Best 722 quotes in «credit quotes» category

Historians will likely give Obama credit for steering the country away from the brink of economic collapse in 2009.

How absurd to take the credit of doing the good act on oneself and lay the blame for the evil act on the Lord!

How can we resent the life we've created for ourselves? Who's to blame, who's to credit, but us? Who can change it, any time we wish, but us?

how could advice be successful? If it turns out right, the adviser is ignored and the advisee takes all the credit. If it proves mistaken, the adviser receives all the blame.

How have you arrived at your thinking? Where do your ideas and knowledge come from, and why do you credit some knowledge and discredit others?

How much luckier than all the rest of mankind are the astrologers who, if they tell one truth among a hundred lies, obtain so much credit that even their lies are believed.

How much smaller the large places are once we're grown up, when we have car keys and credit cards.

How’s the patient?” asked Derby. “Dead to the world.” “But not actually dead.” “No.” “How nice - to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.

Humanity is actually much more cooperative and empathic than [it's] given credit for.

Humanity is living off its ecological credit card and can only do this by liquidating the planet's natural resources.

I actually credit Twitter with fine-tuning some joke-writing skills. I still feel like I'm working at it.

I am not a very good man, Effie, but I think that I am a better one than you have given me credit for being.

I always give a lot of credit to Ronnie Dunn for making me fall in love with country music.

I am a millionaire today and my wife deserves all of the credit. Before I met her I was a multi-millionaire.

I can't even get a credit card without three credit bureaus saying I'm good enough.

I assisted with Russ [Manning] for about eleven months and my day job for 5 days a week was credit manager and paint salesman for Sherwin-Williams.

I believe that a lot of progress has been achieved to address gender inequality: We have moved from a time where women in the US could not apply for credit card without their husband's signature to a time where women are the owners of their businesses.

I am old enough to remember when America's K-12 public schools were the best in the world. I am a proud graduate of them, and I credit much of my success to what I learned in Detroit Public Schools and at Michigan State University.

I created a human being from paper and I put it on the screen, a unique individual. I wish every performance, every IMDB credit, I would do it over, because I would do it better, because I would do it less. If that makes any sense.

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

I credit the motion picture industry as the strongest environmental factor in molding the children of my day.

I credit my collaborators for allowing me to grow. Without them I wouldn't have that opportunity.

I credit my parents for instilling in me a good work ethic and the sensibility that God serves those best who serve themselves.

I did six internships, even though I was only allowed to do one. I had a paper with my advisor's signature on it that I would just forward for every new internship. I didn't get school credit, but I got away with giving free labor to everyone.

I didn't know anything until December 2004 when I went to purchase a vehicle and was told there was a foreclosure on my credit and I wouldn't be able to get the car. I've still got a red flag on my credit.

I do believe CDSs [credit default swaps] have been miscast, much as poor workmen tend to blame their tools.

I'd like to credit my speed to my grandfather. But he was also a quiet player. He didn't talk much. He just went out there on the field and did his own thing.

I do not care a rap as to who gets credit for the work, provided the work is done.

I don't believe there's any evidence that credit scoring is a risk factor. What is it about someone having a worse credit score that makes them a worse driver? (Insurers) can't answer that.

I don't give the devil credit for creating nothing.

I don't do well with modern films, to be honest. Opening credits, and I'm just gone.

I don't get nearly enough credit in life for the things I manage not to say.

I don't share blame. I don't share credit. And I don't share desserts.

I don't like credit cards. They make overspending very easy. They can make life a lot more complex and stressful.

I don't shop online. I'm always scared to put my credit card on the Internet!

If a government resorts to inflation, that is, creates money in order to cover its budget deficits or expands credit in order to stimulate business, then no power on earth, no gimmick, device, trick or even indexation can prevent its economic consequences.

I don't want any production credit. I think producers are overrated. They're for people who, first of all, don't know anything about music or arranging and have no ear for their own doings. They can't tell a good solo from a bad solo, stuff like that.

If all the bank loans were paid, no one could have a bank deposit, and there would not be a dollar of coin or currency in circulation. This is a staggering thought. We are completely dependent on the commercial banks. Someone has to borrow every dollar we have in circulation, cash, or credit. If the banks create ample synthetic money we are prosperous; if not, we starve. We are absolutely without a permanent money system. When one gets a complete grasp of the picture, the tragic absurdity of our hopeless situation is almost incredible - but there it is.

I don't think I ever got proper credit about being smart about the game.

I earned my stripes as a Marine, and the Corps gets full credit for straightening me out. At 17, I was young, I was unhappy and most of all, I was undisciplined. The Marine Corps was the right service in the right place at the right time.

If a good face is a letter of recommendation, a good heart is a letter of credit.

If it's successful and it sounds awesome, and looks killer live, then I guess I can pat myself on the back and take all the credit too.

If confidence is a plant of slow growth, credit is one which matures much more slowly.

I feel a strange, fierce squeeze in my heart when I see him, like pride, although there's nothing about Sean that I can take credit for.

If I ever tried to take credit for what God deserves the credit, He would be displeased with me, and I'm more interested in pleasing Him than pleasing ego or vanity.

If I had as many love affairs as I've been given credit for, I'd be in a jar at the Harvard Medical School.

If I had done what I was programmed to do, I would now be sitting in a car factory looking at the sizes of wheels, or wondering how to get credit to start a new factory in Russia.

If I were in Congress in 1996, I would have voted for the Defense of Marriage Act, which used Congress's constitutional authority to define what official state documents other states have to recognize under the Full Faith and Credit Clause, to ensure that no state would be forced to recognize a 'same sex' marriage license issued in another state.

If life is a soap opera you shouldn't be in too much of a hurry to get to the final credits.

If our credit be so well built, so firm, that it is not easy to be shaken by calumny or insinuation, envy then commends us, and extols us beyond reason to those upon whom we depend, till they grow jealous, and so blow us up when they cannot throw us down.