Wastrel Synonym Quotes & Sayings

The great challenge of the '90s ... is to salvage and improve the UN and to develop it into an agency capable of meeting the wide range of serious problems that are inherent in a world that has become a single geographic unit. — Norman Cousins

Believe in your dreams for that is what makes you magical. — Deborah Sue Crews

Be greedy when others are fearful and fearful when others are greedy.' Easier said than done for the vast majority of stock traders ... On every stock trade there is someone who wants to sell and someone who wants to buy, at least at a particular price ... the person who is selling thinks that she is getting out just in time while the person buying thinks that he is about to make good money.
... The truth is that the market doesn't really reflect some magical perfect valuation of a stock under the efficient market hypothesis. It reflects the mass consensus of how actual individual investors value the stock. It is the sum total of everyone's hopes and fears ... — M.E. Thomas

An idea is a light turned on in a man's soul. Comic-strip artists are in the habit of representing it by means of a light bulb flashing on, above the head of a character who has suddenly grasped an idea. In simple, primitive terms, this is an appropriate symbol. — Ayn Rand

All wisdom comes from God. — Kinoti J.C.

The wheat field has ... poetry; it is like a memory of something one has once seen. We can only make our pictures speak. — Vincent Van Gogh

Our acquaintances - not our friends - are our greatest source of new ideas and information. the internet lets us exploit the power of these kinds of distant connections with marvellous efficiency. — Malcolm Gladwell

Many futurists use a checklist approach to make sure they're covering a sufficiently wide set of topics in terms of both research and brainstorming during a foresight exercise. — Jamais Cascio

In Egypt, on the eve of Tahrir Square, there was a major poll which found that overwhelmingly - 80-90%, numbers like that - Egyptians regarded the main threats they face as the U.S. and Israel. They don't like Iran - Arabs generally don't like Iran - but they didn't consider it a threat. — Noam Chomsky

I was a social recluse for most of my life, and so a lot of relationships I've been in have been formed online. I met my first boyfriend online at 15, which culminated in me running away to San Francisco to be with him. — Marie Calloway

reading their books on electronic gizmos — Roland Smith

All this time, I thought we were growing apart because I was leaving Lena behind. But really it was the reverse. She was learning to lie.
She was learning to love. — Lauren Oliver

I have been treated as a freak, rather like the fat lady at the circus. — Margaret Hughes

A sparkling house is a fine thing if the children aren't robbed of their luster in keeping it that way. — Marcelene Cox

Sorry, sometimes when I try to rhyme I end up sounding like Yoda. — Penny Reid