Quotes About Speculation

Most of these highly speculative investments never panned out.

Since he also had a sizable stake in U.S. government bonds, he felt he could play the market with impunity.

He said that the first holders were not simply noble victims, nor were the current buyers simply predatory speculators. The original investors had gotten cash when they wanted it and had shown little faith in the country's future. Speculators, meanwhile, had hazarded their money and should be rewarded for the risk.

When you're a theorist, the two most addictive states to be in are excited and confused

It is mere rubbish, thinking at present of the origin of life; one might as well think of the origin of matter.

One presenter was reporting on the fatal shooting of a suspected organized crime figure behind a downtown strip club, which involved much breathless speculation laid over meaningless pictures, mostly of the closed gate in the pink fence, above a ticker that said Moscow Comes to Phoenix, which Reacher figured would annoy Ukrainians everywhere, the two countries being entirely separate now, and proud of it, at least in one direction.

Too many ifs, Reacher thought. And too few answers.

the smart money never bets on the DoD having gotten exactly what it paid for. The

They vanished in the same forest without a trace. Not one of them was ever found or heard from again.' 'And you suspect what?' Scully asked. 'Bigfoot maybe?' 'Not likely,' Mulder answered deadpan. 'That's a lot of flannel to choke down. Even for Bigfoot.' Scully sighed. She should have known better than to joke about Bigfoot to Mulder. Bigfoot wasn't a joke to him.

How great would be the disgrace to such a borough as that of Westminster if it should find that it had been taken in by a false spirit of speculation and that it had surrendered itself to gambling when it had thought to do honour to honest commerce.

Nada disso vai melhorar a qualidade das torradeiras , mas é um lance viajante que faz com que você passe o dia inteiro tentando desvendar a questão.

Got a better theory?

I'm aware that, whatever the circumstances, there will always be speculation about me.

I think that only daring speculation can lead us further and not accumulation of facts.

Intelligent life on other planets? I'm not even sure there is on earth!

When talking about speculations, a man dreams, and money decides.

As one historian has neatly put it: The futures market is a place where "men who don't own something are selling that something to men who don't really want it.

Worse yet, there are those who would abandon the tangible world altogether in favor of a virtual reality assembled in computer networks - memory palaces dislodged from the earth and inhabited by electronic speculation. We intend to remain unabashedly earthbound, ready to spend out limited days imagining palpable places, places that people can reach on their feet and fill with their presence.

Civic participation depends on creativity, an (aesthetic) knack for reframing experience, and on a corollary freedom to adjust laws and practices in light of ever-new challenges. Without art, citizenship would shrink to compliance, as if society were a closed text. Reading lessons would stop at the factual "what is," rather than continue to the speculative "what if.

I know it's not cat food, but what exactly is it that they put inside of tinned ravioli?

Always keep 'em guessing.

no money could ever be made from it, only lost.

Would extraordinarily advanced alien beings really traverse this unimaginable gulf just to blast patterns in our cornfields, mutilate our cows, and probe our anuses? Surely they'd have better things to do.

I began toying with the idea of a million human worlds.