Quotes for All
I must pack my short lifer full of interesting events and creative activity. Philosophy and aesthetic contemplation are not enough. I intend to do everything possible to broaden my experiences and allow myself to reach the fullest development. Then, and before physical deterioration obtrudes, I shall go on some last wilderness trip to a place … Read more
It does not matter how other people treat you. That is their lookout. The only real thing is how you treat them. Give love out, but do not worry and expect any in return, and you will be happy and contented. Evalyn Walsh McLean
A wretched child Is he who does not return his parents’ care. Euripides
The kind of crabbing my wife likes to do is to return from an afternoon’s swim or sunbathing session, open the refrigerator door, and find a generous plate of crab cakes all ready to cook. Euell Gibbons
The first thing we see about a short story is its mystery. And in the best short stories, we return at the last to see mystery again Eudora Welty
The distribution of the market is fat-tailed relative to the normal distribution… For passive investors, none of this matters, beyond being aware that outlier returns are more common than would be expected if return distributions were normal. Eugene Fama
Markets are efficient, but there are different dimensions of risk and those lead to different dimensions of expected returns. That’s what people should be concerned with in their investment decisions and not with whether they can pick stocks, pick winners and losers among the various managers delivering basically the same product. Eugene Fama
In every art we are always obliged to return to the accepted means of expression, the conventional language of the art. What is a black-and-white drawing but a convention to which the beholder has become so accustomed that with his mind’s eye he sees a complete equivalent in the translation from nature? Eugene Delacroix
I believe it safe to say that all progress must lead, not to further progress, but finally to the negation of progress, a return to the point of departure. Eugene Delacroix
But one always returns to one’s first loves. Etienne Aigner