Moneylenders Quotes

#1. We can borrow from the moneylenders in York.'
'We burned York two winters ago,' Drogo pointed out.

Robert Lyndon

#2. Who are the moneylenders? They are those who were driven out of the Temple by Christ Himself 2000 years ago. They are those who never work but live on fraud.

Julius Streicher

#3. There was also something false about the atmosphere here. It was solemn and dignified like a church or the court of a president or a museum. They were moneylenders, but they acted as if charging interest were a noble calling, like the priesthood.

Ken Follett

#4. Armaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence - those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. If war, waste, and moneylenders were abolished, you'd collapse. And while you people are overconsuming the rest of the world sinks more and more deeply into chronic disaster.

Aldous Huxley

#5. The poor don't live in functional market economies as the rest of us do, but in political economies where corruption and broken systems extend from local government to moneylenders.

Jacqueline Novogratz

#6. I wanted to give money to people like this woman so that they would be free from the moneylenders to sell their product at the price which the markets gave them - which was much higher than what the trader was giving them.

Muhammad Yunus

#7. Though here's a tip, though. Just 'ho, ho, ho' will do. Don't say, 'Cower, brief mortals' unless you want them to grow up to be moneylenders or some such.

Terry Pratchett

#8. I'm Jewish, I can say it. We're storytellers. We were the moneylenders ... Therefore we tell great tales to get what we need. I love Jewish men. They make the best husbands.

Patti Stanger

#9. May be she'll learn something about what death really is, which is where the pain stops and the good memories begin. Not the end of life but the end of pain.

Stephen King

#10. Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.

Nelson Mandela

#11. If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.

Emile Zola

#12. AWE coordinated with a number of attendees who couldn't make the trek out to Santa Clara to give them time on a Beam, letting them tool around the show floor, chatting with vendors and goofing around with irl attendees.

Anonymous

#13. There is a new Barbie doll on the market. It's called Marie Antoinette Barbie with removable head; guillotine included!

Various

#14. Timing and arrogance are decisive factors in the successful use of talent.

Marya Mannes

#15. I believe that when you think of the negative, and you get up discouraged - 'There's nothing good in my future' - I really believe it almost ties the hands of God. God works where there's an attitude of faith. I believe faith is all about hope.

Joel Osteen

#16. Panic is our great enemy.

Melody Beattie

#17. Every closed door isn't locked and even if it is ... YOU just might have the key! Search within to unlock a world of possibilities!

Sanjo Jendayi

#18. This seems charmingly paradoxical: scientists seek one truth but often voice many opinions; journalists often speak of many truths while voicing a uniform view.

Christopher Essex

#19. Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.

Andrea Dworkin

#20. Look, it's my misery that I have to paint this kind of painting, it's your misery that you have to love it, and the price of the misery is thirteen hundred and fifty dollars.

Mark Rothko

#21. Whether you want to entertain or to provoke, to break hearts or reassure them, what you bring to your writing must consist of your longings and disappointments.

Rafael Yglesias