, say, BarCap, individuals who don't work in the U.K. and are competing with U.S., German or Asian banks, they should look at all these factors.

Bob Diamond

#2. To have everything and feel nothing was the worst kind of selfishness.

Jamie McGuire

#3. Fear tends to manifest itself much more quickly than greed, so volatile markets tend to be on the downside. In up markets, volatility tends to gradually decline.

Philip Roth

#4. We are equal partners. You don't get to stand around and mean well. Get off your butt and do exactly what we tell you.

Khalid Muhammad

#5. I'm sorry, Laila says, marveling at how every Afghan story is marked by death and loss and unimaginable grief. And yet, she sees, people find a way to survive, to go on.

Khaled Hosseini

#6. The Americans view the democratization of the Middle East as the route to peace.

Gilles Kepel

#7. I've always joked about Joe Montana not appreciating his Super Bowls nearly as much as I do because he never lost one. We lost three before we got one.

John Elway

#8. President Obama understands that, as a nation founded by those who fled religious persecution, freedom of religion is central to who we are as Americans. Our rights are not given to us by government, they are endowed by our Creator.

Denis McDonough

#9. There is a higher law than the Constitution.

William H. Seward

#10. Today, among little girls especially, princesses and the romanticised ideal they represent - finding the man of your dreams - have a limited shelf life.

John Lasseter

#11. The more years you put behind you, hopefully making music that surpasses what you did before, you're playing bigger places and it kind of weirdly becomes a business.

Mark Lanegan