215 Quotes on Credit

• Whereas my producer literally worked on this thing for 10 years and because I gave that presenter credit to David Lynch, she to this day never gets credit. It really kills me.

  Author: Terry Zwigoff

• Giving credit where credit is due is a very rewarding habit to form. Its rewards are inestimable.

  Author: Loretta Young

• What this country needs is a credit card for charging things to experience.

  Author: Tom Wilson

• Legislation to create a new 10 percent tax bracket, reduce the marriage penalty, cut the tax rate on dividends and capital gains, and increase the child tax credit have been essential elements in this economic expansion.

  Author: Roger Wicker

• I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy.

  Author: William Westmoreland

• Why don't we call on the credit card companies to be accountable? They need to be held accountable for their predatory lending practices.

  Author: Paul Wellstone

• People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

  Author: Fay Weldon

• Nobody would take checks from Indians, nobody would give them any credit, and nobody would let them drink in the bars. There was a rudeness, a brusqueness, with which the Indians were treated constantly. At a very young age, that had entered my consciousness.

  Author: James Welch

• I have to give my family credit for putting up with the racket, because as some of you may know, its not the easiest thing in the world to live with a kid who's trying to become a rock and roll drummer.

  Author: Max Weinberg

• Elia Kazan understood my problems. He was able to bring out the very best in me. He gave me credit for my intelligence.

  Author: Ethel Waters

• Men are often capable of greater things than they perform - They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.

  Author: Horace Walpole

• Men are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.

  Author: Horace Walpole

• You must accept responsibility for your actions, but not the credit for your achievements.

  Author: Denis Waitley

• Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find.

  Author: Peter Ustinov

• Who quick be to borrow and slow be to pay, their credit is naught, go they ever so gay.

  Author: Thomas Tusser

• The one thing I would like more credit for is being part of a movement which involves recognising the importance of plot and asserting that books of literary worth could be written that had plots.

  Author: Scott Turow

• It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

  Author: Harry Truman

• Who deserves more credit than the wife of a coal miner? Mother was one.

  Author: Merle Travis

• The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.

  Author: Brian Tracy

• Elvis deserves a lot of credit for bringing the blues to middle America, not the Vegas stuff. The early stuff, The Sun records, and the first few RCA records. He was wonderful, he had the power, the drive, and he was so dedicated to his music.

  Author: Peter Tork

• You want 21 percent risk free? Pay off your credit cards.

  Author: Andrew Tobias

• Why can't people credit that he and all of us had a sense of humour?

  Author: Ingrid Thulin

• The man who can speak acceptably is usually given credit for an ability out of all proportion to what he really possesses.

  Author: Lowell Thomas

• We were going to have to experiment, and we needed to develop our younger players. And a lot of the changes were because of injuries. But that's where I give a lot of credit to the group in terms of being able to maintain things.

  Author: Isaiah Thomas

• Credit you give yourself is not worth having.

  Author: Irving Thalberg

• It's not rubbish to say that I was a bit peeved about not getting credit for a couple of songs, but that wasn't the whole reason. I guess I just felt like I had enough. I decided to leave and start a group with Jack Bruce.

  Author: Mick Taylor

• Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man.

  Author: William Taft

• You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing.

  Author: Marie Stopes

• You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your own soul's doing.

  Author: Marie Stopes

• I'm really proud of Twilight. I think it's a good movie. It was hard to do, and I think it turned out pretty good. But I don't take much credit for it. So when you show up at these places, and there's literally like a thousand girls and they're all screaming your name, you're like, why? You don't feel like you deserve it.

  Author: Kristen Stewart

• There is a spiritual hunger in the world today - and it cannot be satisfied by better cars on longer credit terms.

  Author: Adlai Stevenson

• When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.

  Author: Casey Stengel

• Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.

  Author: Casey Stengel

• But if you want to continue to be slaves of the banks and pay the cost of your own slavery, then let bankers continue to create money and control credit.

