We have two surprises in our economy: better-than-expected growth and lower-than-expected inflation, and the growth is based on productivity, ... People are working harder. They're generating more products efficiently at lower prices.
Edward Yardeni
Related When growth is slower-than-expected, stocks go down. When inflation is higher-than-expected, bonds g... RAY DALIO A May rate cut is more likely than not, but the Bank is likely to need to see ongoing signs of lower... ALAN CASTLE Growth in specialty advertising was a little lower than expected but subscriber revenue growth outpe... ANDREA HORAN The market reacted positively to the lower than expected inflation figures. That means inflation is ... LUC GIRARD The index reflects the broader trend of productivity growth in the U.S. economy that has driven pric... JEFF KLEINTOP Results missed our estimate of $5.07, reflecting higher operating costs than we expected and lower t... TINA VITAL With lower oil prices and the services report coming in better than expected, optimism about exporte... KOJI UCHIDA The outlook for grain prices is lower than expected a month or two ago, and the outlook for hog pric... DAVID NELSON We believe the stock's sell-off is attributed to the moderation of top-line growth at MPS due to its... JAMES JANESKY These are excellent results with strong growth performance from investment banking and better than e... COLIN KEOGH The rapid easing of monetary and fiscal policy this time around should enable the economy to return ... HARVEY ROSENBLUM Excellent cost control was seen in particular in R&D expenditure that came in significantly lower th... BOB POOLER Materially higher than expected revenue growth and better than expected cost side performance drove ... EDWARD WOLFE The outlook for our capital markets, investment banking, and wealth management businesses remains po... GERALD T. MCCAUGHEY Going forward, it is expected that productivity improvements and restraint in upward administered pr... BALEDZI GAOLATHE In the near term, the gilt market will react to any economic data release that helps shape investors... KORNELIUS PURPS Our profit growth was a bit stronger than we expected. DON BLAIR The amount accepted was lower than expected. ALBERTO RAMOS Quarterly revenues were lower than expected due to a shortfall in software license sales. We are not... BETH CHAPPELL This was much better than expected, and Nokia showed strong growth in market share. JUSSI HYOTY We have had to lower the price of some of our products, but the downward pressure on prices has weak... TOSHIZO TANAKA Our view of the global economy suggests several more quarters of low volume growth and continued pri... CHARLES HOLLIDAY Although demand was about what we expected during the quarter, the average selling prices for our DR... JIMMY LEE We don't think it's something new ... Prices are falling faster than expected. The strength of growt... DANIEL KIM Overall, fourth-quarter earnings growth will be weak because the economy has slowed much faster than... ELVIS PICARDO This is generally more good news, a lower unemployment rate, additional seasonally adjusted job grow... ART AYRE We see high growth with very low inflation. These aren't mutually exclusive. You have to remember th... MATTHEW ALEXY The guidance for underlying revenue growth at Pearson Education and Penguin looks slightly lower tha... CHARLES PEACOCK Revenue was higher than expected but a number of charges distort the picture. Still, if you exclude ... ERIC DE GRAAF The productivity number came in better than expected and there were fewer jobless claims than foreca... AL GOLDMAN This is much stronger growth than the market expected. HONG LIANG By and large we've ended up better than many of the forecasts that were made at the beginning of 200... EDWARD MENASHY Lower annual pay and lower pay growth can flow through the economy, because it also means lower cons... BEADSIE WOO The earnings are good and better than expected in some business areas, and also reflect improvements... LUCIO DI GERONIMO The data from the German states suggests that the increase in inflation at the start of the year is ... JUERGEN MICHELS The industry did better than expected, due in large part to price cuts by vendors and demand for mob... CHARLES SMULDERS We have become a lower risk and more stable investment for our shareowners. We will make prudent inv... BILL HARVEY Didn't look like we were going to do much in the beginning because the jobs number came in lower-tha... DONALD SELKIN Most of the production growth now is from gas, and gas is at a much lower price than oil. ADRIAN JACKSON Amazon looked pretty strong on sales although gross margins and operating expense were somewhat lowe... DAN GEIMAN I have repeated my opinion on natural gas more than once. It is unacceptable for a transitional econ... ARSENIY YATSENYUK Even though we increased overall revenues 50 percent year-over-year, the lower-than-expected selling... CRAIG MCHUGH Work harder than expected to become better than projected. JOEL ANDERSEN We are meeting the program's goals. The number of placements is higher than expected, while the numb... DORIT NOVAK Growth was slightly better than we had expected, chiefly due to resilient domestic demand such as co... ATSUSHI TAKEDA Globalization and free trade do spur economic growth, and they lead to lower prices on many goods. ROBERT REICH Our lower-than-expected revenue for (the fourth quarter) appears to be influenced by the current wea... BOB GOLDMAN The consensus is looking for 13 percent earnings growth in Q4, which is a pretty high hurdle. Earnin... BRIAN GENDREAU Wireless should continue to contribute solid growth in the fourth quarter, but this growth