Quotes of Oblique - somelinesforyou

“ All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it — an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view. ”

- Peter Conrad

“ Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned. ”

- Izaak Walton

“ When it comes down to the last play, it's a great game. ”

- C. David Baker

“ While customers appreciate the convenience of banking online, those who visit the branch less often tend to demonstrate lower satisfaction levels. ”

- Jeff Taylor

“ There is a lot of room for improvement in Social Security. We owe our children the most financially sound system possible. They will have paid into it their entire working lives. They deserve to be protected by it. for our children and grandchildren. ”

- Mitch McConnell

“ I saw a bank that said 24 Hour Banking, but I don't have that much time. ”

- Steven Wright

“ I think, overall, banking is about service and convenience. We know we are better in service (than the big banks). Now, we can be more convenient too. ”

- Jerry Martin

“ It was a combination of a lot of things: concerns about emerging markets, a drop in consumer confidence, and the expectation that the Fed is still tilting toward an easing. ”

- John Williams

“ We've been asked much more about, 'What's your preparation?' 'How's your backhand doing?'. ”

- Roger Federer

“ What tipped the scales was that psychology involved working with rats. ”

- Morrie Schwartz

“ Moose meat is, like all protein in the food banking business, just like gold. ”

- Mike Adams

“ John D. Rockefeller wanted to dominate oil, but Microsoft wants it all, you name it: cable, media, banking, car dealerships. ”

- Ralph Nader

“ Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world — though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst — the cant of criticism is the most tormenting! ”

- Laurence Sterne

“ It's always been and always will be the same in the world: The horse does the work and the coachman is tipped. ”

- Unknown

“ It's always been and always will be the same in the world: The horse does the work and the coachman is tipped. ”

- Unknown

“ The nose of the bulldog has been slanted backwards so that he can breathe without letting go. ”

- Winston Churchill

“ With a group of bankers I always had the feeling that success was measured by the extent one gave nothing away. ”

- Lord Longford

“ The line of life is a ragged diagonal between duty and desire. ”

- William R. Alger

“ What's breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank? ”

- Bertolt Brecht

“ It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk. ”

- Bertolt Brecht

“ Good bankers, like good tea, can only be appreciated when they are in hot water. ”

- Jaffar Hussein

“ All censure of a man's self if oblique praise. It is in order to show how much he can spare. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ Talk ought always to run obliquely, not nose to nose with no chance of mental escape. ”

- Frank Moore Colby

“ Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has all the insidiousness of self-praise, and all the ill-desert of falsehood. ”

- Tyron Edwards

“ The right really dominates radio, and it's amazing how much energy the right spends telling us that the press is slanted to the left when it really isn't. They want to shut other people up. They really don't understand the First Amendment. ”

- Roger Ebert
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