  Author: Josiah Stamp

• It's often the case with directors that they don't like to share credit, which is the case of Stanley. He would prefer just A Film By Stanley Kubrick including music and everything.

  Author: Terry Southern

• God expects from men something more than at such times, and that it were much to be wished for the credit of their religion as well as the satisfaction of their conscience that their Easter devotions would in some measure come up to their Easter dress.

  Author: Robert South

• Truth will lose its credit, if delivered by a person that has none.

  Author: Bishop South

• It was my first big relationship and it was just very abusive. I wouldn't give him the credit of naming him, if he ever reads this. But he was older, in the music business - or so he said.

  Author: Lisa Snowdon

• And I think the American people look to the leaders to lead. They look to the leaders to take on the big problems. And the president deserves a lot of credit for doing that.

  Author: John Snow

• I don't think London has been given enough credit in a lot of the movies that we make here.

  Author: Mel Smith

• Credit card companies pay college students generously to stand outside dining halls, dorms, and academic buildings and encourage their fellow students to apply for credit cards.

  Author: Louise Slaughter

• People who think my books are autobiographical, which they're not, credit me with having a much better memory than I do. I do, however, have a powerful imagination.

  Author: Curtis Sittenfeld

• With the aid of this credit policy, however, Germany created an armament second to none, and this armament in turn made possible the results of our policy.

  Author: Hjalmar Schacht

• First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that.

  Author: Carlos Santana

• The comments I most appreciate come from ordinary readers who've happened on one of my books at some time of stress in their lives, and who actually credit the book with helping them through a bad time. It's happened a few times in forty years.

  Author: Fred Saberhagen

• When you take a look at the problems our country is facing, debt is No. 1. The math is downright scary and the credit markets aren't going to keep on giving us cheap rates.

  Author: Paul Ryan

• The reason I got involved in public service, by and large, if I had to credit one thinker, one person, it would be Ayn Rand.

  Author: Paul Ryan

• The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

  Author: Bertrand Russell

• I think the big thing I've had going for me in that regard has been the success of the league. I don't have quite as much control over things as people believe, so I frequently receive more credit than I deserve, and occasionally more criticism as well.

  Author: Pete Rozelle

• Pro football was taking off when I became commissioner, and when a sport's successful and you're its chief executive officer, much of the credit flows to you and you develop a good track record.

  Author: Pete Rozelle

• So I think it was to Bryan's credit that he was able to let go of some of those things because you create these scenes and you think you become creative, even I, acting things, you become very creatively taken by it.

  Author: Brandon Routh

• One must credit an hypothesis with all that has had to be discovered in order to demolish it.

  Author: Jean Rostand

• The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit... a reputation, character.

  Author: John Rockefeller

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

  Author: Francois Rochefoucauld

• The business of a bank is to lend money; which amounts, nowadays, to lending credit.

  Author: John Robinson

• Modern money is almost altogether credit money.

  Author: John Robinson

• I like Spike Lee a lot. He's incredibly gifted and I don't think he gets the credit he deserves as a filmmaker.

  Author: Tim Robbins

• If somebody has a better idea than me, I'll take it if it surpasses what we have on the page because at the end of the day, it's me that takes the credit anyway!

  Author: Guy Ritchie

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

  Author: Little Richard

• And then you might decide that the country can just spend maybe years or decades to regain that credit, or maybe give that county the support, the financial support that the market is not willing not do.

  Author: Rodrigo Rato

• Everyone can get a little sloppy with cash and it's smart to notice. But what's squeezing you is the big stuff you ladle onto your credit cards.

  Author: Jane Quinn

• To its great credit, Wimbledon has been a leader in bringing about change and improvement in the sport.

  Author: Fred Perry

• We haven't really gotten the credit for what we have done.

  Author: Nancy Pelosi

• A system of capitalism presumes sound money, not fiat money manipulated by a central bank. Capitalism cherishes voluntary contracts and interest rates that are determined by savings, not credit creation by a central bank.

