#serves

Even the National Bank of Romania doesn't have the huge resources needed to intervene in the market and keep the leu at an acceptable level, because they're drawing close to a floor below which the bank's reserves can't drop. The central bank has to wait for a moment of calm to efficiently conduct its interventions. ↗

— Traian Basescu

#bank #because #below #calm #central

Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success. ↗

— Edward Dowden

#failure #faithfully #noble #serves #sometimes

Who deserves more credit than the wife of a coal miner? Mother was one. ↗

— Merle Travis

#credit #deserves #miner #more #mother

While Leo fussed over his helm controls, Hazel and Frank relayed the story of the fish-centaurs and their training camp. 'Incredible,' Jason said. 'These are really good brownies.' 'That's your only comment?' Piper demanded. He looked surprised. 'What? I heard the story. Fish-centaurs. Merpeople. Letter of intro to the Tiber River god. Got it. But these brownies--' 'I know,' Frank said, his mouth full. 'Try them with Ester's peach preserves.' 'That,' Hazel said, 'is incredibly disgusting.' 'Pass me the jar, man,' Jason said. Hazel and Piper exchanged a look of total exasperation. Boys. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#brownies #eating #esther #food #incredibly-disgusting

I love my wife, she deserves anything and everything. ↗

— Aaron Spelling

#deserves #everything #i #i love #love

I do care about style. I do care, but I only care about style that serves the subject. ↗

— Richard Attenborough

#care #i #i do #only #serves

A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs. ↗

— Bernard Baruch

#before #future #man #observes #occurs

In general, every country has the language it deserves. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#deserves #every #general #language

In all the sciences except Psychology we deal with objects and their changes, and leave out of account as far as possible the mind which observes them. ↗

— Charles D. Broad

#as far as #changes #deal #except #far

If no other knowledge deserves to be called useful but that which helps to enlarge our possessions or to raise our station in society, then Mythology has no claim to the appellation. ↗

— Thomas Bulfinch

#called #claim #deserves #enlarge #helps