is expect... BILL AYLESWORTH The (crude processing) figure is a little bit lower than we had expected, but it is not radically su... JEFF BROWN At first blush, lower-than-expected tax rates were a major contributor to the earnings-per-share ups... QUINTIN LAI Trade is a drag (on growth) and that tends to hit manufacturing harder than the rest of the economy. EDWARD MCKELVEY There have been a few major disappointments, but by and large, earnings are coming in very strong. M... BRIAN GENDREAU Productivity growth helps keep inflation at bay and allows real incomes to grow, but it makes busine... WAYNE AYERS We continue to benefit from very strong double-digit advertising growth at our digital operations, p... JANET ROBINSON These wage costs show that there are real wage increases going on in the community, but they are res... PETER COSTELLO If Uber is lower-priced, then more people will want it. And if more people want it and can afford it... TRAVIS KALANICK The more efficient you can make us the more efficiently we can provide you with goods and services f... JOHN MARSHALL The data from Japan was universally softer than expected. It is conspiring to take the yen lower. RICHARD FRANULOVICH About 5 cents of the upside was driven by better-than-expected margins. The other 11 cents was a low... JAMES JANESKY Household spending growth has been particularly solid in 2015, with purchases of new motor vehicles ... JANET YELLEN Investors will continue to look closely at U.S. macro data for any sign that growth may disappoint o... ROSS TEVERSON The economy was pretty much firing on all cylinders, and the second quarter showed us still on a goo... LYNN REASER With strong investment growth and an expected improvement in exports, our forecast for the economy o... IAN MACFARLANE We would see lower levels of investment, lower economic growth, and as a result, lower wage gains. EDWARD LAZEAR January trade numbers appeared stronger than expected, in line with global growth momentum. HONG LIANG These results are not spectacular. If you don't take one-offs into account, the net profits are lowe... IVAN LATHOUDERS The actual data of 2005 shows emissions were lower than expected. This is good news for the environm... BARBARA HELFFERICH The strong economy would normally have contributed to stronger growth in demand for goods and servic... RONALD J. PLANTING The trend is still for healthy productivity growth between 2% and 2.5%, and unit labor costs are exp... DANIEL JESTER Our load factors on the Delhi flight are absolutely much better than we expected. ATHAR KHAN Businesses appear stronger than expected, reflecting the lower euro, but we're likely to see consume... JAMES NIXON It's really amazing. Our economy is growing at over 4 percent real growth and in the midst of that w... KATHLEEN CAMILLI Based on the present trends, the natural gas prices this winter is expected to be significantly high... NICK STAVROPOULOS The inventory build was two-to-three times greater than expected, and oil prices are backing off. JAMES WICKLUND The acceleration of loan growth will add further fuel to the current growth momentum and we see upsi... HONG LIANG There's strong growth and no inflation. It doesn't get any better than that. ANDREW BUSCH One of our strengths is having people lower down. For our own sake, we have to win in doubles. We ar... DAVE MULDAWER The preliminary estimate is lower than what was expected. But I think it's important to look behind ... SCOTT MCCLELLAN The overall figures are lower-than-expected, not only because of the catastrophe claims, but also be... RENE LOCHER Analysts estimate that emerging markets are expected to drive 90 percent of the world's pharmace... DILIP SHANGHVI My concern is that what's happened here is that inflation is higher than the Fed anticipated. On top... ALAN RUSKIN As recent earnings announcements illustrate, vendors are facing strong competitive pressures. These ... GEORGE SHIFFLER You can have relatively high levels of class consciousness with a lower level of class militancy tha... ERNEST MANDEL BT's 2Q 05/06 results would appear at first glance to be bang in line with our below-consensus expec... CHRIS ALLIOTT The overall effect of the international oil price increases on inflation and output has been far mor... TITO MBOWENI This economy is even more resilient than even I had expected. TIM KANE The company's sequential sales performance benefited from growth in digital consumer and automotive ... CARLO BOZOTTI The correction of these imbalances and associated inflation pressures will require a slowdown in hou... ALAN BOLLARD Consumers have hung in there and done better than people expected, It's really going to be more abou... CONRAD DEQUADROS The (durable goods) numbers show us the slowdown is accelerating more than expected and the jobless ... BOB MCINTOSH These new figures give us a clearer picture and a better way of understanding China's economy. Based... LI DESHUI We are starting to see a perception in the market that the high oil price could have a greater impac... CELSO SENISE Technology shares have risen significantly recently. But some investors are wondering whether electr... HARVEY CHANG Valued at more than $100 million, our media investment supports our aggressive business growth goals... MITCH GOLUB There has been stronger-than-expected demand for our products across the board. There is far better ... GEORGE SCALISE It was an extremely confusing quarter. It looks like their tax rate was lower than expected, so I th... BILL LEACH The commentary was a lot more optimistic than I expected it to be given the high oil prices. The out... HELANE BECKER It is harder to achieve a balanced life in the year 2001 than it was in the year 1991, ... Ten years... ROBERT REICH They probably will not explicitly (address it.) But there are several ways in which they can bring t... CAROLYN KWAN
