Intermediary Bank Quotes & Sayings

Do you remember that old TV series, Get Smart? Do you remember at the beginning where Maxwell Smart is walking down the secret corridor and there are all of those doors that open sideways, and upside down and gateways and stuff? I think that everyone keeps a whole bunch of doors just like this between themselves and the world. But when you're in love, all of your doors are open, and all of their doors are open. And you roller-skate down your halls together. — Douglas Coupland

A whetstone, though it cannot cut, may sharpen a knife that will. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

I'm a believer that you accomplish much, much more with direct relationships than by using an intermediary. And that cash you keep in the bank can be the difference between staying alive as a small business, or not. — Mark Cuban

You okay, sweetheart?" Daniel asked. He put the ice cream on the bedside table and sat on the edge of the bed, his eyes worried. I looked at him, then down at our little baby. "Never better," I said. — Kristan Higgins

Stars crown the world, she said, but the lights in your eyes, those are stars, too.
They make up your crown, he said. — Jeannine Atkins

The new structure of the U.S. stock market had removed the big Wall Street banks from their historic, lucrative role as intermediary. At the same time it created, for any big bank, some unpleasant risks: that the customer would somehow figure out what was happening to his stock market orders. And that the technology might somehow go wrong. If the markets collapsed, or if another flash crash occurred, the high-frequency traders would not take 85 percent of the blame, or bear 85 percent of the costs of the inevitable lawsuits. The banks would bear the lion's share of the blame and the costs. The relationship of the big Wall Street banks to the high-frequency traders, when you thought about it, was a bit like the relationship of the entire society to the big Wall — Michael Lewis

Mercy is weakness. Offer it to your enemies and you might as well fall upon your own sword. — Sabaa Tahir

Pulling away from your parents, that's the natural thing to do; that's how life progresses. — Wendi McLendon-Covey

Calvin: I used to hate writing assignments, but now I enjoy them. I realized that the purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure poor reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog! Want to see my book report?
Hobbes: (Reading Calvin's paper) "The Dynamics of Interbeing and Monological Imperatives in Dick and Jane: A Study in Psychic Transrelational Gender modes."
Calvin: Academia, here I come! — Bill Watterson

Instead of saying; "WWJD (What would Jesus do)?" I will be asking myself "WIDTM(Will I Do This Do Myself"
Because Jesus said, "Love your neighbors as if you love yourself."
So I will quote I will treat others as if I am treating myself — Temitope Owosela

Matt knew only that he must see her again, and forever. — Penelope Lively

8 went down and didn't rise. The Bastard's candle had been snuffed. BleakWarrior, — Alistair Rennie

Wow," said George. "I imagined the demon realms were fearsome and terrifying, but seems like it was pretty much nonstop nom nom nom. — Cassandra Clare

I've been going to the same person for haircuts since I was thirteen. — Gia Coppola

What makes our poetry so contemptible nowadays is its paucity of ideas. If you want to be read, invent. Who the Devil wouldn't like to read something new? — Georg C. Lichtenberg