Rate Quotes · Page 4

If you take out the killings, Washington actually has a very low crime rate.

— Marion Barry

Now that rates are moving up, we're seeing more aggressive offerings from banks.

— Robert Hughes

To double your successes, you might have to double your failure rate.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I don't have a shred of regret about entering the exchange-rate mechanism.

— John Major

Why become a second-rate Ravel when you're already a first-rate Gershwin?

— Maurice Ravel

Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else.

— Judy Garland

If this is philosophy it is at any rate a philosophy that is not in its right mind.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

A lower interest rate doesn't make a debt go away.

— Dave Ramsey

I'm from Indiana, the home of more first-rate second-class men than any other state in the union.

— Thomas R. Marshall

Japan has a low crime rate, unless you count the fact that approximately every fifteen minutes the entire Cabinet gets indicted for…

— Dave Barry

It's better to read first rate science fiction than second rate science-it's a lot more fun, and no more likely to be…

— Martin Rees

Alcohol didn't cause the high crime rates of the '20s and '30s, Prohibition did. And drugs do not cause today's alarming crime…

— James Carriger Paine

The rich have grown richer, but their tax rate has declined. The poor have grown poorer, but their taxes have increased.

— Michael Parenti

Love doesn't grow at a steady rate, but advances in surges, bolts, wild leaps, and this was one of those.

— Ian Mcewan

We've seen that in the past that where you've had uncertainty, and even where the Fed is raising rates, Treasurys rise as…

— Gary Shilling

The late 20th century sea level rise rate lacks any sign of acceleration. Satellite altimetry indicates virtually no changes in the last…

— Nils-Axel Morner

I can think of nothing more soul destroying in life than to persist in trying to do a thing you want desperately…

— Agatha Christie

A very complicated mass of things influences the economy - the speculative effect, government policy, consumer borrowing and spending, the level of…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

America's growth historically has been fueled mostly by investment, education, productivity, innovation and immigration. The one thing that doesn't seem to have…

— Fareed Zakaria

If the newspapers cut me up so much that I shall not venture before the world again, I have resolved to become…

— Frederic Chopin

A company invites their employees to sign up for a plan where every time they get a raise, some part of that…

— Richard Thaler

Child mortality since 2000 is down by 2.65 million a year. That's a rate of 7,256 children's lives saved each day. ...…

— Edward de Bono

Kids are starting at such a low base rate in terms of fitness that it's taking them years to catch up to…

— Daley Thompson

If children were brought into the world by an act of pure reason alone, would the human race continue to exist? Would…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

The IMF insisted that both Russia and Brazil maintain their currency at over-valued levels. Who are you protecting when you try to…

— Joseph Stiglitz

Customs, morals — is there a difference? Woman, do you realize what you are doing? Here, by the grace of God and…

— Anonymous

Perhaps there may come into my art also, no less than into my life, a still deeper note, one of greater unity…

— Oscar Wilde

Conservatives are inclined to use the powers of government to prevent change or to limit its rate to whatever appeals to the…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the…

— Oscar Wilde

Now that I've seen what war is, what civil war is, I know that everybody, if one day it should end, ought…

— Cesare Pavese

You got to remember, S corporations pay one layer of tax, corporations pay two layers of tax. So we basically see equivalent,…

— Paul Ryan

At today's prices for medicines, doctors and hospitals-if the latter are available at any price-only millionaires can afford to be hurt or…

— Malcolm Forbes

I think we're paid a going rate for how well our shows do.

— Declan Donnelly

Here's the problem if you keep raising tax rates: You slow down economic growth.

— Paul Ryan

Peace, if possible, but justice at any rate.

— Wendell Phillips

The interest rate you receive, however, is contingent on your credit score.

— Jean Chatzky

Believe me, I understand that most higher rate taxpayers are not the super-rich.

— George Osborne

It is the common failing of an ambitious mind to over-rate itself.

— Lady Caroline Lamb

The rate of interest acts as a link between income-value and capital-value.

— Irving Fisher

People learn at the rate they are going to learn.

— Ben Folds