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Quotes About Speculation

Am I the only one around here who thinks Maya has a hidden Y chromosome?" Hayley said. "If she does, she's hiding it pretty good," Corey said, giving me a lascivious once-over.
~ Kelley Armstrong
sure their gamble
~ Ken Follett
I can assure you that flying saucers, given that they exist, are not constructed by any power on Earth.
~ Harry S. Truman
Abel talked about Amanda, about her poetry, her grace, her tendency to dream. He speculated on why her movements, her gestures, her voice, her way of dressing, were so much more charming and heart-winning than those of any other female mouse he had ever known, including his own dear mother and favorite sister. It puzzled him. "It's the magic of love," burped Gower.
~ William Steig
Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing from something.
~ Wilson Mizner
But what if human beings themselves disappear?" I asked.
~ Y?ko Ogawa
equatorial Africa? Could it have arrived there in one soaring leap, leaving no traces in between? From southwestern Sudan to Manila is almost seven thousand miles as the bat flies. But no bat can fly that far without roosting. Are ebolaviruses more broadly distributed than we suspect? Should scientists start looking for them in India, Thailand, and Vietnam? Or did Reston virus get to the Philippines the same way Taï Forest virus got to Switzerland and Johannesburg—by airplane? If
~ David Quammen
posición grande. En el mercado de compraventa de divisas, hay diferentes
~ David Reese
wildly speculative.
~ David Remnick
These are forms of speculation, which project that land and property prices will increase based on the assumption that demand will increase in the future.
~ David Schneider
Be prepared for the possible outcomes and use only money you could afford to lose, even if your initial speculative trades seem to be successful. Almost
~ David Schneider
Almost all investors I know, who consider themselves proper investors according to the definition above, like to do the occasional trade, punt on pure speculation. But they do it with money they consider part of their gambling portfolio, or play money. They would never risk their financial well being by mindlessly gambling with their main wealth. What
~ David Schneider
WAGs... That's a technical term we engineers use. It means 'Wild-Assed Guess'.
~ David Weber
There is large cap, mid cap, small cap. There is also a "BHANGAAR CAP". More than 4000 out of 6000 companies fit in that category. They show up only in the good times. Be careful
~ Vijay Kedia
Trading is injurious to your wealth. If you are smoking you may die in 20-30 years whereas by trading, this may happen the very next day.
~ Vijay Kedia
Almost all rich veins of original and striking speculation have been opened by systematic half-thinkers.
~ John Stuart Mill
I wonder who had the first computer dream, where, and when? I wonder if computers ever dream of humans.
~ David Mitchell, Ghostwritten
Of the two, I would think of my work as closer to Science Fiction than Fantasy.
~ Jean M. Auel
People declare as much, without, apparently, looking into the matter very closely. They seem able to dispense with the conscientious observer's scruples, when inflating their bladder of theory.
~ Jean-Henri Fabre
The hypothetical aquatic phase of the ancestral apes during the fossil gap would have been brief, a matter of two or three million years.
~ Elaine Morgan
What do you mean no one knows where he is? Human beings don't just disappear. Not unless they've been abducted by aliens. But even then, isn't there some kind of crop circle left behind or something? Does this Ramsey Sage not have a crop circle? Because if he doesn't, then he's probably not been abducted by aliens, in which case, we'd have a good chance of finding him, I'd think.
~ Elizabeth Bevarly
Well, that's what they said. (It could have just been indigestion, though.)
~ Elizabeth Cody Kimmel
But Sir Alistair's gaze was different. Those other men had looked at her with lust or speculation or crass curiosity, but they hadn't been looking at her really. They'd been looking at what she represented to them: physical love or a valuable prize or an object to be gawked at. When Sir Alistair stared at her, well, he was looking at her.
~ Elizabeth Hoyt
There is a final resource to which I've resorted when necessary—the imagination. I have done this with judicious care, imagining for my reader only what I already know is very likely, and even then only when an informed speculation can set these documents into their proper context. Where I have been unable to explain events or motives, I have left them unexplained, out of respect for their hidden realities.
~ Elizabeth Kostova