#stock

A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#behavior #choice #corrosive #economic #economic growth

Why if I had half a chance, I could make an entire movie using this stock footage. The story opens on these mysterious explosions. Nobody knows what's causing them, but it's upsetting all the buffalo. So, the military are called in to solve the mystery. ↗

— Ed Wood

#called #causing #chance #could #entire

Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before. ↗

— William Wycherley

#become #before #gaming #had #increase

The other are the strategic, so-called strategic stocks that the United States and the other Western industrial countries have, which could put in as much as four million barrels a day of oil into the market pretty quickly. ↗

— Daniel Yergin

#could #countries #day #four #industrial

Control of a company does not carry with it the ability to control the price of its stock. ↗

— Paul Getty

#carry #company #control #does #price

Our stock in trade is raw, flailing sex. ↗

— Al Goldstein

#our #raw #sex #stock #trade

I don't know where the stock market is going, but I will say this, that if it continues higher, this will do more to stimulate the economy than anything we've been talking about today or anything anybody else was talking about. ↗

— Alan Greenspan

#anybody #anything #been #continues #economy

At several such places we landed, but always found the ascent to the interior so covered with large loose rocks that it would have been impossible to have disembarked stores or stock on any. ↗

— George Grey

#any #ascent #been #covered #found

And with the money from your corn, from your rents, and from the issues of pleas in your courts, and from your stock, arrange the expenses of your kitchen and your wines and your wardrobe and the wages of servants, and subtract your stock. ↗

— Robert Grosseteste

#corn #courts #expenses #issues #kitchen

I have this wonderful personal chef who sources and stocks all my organic produce and I basically live on five smoothies a day. I'm totally vegan. I blend this green concoction with kale, cucumber, broccoli, string beans, avocado. My protein comes from protein powder. There is absolutely no milk, butter, cheese. ↗

— Larry Hagman

#basically #beans #blend #broccoli #butter