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Bankrupt of life, yet prodigal of ease. -- John Dryden
Clever derivatives broke dozens of companies. It killed them. Bankrupt. We don't need these kinds of innovation in finance. It's OK to be boring in finance. What we want is innovation in widgets. -- Charlie Munger
The computer industry is creatively bankrupt. -- Jonathan Ive
Evolution is a bankrupt speculative philosophy, not a scientific fact. -- Jimmy Swaggart
We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
I'm either going to go completely mental, completely bankrupt, or have the best success of my life. -- Katy Perry
The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you're uncool. -- Philip Seymour Hoffman
We cannot continue. Our pension costs and health care costs for our employees are going to bankrupt this city. -- Michael Bloomberg
We know that Medicare is set to go bankrupt in 2024 with no action, and social security is set to be insolvent by 2037. -- Joe Heck
Let us not bankrupt our todays by paying interest on the regrets of yesterday and by borrowing in advance the troubles of tomorrow. -- Ralph W. Sockman
Evolution is a bankrupt speculative philosophy, not a scientific fact. Only a spiritually bankrupt society could ever believe it. Only atheists could accept this Satanic theory. -- Jimmy Swaggart
Never take advice from anyone in a tie. They'll bankrupt you. Don't ask a general for advice on war, and don't ask a broker for advice on money. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
One of the things the government can't do is run anything. The only things our government runs are the post office and the railroads, and both of them are bankrupt. -- Lee Iacocca
It's not about success. Whatever happens, it doesn't matter. I would like to not go bankrupt or get some incurable disease, but other than that, I'm just happy to keep going. -- Dan Auerbach
As I think through the issue of funding the rebuilding of Iraq, I think about the analogy of a bankruptcy proceeding. There is no doubt that Iraq as a country is bankrupt. -- Arlen Specter
Character is greater than talent, genius, fame, money, friends - there is nothing to compare with it. A man may have all these and yet remain comparatively useless - be unhappy - and die a bankrupt in soul. -- George Matthew Adams
The war on drugs is wrong, both tactically and morally. It assumes that people are too stupid, too reckless, and too irresponsible to decide whether and under what conditions to consume drugs. The war on drugs is morally bankrupt. -- Larry Elder
Now, people when I say that look at me and say, 'What are you talking about, Joe? You're telling me we have to go spend money to keep from going bankrupt?'. The answer is yes, that's what I'm telling you. -- Joe Biden
If there are only three guys at the top of the organization handling things, it's the definition of a bankrupt company. In creating leaders without titles, we are going to have organizations with people at the helm putting forth their best. -- Robin S. Sharma
A thousand restaurants close every month. They re-open, and that's good for America. Nobody's rescuing them. They employ people, too. If we let them go bankrupt, the factories don't go away, the creative people don't go away. They get employed more productively by others. -- John Stossel
You have to struggle a bit, hustle a little, and be willing to go bankrupt. Once you're willing to do that, everything opens up and you get the freedom. My joke is that next year, I'll make the first film that costs zero dollars. -- Nick Nolte
I didn't end up going bankrupt... I made some great investments and I held on to my money, which also enables me to have the freedom to do what I want now. But it's not about finances. No matter what, it's about keeping it real. -- Vanilla Ice
When I went into GM there was a lack of morale. The company had gone bankrupt and the people who worked there were embarrassed. Underneath all of, though, there was a will to show what they were capable of, but nobody knew exactly what to do. -- Edward Whitacre, Jr.
I have to think that I think it's always been a horse race between this administration's temporary political acumen and their completely, utterly, totally bankrupt policies. And they're coming home to roost. It was always a question of time. These guys aren't conservative. These guys are radicals. -- Bradley Whitford
Economists specialize in pointing out unpleasant trade-offs - a skill that is on full display in the health care debate. We want patients to receive the best care available. We also want consumers to pay less. And we don't want to bankrupt the government or private insurers. Something must give. -- Sendhil Mullainathan
Modern medicine has presented us with a Faustian bargain: Our aging bodies can bankrupt our children and grandchildren. We have run into the 'law of diminishing returns' in health care, where we are often doing more and more, with higher and higher technology, at more and more cost, for less and less benefit. -- Richard Lamm
You read these management books that say, 'These are the hard things about running a company.' But those aren't really the hard things. The hard things are when you have to layoff half your company, or you have to fire your best friend. Or you have to figure out a way not to go bankrupt. -- Ben Horowitz
The President didn't offer any clarity in his latest speech about what he would do to tackle our nation's debt before it tackles us and it's still not clear how he'll keep Medicare from going bankrupt. One thing is clear though, Barack Obama isn't interested in governing or putting forward solutions to fix our nation's problems. -- Paul Ryan
