Maturities Quotes & Sayings

Excuse me, Ben," Bowen said. "Am I wrong, or aren't you the corporate treasurer?"
Glisan bristled. "Yes."
"What do you mean, you think you can get one?" Bowen shot back. "This is the current fucking maturities schedule! Go get it. You have to have a maturities schedule!"
But they didn't. With all the focus on deals and earnings- with finance group's transformation into a profit center rather than a division to support the business- the workday, boring details had been sloughed off.
p. 560 — Kurt Eichenwald

Yesterday's fairy tale is today's fact. The magician is only one step ahead of his audience. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

It is incumbent on a great nation to remain confident, if it wishes to remain free. We need not be ignorant to real threats to our safety, against which we must remain vigilant. We need only to banish to the ash heap of history the notion that we ought to be ruled by our fears and those who use them to enhance their own power. — Ron Paul

Too marvelous for words. — Johnny Mercer

He was a simple honest man. He never strayed,
He never drank, he never smoked, and he never kissed a maid.
And when he passed away his insurance was denied,
Because he never lived, they claimed he never died. — Ted Gup

You might change your mind about what you hate to leave, he said. — Cormac McCarthy

The philosopher spends in becoming a man the time which the ambitious man spends in becoming a personage. — Philibert Joseph Roux

Chav-bashing draws on a long, ignoble tradition of class hatred. But it cannot be understood without looking at more recent events. Above all, it is the bastard child of a very British class war. — Owen Jones

You have a great passion for great works. — Lailah Gifty Akita

ARTIFICIALLY-INDUCED INTELLIGENCE DETERIORATES AT A RATE OF TIME DIRECTLY PROPORTIONAL TO THE QUANTITY OF THE INCREASE. — Daniel Keyes

Well, I had often pondered all this, not without an intense longing sometimes to turn to and do something real for once, to be seriously and responsibly active instead of occupying myself forever with nothing but esthetics and intellectual and artistic pursuits. It always ended, however, in resignation, in surrender to destiny. — Hermann Hesse

And summoned now
to deal with your invincible defeat
You live your life
As if it's real — Leonard Cohen

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I'm not even going to try. — David Levithan

You need a strategy to assume leadership, but only the character can sustain leaders as who they really are. — Pearl Zhu

I just read everything I could get my hands on. I taught myself to read or my mother taught me. Who knows how I learned to read? It was before I went to school, so I would go to the library and just take things off the shelf. My mother had to sign a piece of paper saying I could take adult books. — Joan Didion