Fractional Reserve Lending

Famous quotes containing the words fractional, reserve and/or lending:

    Hummingbird
    stay for a fractional sharp
    sweetness, and’s gone, can’t take
    more than that.
    Denise Levertov (b. 1923)

    I do not know what right I have to so much happiness, but rather hold it in reserve till the time of my desert.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    And lending it one mental fillip the more, the fact that all these people were inwardly attacked by well-nigh resistless decay, and that most of them were feverish.
    Thomas Mann (1875–1955)