Di Modica Talks Quotes & Sayings

It's pretty clear that there's a relationship between return and risk - you enjoy high returns only by taking substantial risk. If you want to earn high returns, be prepared to suffer grievous losses from time to time. And if you want perfect safety, resign yourself to low returns. — William J. Bernstein

In [Bloom's] having managed to sustain his curiosity about the people and the world around him after thirty-eight years of familiarity and routine that ought to have dulled and dampened it; and above all in the abiding capacity for empathy, for moral imagination, that is the fruit of an observant curiosity like Bloom's, I found, as if codified, a personal definition of heroism.
Ulysses struck me, most of all, as a book of life; every sentence, even those that laid bare the doubt, despair, shame, or vanity of its characters, seemed to have been calibrated to assert, in keeping with the project of the work as a whole, the singularity and worth of even the most humdrum and throwaway of human days. Michael Chabon — Michael Chabon

Take time to pray and listen to God ... say, 'Sir, what should I say at this moment? What should I do? My ears are open and my eyes are open. I'm listening.' — Kenneth Copeland

While we all could agree that the Zionist ideal is alive and well, there is serious doubt whether the Zionist movement can be said to be an ongoing proposition, fragmented as its components are in ideology and in practice. — Theodore Bikel

Geffen was never supportive of the band. — Edie Brickell

I always studied because I knew I had to. I needed to survive and take care of my mother. — Maria Das Gracas Silva Foster

"It's just literally being afraid. And you think, oh, [the alcohol] will ease the fear. And it doesn't." What was he afraid of? "Everything. It's just a general all-round arggghhh. It's fearfulness and anxiety." He added, "For that first week you lie to yourself, and tell yourself you can stop, and then your body kicks back and says, no, stop later. And then it took about three years, and finally you do stop." — Robin Williams

The hippo did, and I heard what sounded at first like a rabble, many voices talking over one another. Then I realized that they weren't talking.
"Let me get this straight," the hippo said when I explained what was going on. "Leeches are singing inside my asshole. — David Sedaris

I like English, and I like writing essays, and that kind of stuff. — Abigail Breslin

Build up people by broadening their knowledge in different spheres of their lives. — Sunday Adelaja

Like no other science, astrophysics cross-pollinate s the expertise of chemists, biologists, geologists and physicists, all to discover the past, present, and future of the cosmos-and our humble place within it. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson