Avedisian Quotes & Sayings

In September 2008, the two largest housing mortgage companies called Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which were government-sponsored enterprises, which hold hundreds of billions of dollars of mortgages, because of the losses they took on the mortgages, they essentially became insolvent, and the government had to take them over. — Ben Bernanke

Then don't give up. One day you'll look around and realize that all the things you thought mattered so much, really didn't matter much at all.- Gran — J. Sterling

Once we build beyond a human scale, once we conceive ourselves as Titans or as gods, we are lost in magnitude; we cannot control or limit what we do. The statistics of magnitude call out like Sirens to the statistics of destruction. If we have built towering cities, we have raised even higher the cloud of megadeath. If people are as grass before God, they are as nothing before their machines ...
... Past the scale of the human, our works do not liberate us - they confine us. They cut off access to the wilderness of Creation where we must go to be reborn - to receive the awareness, at once humbling and exhilarating, grievous and joyful, that we are a part of Creation, one with all that we live from and all that, in turn, lives from us. They destroy the communal rites of passage that turn us the wilderness and bring us home again. — Wendell Berry

Is there anything worse than being called the 'It Girl?' By definition, there will be a new one in two weeks. — Brit Marling

Children need your LOVE especially when they don't deserve it — Ikechukwu Joseph

There can be no sense of security in your existence when it depends upon outside factors, for the unpredictable changes of reality can never be controlled. — Deepak Chopra

You don't have to be super clean to be a super star — Ice Cube

Try again," he says slowly. "Stay calm. Have faith in yourself. If you don't believe you can do it," he says, "you won't. — Tahereh Mafi

So much of writing isn't the fun parts like we get to discuss. It is sitting there putting the words down. — Hanya Yanagihara

Now, I learned soon enough, that among the three, two don't trust the third one - the third one is the government. Both industry and unions feel the government is a talking organization and a spending organization. — Shimon Peres

I've been thinking about you and all my fucking sauces have been splitting. O'Reilly, everything you don't say speaks to something gentle in me. Something I thought I'd choked. — Mel Bossa

Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity — Plato

Some people don't need parental commitment, they will still come out great, but for others, parents can be critical in providing moral and academic guidance. — Amy Chua

There is an old Russian saying. 'A serpent changes his skin, not his fangs. — M.K. Hobson

We [the Government] are here not as masters but as servants, we are not here to glory in power, but to attest our loyalty to the commands and restrictions laid down by our sovereign, the people of the United States, in whose name and by whose will we exercise our brief authority. — Charles Evans Hughes