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Quotes About Speculation

Investors don't like uncertainty.
~ Kenneth Lay
Maybe! Maybe! Maybe if your aunt had a beard, she'd be your uncle.
~ Alvah Bessie
There were rumors in the magazines that I was seeing Ajay Devgn. That made me even more uncomfortable.
~ Mahima Chaudhry
We speculate as to what is in store for us. But we not only undergo events, we in part cause them or at least influence their course. We have not only to study them but to act.
~ Emily Greene Balch
One of the things that science fiction gets to do is thought experiments about the human condition that would be impractical or unethical to conduct in real life.
~ Robert J. Sawyer
Markets are unforgiving, and sometimes they move for reasons we can't possibly foresee.
~ Rick Santelli
What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture.
~ Thomas Browne
Am I a spaceman? Do I belong to a new race on earth, bred by men from outer space in embraces with earth women?
~ Wilhelm Reich
A fun rumour I would like to spread is that Salman Khan is getting married to me.
~ Zareen Khan
I'm sure those rumors are spread, but it's just ah - we're really good friend. We've been since day one in Hollywood. In class, we've been together in school. We've gotten really close, but I don't know about the more than friends stuff.
~ Scotty McCreery
Until you separate the speculative behaviour of the financial sector from the real economy and the financing of the real economy, then we are not going to see the kind of stability or the capacity to drive genuine, income-led growth as opposed to debt-fuelled, speculative behaviour.
~ Sharan Burrow
I have never been sexually aroused by a man. But I have yet to kiss Johnny Depp, so you never know.
~ Dave Navarro
Many things, for aught I know, may exist, whereof neither I nor any other man hath or can have any idea or notion whatsoever.
~ George Berkeley
There is scarcely an instance of a man who has made a fortune by speculation and kept it
~ Andrew Carnegie
Thus each person by his fears gives wings to rumor, and, without any real source of apprehension, men fear what they themselves have imagined.
~ Lucan
Often they win sympathy by a certain good-naturedness, a kindly involvement in other people's lives: selflessness as speculation.
~ Theodor W. Adorno
In science fiction, you can also test out your own realities.
~ Theodore Sturgeon
Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever.
~ Theodore Sturgeon
I'm very curious to know what it's like, death - I always say to my wife, 'I wonder if we'll have the 'New York Times' when we're dead.'
~ R. J. Cutler
History shows us that people are terrible about guessing what is going to happen - next week, next month, and especially next year.
~ Barry Ritholtz
One of the nice things about science fiction is that it lets us carry out thought experiments.
~ Rudy Rucker
There's no difference between science and science fiction.
~ Mike Hughes
I've absolutely no idea where Culoiseau is, but I'd imagine La Poularde de Culoiseau is some kind of chicken.
~ Daniel Hannan
Who do I think Jack The Ripper was? Do you know, I've got no idea who Jack The Ripper was. No idea.
~ Jerome Flynn