Loan Shark Quotes

#1. Lenders, including major credit companies as well as payday lenders, have taken over the traditional role of the street-corner loan shark, charging the poor insanely high rates of interest.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#2. Looks like a hit on a local loan shark," I say. "A guy by the name of Octavio

J. Mark Bertrand

#3. Love's pure free joy when it works, but when it goes bad you pay for the good hours at loan-shark prices.

David Mitchell

#4. The computer revolution has allowed white-collar criminals to do what the Mob would have loved to do - put a pawnshop and a loan shark in every home!

Kurt Vonnegut

#5. After the Versailles treaty, the U.S. could have chosen to become a global economic loan shark, but we didn't, and let a lot of the tab slide. So not all lending and borrowing is bad.

Louis Navellier

#6. Life is little more than a loan shark: It exacts a very high rate of interest for the few pleasures it concedes

Luigi Pirandello

#7. We developed microfinance to fight loan sharks - I was telling people don't go to loan sharks - not trying to take advantage and make money for myself. I would be a junior loan shark if I did ... It is not a panacea.

Muhammad Yunus

#8. I understand that love and tragedy go hand in hand, for there can't be one without the other, but nonetheless I find myself wondering whether the trade-off is fair.

Nicholas Sparks

#9. Give a girl a boyfriend and she becomes a total expert on relationships

Cecily Von Ziegesar

#10. There are 350 varieties of shark, not counting loan and pool.

L. M. Boyd

#11. You have to live with yourself rest of your life, so like yourself and love yourself, do only those things that will help the humanity and you could be proud of.

Debasish Mridha

#12. Cycles of shortage and surplus characterize the entire history of oil.

Daniel Yergin

#13. It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so,it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that gaurds the door,and this dragon is religion

Bertrand Russell

#14. When journalists and politicians speak of a dwindling middle class that's under economic assault and a poor community that's getting bigger, they're talking about Ferguson. Independent of the racial demographics and dynamics of Ferguson, Missouri, there's a 'Ferguson' near you.

Jesse Jackson

#15. Many waters cannot quench love, Nor will rivers overflow it. Song of Solomon 8: 7.

Tiffany Reisz

#16. What a beautiful future it will be! Don't worry about life being boring. It will never be.

Yoko Ono

#17. The only way two ever live more cheaply than one is if one of them gives up what he or she wants.

Meg O'Brien