Top 1200 Credit Scores Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

The FBI, to its credit in a self-serving sort of way, rejects the routine use of the polygraph on its own people.

If, with the literate, I am Impelled to try an epigram, I never seek to take the credit; We all assume that Oscar said it.

Teenagers all think their life is a movie. If you break up with someone or you have a fight, you walk around with movie scores playing in your head. You sort of see yourself suffering as you're suffering. There's a lot of melodrama attached to the real events of your life.

Upscale young men seem to go for the kind of woman who plays with a full deck of credit cards.

God's designs may be frequent justification for our actions, but it is we, the "self-made men", who take the credit.

There is no credit to being a comedian, when you have the whole Government working for you. All you have to do is report the facts. I dont even have to exaggerate.

When a new writer comes onto a project, he'll make wholesale changes just to mark the territory or for greater credit.

I am a product of affirmative action. I am the perfect affirmative action baby. I am Puerto Rican, born and raised in the south Bronx. My test scores were not comparable to my colleagues at Princeton and Yale. Not so far off so that I wasn't able to succeed at those institutions.

I sometimes think young people are not given nearly enough credit for their ability to appreciate literary flourish.

The world is a more engaging and less dramatic place than writers ever give it credit for being

We need a system that provides mortgage credit in good times and bad to a broad range of creditworthy borrowers.

Like musicians who can read and write complicated scores in a world without sounds, for us mathematics is a source of delight, excitement, and even controversy which are hard to share with non mathematicians. In our small micro-cosmos we should ever seek the right balance between competition and solidarity, criticism and empathy, exclusion and inclusion.

Writing this book required an enormous amount of help from friends. To them goes the credit. I'll take the money.

Love's an illusion. It's a dream you wake up from with an enormous hangover and net credit debt. I'd rather have cash.

In October 2008, when the credit crunch hit, small businesses were really crushed by the lack of capital.

People are idiots. Including me. Everyone is an idiot, not just the people with the low SAT scores. The only difference is that we're idiots about different things at different times. No matter how smart you are, you spend much of your day being an idiot.

The group will not prosper if the leader grabs the lion's share of the credit for the good work that has been done.

There will be plenty of blame to go around but if you take credit for the sunshine, you also get blamed for the rain.

But with country trap, I in no way want to take credit for that. I believe Young Thug would be one of the biggest pioneers in that.

A top-quartile teacher will increase the performance of their class - based on test scores - by over 10 percent in a single year. ... That means that if the entire U.S., for two years, had top-quartile teachers, the entire difference between us and Asia would go away.

Our main concern is that demand for credit be fulfilled in ways that are actually beneficial to consumers and not harmful to them.

To know a little of anything gives neither satisfaction nor credit, but often brings disgrace or ridicule.

The first time I came to New York in 1952, I was busy with music. I made the acquaintance at this period with John Cage, and also the acquaintance of Varese for the first time. We were very good friends. He gave me some scores, and we recorded them a little later.

I think being an athlete prepares you for more things than people give us credit for.

The actual people who did the singing, which is Marcia Barrett and myself, didn't get any credit.

I'm basically a very lazy person who likes to get credit for things other people actually do.

What are the characteristics of today's world so that one may recognize it by them?" It pays pensions and borrows money: credit and monuments.

But when Gronk scores - it was like his eighth touchdown of the year - he spikes the ball and he deflates the ball. I love that, because I like the deflated ball. But I feel bad for that football, because he puts everything he can into those spikes.

Stop saying athletes do it for the love of the game. They do it for the love of their 32-room mansion with the live shark tank in the living room. If pro sports paid minimum wage, Shaquille O'Neal would be a bouncer at Scores, and Anna Kournikova would be a mail-order bride from Minsk.

I have to give credit to Giorgio Moroder ; among the first to make us realize the importance of music in film.

In K-12, almost everybody goes to local schools. Universities are a bit different because kids actually do pick the university. The bizarre thing, though, is that the merit of university is actually how good the students going in are: the SAT scores of the kids going in.

I personally feel like black people in America have contributed so much for so long, and haven't always gotten credit for it.

Bernie Madoff is probably more nuanced then I'm giving him credit for, but I just couldn't get under his skin.

Nobody gets to threaten the full faith and credit of the United States just to extract political concessions.

They say the people most affected by the credit crunch are pensioners - well, let go of the handbag then, Nanna.

I'm the worst customer for a credit card company because I always pay my balance off every month.

If celebs try to do something good, people think it is a publicity stunt and if they do without showing it, they don't get credit.

You can pretty much trace when the big individual indebtedness kicked in, and it was when the credit card became generally available.

The pure in heart are slow to credit calumnies, because they hardly comprehend what motives can be inducements to the alleged crimes.

I will give full credit to the 'Indian Idol' platform for grooming me as a singer and shaping my career.

For the credit of virtue we must admit that the greatest misfortunes of men are those into which they fall through their crimes.

Don't let the fact that you're spending time getting organized result in late fees on your credit card bills.

I copied everything I did in Galaxy Quest from Bill Paxton in Aliens, I owe him some credit.

Firequencher raised his hand. "I've been staying out of family conversations. Do I get credit for that?

I wish that I could take credit for the success of 'Frozen' and 'Hamilton.' But I just feel lucky to be in 'em.

The wise coach takes all the heat when his players lose, and gives them all the credit when they win.

The FM proposed to set up a Credit Guarantee Fund to ensure better flow of funds to students.

Giving birth and nourishing, Bearing yet not possessing, Working yet not taking credit, Leading yet not dominating, This is the Primal Virtue.

Well, you give me too much credit for foresight and planning. I haven't got a clue what the hell I'm doing.

I never watched TV because I was always doing a game. I didn't have any experience to be home watching games. I didn't know how to do it. Brent Musburger and those guys could sit and watch every game and know the scores. And I was amazed and said, 'I'd like to have something like that someday.'

Merlin is the unsung hero who is often responsible for things turning out positively, but rarely gets credit for that.

Another of Cicero's maxims was that if you must do something unpopular, you might as well do it wholeheartedly, for in politics there is no credit to be won by timidity.

I give a lot of credit to my wanderings. Because it just opens up your mind to life itself.

It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.

I go to the Caribbean for a month every January with hand baggage only. All you need is a passport and a credit card.

In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order to gain credit in the world.

I think I learned more about writing scores for Broadway by making mix tapes in the '90s than I did in college. You're learning about rise and fall and energy and tempo shifts. You're showing off your taste and your references. You're trying to be witty by - through placement of music you didn't write.

Modern man drives a mortgaged car over a bond-financed highway on credit-card gas.

Credit leads a man into temptation. Cash down is the only thing that will deliver him from evil.

My advice is to treat [credit cards] like what they are: little plastic grenades that must be handled very carefully.