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)

    “Her face had the seamed reserve of the old in this country [Japan]. It was a neighborhood poignantly rich in old ladies.”
    —Angela Carter (1940–1992)

    “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)