Contractionary Quotes

#1. Fractional reserve banks are sitting ducks and are always subject to contraction. When the banks' state of inherent bankruptcy is discovered, for example, people will tend to cash in their deposits, and the contractionary, deflationary pressure could be severe.

Murray Rothbard

#2. You're my change of skin / my summer-winter-fall / I spring to follow you / this loss is beautiful.

Maggie Stiefvater

#3. I need the applause.

Jerry Lewis

#4. Life is a glass of wine and having your feet washed - it's a biblical event, might I add. This is part of mankind's story. You are always looking for a moment to take a break.

Mick Fleetwood

#5. Long experience has taught me that in England nobody goes to the theatre unless he or she has bronchitis.

James Agate

#6. If the mortality rate seems high we must realize that Nature is a ruthless teacher. There are no second chances in Mother Nature's Survival Course.

William S. Burroughs

#7. I don't think the schools are getting as much money as they should.

Matt Gonzalez

#8. Avery's tone was grand and high-pitched." And, since I've been hanging out with you, Dad's decided I'm on good behavior now."
"Poor oblivious bastard," murmured Christian.

Richelle Mead

#9. What had he been Thinking? If a fella was looking for love, I was the wrong road to go down. I was the road, in fact, that was crawling with barbed wire and bears and dynamite, marked with huge signs that said THERE IS NOTHING FOR YOU HERE.

Joshilyn Jackson

#10. That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world, both blessed and cursed with instant communication? We should not fight fire with fire, threats with threats.

Timothy Garton Ash

#11. Weaver always says freedom is like Sloan's Liniment, always promising more than it delivers.

Jennifer Donnelly

#12. Mind your own business, you goddamn raisin with legs! Taran screamed from inside the house.

Cecy Robson

#13. Great Britain is not part of the euro-zone; but the decision we take will have great importance for Great Britain.

Francois Fillon

#14. We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.

Simone Weil

#15. I should very much like to remain in the darkness of not having been analyzed.

Albert Einstein

#16. To be or not to be; ay, there's the point',

William Shakespeare