Metserskuip Quotes & Sayings

To reduce risk it is necessary to avoid a portfolio whose securities are all highly correlated with each other. One hundred securities whose returns rise and fall in near unison afford little protection than the uncertain return of a single security. — Harry Markowitz

History
Even Eve, the only soul in all of time
to never have to wait for love,
must have leaned some sleepless nights
alone against the garden wall
and wailed, cold, stupefied, and wild
and wished to trade-in all of Eden
to have but been a child.
In fact, I gather that is why she leapt and fell from grace,
that she might have a story of herself to tell
in some other place. — Jennifer Michael Hecht

We do see significant signs of a slowdown, in the economy worldwide. — Marek Belka

Since I was a little girl, I have witnessed the strength and courage that energized my mother, who left every sorrow and pain in the past, who would work unyieldingly to obtain her goals, who was the great warrior from whom I learned all the values that are today fundamental pillars of my every day. — Thalia

Folly loves the martyrdom of fame. — Lord Byron

What greatly attracted me - and it was the main line of advance of Cubism - was how to give material expression to this new space of which I had an inkling. So I began to paint chiefly still lifes, because in nature there is a tactile, I would almost say a manual space ... that was the earliest Cubist painting - the quest for space. — Georges Braque

I was finally tired of hiding behind bravado. My family had hurt me so many times that I had started to lie about my feelings to everyone. To Sarah. To Maddie. To Ethan. And to myself. I was like an iceberg, with ninety percent of my real feelings submerged so no one would know how vulnerable I truly felt. I lied so much, and so often, that even I didn't know my true feelings anymore. — T.B. Markinson

Who wasn't squatting in one of the handful of prefabricated subject positions proffered by capital or whatever you wanted to call it, lying every time she said "I"; who wasn't a bit player in a looped infomercial for the damaged life? — Ben Lerner

The history of a revolution is for us first of all a history of the forcible entrance of the masses into the realm of rulership over their own destiny. — Leon Trotsky

I want to thank everybody, all my fans in Israel, all the children, everybody, it's amazing. — Justin Bieber

Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree. — Greg Koukl

The indigenous population is not responsible ... It is the foreigners that we have to focus on. — Robert Kilroy-Silk

I'm no genius, but I'm smart in spots, and I stay around those spots. — Tom Watson

It's good to look at life from the bottom up so you can see that things have risen above what they once were. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Travelers are the greatest ambassadors of tolerance. — Queen Rania Of Jordan