  Author: Ron Paul

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

  Author: Robert Parker

• I've never been a fan of presidents who place blame on their predecessors or who accept credit for events that couldn't have been engineered so soon in their tenure.

  Author: Kathleen Parker

• There's no credit in not doing what you don't want to do. There's no virtue in not falling, when you're not tempted.

  Author: Gilbert Parker

• Procrastination is like a credit card: it's a lot of fun until you get the bill.

  Author: Christopher Parker

• The whole community of people with disabilities was alive, politically alive. I give Justin Dart credit for that. He traveled to every state in the country. He really made people with disabilities understand that they had some political power.

  Author: Major Owens

• Hopefully, at some point, people will at least credit the Republicans with carrying out their oversight responsibilities and with pursuing a principled course of action even in the face of everyone's short-attention spans.

  Author: Barbara Olson

• I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.

  Author: Flannery O'Connor

• It turned out in the long run that Lincoln's credit and the popular confidence that supported it were as valuable both to his creditors and himself as if the sums which stood over his signature had been gold coin in a solvent bank.

  Author: John Nicolay

• I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife.

  Author: Ilie Nastase

• More than 1.1 million taxpayers in Pennsylvania will enjoy a lower tax rate, more than 1.4 million married couples will benefit from the reduction in the marriage penalty, and more than 1.1 million parents will have the advantage of an increased child tax credit.

  Author: Tim Murphy

• You can always make a film somehow. You can beg, borrow, steal the equipment, use credit cards, use your friends' goodwill, wheedle your way into this or that situation. The real problem is, how do you get people to see it once it is made?

  Author: Walter Murch

• At the very least we should be given a bit of credit and a little bit of space, and maybe the media should think we could help them discover why English teams do not win European competitions.

  Author: Jose Mourinho

• I have been robbed of three million dollars all told. Everyone today is playing my stuff and I don't even get credit. Kansas City style, Chicago style, New Orleans style hell, they're all Jelly Roll style.

  Author: Jelly Morton

• The world is divided into people who do things - and people who get the credit.

  Author: Dwight Morrow

• Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought.

  Author: Dwight Morrow

• The world is divided into people who do things and people who get the credit.

  Author: Alfred Montapert

• There is no limit to what a man can do so long as he does not care a straw who gets the credit for it.

  Author: Charles Montague

• All they need to do is to set up some website somewhere selling some bogus product at twenty percent of the normal market prices and people are going to be tricked into providing their credit card numbers.

  Author: Kevin Mitnick

• I know that my works are a credit to this nation and I dare say they will endure longer than the McCarran Act.

  Author: Arthur Miller

• Money is just the poor man's credit card.

  Author: Marshall McLuhan

• Money is a poor man's credit card.

  Author: Marshall McLuhan

• I am afraid that the ordinary citizen will not like to be told that the banks can and do create and destroy money. And they who control the credit of a nation direct the policy of governments, and hold in the hollow of their hands the destiny of the people.

  Author: Richard McKenna

• In providing this $5,000 tax credit for those purchasing rural homes, we're offering an important incentive to encourage people to live in smaller communities - and perhaps even stay in a community they might be considering leaving.

  Author: John McHugh

• I sincerely hope that I shall always be a credit to my race, and to the motion picture industry.

  Author: Hattie McDaniel

• The fact that he didn't get credit for a while is more the story of social injustice. But his own spirit wasn't driven by that, and wasn't dependent upon that. He just wished he had the cash to go to medical school.

  Author: Mary Masterson

• Malice scorned, puts out itself; but argued, give a kind of credit to a false accusation.

  Author: Philip Massinger

• We're not running the ball again until we get ahead. Shula was calling the plays, but I told them, 'I don't care what he calls. We're throwing every pass from now until we get the lead.' To Shula's credit, he always gave me that option.

  Author: Dan Marino

• As far as I'm concerned, Aaron is the best ball player of my era. He is to baseball of the last fifteen years what Joe DiMaggio was before him. He's never received the credit he's due.

