#mort

The Tea Party was born out of the disgust many Americans felt early in the financial crisis upon learning that the federal government was even contemplating reducing the principal on some troubled mortgages. ↗

— Mark Zandi

#contemplating #crisis #disgust #early #even

There is no better way to quickly buoy hard-pressed homeowners than helping them take advantage of the currently record low fixed mortgage rates and significantly reduce their monthly mortgage payments. ↗

— Mark Zandi

#better #better way #buoy #currently #fixed

Too-easy credit and millions of bad loans made during the U.S. housing bubble paved the way for the financial calamity and Great Recession that followed. Today, by contrast, credit is too tight. Mortgage loans are particularly hard to get, creating a problem for the housing market and the broader economy. ↗

— Mark Zandi

#broader #bubble #calamity #contrast #creating

Public service used to be the highest of callings, until people like Madame Voldemort vilified it. ↗

— Jennifer M. Granholm

#like #madame #people #public #public service

Nearer the gods no mortal may approach. ↗

— Edmond Halley

#gods #may #mortal #nearer

Deep down inside, my heart knew the score. And I know that Haven was wrong. It's not always a case of one loving more than the other. When two people are truly meant to be, they love equally. Differently - but still equal. ↗

— Alyson Noel

#immortals #night #noel #star #equality

I had a stick of CareFree gum, but it didn't work. I felt pretty good while I was blowing that bubble, but as soon as the gum lost its flavor, I was back to pondering my mortality. ↗

— Mitch Hedberg

#blowing #bubble #carefree #felt #flavor

To suspect your own mortality is to know the beginning of terror, to learn irrefutably that you are mortal is to know the end of terror. ↗

— Frank Herbert

#end #know #learn #mortal #mortality

Badness you can get easily, in quantity; the road is smooth, and it lies close by, But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to it. ↗

— Hesiod

#close #easily #excellence #front #get

Acquisition means life to miserable mortals. ↗

— Hesiod

#life #means #miserable #mortals