#lend

I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire; of societies old and new; of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by God's Will, united in spirit and in aim. ↗

— Queen Elizabeth II

#annals #behind #commonwealth #different #empire

Banks are slowly but surely lending again, and never again will taxpayers foot the bill for Wall Street's excesses. In case we forgot, that was the change we believed in. That was the change we fought for. That was the change President Obama delivered. ↗

— Rahm Emanuel

#banks #believed #bill #case #change

Singing in Gaelic is very, very natural to do. I think lends itself very much so to being sung. ↗

— Enya

#gaelic #i #i think #itself #lends

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me. ↗

— Anatole France

#ever #folks #i #left #lend

So American culture is itself a hybrid and lends itself to use in other people's hybrids. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#american culture #culture #hybrid #hybrids #itself

Blending hard-bitten realism with long-view optimism, Obama said that every 20 or 30 years brings a new cycle of pessimism in America. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#blending #brings #cycle #every #new

It's the Power of the Almighty, the Splendor of Nature, and then you. ↗

— Al Franken

#nature #power #splendor #then #you

It's rather splendid to think of all those great men and women who appear to have presented symptoms that allow us to describe them as bipolar. Whether it's Hemingway, Van Gogh... Robert Schumann has been mentioned... Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath... some of them with rather grim ends. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#appear #been #bipolar #describe #ends

With weak balance sheets, banks tend to continue lending unprofitable businesses and leave them existing. ↗

— Toshihiko Fukui

#balance sheets #banks #businesses #continue #existing

To those who don't want the truth about Kennedy's assassination to become known, the very repetition of a charge lends it a certain credibility, since people have a tendency to believe that where there's smoke, there's fire. ↗

— Jim Garrison

#assassination #become #believe #certain #charge