Quotes About Speculating

Voters tell politicians what they want through the ballot box. Constantly second-guessing them by speculating whether the parties should gang up on each other misses the point.

Luther's celebrated statement concerning the qualifications of a true theologian: `living, or rather dying and being damned make a theologian, not understanding, reading or speculating.'42

If you run into trouble, just tell everybody that the security of the country requires a strong domestic Egyptian-cotton speculating industry.

There was a pause while Pendergast considered this. "I prefer hypocrisy to poverty." "Come to think of it, there is a rationale. Leng didn't make his money from killing. He made it from speculating in railroads, oil, and precious metals." Pendergast raised his eyebrows. "I did not know that." "There is much you still don't know about him.

The American media struggled to sustain a semblance of calm and order, still insistent Lee Harvey Oswald had been the lone crackpot assassin and had acted unilaterally. But observers and journalists in other countries had already started speculating Oswald had been killed to keep him from talking.

Experience has proved to me that real money made in speculating has been in commitments in a stock or commodity showing a profit right from the start.

This is a speculating and selfish age; and to think 'money will answer all things,' is too much the characteristic of Americans.

I don't understand why the press is so interested in speculating about my appearance, anyway. What does my face have to do with my music or my dancing?

But what is the sense in forever speculating what might have happened had such and such a moment turned out differently? One could presumably drive oneself to distraction in this way.

But what is the sense in forever speculating what might have happened had such and such a moment turned out differently.

Instead of speculating about the end times and writing terrible novels about people being left behind and preaching ridiculous sermons connecting Iran to the book of Daniel, it's better if people agree that we aren't going to worry about what we can't control and we are going to become far more intentional about what we can control—loving our neighbor, becoming people of character and integrity, taking better care of the earth.

There are interesting patterns evident in this particular back-to-back stemplot, but we will defer speculating about them until the next chapter.

If he were honest with himself, he'd rather still be at the office, speculating about the stabbings with Robin over a Chinese takeaway than heading towards Madeline's. Best, then, not

I do not believe in any religion, I will have nothing to do with immortality. We are miserable enough in this life without speculating upon another.

The sequence of thinking before acting is the exact definition of the word plan. Therefore, speculating and planning are the same thing. A plan allows you to speculate with a long time horizon (as an investor), a short time horizon (as a trader), or on a spread relationship (as a basis trader or hedger).

But when investing, trading, or speculating, if you're losing and stop acting, the losses don't stop; they can continue to grow almost indefinitely.

Speculating is the application of intellectual examination and systematic analysis to the problem of the uncertain future.

Speculating (and this includes investing and trading) is the only human endeavor in which what feels good is the right thing to do.

gambling creates risk while investing/speculating assumes and manages risk that already exists.

What you can't do is have a situation where you get a rejection of the treaty and then you just bring it back with a few amendments and say we will have another go. You can't do that and I am not going to get drawn into speculating the way forward because I don't intend to lose the referendum.

I think the technology will get bigger and the price of Bitcoin will go up, so I'm speculating to increase my purchasing power. But I don't intend to sell the Bitcoin. I intend to hold it until there's a day where I can just use Bitcoin completely.

When I write, I am not giving a lecture, I am speculating on behavior. Sometimes this is dangerous, but it should be. As I say often, theatre is a dark place and we should keep the light out of it.

You can't possibly conduct a proper affair without a lot of deliberating, scheming, speculating, and conniving. It's a delicate balance where the excitement must equal the guilt and sex must be as bright as the future you gamble.

Over the land freckled with snow half-thawed The speculating rooks at their nests cawed And saw from elm-tops, delicate as flowers of grass, What we below could not see, Winter pass.