Great Crash 1929 Quotes & Sayings

The only test, Baker, is how not to erase ourselves from the map. Our history is that things don't last. Every generation creates the right monsters to destroy itself. — Gerard Donovan

Writing is nothing if not carrying the hopeless, backbreaking burden of decisions devoid of consequences. — Aleksandar Hemon

I'm the undisputed champion of keeping my mouth shut and just sitting there like a piece of furniture. — Steve Hamilton

But society is always most cruel to those who betray its secretes, showing where it's dishonesty commits a crime against nature. — Stefan Zweig

I told them that my grandfather had died in the Great Crash of 1929 - a stockbroker jumped out of a window and crushed him and his pushcart down below. — Mario Cuomo

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Alice kept her eyes anxiously fixed on it, for she felt sure she would catch a bad cold if she did not get dry very soon.
'Ahem!' said the Mouse with an important air, 'are you all ready? This is the driest thing I know. Silence all round, if you please! William the Conqueror, whose cause was favoured by the pope, was soon submitted to by the English [ ... ] — Lewis Carroll

Often when I walked alone in the mountains, I tried to make sense out of the two halves of my life. What went on in the city during the week seemed chaotic and unrelated to the events in my mountain world. — Galen Rowell

We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one. — Jacques-Yves Cousteau

Man, as a form, bears within him the eternal principle of being, and by economic movement along his endless path his form is also transformed, just as everything that lives in nature was transformed in him. — Kazimir Malevich

Bulls don't read. Bears read financial history. As markets fall to bits, the bears dust off the Dutch tulip mania of 1637, the Banque Royale of 1719-20, the railway speculation of the 1840s, the great crash of 1929. — James Buchan

Truth is the most precious thing. That's why we should ration it. — Vladimir Lenin

In the 1920s, he decided that it was cheaper to drill for oil than to buy the overvalued shares of other oil companies. After the 1929 stock market crash, he completely changed tack; he saw that oil shares were selling at a great discount to assets, and he turned to prospecting for oil on the floor of the stock exchange - in — Daniel Yergin