Levered Quotes

#1. No doubt, I had some kind of carefully designed pattern for living before my son came. Some strategy for defining myself. Whatever that pattern was, it is long gone. Levered out of the way by a tool so powerful no force on earth can resist it.

Mark Greene

#2. Rose shifted her shopping bag off her lap and with a grunt levered her ponderous body upright; she smiled broadly at me, and with a cheery "Ta Gert, ta girls," she waddled towards the exit while I eased my shoulders in relief from the confining pressure of her body. God, what a huge woman.

E.R. Braithwaite

#3. Why is it possible to rescue S&L buccaneers in the early '90s and provide guidance to levered Wall Street investment bankers during the 1998 long-term capital management crisis, yet throw 2 million homeowners to the wolves in 2007?

Bill Gross

#4. Once you start moving [market] lower, then you trigger of all sorts of things. You trigger people who have to sell because they're over-levered. So they sell their winners and their losers. They're just trying to raise cash. So, what you then get is spreading malaise throughout the global markets.

Mohamed El-Erian

#5. Jenks made a face as he levered himself up on the sill. Much as I enjoy this horrific outpouring of estrogen, I'm going to go say good-bye to my wife. Let me know when you're ready. I'll be in the garden - probably next to the stink weed.

Kim Harrison

#6. He levered himself upright and swung his legs out of bed, put both of his warm feet, into the strategically placed slippers, stood up, yawned, stretched and farted.

Keller Yeats

#7. With a grunt he levered himself to his feet, causing the chair to bang against the bookcase behind him and set the various objet d'bollocks rattling.

Ben Aaronovitch

#8. To finance longer life spans, we must convince individuals to start investing now for the long term. But longevity should be an asset that can be levered, not a curse. They must understand that there's a cost to sitting in cash. No one talks about that cost.

Laurence D. Fink

#9. I very carefully levered up an eyelid and shut it again fast. A merciless sunbeam had squirted straight in, making my brain bleed.

Kyril Bonfiglioli

#10. Whether you have sight or not, I see the future in your eyes. -Beth

J.R. Ward

#11. The question of whether or to what extent human activities are causing global warming is not a matter of ideology, let alone of belief. The issue is simply one of risk management.

Malcolm Turnbull

#12. Laugh with me, Love with me .. No beginning, No end

Carian Cole

#13. I've been lucky enough that I can gather all sorts of experiences and find inspiration by traveling around and by spending time with people I admire.

Bonnie Raitt

#14. The self is fundamentally an illusion arising as a reflection of the soul in matter, much as a clear lake at midnight reflects the moon.

Fred Alan Wolf

#15. Nothing is ever as it seems but sometimes it leads to a better outcome than you could possibly have dreamed.

Truth Devour

#16. Compassion is one of the highest states of consciousness that you can choose to assist you in times of enormous pain.

Debbie Ford

#17. Digital technology is the same revolution as adding sound to pictures and the same revolution as adding color to pictures. Nothing more and nothing less.

George Lucas

#18. Two young adventurers for hire. Willing to do anything, go anywhere. Pay must be good. No reasonable offer refused.

Agatha Christie

#19. I used to perform all the time but I haven't performed in New York in a very long time.

Cy Coleman