Quotes About Speculation

When you don't win, people have to make up a reason.

Markets tend to always overshoot when they get really ebullient.

Sometimes I try to imagine what happens to characters in books - after the books finish, I mean.

He no longer describes the earth as a library globe or a map that has come alive, as a cosmic eye staring into deep space. The earth is land and water, the dwelling place of mortal men, in elevated dictionary terms. He doesn't see it anymore (storm-spiralled, sea-bright, breathing heat and haze and colour) as an occasion for picturesque language, for easeful play or speculation.

Decide early on if it's a short- or long-term play. Speculators can make money by buying in new condo developments very early and then flipping the units at the first opportunity for a quick profit.

to me, the hallmark of the modern mind is that it loves to wander from its subject) I

To me, the hallmark of the modern mind is that it loves to wander from its subject.

Have you ever wondered who you would be if you hadn't grown up in the Syndicate Worlds?" "You mean, if I'd been born on some Alliance planet?" "Perhaps," Iceni said. "Or perhaps somewhere else. Some star system far away, where they've never heard of the Alliance or the Syndicate Worlds or the war. Suppose you had grown up there? Who would you be?

I have what I call my Evel Knievel screen. These are companies that are trying to jump the Grand Canyon and probably won't make it. There are only two conditions for the screen. First, the company is trading at more than five times book value. Second, the company is losing money. My job is to figure out which stocks won't make it across the Grand Canyon and then go short those stocks.

But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction.

I understand the gist of your speculation,' said Rhialto. 'It is most likely nuncupatory.

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For me the greatest source of income is still movies. Nothing - stocks, financial speculation, real estate speculation or businesses - makes more money for me than making movies.

Unofficially the cops are saying it's a suicide.

In periods when shallow speculation is rife, one might think that metaphysics would shine forth, at least, by the brilliance of its modest reserve. But the very age that is unaware of the majesty of metaphysics, likewise overlooks its poverty. Its majesty? It is wisdom. Its poverty? It is human science.

GUESS ONE DAY

It is as though each of us investigated and made his own only a tiny circle of facts. Knowledge outside the day's work is regarded by most men as gewgaw. Still we are constantly in reaction against our ignorance. We rouse ourselves at intervals and speculate.

she declared that speculation had no place in this book that had 'in fact one purpose: to allow Emily Dickinson to speak for herself'. In this way, Todd disclaimed possession in a publication whose prime motive was, in actuality, an act of possession. Without referring to Mattie, it shot Mattie's version of her aunt's life to pieces with well-aimed rhetorical questions: who can know what Dickinson felt for others? Who can know what was momentous?

suggests, rather extraordinary with regard to accusation and speculation. Take, for example, this excerpt from page 9: (One source) states in a recorded telephone conversation that he

I like him and I wonder what I would be like if I had a different father.

This is pure speculation, but for a period of time, a lot of getting into a party was through fundraising and volunteer work, and Republican women had more time to do that than democratic women, who were out there getting jobs.

My favorite kind of science fiction is post-apocalyptic dystopia. But I just heard at the bar that genre is going out of style. Frankly, that's not a future I want to live in.

The second factor contributing to speculative euphoria and programmed collapse is the specious association of money and intelligence.

the speculative episode always ends not with a whimper but with a bang.