#elation

It is no wonder that bank capital is regulated. When borrowing and lending is profitable, it is tempting for banks to scale up their operations and to borrow and lend too much in relation to their capital, in effect reducing the effectiveness of the potential capital cushion. ↗

— Evan Davis

#banks #borrow #borrowing #capital #cushion

We benefit from doing nothing, from going out to play, from giving from the heart and spending time in nature. Most of all we benefit from having healthy, strong, and loving relationships with other people and from exercising the altruistic parts of ourselves. ↗

— Jo Ann Davis

#benefit #doing #exercising #giving #going

I feel like the people from Iceland have a different relationship with their country than other places. Most Icelandic people are really proud to be from there, and we don't have embarrassments like World War II where we were cruel to other people. ↗

— Bjork

#cruel #different #feel #i #i feel

The relation between a poet and audience is really insignificant. What matters is the poet is hearing something that he is broadcasting. And whether there is anybody with a receiver isn't the reason he does it. He hopes there is somebody receiving it. ↗

— Peter Davison

#audience #between #broadcasting #does #hearing

In the present state of our knowledge, it would be useless to attempt to speculate on the remote cause of the electrical energy... its relation to chemical affinity is, however, sufficiently evident. May it not be identical with it, and an essential property of matter? ↗

— Humphry Davy

#attempt #cause #chemical #electrical #energy

If children understand that beliefs should be substantiated with evidence, as opposed to tradition, authority, revelation or faith, they will automatically work out for themselves that they are atheists. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#authority #automatically #beliefs #children #evidence

So many people prefer to live in drama because it's comfortable. It's like someone staying in a bad marriage or relationship - it's actually easier to stay because they know what to expect every day, versus leaving and not knowing what to expect. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#actually #bad #because #comfortable #day

The right of an individual to conduct intimate relationships in the intimacy of his or her own home seems to me to be the heart of the Constitution's protection of privacy. ↗

— Harry A. Blackmun

#constitution #heart #her #his #home

In suspense novels even subplots about relationships have to have conflict. ↗

— Jeffery Deaver

#conflict #even #novels #relationships #suspense

Of course, all writers draw upon their personal experiences in describing day-to-day life and human relationships, but I tend to keep my own experiences largely separate from my stories. ↗

— Jeffery Deaver

#day-to-day #day-to-day life #describing #draw #experiences