Devalued Currency Quotes & Sayings

What happens when you have vast legislative overreach is you don't particularly fix the problem you started out to fix but create problems for everyone else. — Carly Fiorina

Economically, unfair trade will benefit nobody in the long run, as poorer countries will be bled totally dry and will become unable to produce anything. — Chris Martin

in Chicago, which has installed a multimillion-dollar surveillance program with more than eight thousand cameras, the Urban Institute found that the cameras contributed to a 12 percent drop in crime in Humboldt Park but provided no statistically significant decline in crime in West Garfield Park. And — Julia Angwin

I think they look upon me as an old child, because I'm so little. — Estelle Getty

It seems to me that responsiveness is a better source for understanding what moral claims are and how they work upon us. — Judith Butler

For myself, I always assume that a lion is ferocious, and so I am never caught off my guard. — Edgar Rice Burroughs

I've had a couple of ghost experiences, but I'm not a big fan of the spiritual side of things, of the ghost type thing. I don't know why, maybe it freaks me out a bit, or I'm more into tangible, physical beings rather than things that can pass through walls. — Rhys Darby

When a rumor doesn't go away it's not a rumor — Elton John

Get rid of your doubts. Yesterday is dead. Past mistakes are like smoke in the breeze. — David Gemmell

Wives don't need a good provider, they need a Godly man who will help them trust in The Provider - God!! — Nick Vujicic

No one knows just how the idea of a soul or the supernatural started ... It probably had its origin in the general laziness of mankind. — John B. Watson

Ah yes, jobs. Once upon a time, souls were traded for immortality or riches. Now we are bought and sold with the promise of jobs. The human spirit is devalued currency. How the devil must be laughing. — Jamie Delano

He'd shot and beaten people because he couldn't talk to them.Violence was the only language nobody could understand. There were no translators. — James Meek

What she'd done for him, because he'd asked. — Jhumpa Lahiri

The beautiful came to this city [Hollywood] in huge pathetic herds, to suffer, to be humiliated, to see the powerful currency of their beauty devalued like the Russian ruble or Argentine peso;to work as bellhops, as bar hostesses, as garbage collectors, as maids. The city was a cliff and they were its stampeding lemmings. At the foot of the cliff was the valley of the broken dolls. — Salman Rushdie

At that same time, the Communist regime let the inflation run its course and then, devalued the currency. They issued a new kind of lei. Everybody could exchange 80,000 lei for 20 new lei. The day before the exchange, I had 2 million lei. For that amount, I bought two pairs of hand crocheted summer gloves; there was nothing else available. I would have preferred to purchase a kilo meat, but that was out of the question, unrealistic thinking. — Pearl Fichman

Money is a sort of instinct. It's a sort of property of nature in a person to make money. It's nothing you do. It's no trick you play. It's a sort of permanent accident of your own nature; once you start, you make money, and you go on ... But you've got to begin ... You've got to get in. You can do nothing if you are kept outside. You've got to beat your way in. Once you've done that, you can't help it! — D.H. Lawrence

That day the U.S. announced that the dollar would be devalued by 10 percent. By switching the yen to a floating exchange rate, the Japanese currency appreciated, and a sufficient realignment in exchange rates was realized. Joint intervention in gold sales to prevent a steep rise in the price of gold, however, was not undertaken. That was a mistake. — Paul Volcker