Viande Quotes

#1. Given the extent of the exposures of major banks around the world to A.I.G., and in light of the extreme fragility of the system, there was a significant risk that A.I.G.'s failure could have sparked a global banking panic.

Ben Bernanke

#2. Before his Becoming, he would not have dared any of this. Now he realized he could do anything. Anything. Anything.

Thomas Harris

#3. A learned person among ignorant people, is like a live person among the dead.

Muhammad Jafar

#4. Expectations define achievement.

Debasish Mridha

#5. There is nothing new in Wall Street. There can't be because speculation is as old as the hills. Whatever happens in the stock market today has happened before and will happen again.

Jesse Lauriston Livermore

#6. Wrinkles of the future, cicatrices of the past, all the million marks recording a private life that no outsider could ever understand.

Michel Faber

#7. Poaching white fish in moderately hot oil guarantees soft-textured flesh and allows you to prepare a sauce calmly, without the usual panic about overcooking the fish.

Yotam Ottolenghi

#8. The laboratory routine, which involves a great deal of measurement, filing, and tabulation, is either my lifeline or my chief handicap, I hardly know which.

Charles Francis Richter

#9. So. Her husband-to-be was a philanderer. A smooth operator. A debaucher. A rake. A frisker. (Jane was something of a walking thesaurus when she was upset, a side effect of too much reading.)

Cynthia Hand

#10. In 2008, when the real estate market blew up, it principally hurt older people who saw the value of their houses go down, along with their pension plans.

Juan Williams

#11. People needed to believe in gods, if only because it was so hard to believe in people.

Terry Pratchett

#12. Girls marry for love. Boys marry because of a chronic irritation that causes them to gravitate in the direction of objects with certain curvilinear properties.

Ashley Montagu

#13. The man who is not a socialist at twenty has no heart, but if he is still a socialist at forty he has no head.

Aristide Briand

#14. I listen mostly to classical music.

Alexandra Fuller

#15. Everyone reads, everyone hears things discussed. Consequently, if you do not listen to Theology, that will not mean that you have no ideas about God. It will mean that you have a lot of wrong ones
bad, muddled, out-of-date ideas.

C.S. Lewis