Bertus Aafjes Quotes & Sayings

It was Greenspan who through some excessive deregulation prepared the monetary ground for the rise of the subprime mortgage companies: a lending market that specialises in high-risk mortgages and loans.
'Innovation', said Greenspan in April 2005, 'has brought about a multitude of new products, such as subprime loans and niche credit programs for immigrants'.
It is almost touching to find out that Greenspan cares so much about immigrants. — Gilad Atzmon

Unfortunately, in the world today, we have dogmatic people entering into politics. I don't think the two mix. — Ishmael Reed

I have a saying: 'I'm good for three things: making fried bologna sandwiches, making money and picking out good movies.' — Tyler James Williams

Oh, Cena. You must think that I was born yesterday. — Wade Barrett

Life is not dull. Be thankful for that. — Jo Bower

I want to see peace dancing in the heart of every human being. — Prem Rawat

Isn't the past what people remember- who did what, how and why? And what the people remember, isn't that mostly what they've already chosen to believe? — Amy Tan

I think that success is dangerous because it can make people feel too comfortable; it can lull them into thinking that they have achieved mastery and don't need to be curious anymore. But failure can also do that: it can function as a kind of inverse achievement, where you feel you've achieved the opposite of mastery, and you give up. Right — Eleanor Catton

The religion of art, like the religion of politics, was born from the ruins of Christianity. Art inherited from the old religion the power of consecrating things and endowing them with a sort of eternity; museums are our temples, and the objects displayed in them are beyond history. Politics
or more precisely, Revolution
co-opted the other function of religion: changing human beings and society. Art was an asceticism, a spiritual heroism; Revolution was the construction of a universal church. — Octavio Paz