Ious Quotes

#1. The truth is France has been the chief Western advocate of normalizing relations with Iraq - one of its largest trading partners - for years, partly because France holds billions in IOUs from Iraq that wouldn't be redeemable by a new regime.

Jonah Goldberg

#2. The debt ceiling at some point has to be raised. I don't think there's anybody that questions the fact that if we ended up getting in a situation where the U.S. government was sending out IOUs like the state of California did at one point, that ends up creating quite a brand problem for our country.

Bob Corker

#3. Half-truths are the devil's IOUs.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

#4. Look at the history of literature, and you find the history of beauty on the one hand and the IOUs on the other.

Richard Flanagan

#5. Governments steal from citizens through taxes and through the subterfuge of monetizing their own IOUs.

John Pugsley

#6. Spending when the math's not there and the numbers aren't there and if they look in the social security trust fund, it's filled with IOUs because the government's been pilfering it for years on end. We have to do something. We have to start having this discussion.

Ben Quayle

#7. Perhaps the truth is that heavy literature blooms in extremes of temperature.

Roy Blount Jr.

#8. The challenge is to keep learning and creating higher-order solutions rather than merely repeating the failed journeys of the past.

Kevan Hall

#9. Tis all a Chequer-board of nights and days
Where Destiny with men for Pieces plays:
Hither and thither moves, and mates,and slays,
And one by one back in the closet lays.

Omar Khayyam

#10. The aim is not to give human beings real goals that warrant belief, and tasks to share in, but to re-establish "belonging," although this kind of speech and thought is precisely calculated to avoid contact and so makes belonging impossible.

Paul Goodman

#11. Do not imagine that art or anything else is other than high magic! - is a system of holy hieroglyph. The artist, the initiate, thus frames his mysteries. The rest of the world scoff, or seek to understand, or pretend to understand; some few obtain the truth.

Aleister Crowley

#12. Have you ever analyzed things to the degree where you can't really remember the difference between what's real and what you've created in your head?

Edie Sedgwick

#13. If you are seizing on a new business opportunity, deliberately move your customers' expectations up a few notches and consistently over-deliver on your promises - you will leave your competitors struggling to catch up.

Richard Branson

#14. Knowledge that takes you, not beyond yourself is far worse than ignorance.

Elif Safak

#15. Russian Parliament today is a bunch of puppets that just fall in with the instructions from Kremlin.

Garry Kasparov

#16. What a sad business is being funny!

Charlie Chaplin