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Quotes About Speculation

I don't know whether I'm, like, jumping the gun but it's possible that in the future we may be able to use the information that we can't receive at the moment.
~ Sean Booth
I heard recently that I used to date Patrick Swayze.
~ Davey Havok
Obviously there's some kind of life elsewhere. I don't know whether it would look like anything we recognise but I do believe in aliens.
~ Ant McPartlin
I don't know when the Return of the Living Dead are happening. That's been on the Internet for years.
~ Tobe Hooper
We can have fun speculating about why things are the way they are but don't look to science to provide any answers.
~ Carolyn Porco
When I see a headline 'Guess who's going out with who?' I don't guess, and I don't click.
~ Ricky Gervais
I don't know what happens to you after you die. I'm not banking on there being, like, a heaven.
~ Al Franken
I don't see any magic in hedge funds.
~ John C. Bogle
I'm not going to lie, I believe that aliens are already here.
~ NLE Choppa
It is a hard thing for a rich man to grow poor; but it is an awful thing for him to grow dishonest, and some kinds of speculation lead a man deep into dishonesty before he thinks what he is about. Poverty will not make a man worthless—he may be of worth a great deal more when he is poor than he was when he was rich; but dishonesty goes very far indeed to make a man of no value—a thing to be thrown out in the dust-hole of the creation, like a bit of broken basin, or dirty rag.
~ George MacDonald
The claim that hung over him haunted his very life, turning the currents of his thought into channels of speculation unknown before. One day when these questions were fighting in his heart, all at once it seemed as if a soundless voice in the depth of his soul replied, Thy soul, however it became known to itself, is from the pure heart of God. And with the thought, the horizon of his life began to clear.
~ George MacDonald
Do those who say, lo here or lo there are the signs of his coming, think to be too keen for him, and spy his approach? When he tells them to watch lest he find them neglecting their work, they stare this way and that, and watch lest he should succeed in coming like a thief! So throughout: if, instead of speculation, we gave ourselves to obedience, what a difference would soon be seen in the world!
~ George MacDonald
You must remember that nothing is more wearisome than to be obliged to listen to stories about a set of persons one has never seen.
~ Georgette Heyer
It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice. There are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia.
~ Frank Zappa
If Messi were Brazilian, he would be a world champion.
~ Roberto Carlos
The simplest way out of the puzzle of time travel is to say that it can't be done. That's very likely the right answer. However, we don't know for sure.
~ Sean M. Carroll
Online journalism has always had a sourcing problem. From using unverified 'anonymous tips' to repeating whatever rumor or speculation people are chattering about, the general ethic is, 'We'll publish just about anything.'
~ Ryan Holiday
I don't know where the stock market is going, but I will say this, that if it continues higher, this will do more to stimulate the economy than anything we've been talking about today or anything anybody else was talking about.
~ Alan Greenspan
People are going to make their own minds up, and seeing how happy people are together and how much fun they're having, people are always going to think 'ooh are they in a relationship? They look so happy together.'
~ A. J. Pritchard
A token like ethereum has gone up 10 times faster than bitcoin, and it's fueling an ICO bubble no different then the dot-com IPOs of the late '90s.
~ Tone Vays
The whole thrust of the platform suggests an insight of significance today. The Alliance saw the greatest threat to freedom not in government, but in big business. It looked to government as the only viable counterweight. Among the measures it advocated were an interstate commerce law to regulate railroad freight rates and laws to curb or prohibit financial speculation in railroad stock, agricultural futures, and land, and the strict enforcement of those laws.
~ Sarah Chayes
What the hell was an acquisitions consultant? An arms dealer? A white slave trader?
~ Sarra Manning
In truth, a good chunk of activity in derivative markets is driven by speculation. Part of it is obscured by semantics; the boundary between speculation and investment is always hazy. If you lost money you speculated. If you made money you were investing. Or was it the other way around?
~ Satyajit Das
We need a generation of dissident disciples who confront and resist corruption and systemic abuses in whatever locations they are found: • corruption in the countries of the world, • our churches' complicities in these corruptions, • and the reading of Revelation as speculation, which blunts our prophetic voice.
~ Scot McKnight