  Author: Mickey Mantle

• Typically, students slide into debt through the extension (by credit card companies) of unaffordable credit lines.

  Author: Robert Manning

• Never call an accountant a credit to his profession; a good accountant is a debit to his profession.

  Author: Charles Lyell

• You will not accept credit that is due to another, or harbor jealousy of an explorer who is more fortunate.

  Author: Abbott Lowell

• Because - Bobby Lewis said this once to us in class, the better you get, the less credit you'll get. Because the better you are, the more it looks like walking and talking and everybody thinks they can walk and talk.

  Author: James Lipton

• But I think the credit has to go to Geddy... he spent a lot of time in the studio with Paul, I think he needed that kind of focus to be in there to be a part of the whole thing, and for the most part he made all the major decisions.

  Author: Alex Lifeson

• The rich are different from you and me because they have more credit.

  Author: John Leonard

• We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.

  Author: Madeleine L'Engle

• A lot of times you get credit for stuff in your movies you didn't intend to be there.

  Author: Spike Lee

• We always take credit for the good and attribute the bad to fortune.

  Author: Charles Kuralt

• Once a nation parts with the control of its credit, it matters not who makes the laws.

  Author: William King

• Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognized as its most conspicuous and sacred responsibility, all talks of the sovereignty of Parliament and of democracy is idle and futile.

  Author: William King

• Today, people tend to credit me with having the original idea and made the first circuits.

  Author: Jack Kilby

• We must take away the government's credit card. With limits on both tax revenue and borrowing, the Federal government would finally be forced to get serious about spending cuts.

  Author: Alan Keyes

• The trouble with being a ghostwriter or artist is that you must remain rather anonymously without credit. If one wants the credit, one has to cease being a ghost and become a leader or innovator.

  Author: Bob Kane

• There's probably more in the American tradition than people give the place credit for.

  Author: Donald Judd

• The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.

  Author: Benjamin Jowett

• I don't believe I'll ever get credit for anything I do in foreign affairs, no matter how successful it is, because I didn't go to Harvard.

  Author: Lyndon Johnson

• John Henry Lloyd is the man I gave the credit to for polishing my skills. He taught me how to play third base and how to protect myself. John taught me more baseball than anyone else.

  Author: Judy Johnson

• Trying to take the credit for Jamie Carragher and Steven Gerrard, who had been at the club since they were eight. Can you believe it? I can't.

  Author: Ian John

• Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.

  Author: Thomas Jefferson

• They're pushing credit cards. They don't take Visa, but they do take American Express, or they don't take this one, but they take that one, or you'd better bring this one, or if you forget who you are, look on your credit card; it will be there.

  Author: Bill Janklow

• Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them.

  Author: William James

• A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.

  Author: Jesse Jackson

• The duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branches of business, protecting all in their legal pursuits, granting exclusive privileges to none.

  Author: Andrew Jackson

• Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and very much to our credit.

  Author: Thomas Huxley

• The true credit for our safety and security goes to our men and women who are serving in places like Iraq and Afghanistan in the global war on terrorism.

  Author: Asa Hutchinson

• It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things. The monkey wears an expression of seriousness which would do credit to any college student, but the monkey is serious because he itches.

  Author: Robert Hutchins

• Before the arrival of the Credit Union, people who were from the poor background or a working class background couldn't borrow from banks.

  Author: John Hume

• Some fellows get credit for being conservative when they are only stupid.

  Author: Kin Hubbard

• Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.

  Author: Elbert Hubbard

• I'm not alone, I'm free. I no longer have to be a credit, I don't have to be a symbol to anybody; I don't have to be a first to anybody.

  Author: Lena Horne

• A person's credit report is one of the most important tools consumers can use to maintain their financial security and credit rating, but for so long many did not know how to obtain one, or what to do with the information it provided.

