Stars Red Background Quotes & Sayings

The alchemy that the ratings agencies performed was to spin uncertainty into what looked and felt like risk. They took highly novel securities, subject to an enormous amount of systemic uncertainty, and claimed the ability to quantify just how risky they were. Not only that, but of all possible conclusions, they came to the astounding one that these investments were almost risk-free. — Nate Silver

If I have to apply five turns to the screw each day for the happiness of Argentina, I will do it. — Evita Peron

You just go on your nerve. — Frank O'Hara

You needn't die happy when your time comes, but you must die satisfied, for you have lived your life from the beginning to the end and ka is always served. — Stephen King

Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared. — David Ben-Gurion

As a speculator you must embrace disorder and chaos. — Louis Bacon

No one travelling on a business trip would be missed if he failed to arrive. — Thorstein Veblen

But ah! disasters have their use; And life might e'en be too sunshiny ... — Charles Stuart Calverley

You're all terrified of young people. We remind you of what it was like to have ideals, faith, freedom. We remind you of the losses you've taken as you've grown cynical, numb, disenchanted, compromising the life you imagined. — Stephanie Danler

You don't need to struggle, your baby is coming. Help him come to us, open your body and let him come into the world. You give birth, you don't force birth or besiege it. It's not a battle, it's an act of love. You give birth to your childd and you can do it gently. — Philippa Gregory