W Quotes
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“Wall Street owns the country. It is no longer a government of the people, for the people and by the people, but a government for Wall Street, by Wall Street, and for Wall Street. The great common people of this country are slaves, and monopoly is the master…Let the bloodhounds of money who have dogged us thus far beware.”
“Wall Street people learn nothing and forget everything.”
“Wall Street's contradictory approach to shareholder value and bull markets sets the stage for a financial crisis.”
Source: Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street
“Wall Street sees a social fabric or social contract as inefficiencies, which need to be removed.”
“Wall Street shouldn't be deregulated. I think Wall Street and Main Street need to play by the same set of rules. The middle-class can't carry the burden any longer, that is what happened in the last decade. They had to bail out Wall Street.”
“Wall Street sometimes gets confused between risk and uncertainty, and you can profit handsomely from that confusion. The low-risk, high-uncertainty [situation] gives us our most sought after coin-toss odds. Heads, I win; tails, I don't lose much.”
Source: The Dhandho Investor: The Low-Risk Value Method to High Returns
“Wall Street treats all crises the same despite the fact that people react to the threat of war very differently from other crises like disease, systemic medical incompetence, or the failure to maintain a country’s transportation infrastructure.”
Source: The Prepared Investor: How to Prevent the Next Crisis from Affecting Your Financial Independence
“Wall Street wants to keep its schemes too complicated to understand so that the roulette wheel can keep turning.”
“Wall Street was sort of at the height of the fame, everyone thought it was really cool, and I think taking that job, doing something probably more for the money was probably the worst thing I think I've ever done.”
“Wall Street's favorite scam is pretending that luck is skill.”
“Wall Street's graveyards are filled with men who were right too soon.”
“WALL STREET, n. A symbol for sin for every devil to rebuke. That Wall Street is a den of thieves is a belief that serves every unsuccessful thief in place of a hope in Heaven.”
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
“Wall Street, the banks, and corporate America, has been able to call the shots here. They control our members of Congress and they get what they want.”
“Wall Street, with its army of brokers, analysts, and advisers funneling trillions of dollars into mutual funds, hedge funds, and private equity funds, is an elaborate fraud.”
“Wall Street. - The abode of the Brokers and the Broke.”
Source: Pleasing Prose
“Wall your life, guard your heart and mind your mind! A life without a wall least blocks something! A mind without a wall accepts anything at all!”
“Wall-to-wall masterpieces, after all, ought to be preferred to wall-to-wall decorative arts, even if the decorative arts are of the highest quality peppered and salted with dukes and tiaras.”
“Walla is a powerfully simple studio software, designed by fitness industry and tech experts. Discover a modern studio management platform built to boost profitability, save time, increase retention, and engage more clients with the industry’s best experience.”
“Wallace Stevens had more time to write as an insurance agent. He was a bond lawyer and I know that insurance company lawyers don't have to do nearly as much as we had to do. We were out more in the production area. I'm not condemning Stevens for having had a better job than I did, but that's one of the many places where I differ from him.”
“Wallace Stevens: the Platonist celebrates endless change, but with regret.”
“Wallace travelled independently and was challenged every step. He had no government or military support system. He had little cash — he earned enough to survive by sending natural history specimens to his agent in London for sale to collectors and museums. He had visceral moments of excitement when he discovered a beautiful new butterfly or adopted a baby orangutan he had just orphaned by shooting its mother. He lived simply, often in the rainforest on isolated islands, in a manner completely different to the expected behavior of other Western explorers and colonials.”
Source: "Look Here, Sir, What a Curious Bird": Searching for Ali, Alfred Russel Wallace's Faithful Companion
“Wallace would not have been as successful as he was without Ali’s support.”
Source: "Look Here, Sir, What a Curious Bird": Searching for Ali, Alfred Russel Wallace's Faithful Companion
“Wallace's sales agent, back in London, heard mutterings from some naturalists that young Mr. Wallace ought to quit theorizing and stick to gathering facts. Besides expressing their condescension toward him in particular, that criticism also reflected a common attitude that fact-gathering, not theory, was the proper business of all naturalists.”
Source: The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions
“Wallachia was not her mother. Wallachia did not care what happened to her. And every single person who might have was either dead or trying to kill her.”
Source: Bright We Burn
“Waller was a sensible girl. She meant to shake off the American officer as soon as she could, and meet with Agent Werewolf and his friends in the woods. Germany was counting on them! Still, it seemed foolish to be afraid -- the American officer was only a woman, after all. What could one woman do to another?”
Source: The Berkut
“Wallets wither, passports expire, but a character of light keeps shining.”
Source: Amor Apocalypse: Canım Sana İhtiyacım
“wallflower’s wishful gaze”
Source: Better Than the Movies
“Walling herself off circumvented the risk of real closeness between two people and the eventual, unavoidable loss that always accompanies love. Liberating herself from the concern of others served a sinister purpose as well. There were fewer people to whom Anna was accountable. It’s the easiest way to lie and not get caught: make yourself matter to no one”
“Wallow too much in sensitivity and you can't deal with life, or the truth.”
Source: The Terrible Truth about Liberals
“Wallowing in self-pity hurts no one except you. Boss up and find a way to get going again.”
“Wallowing in this bloody sty,
I cast for fish that pleased my eye”
Source: Poems, 1938-1949
“Wallowing in victimhood only demeans and paralyzes you. Don’t do it. Redeem it instead. Transcend it instead.”
Source: The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions
“Wallowing is sex for depressives.”
Source: Written On The Body
“Wallowing on the smooth surface of their self-satisfaction, many are merely counting the shadows on the wall of their ennui, adding up the numerous illusions and indulging in the comforting lies and ignoring the unpleasant truths. (“Bread and Satellite”)”
“Wallowing was for elephants, depressing people and depressing elephants”
Source: The Bane Chronicles
“Walls and barriers alone are insufficient to insure security.”
“Walls are built up between people a hell of a damn sight faster than--broken down.”
Source: Period of Adjustment
“Walls are made of fear; bridges are made of love!”
“Walls are very important when you`re separating two urban areas where if you`re actually able to get over the border you can probably get into the underground network in about 30 seconds. But when you`re out in the middle of the desert, it makes no sense because you have border security people have up to a day to apprehend people who are crossing illegally.”
“Walls aren't put in our life to stop us, they are there to test how much we really want somthing.”
“Walls don't fall without effort.”
“Walls don't work. ... Instead of building walls to create security, we need to build bridges.”
“Walls get built, piece by piece, not as protection but as a cage.”
“Walls have ears. Doors have eyes. Trees have voices. Beasts tell lies. Beware the rain. Beware the snow. Beware the man You think you know. -Songs of Sapphique”
“Walls have tongues, and hedges ears.”
“Walls in people's heads are sometimes more durable than walls made of concrete blocks.”
Source: Erinnerungen
“Walls of Man
Through ignorant walls Man does count the days dying in his soul growing up with impatience not realizing he is falling down as truth is ever before him fixed upon a silence of the soul from his sin the serpent does speak leading others in this regenerate death soul by soul as the darkness grows turning heads from a light that shows what is true ignorant walls of man building Babels tower again”
“Walls protect and walls limit. It is in the nature of walls that they should fall. That walls should fall is the consequence of blowing your own trumpet.”
Source: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
“Walls turned sideways are bridges.”
“Walls work both ways. They keep people out...but they keep people in, too.”
Source: Rawhide and Lace