  Author: Ruben Hinojosa

• I always give Lindsay so much credit for her tennis game, for her attitude, for her person, and because of how she deals with all the things. I don't think people give her enough credit for how well she's doing.

  Author: Martina Hingis

• The wealth of the country, its capital, its credit, must be saved from the predatory poor as well as the predatory rich, but above all from the predatory politician.

  Author: James Hill

• He that hath lost his credit is dead to the world.

  Author: George Herbert

• Even small cults are a serious cost on the world economy, to victims, their families, employers, friends, and credit-card companies.

  Author: Keith Henson

• I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible.

  Author: Seamus Heaney

• The credit which the apparent conformity with recognized scientific standards can gain for seemingly simple but false theories may, as the present instance shows, have grave consequences.

  Author: Friedrich Hayek

• Several times we were stranded in strange places without any money and with our credit cards cancelled - trapped in a hotel that we couldn't check out of because we had no money to check out.

  Author: Renny Harlin

• People will always consider me a cartoon character, a bimbo. They will never give me credit.

  Author: Jessica Hahn

• My creative partner is a writer, and he's got an executive producing credit on this film. We've made three films together and I would never underestimate the impact of a writer.

  Author: Taylor Hackford

• Our religion, then, rests on the credit due to these witnesses.

  Author: Simon Greenleaf

• No one ever taught me and I can't teach anyone. If you can't explain it, how can you take credit for it?

  Author: Red Grange

• If you can't explain it, how can you take credit for it?

  Author: Harold Grange

• It's really comforting for me and Jeff, at least, that after 12 years we finally feel we've reached a place where we can be more honest, real and loving with each other. And we're finally in a band that we know is good, and deserves the credit it's getting.

  Author: Stone Gossard

• George Bush taking credit for the wall coming down is like the rooster taking credit for the sun rising.

  Author: Al Gore

• The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.

  Author: Johann Goethe

• A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.

  Author: Arnold Glasgow

• The Republican Party is a much bigger tent than people give it credit for. We have a lot of what I guess you all call moderate Republicans.

  Author: Rudy Giuliani

• Just because you donate sperm does not make you a father. I don't have a father. I would never give him the credit or acknowledge him as my father.

  Author: Sarah Gellar

• We judged that a sudden, disorderly failure of Bear would have brought with it unpredictable but severe consequences for the functioning of the broader financial system and the broader economy, with lower equity prices, further downward pressure on home values, and less access to credit for companies and households.

  Author: Timothy Geithner

• Let those only return to their homes who are called by the imperative duties which they owe to their families, and those who by their glorious wounds have deserved the credit of their country.

  Author: Giuseppe Garibaldi

• I know a baseball star who wouldn't report the theft of his wife's credit cards because the thief spends less than she does.

  Author: Joe Garagiola

• There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there.

  Author: Indira Gandhi

• My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.

  Author: Indira Gandhi

• If my acceptance of the office of Governor would serve my country, though my administration would be attended with the loss of personal credit and reputation, I would cheerfully undertake it.

  Author: Christopher Gadsden

• There can be a lot done if you are not so particular about who gets credit for it.

  Author: John Freeman

• Remember that credit is money.

  Author: Benjamin Franklin

• It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.

  Author: Anatole France

• There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.

  Author: B. Forbes

• An awful lot of thriller writers write women rather badly. So just doing it OK gets a lot of credit.

  Author: Ken Follett

• Today, credit rating agencies rate companies, countries and bonds.

  Author: Mike Fitzpatrick

• I never did buy things on credit, I always paid for 'em, because I can't see much difference in paying for something and just waiting a week and pay interest on it; that looks foolish to me.

  Author: Howard Finster

• You don't learn from a situation where you do something well. You enjoy it and you give yourself credit, but you don't really learn from that. You learn from trial and error, trial and error, all the time.

  Author: Suzanne Farrell

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

  Author: Arthur Erickson

• We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.

  Author: Epictetus

• Michigan is also the only industrial state that has a AAA credit rating.

