#passe

It's time to pull the bandage off America's foreclosure problem. The economy is ready to emerge from its recent dark period, but to make it happen soon we need to speed the resolution of millions of troubled home loans. Six years have passed since the crisis began, yet instead of accelerating, foreclosures have slowed. ↗

— Mark Zandi

#bandage #began #crisis #dark #economy

To boast of a performance which I cannot beat is merely stupid vanity. And if I can beat it that means there is nothing special about it. What has passed is already finished with. What I find more interesting is what is still to come. ↗

— Emil Zatopek

#already #beat #boast #cannot #come

What has passed is already finished with. What I find more interesting is what is still to come. ↗

— Emil Zatopek

#come #find #finished #i #interesting

I know he was definitely beaten by her. I saw it many times. But we had a different way of dealing with her. He'd let her have more and more booze until she passed out. ↗

— David Gest

#booze #dealing #definitely #different #different way

Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed. ↗

— J. Paul Getty

#books #chief #esteem #like #passed

Before marriage, many couples are very much like people rushing to catch an airplane; once aboard, they turn into passengers. They just sit there. ↗

— Paul Getty

#airplane #before #catch #couples #into

I remember when my father passed away, we drove the funeral procession past the bank so he could say one last goodbye. That's how much the bank meant to my father. ↗

— Alexi Giannoulias

#bank #could #drove #father #funeral

What we aspired to in 1998, we have wildly surpassed. And I know we all feel incredibly grateful and lucky this band has been able to have the life that it's had. ↗

— Ben Gibbard

#aspired #band #been #feel #grateful

Mastery passes often for egotism. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#mastery #often #passes

One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

#came #chimney #continue #ever #hearth