Quotes About Speculation

I'm sure Obama is an atheist; I'm sure Kennedy was an atheist, but I doubt if Pope Frank is.

There has been speculation through the years that Elvis has his eyes done or some other mystery procedure, but that mini facelift was the extent of his plastic surgery.

I am surprised with the reelection of Mr. Obama. The S&P is only down, like, 30 points. I would have thought that the market on his reelection should be down at least 50%.

It surprises me how quickly the press likes to reach conclusions about my life.

Sometimes I think these pretenses at authoritative knowledge are failures of language: the language of bold assertion is simpler, less taxing, than the language of nuance and ambiguity and speculation.

We know less when we erroneously think we know than when we recognize that we don't...the language of bold assertion is simpler, less taxing, than the language of nuance and ambiguity and speculation.

Only sometimes you can't feel anything about a subject without hypothesizing its extinction.

Half the things we dig up, we have no idea what they are, and we still sell them as fucking coffee-table trinkets. Right now, someone back on Latimer has probably got the encoded secret of a faster-than-light drive mounted on their fucking living room wall." She paused. "And it's probably upside down.

Life seemed even more of a guessing game than usual.

Posterity will jump to conclusions: that is its nature.

History is all about 'what ifs

The imagination of a eunuch dwells more and longer upon the material of love than that of man or woman ... supplying, so far as he can, by speculation, the place of pleasures he can no longer enjoy.

I'm not a betting man.

I've... been accused of being involved with every man I'm ever seen with or worked with. Maybe I have, maybe I ain't. I never tell if I have.

Roger Scruton is one of our great men of speculation

The 'missing link' between ape and man will probably never be found- because it was an embryo.

It is only theory that makes men completely incautious.

Man is different from animals in that he speculates, a high-risk activity.

... you simply can't imagine what men will say!

Should I assume the lure is a certain attractive young dead man?

Today, basically, on Wall Street, the big money is made by taking risks.

Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.

I was lucky enough to see with my own eyes the recent stock-market crash, where they lost several million dollars, a rabble of dead money that went sliding off into the sea.

I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000.