Quotes About Reserve

I don't want to make anyone else look stupid. That's a privilege I reserve for myself.

A new generation of avaricious and egocentric Americans, in the thrall of anti-industrial ideologies, shuns the productive adventures of creation to pursue the comfort and security of the welfare state, abetted by the discount windows at the Federal Reserve, guarantees for "green jobs" and solar enterprises, the triple-A assurances of Fannie and Freddie, and the bonanzas with which we reward litigation against the productive.

You've not got much to say for yourself, but that's a nice change in a girl.

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.

Accept your humanness as well as your divinity, totally and without reserve.

Silence and reserve will give anyone a reputation for wisdom.

The best way to save face is keep the bottom half shut.

In those days, reserve duty lasted for six years, which, I might add, was three times as long as service in the regular army, although to be perfectly honest, I was unable to fulfill my entire obligation because I was taking acting classes and they said I could skip my last year.

There is two things that can disrupt business in this country. One is War, and the other is a meeting of the Federal Reserve Bank.

Even at moments like this, there is a limit to how weird I am prepared to appear.

We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.

One should never make one's entrance with a scandal. One should reserve that to give an interest to one's old age.

Never assume that habitual silence means ability in reserve.

A man is more a man through the things he keeps to himself than through those he says.

Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.

complaints from France that Washington was exploiting its reserve currency status in order to collect seigniorage from America's foreign creditors by printing dollars, much as medieval monarchs had exploited their monopoly on minting to debase the currency.

Although it performed the same functions as the Dutch Wisselbank, the Riksbank was also designed to be a Lanebank, meaning that it engaged in lending as well as facilitating commercial payments. By lending amounts in excess of its metallic reserve, it may be said to have pioneered the practice of what would later be known as fractional reserve banking, exploiting the fact that money left on deposit could profitably be lent out to borrowers.

I don't want to attract attention because I open my mouth.

Of your own indefatigable labor from early dawn and of your explicit instructions, that the batteries should reserve their ammunition, until the grand charge should commence, for which the enemy were undoubtedly preparing.

A man's profundity may keep him from opening on a first interview, and his caution on a second; but I should suspect his emptiness, if he carried on his reserve to a third.

Ojalá encuentres el agujero negro que te tiene reservado el Universo. Y que seas bien infeliz en él, retorciéndote en la materia condensada, aplastado como una cucaracha por el Big Crush.

Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all' and 'To teach superstitions as truth is a most terrible thing.' 24

Military strength in reserve is better than military strength being reigned upon the other side including all of its innocent civilians.

People who are drawn to journalism are usually people who, because of their cynicism or emotional detachment or reserve or whatever, are incapable of being anything but witnesses to events. Something prevents them from becoming involved, committed, and allows them to remain separate.