Sal The Stockbroker Quotes & Sayings

The search for happiness is purely personal and not a model we can give to others. — Paulo Coelho

I don't hold water with that theory — Ron Greenwood

Anticipatory plagiarism occurs when someone steals your original idea and publishes it a hundred years before you were born. — Robert K. Merton

He is exactly the poem I wanted to write. — Mary Oliver

They agreed, tacitly, to admire - but not covet - the red flowers. Mrs. Korjev liked the very redness of them. She had always been angry that the Communists had co-opted that color, for otherwise it would have evoked an unbridled happiness in her. Then again, the Russian soul, conditioned by a thousand years of angst, really wasn't equipped for unbridled happiness, so it was probably for the best. — Christopher Moore

I do think that the standard media is controlled by the conventional wisdom about global warming. We've come to believe - from reading a lot of articles and talking to a lot of scientists - that there's another side to be heard. — Steven Levitt

Every bit of life comes with instructions, when we are attentive enough to notice. — Karen Maezen Miller

They taught you to fear God, and blame the devil for you sins,
They promised you paradise, but hell if you disagree,
They told you to seek without, and wait for eternal life,
They told you a lie.
There is no God to fear or a devil to blame,
It is only you and yourself,
Sometimes a god and sometimes Fear,
They told you to seek without,
They told you a lie — Quetzal

Be careful. As if something's going to jump us in a library."
"You might be surprised."
"What do you mean?"
"You know how people say a book is really gripping?"
"Don't tell me ... " Cat trailed off.
"Libraries can be dangerous. — Max Gladstone

All research scientists know that writing in the passive voice is artificial; they are not disembodied observers, but people doing research. — Rupert Sheldrake

Strip the veneer, and the world had moved only a couple of steps from the cave. — Ian Rankin

If you look at all the serious scientists in the world, there is no big disagreement on the basics of this ... it would be absolute lunacy to act as if climate change is not occurring. — Nicholas Stern

Those who got the twentieth century right, whether in anticipation [..] or as contemporary observations, had to be able to imagine a world for which there was no precedent. — Tony Judt

Not just a matter of "doing the right thing" but of figuring out what the right thing is. This proliferation of options generates confusion in our world and, for many, a sense of despair. Will we ever reach a cultural consensus that will stabilize the shifting sands of pluralism? All this talk of "theories of ethics" may — R.C. Sproul

It cannot remain unmentioned that so many poorly equipped boys, and boys who have no talent at all for music, have been accepted into the school to date that the quality of music has necessarily declined and deteriorated. And those who do bring a few precepts with them when they come to school are not ready to be used immediately. — Johann Sebastian Bach