  Author: John Engler

• I had written movie scores, television series, played with other people. Carl had done the same with Asia, with other bands, everything. We weren't about to entrust Greg automatically with a production credit.

  Author: Keith Emerson

• It's just that back then we didn't know that was considered being a coproducer. I would sit on the side and say what I wanted musically, but at the time we thought if you aren't the one playing it, you don't get the credit. Now you'll start seeing my name listed as producer.

  Author: Missy Elliot

• I shall lend credit to nothing against my people which parents would not believe against their own children.

  Author: Elizabeth Elizabeth I

• It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.

  Author: Albert Einstein

• People who don't vote have no line of credit with people who are elected and thus pose no threat to those who act against our interests.

  Author: Marian Edelman

• I have an older sister named Haley and she wanted to be an actress. So I wanted to be an actress. It's really funny the way that some people don't give kids enough credit for like really being driven, and really wanting to do things so badly.

  Author: Hilary Duff

• Over and over again, financial experts and wonkish talking heads endeavor to explain these mysterious, 'toxic' financial instruments to us lay folk. Over and over, they ignobly fail, because we all know that no one understands credit default obligations and derivatives, except perhaps Mr. Buffett and the computers who created them.

  Author: Richard Dooling

• I can walk into a bookstore and hand over my credit card and they don't know who the hell I am. Maybe that says something about bookstore clerks.

  Author: E. Doctorow

• My mother gave me this book called Feature Films at Used Car Prices by a guy named Rick Schmidt. I gotta credit the guy, cuz he gave me the most practical advice. It empowers you.

  Author: Vin Diesel

• Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that.

  Author: Charles Dickens

• Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay.

  Author: Charles Dickens

• No man's credit is as good as his money.

  Author: John Dewey

• And I have to credit David Jacobs with the opportunities he gave me. He was totally into sharing the creation of characters. David put together a show that told the story of people over many years' time and that was greatly enjoyable. Though nowadays that is frowned upon.

  Author: William Devane

• Here is my general approach to the energy companies. You have already charged the utilities a 50 percent credit penalty for the power they were buying from you. You're charging us a penalty. You're not going to get two bites of the apple here.

  Author: Gray Davis

• In science, the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to whom the idea first occurs.

  Author: Francis Darwin

• Our co-founder and company president, Jim Levy, came from a record industry background and understood the marketing and promotion of artists as well as products. So the video game business went from absolutely zero designer credit to something approaching rock star promotion.

  Author: David Crane

• I mean that what makes me a professional, but the market itself has been fabulous during this whole period and I've got to give the market credit before I give myself credit.

  Author: Jim Cramer

• The way the credit cards were made in the '80s to be a people's form of capitalism and be able to make it so that you could get a loan that you would have been denied previous, now that's the way stocks are.

  Author: Jim Cramer

• If you need to put your money in a safe and secure place and you want it to earn interest, Treasury bonds are safer than putting it in any bank as a deposit or putting it anywhere else, because they are backed by the full faith and credit of the United States Government.

  Author: Jim Cooper

• There is nothing less to our credit than our neglect of the foreigner and his children, unless it be the arrogance most of us betray when we set out to "Americanize" him.

  Author: Charles Cooley

• A leopard does not change his spots, or change his feeling that spots are rather a credit.

  Author: Ivy Compton-Burnett

• What the F.D.I.C. does is to put the full faith and credit of the United States government behind every savings account in the nation, up to a limit that has changed over the years and stands now at $100,000.

  Author: Nick Clooney

• Keep up appearances; there lies the test. The world will give thee credit for the rest.

  Author: Charles Churchill

• Every year the Federal Government wastes billions of dollars as a result of overpayments of government agencies, misuse of government credit cards, abuse of the Federal entitlement programs, and the mismanagement of the Federal bureaucracy.

  Author: Chris Chocola

• The facts will speak for themselves. Credit them or not, but read!

