Mrs Banks Quotes

#1. Faith is belief without reason; we operate on reason and nothing but. I have zero faith in my crew, just absolute confidence.

Iain M. Banks

#2. The banking business is no favorite of ours. When assets are twenty times equity - a common ratio in this industry - mistakes that involve only a small portion of assets can destroy a major portion of equity. And mistakes have been the rule rather than the exception at many major banks.

Warren Buffett

#3. That's not true. You've given me something very precious indeed. Your trust, Eve. And I know what
that cost you ... A woman's trust is the most priceless gift she can give a man. Her belief in his ability to keep her safe and protect her from all harm.

Maya Banks

#4. When you broaden the little box that you've been living in for so long, it can be very uncomfortable at first.

Banks

#5. Wall Street banks have the right to express their views to lawmakers and regulators through lobbying, but the law is clear: If they want to influence lawmakers, they must disclose their lobbying expenditures.

Elizabeth Warren

#6. I'm not a fan of plastic surgery. Oh, and I've never had a wax in my life. Waxing makes no sense to me because you have to grow it out to wax it.

Elizabeth Banks

#7. I'm not a great believer in awards-of course the fact that I've never won one has nothing to do with it at all!

Iain Banks

#8. Some big banks remain wary of venture capital.

Alex Berenson

#9. The Taj Mahal rises above the banks of the river like a solitary tear suspended on the cheek of time.

Rabindranath Tagore

#10. With weak balance sheets, banks tend to continue lending unprofitable businesses and leave them existing.

Toshihiko Fukui

#11. People were always sorry. Sorry they had done what they had done, sorry they were doing what they were doing, sorry they were going to do what they were going to do; but they still did whatever it is. The sorrow never stopped them; it just made them feel better. And so the sorrow never stopped.

Iain Banks

#12. Don't ask questions you don't want the answer, Micah.

Maya Banks

#13. I'm an only child so am happy with my own company and I don't really get lonely.

Iain Banks

#14. Why is it so easy to save the banks - but so hard to save the biosphere?

George Monbiot

#15. So it was settled, and that was how the Banks family came to live at Number Seventeen, with Mrs. Brill to cook for them,

P.L. Travers

#16. There's nothing wrong with your daughter, Mrs. McIntosh. I said we're not sleeping together. I didn't say I didn't want to.

Anna Banks

#17. And although we adore men individually, we agree that as a group they're rather stupid.

Richard M. Sherman

#18. Today what we are doing is modernizing the financial services industry, tearing down those antiquated laws and granting banks significant new authority.

William J. Clinton

#19. He kissed her as though he were starved for her. Like he'd been held away from her and had finally broken free. It was the kind of kiss that lived only in her fantasies. No one had ever made her feel so..consumed.

Maya Banks

#20. Poverty is on the increase - due to welfare cuts - and demand for food banks has rocketed.

Nicola Sturgeon

#21. As an actor myself, the opportunity to sing and dance and be dramatic and be funny - it's really irresistible to actors. You get to show all sides of your talent.

Elizabeth Banks

#22. People always ask me if I'm going to stop modeling because I have started an acting career. I hope to continue to model for years to come.

Tyra Banks

#23. When I was a model, they called me 'Tyra;' now it's 'Ms. Banks.'

Tyra Banks

#24. Boards of directors are allowed to work together, so are banks and investors and corporations in alliances with one another and with powerful states. That's just fine. It's just the poor who aren't supposed to cooperate.

Noam Chomsky

#25. If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life you become smarter while you are writing than while you are hanging out with your pals or in any other line of work.

Russell Banks

#26. That save from Pele's header was the best I ever made. I didn't have any idea how famous it would become - to start with, I didn't even realise I'd made it at all.

Gordon Banks

#27. The arrogant man probably thought his path to heaven was already assured, and that he acted in accordance to God's will just by breathing.

Maya Banks

#28. Banks are there to support businesses that have justifiable needs.

Vijay Mallya

#29. O, how glorious would it be to set my heel upon the Pole and turn myself 360 degrees in a second!

Joseph Banks

#30. My gratitude extends beyond the limits of my capacity to express it,

Iain Banks

#31. Girlfriends' code. What's discussed with girlfriends stays with girlfriends.

Maya Banks

#32. I'll never let you fall, baby.

Maya Banks

#33. I love daytime television.

Tyra Banks

#34. You're my dream, Alaric McCabe. And I love you. I've loved you from the moment your horse dumped you at my cottage. I spent so much time being resentful and lamenting the circumstances of my life, but 'tis true that I wouldn't change a single thing because then I would have never known your love.

Maya Banks

#35. History is not just a tale of men's making, but is a thing tied to the land. We call a hill by the name of a hero who died there, or name a river after a princess who fled beside its banks, and when the old names vanish, the stories go with them and the new names carry no reminder of the past.

Bernard Cornwell

#36. At the heart of banking is a suicidal strategy. Banks take money from the public or each other on call, skim it for their own reward and then lock the rest up in volatile, insecure and illiquid loans that at times they cannot redeem without public aid.

James Buchan