Saint Stephen famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • There are bullfighters who do it just for the money-they are worthless [said Hemingway]. The only one who matters is the bullfighter who feels it, so that if he did it for nothing, he would do it just as well. Same holds true for damn near everyone.

  • When all else fails, complicate matters

  • I love love stories, no matter how dark.

  • No matter what an architect may be at home, he becomes a monumentalist when he comes to Washington.

  • In an economy that already has lost some momentum, one must remain alert to the possibility that greater caution and weakening asset values in financial markets could signal or precipitate an excessive softening in household and business spending.

  • History demonstrates that participants in financial markets are susceptible to waves of optimism. Excessive optimism shows the seeds of its own reversal in the form of imbalances that tend to grow over time.

  • Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.

  • Importantly, in the 1930s, in the Great Depression, the Federal Reserve, despite its mandate, was quite passive and, as a result, financial crisis became very severe, lasted essentially from 1929 to 1933.

  • The finance enchains with golden bonds states and peoples, the economy becomes nomadic, the life uprooted.

  • The more anxious, isolated and time-deprived we are, the more likely we are to turn to paid personal services. To finance these extra services, we work longer hours. This leaves less time to spend with family, friends and neighbors; we become less likely to call on them for help, and they on us.