Mervyn King Quotes

#1. We must show our Christian colors if we are to be true to Jesus Christ.

C.S. Lewis

#2. I will not allow a Delia Smith cookbook in my house! It's all so precise with Delia, and it makes cooking seem so inaccessible.

Theresa May

#3. The underlying intellectual argument for seeking to tax economic rents retains its force.

Mervyn King

#4. To set aside one's prejudices, one's present needs, and one's own self interest in making a decision as a director for a company is an intellectual exercise that takes constant practice. In short, intellectual honesty is a journey and not a destination.

Mervyn King

#5. It is often in the audacity, in the steadfastness, of the general that the safety and the conservation of his men is found.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#6. Bruce always had to tell a lie. He was always living that lie. Caitlyn doesn't have any secrets.

Caitlyn Jenner

#7. Banks have come to realize in the recent crisis that they are paying the price for having designed compensation packages which provide incentives that are not, in the long run, in the interests of the banks themselves, and I would like to think that would change.

Mervyn King

#8. When I try to get clever I fail, so I stick with the basic issues of human life on earth - sex, death, relationships, discovering who you are, being hurt and confused.

Barbara Ess

#9. There's quite a difference between skirting the rules and putting musket balls through them.

Suzanne Enoch

#10. One's 'life' is 'fractured'; he does not even know what he is living for. What is the essence of the human life? It is that one can attain whatever life form one wants, or he can attain ultimate liberation (moksha) if he wants moksha.

Dada Bhagwan

#11. Of all the many ways of organising banking, the worst is the one we have today.

Mervyn King

#12. Although it wasn't in the Ten Commandments, I'm pretty sure, "Thou shalt not sext in the house of God," was pretty high up there on the list of no-nos.

Katie Ashley

#13. When banks extend loans to their customers, they create money by crediting their customers' accounts.

Mervyn King

#14. Global market forces will sort out those companies that do not have sound corporate governance.

Mervyn King

#15. In the euro area the fight for survival has become a battle between politicians and arithmetic.

Mervyn King

#16. Ronnie snarled and Brendon roared back.
Her eyes narrowed. "You roared at me?"
"And I'll do it again if you can't keep your paws off my Oreos.

Shelly Laurenston