Let Detroit go bankrupt. -- Mitt Romney
I have never gone bankrupt. -- Donald Trump
Quality brands never go bankrupt. -- Richard Branson
A country does not go bankrupt. -- Walter Wriston
The bank of love is never bankrupt. -- Steve Maraboli
To bankrupt a fool, give him information. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I'm the finance minister of a bankrupt country -- Yanis Varoufakis
Apart from Jesus Christ you are spiritually bankrupt. -- Johnny Hunt
I think that notion of leadership is bankrupt. -- Ronald A. Heifetz
I didn't leave business school to go bankrupt. -- Steve Ballmer
I have never seen a generous man go bankrupt. -- Junaid Jamshed
Sarcasm is the last refuge of the imaginatively bankrupt. -- Cassandra Clare
It's not 2038 that Social Security is bankrupt. It's now. -- Gary Johnson
How did you go bankrupt?" Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly. -- Ernest Hemingway
If we bankrupt America, we will all pay the price. -- Michael Enzi
We refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If 'Obama-care' becomes fully implemented in 2014, it's going to bankrupt states. -- Lindsey Graham
Don't you miss the days when America was just MORALLY bankrupt? -- Bill Maher
The great problem with government is that it never goes bankrupt. -- Jerry Brown
Building on a bond is bankable. Building on bitterness is bankrupt. -- T.F. Hodge
We can't bankrupt Exxon. But we can politically and morally bankrupt them. -- Bill McKibben
Of all the artists on Death Row, none of them went bankrupt. -- Suge Knight
Money may not buy love, but fighting about it will bankrupt your relationship. -- Michelle Singletary
When the Reich could no longer pay its obligations, Germany would go bankrupt. -- Edwin Black
The good news is, we're not bankrupt. The bad news is, we're close. -- Richard Codey
The world always had the same bankrupt look, to foregoing ages as to us. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Barack Obama inherited a bankrupt economy, a bankrupt government, and a bankrupt foreign policy. -- Thomas P.M. Barnett
How did we go bankrupt? Two ways. Slowly, and then all of a sudden. -- Ernest Hemingway
If all I had was all that money could buy, I'd be bankrupt!" EL -- Evinda Lepins
Much of the profession is empirically bankrupt because it is no longer taught economic history. -- Charles P. Kindleberger
I was spiritually bankrupt, and when that happens, it's like a spiritual cancer afflicts you. -- Mel Gibson
The universe seems bankrupt as soon as we begin to discuss the characters of individuals. -- Henry David Thoreau
That was Embassy Pictures, they went bankrupt shortly after This is Spinal Tap came out. -- Harry Shearer
Any system of economics is bankrupt if it sees either value or virtue in unemployment. -- Jimmy Carter
Make men large and strong and tyranny will bankrupt itself in making shackles for them. -- Henry Ward Beecher
There's a rumour going around that states cannot go bankrupt. This rumour is not true. -- Angela Merkel
I've gone bankrupt about four times now. Every dollar I earn goes on the show. -- Lady Gaga
Obamacare won't just bankrupt the country. It may bankrupt small businesses. It may bankrupt individuals. -- Rush Limbaugh
If we don't change the way Washington operates we're going to bankrupt our children and grandchildren. -- David Dewhurst
People will no more advance their civility to a bear, than their money to a bankrupt. -- Lord Chesterfield
Popular culture is morally bankrupt, flagrantly licentious and utterly materialistic-and Madonna is the worst of all. -- Tipper Gore
Without giving specific names, most of the significant American banks, the larger banks, are bankrupt, totally bankrupt, -- Jim Rogers
We are about half a century away from being ecologically and economically bankrupt because of global warming -- Andrew Simms
Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt. -- Honore de Balzac
When a company goes bankrupt, you as a company have absolutely no say whatsoever as to what happens. -- Thomas G. Stemberg
He was ruined in every way, but a man possessed of passion is not a bankrupt in life. -- Joseph Conrad
When a person gets right with God, my eyes are upward...I'm poor in spirit. I'm spiritually bankrupt. -- Johnny Hunt
The state is a bankrupt institution. The only alternative to this bankrupt 'humanistic' system is a God-centered government. -- R.J. Rushdoony
Nominally, there is one executive for every eight federal employees, a ratio that would bankrupt many private industries. -- Martin L. Gross
Step to this and get shanked up I knocked out so many teeth the tooth fairy went bankrupt -- Big L
[T]o argue that something is so because it is in the Bible is more than intellectually bankrupt. -- Jon Meacham
Money may not be able to buy you love, but conflicts about it can certainly bankrupt your relationship. -- Michelle Singletary
In a country where everyone strives for attention, it is better to be bankrupt than to be nothing. -- Nicolas Chamfort
We, alongside the mujahedeen, bled Russia for 10 years until it went bankrupt and was forced to withdraw in defeat, -- Osama bin Laden
Credibility is a leader's currency. With it, he or she is solvent; without it, he or she is bankrupt. -- John C. Maxwell
Let me by the child in that story and declare that the Emperor is naked-or that America is culturally bankrupt. -- Ayn Rand
These are stupid people that say, `Oh didn't Trump declare bankruptcy? Didn't he go bankrupt?' I didn't go bankrupt. -- Donald Trump
A refund for defective software might be nice, except it would bankrupt the entire software industry in the first year. -- Andrew S. Tanenbaum