  Author: Ralph Chaplin

• It's a wonderful thing to see a segment of our population that is open and eager to learn more about Chinese culture. It has filtered into the mainstream. You see credit-card ads on TV with white couples and Chinese babies.

  Author: Iris Chang

• I think it's because it's so different and it takes risks. Plus, it's really smart humor. It gives the audience credit in terms of not needing to tell them when to laugh. I love that about the show. There's no laugh track.

  Author: Sarah Chalke

• I do think actually in this case the government does get credit for funding some of the basic research.

  Author: Steve Case

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

  Author: Angela Carter

• No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

  Author: Andrew Carnegie

• No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.

  Author: Andrew Carnegie

• The truth is the Republican leadership has created a credit card Congress that is recklessly selling out the future of America, our children and our grandchildren, and President Bush is the most fiscally irresponsible President in the history of America.

  Author: Dennis Cardoza

• The farmers in Kansas are sorely in need of a credit system meeting their special requirements, that they may more readily obtain money on short or long time for their farming operations, or that they may become owners of farms.

  Author: Arthur Capper

• The credit for much of this rightly belongs to the late Mayor Daley who forged a coalition of business and labor that kept Chicago always moving ahead.

  Author: Jane Byrne

• And usually the studios they don't want you to have credit for your movies because they want to take credit for the movies because if you get credit for your movies they've got to pay you more.

  Author: Jerry Bruckheimer

• Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately and gives you a lift... The hangover comes the day after.

  Author: Joyce Brothers

• I give Cronkite a whole lot of credit.

  Author: Ben Bradlee

• Americans are far more remarkable than we give ourselves credit for. We've been so busy damning ourselves for years. We've done it all, and yet we don't take credit for it.

  Author: Ray Bradbury

• Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.

  Author: Napoleon Bonaparte

• Credit... is the only enduring testimonial to man's confidence in man.

  Author: James Blish

• This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.

  Author: Yasmine Bleeth

• People are a lot smarter than anyone gives them credit for being.

  Author: Ruben Blades

• Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself.

  Author: Alexander Bell

• Oftentimes, small business owners are unable to obtain reasonably priced financing and instead turn to higher priced forms of capital, such as credit cards.

  Author: Melissa Bean

• Individual investors have become far more powerful than anyone gives them credit for. Today, 85 million Americans invest in stocks. Collectively, that kind of buying and selling power can move markets.

  Author: Maria Bartiromo

• We've gotta give Richard Williams a lot of credit - to give us two number one champions is a phenomenal feat.

  Author: Tracy Austin

• Probably we never fully credit the interdependence of wild creatures, and their cognizance of the affairs of their own kind.

  Author: Mary Austin

• We always expect tremendous criticism. It is my role to be the lightning rod ... to attract the attacks against the organization for our work, and that is a difficult role. On the other hand, I get undue credit.

  Author: Julian Assange

• They're sheep. They like Bush enough to credit him with saving the nation after 9/11. Three thousand people get killed, and everybody thinks they're next on the list. The president comes along, and he's got his six-guns strapped on, and people think he's going to save them.

  Author: Ed Asner

• Deciding whether to trust or credit a person is always an uncertain task.

  Author: Aldrich Ames

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

  Author: Aldrich Ames

• It is imperative that we make consumers more aware of the long-term effects of their financial decisions, particularly in managing their credit card debt, so that they can avoid financial pitfalls that may lead to bankruptcy.

  Author: Daniel Akaka

• Now between '45 and '48, things would change enormously, 'cos we'd had credit in United States, credit from the Bank of America, credit from the Import-Export Bank and people had started working again.

  Author: Gianni Agnelli

• I mean, what Fiat had it was not very big, it was something like forty or fifty million dollars, but it's enough to get revolving credit, to get starting away again, the buying of new machinery.

  Author: Gianni Agnelli

• The most powerful person is he who is able to do least himself and burden others most with the things for which he lends his name and pockets the credit.

  Author: Theodor Adorno

• All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.

  Author: John Adams

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