Credit Quotes - Page 10

• Individual investors have become far more powerful than anyone gives them credit for. Today, 85 million Americans invest in stocks. Collectively, that kind of buying and selling power can move markets.

  Maria Bartiromo

  Powerful, Moving, Giving

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• Taxi Driver' is a movie that changed my life and made me a serious actor. Scorsese and De Niro. I give credit for anything that I've ever done as an actor.

  Michael Biehn

  Giving, Serious, Actors

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• Usually people who are in my position, they run a company and they hire people and then they take the credit for it.

  Rick Baker

  Running, People, Company

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• I don't shop online. I'm always scared to put my credit card on the Internet!

  Kristin Cavallari

  Cards, Scared, Internet

  "Kristin Cavallari: Life After The Hills". Interview, www.seventeen.com. May 23, 2011.

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• It just gripes me hollow, the way God always sneaks in to take the credit.

  Orson Scott Card

  Sneak In, Way, Hollow

  Orson Scott Card (2016). “Seventh Son and Red Prophet”, p.119, Macmillan

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• I had this story from one who had no business to tell it to me, or to any other. I may credit the seductive influence of an old vintage upon the narrator for the beginning of it, and my own skeptical incredulity during the days that followed for the balance of the strange tale.

  Edgar Rice Burroughs

  Vintage, Seductive, Balance

  Edgar Rice Burroughs (2015). “TARZAN OF THE APES SERIES - Complete Collection: 25 Novels in One Volume (Illustrated): The Return of Tarzan, The Beasts of Tarzan, The Son of Tarzan, Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar, Jungle Tales of Tarzan, Tarzan the Untamed, Tarzan and the Golden Lion, Tarzan the Terrible and many more”, p.5, e-artnow

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• Conscience gets a lot of credit that really belongs to cowardice.

  Evan Esar

  Cowardice, Conscience

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• Nowadays it's not who wears the pants in the family, but who carries the credit cards.

  Evan Esar

  Cards, Pants, Carrie

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• A batch of credit cards fattens a wallet before it thins it.

  Evan Esar

  Cards, Wallets, Credit Card

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• A credit card is a convenient device that saves you the trouble of counting your change.

  Evan Esar

  Cards, Trouble, Counting

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• Troy is based on the epic poem The Iliad by Homer , according to the credits. Homer's estate should sue.

  Roger Ebert

  Epic, Iliad, Should

  Roger Ebert (2004). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2005”, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• You have to understand, I can't do any jokes about Ross Perot, because the last thing I need right now is another credit check.

  Pat Paulsen

  Needs, Lasts, Checks

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• Although usury is itself a form of credit in its bourgeoisified form, the form adapted to capital , in its pre-bourgeois form it is rather the expression of the lack of credit .

  Karl Marx

  Expression, Usury, Form

  "Grundrisse". Book by Karl Marx, Notebook V, The Chapter on Capital, p. 455, 1857-1858.

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• Owners of capital will stimulate working class to buy more and more of expensive goods, houses and technology, pushing them to take more and more expensive credits, until their debt becomes unbearable. The unpaid debt will lead to bankruptcy of banks which will have to be nationalized and State will have to take the road which will eventually lead to communism.

  Karl Marx

  Technology, Class, House

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• When you live on cash, you understand the limits of the world around which you navigate each day. Credit leads into a desert with invisible boundaries.

  Anton Chekhov

  Each Day, World, Cash

  Letter to A.S. Suvorin, August 18, 1893.

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• Ten thousand things there are which we believe merely upon the authority or credit of those who have spoken or written them.

  Isaac Watts

  Believe, Authority, Thousand

  Isaac Watts (1813). “The Works of the Rev. Isaac Watts D.D. in Nine Volumes”, p.417

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• Upscale young men seem to go for the kind of woman who plays with a full deck of credit cards.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Men, Play, Cards

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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• There is one curious fact noticeable in regard to this thing called "luck," which is, that while it is made responsible for any turn of affairs that we feel to be discreditable to us, it rarely has credit for an opposite state of things; but, like most other faithful allies in victory, comes poorly off.

  William Matthews

  Opposites, Faithful, Luck

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• You know what I hate about people who criticize you? They - they criticize what you say but they never give you credit for how loud you say it.

  Stephen Colbert

  Hate, People, Giving

  "Stephen Colbert Enters the No Spin Zone". "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. January 18, 2007.

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• Where two factions see vividly each its own aspect, and contrive their own explanations of what they see, it is almost impossible for them to credit each other with honesty.

  Walter Lippmann

  Honesty, Two, Impossible

  Walter Lippmann (2012). “Public Opinion”, p.69, Courier Corporation

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• Laws are maintained in credit, not because they are essentially just, but because they are laws. It is the mystical foundation of their authority; they have none other.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Power, Law, Justice

  Michel de Montaigne (1964). “Selected essays of Montaigne: in the translation of John Florio”

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• Never threaten, because a threat is a promise to pay that it isn't always convenient to meet, but if you don't make it good it hurts your credit. Save a threat till you're ready to act, and then you won't need it.

  George Horace Lorimer

  Hurt, Promise, Needs

  George Horace Lorimer (2016). “Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son”, p.78, Lulu.com

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• There's no better credit card in the world than driving up at a bank door in a Cadillac limousine.

  Tennessee Williams

  Doors, Cards, World

  Tennessee Williams (1961). “Period of Adjustment”, p.8, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• It is hypocrisy for man to make any other use of his religion, or the credit of it, than to sanctify and save his soul.

  Benjamin Whichcote

  Men, Hypocrisy, Soul

  Benjamin Whichcote, Anthony Tuckney (1753). “Moral and religious aphorisms [collected by J. Jeffery from the papers of B. Whichcote]. Now re-publ., with additions, by S. Salter. To which are added, Eight letters: which passed between dr. Whichcote, and dr. Tuckney”, p.85

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• Truth is not only a man's ornament but his instrument; it is the great man's glory, and the poor man's stock: a man's truth is his livelihood, his recommendation, his letters of credit.

  Benjamin Whichcote

  Men, Letters, Truth Is

  Benjamin Whichcote, Anthony Tuckney (1753). “Moral and religious aphorisms [collected by J. Jeffery from the papers of B. Whichcote]. Now re-publ., with additions, by S. Salter. To which are added, Eight letters: which passed between dr. Whichcote, and dr. Tuckney”, p.149

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