Investment banks manage to go bankrupt through their investment-banking activities, commercial banks manage to go bankrupt through their commercial-banking activities. -- Ben Bernanke
Half of all people who go bankrupt cite a medical problem as one of the things that drove them into bankruptcy. -- Amelia Warren Tyagi
The work in S, M, L, XL was almost suicidal. It required so much effort that our office almost went bankrupt. -- Rem Koolhaas
Let us not bankrupt our today's by paying interest on the regrets of yesterday and borrowing in advance the troubles of tomorrow. -- Ralph Washington Sockman
Medicaid is essentially bankrupt, Medicare is essentially bankrupt, why the heck would we give the federal government another entitlement program to manage? -- Tim Pawlenty
Democrats are losing loyal voters, but the Republicans aren't picking them up. Democrats are ideologically bankrupt. Republicans have a major brand-identity problem -- Herman Cain
You could transfer Congress over to run Standard Oil or General Motors, and they would have both things bankrupt in two years. -- Will Rogers
I did go bankrupt because everybody copied me - every single industry. But genuinely, it doesn't matter. I swear I don't care. -- Maripol
As long as you believe in yourself and your own vision, you have something. When you give up that, you are personally bankrupt. -- Olivia Goldsmith
I don't know a more irreligious attitude, one more utterly bankrupt of any human content, than one which permits childred to be destroyed. -- Daniel Berrigan
If Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan get elected to the White House, Medicare will be bankrupt by the end of their first term. -- Stephanie Cutter
The Court today holds the Congress may say that some of the poor are too poor even to go bankrupt. I cannot agree. -- Potter Stewart
Many people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honor. -- Oscar Wilde
A slavish concern for the composition of words is the sign of a bankrupt intellect. Be gone, odious wasp! You smell of decayed syllables. -- Norton Juster
Modern life is so thin and shallow and fake. I look forward to when developers go bankrupt, Japan gets poorer and wild grasses take over. -- Hayao Miyazaki
While Mitt Romney was at Bain Capital, almost one out of every four companies they were involved with went bankrupt or went out of business. -- John Brabender
Folks in the bottom half of the economy are already squeezed hard. They will be bloodied and bankrupt if economic policy inadvertently induces a recession. -- William Greider
Retirement is an illusion. Not a reward but a mantrap. The bankrupt underside of success. A shortcut to death. Golf courses are too much like cemeteries. -- Saul Bellow
Reviewers, with some rare exceptions, are a most stupid and malignant race. As a bankrupt thief turns thief-taker in despair, so an unsuccessful author turns critic. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Holocaust industry has always been bankrupt. What remains is to openly declare it so. The time is long past to put it out of business. -- Norman Finkelstein
It's strange. You never start out life with the intention of becoming a bankrupt or an alcoholic or a cheat and a thief. Or a liar. -- Raymond Carver
Clearly our current form of medicine will bankrupt us and simultaneously keep the chemical industry the number one money-maker as physicians nurture a nation of drugged zombies. -- Sherry Rogers
The Republicans just want to bankrupt the government. They think that the government should do nothing, except maybe support the military. So terrorism is perfect for them. -- David O. Russell
If we fight our enemy using the same inhumane and morally bankrupt techniques that we are trying to stop, we will simply become what we have beheld. -- Ed Markey
Six percent, 5 percent of our GDP for him [Vladimir Putin] to match us, he has to spend 25 percent of his GDP and it will bankrupt his country. -- Rudy Giuliani
Prayer is not a check request asking for things from God. It is a deposit slip - a way of depositing God's character into our bankrupt souls. -- Dutch Sheets
The subscription model of buying music is bankrupt. I think you could make available the Second Coming in a subscription model and it might not be successful. -- Steve Jobs
I wanted it to be like Amy Grant, but it didn't pan out that way. My label actually went bankrupt, and I was left without a home. -- Katy Perry
Values aren't buses," she said shortly. "They're not supposed to get you anywhere. They're supposed to define who you are. And I'd rather be touchy-feely than morally bankrupt. -- Jennifer Crusie
The Olympics are too powerful. I hate sports - they generate so much nationalism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, racism, economic exploitation, displacement of communities to build worthless bankrupt stadiums. -- Terre Thaemlitz
Bad television is three things: a bullet train to a morally bankrupt youth, a slow spiral into an intellectual void, and of course, a complete blast to watch. -- Dennis Miller
Fear is a problem with film music and films; people want to be conventional, and there's more commercialism today. If you are not daring in your art, you're bankrupt. -- Alex North
I am one of the unpraised, unrewarded millions without whom Statistics would be a bankrupt science. It is we who are born, who marry, who die, in constant ratios. -- Logan Pearsall Smith
Every sensible banker understands that Greece should not have received any more money: a bankrupt state that can never be expected to repay loans is not a good debtor. -- Yanis Varoufakis

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