Lend Quotes - page 2

The volume of credit depends upon three factors: the desire to borrow, the ability to lend and the desire to lend. (Benjamin Graham)
When debtors once have borrowed all we have to lend, they are very apt to grow shy of their creditors' company. View quote
John Vanbrugh
It is impossible to pursue a successful literary career and follow the advice of all one's 'best friends'.I feel compelled to follow the light which my own intellect & judgement cast upon my way, rather than any one of the many conflicting rays which other minds would lend me. View quote
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
We are unfashioned creatures, but half made up, if one wiser, better, dearer than ourselves - such a friend ought to be - do not lend his aid to perfectionate our weak and faulty natures. View quote
Mary Shelley
When it appears that a work has been carried out sumptuously, the owner will be the person to be praised for the great outlay which ha has authorized; when delicately, the master workmen will be approved for his execution; but when proportions and symmetry lend it an imposing effect, then the glory of it will belong to the architect. View quote
Vitruvius
Someday, someday, this crazy world will have to end, And our God will take things back that He to us did lend. And if, on that sad day, you want to scold our God, Why just go ahead and scold Him. He'll just smile and nod. View quote
Kurt Vonnegut
Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand. View quote
Hippocrates
Her eyes the glow-worm lend thee, The shooting stars attend thee; And the elves also, Whose little eyes glow Like the sparks of fire, befriend thee. View quote
Robert Herrick (poet)
A great many film stars perched on unstable ravine edges in the canyon systems of Los Angeles will, like the cemeteries there, eventually slide down to join their unfortunate fellows in the canyon floors, with mud, cars, and embalmed or living film stars in one glorious muddy mass. We should not lend our talents to creating such spectacular catastrophes... View quote
Bill Mollison
Yet truth will sometimes lend her noblest fires, And decorate the verse herself inspires: This fact, in virtue's name, let Crabbe attest,- Though Nature's sternest painter, yet the best. View quote
Lord Byron
It's better to give than to lend, and it costs about the same. (Philip Gibbs)
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones. View quote
William Shakespeare
Happy will they be who lend ear to the words of the dead. View quote
Leonardo da Vinci
My name is Clark, and I have come out to see what you brave fellows are doing in Kentucky and to lend you a helping hand, if necessary. View quote
George Rogers Clark
If you have one good idea, people will lend you twenty. View quote
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
When France resolved, along with England, to lend assistance in the legitimate defense of Poland, the realization burst on us that a conflict of awesome proportions was inevitable. View quote
Rene Cassin
That the more authoritarian organizations survive and prevail goes generally unnoticed because people focus on the objectives of organizations, which are many and varied, rather than on their structures, which lend to be similar. View quote
Robert Shea
"Never!" What a strong word! A few modern philosophers seem to lend their moral approval to these deplorable verdicts when they assert that an individual's intelligence is a fixed quantity, a quantity that cannot be increased. We must protest and react against this brutal pessimism. We shall attempt to prove that it is without foundation. View quote
Alfred Binet
A photographer must be prepared to catch and hold on to those elements which give distinction to the subject or lend it atmosphere. View quote
Bill Brandt
Banks lend by creating credit. They create the means of payment out of nothing. View quote
Ralph George Hawtrey
People quit on jobs. They quit on marriages. They quit on school. There's an immediacy of this day and age that doesn't lend itself to being committed to anything. (Emily Blunt)
Some of the most important stories don't lend themselves to television treatment. View quote
Kurt Loder
For example, Michael Mann's film Collateral - there is certain kinds of stories that lend themselves to digital photography. Some things are very raw stories that digital photography kind of lends itself to. View quote
Matthew Modine
Actually, recording the Suite Chic album was so much fun and while working on this new album, people that I've worked with from Suite Chic has lend their voice. View quote
Namie Amuro
As you know, there are certain languages that lend themselves very easily to vocal use. View quote
Neville Marriner