Moira Johnston famous quotes

Being a [bank] director is like being a pilot of an aircraft - it's years of boredom and seconds of terror.
-- Moira Johnston

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Now, of my threescore years and ten, Twenty will not come again.

I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.

One of the penalties of being president of the United States is that you must subsist for four years without drinking anything except Californian wine.

I am shy to admit that I have followed the advice given all those years ago by a wise archbishop to a bewildered young man: that moments of unbelief 'don't matter,' that if you return to a practice of the faith, faith will return.

What strange impulse is it which induces otherwise truthful people to say they like music when they do not, and thus expose themselves to hours of boredom?

The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.

Something must happen; that is the reason for most human relationships. Something must happen; even servitude in love, in war, ordeath.

Among the largest banks, the capital ratios remain good and I don’t expect any serious problems . . . . among the large, internationally active banks that make up a very substantial part of our banking system.

Anything that benefits the public and not just big banking, that's what I'm with.

The increase in the assets of the Federal Reserve Banks from 143 Million dollars in 1913 to 45 Billion dollars in 1949 went directly to the private stockholders of the [Federal Reserve] banks.