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Now, I think you have to add an entire percentage point EDWARD YARDENI I'm actually very pleased to see they decided not to raise rates because it's really not justified b... EDWARD YARDENI The economy's doing well, [and] Bill Clinton's in the White House. Hence, it follows that the admini... EDWARD YARDENI It's going to be very hard to find anybody on Wall Street who can complain about Bill Clinton with t... EDWARD YARDENI The average American's real income and consumption is the highest it's ever been. EDWARD YARDENI The reality is that the economy is in great shape. It's created lots of good jobs?not bad jobs. We h... EDWARD YARDENI Their systems could be so disrupted that they can't go on with business. They can't export, they can... EDWARD YARDENI [If so, it could only help stocks, which rise with cash flows, as we saw in the go-go 1990s.] You ca... EDWARD YARDENI That could be bullish for the stock market if the household sector concludes that real estate is not... EDWARD YARDENI The bigger bubble is actually in the financing of homes. Mortgage lenders have loosened their lendin... ED YARDENI I think the folks at the Fed would like to raise the federal funds rate as high as they can short of... ED YARDENI For two years, we've seen this tremendous increase in prices, yet the core inflation rate has stayed... ED YARDENI The bigger bubble is actually in the financing of homes. ED YARDENI Earnings are still going to grow as interest rates and inflation remain low. ED YARDENI The market goes through these bizarre mood swings. All of a sudden, people are concerned that we're ... ED YARDENI The surprises should be on the upside. It all adds up to very good fourth-quarter numbers. ED YARDENI When fixed-income investors conclude that the central bank isn't going to raise rates any time soon,... ED YARDENI [Investors should keep that experience of 1999 and early 2000 in mind when looking at the model.] Th... 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EDWARD HOPPER I find in working always the disturbing intrusion of elements not a part of my most interested visio... EDWARD HOPPER In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovati... EDWARD HOPPER I have tried to present my sensations in what is the most congenial and impressive form possible to ... EDWARD HOPPER In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of... EDWARD HOPPER My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impress... EDWARD HOPPER The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this idea... EDWARD HOPPER No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination. EDWARD HOPPER There is a sort of elation about sunlight on the upper part of a house. EDWARD HOPPER Maybe I am not very human - what I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house. EDWARD HOPPER Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result ... EDWARD HOPPER After all, we are not French and never can be, and any attempt to be so is to deny our inheritance a... EDWARD HOPPER More of me comes out when I improvise. EDWARD HOPPER What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house. EDWARD HOPPER The only real influence I've ever had was myself. EDWARD HOPPER We are still living in the aftershock of Hiroshima, people are still the scars of history. EDWARD BOND There was an old man with a beard, who said: 'It is just as I feared! Two owls and a hen, four l... EDWARD LEAR The simple act of caring is heroic. EDWARD ALBERT I am all for the short and merry life. EDWARD FITZGERALD I'm looking for the best person irregardless of political party, of race or religion, or color o... EDWARD BROOKE I knew that if it ever got down to a choice between the Party and our traditional democratic structu... EDWARD DMYTRYK He that has been bitten by a snake is afraid of a rope. EDWARD ALBEE Integrity is the lifeblood of democracy. Deceit is a poison in its veins. EDWARD KENNEDY When humanness is lost the radical difference between the bodies in the pit and people walking on th... EDWARD BOND All people are paradoxical. No one is easily reducible, so I like characters who have contradictory ... EDWARD NORTON The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime. EDWARD GREY If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint. EDWARD HOPPER My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, for the camera's eye may entirely c... EDWARD WESTON Sometimes you have to be selfish to be selfless. EDWARD ALBERT I wouldn't have thought that a wrong theory should lead us to understand better the ordinary qua... EDWARD WITTEN The Portuguese and Galician term 'saudade' suggests a profoundly bittersweet nostalgia. EDWARD HIRSCH The more you can create that magic bubble, that suspension of disbelief, for a while, the better. EDWARD NORTON Once I climbed into a mountain lion's cage and she bounded at me and put her paw on my face, but... EDWARD HOAGLAND Time flies, death urges, knells call, Heaven invites,Hell threatens. EDWARD YOUNG Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority. EDWARD YOUNG At thirty, man suspects himself a fool;Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan. EDWARD YOUNG All men think all men mortal but themselves. EDWARD YOUNG There was an Old Man with a beard, Who said, 'It is just as I feared! - Two Owls and a Hen, EDWARD LEAR Shakespeare reveals human nature brilliantly: he shines a light on our instinctive desire to dominat... EDWARD HALL How blessings brighten as they take their flight. EDWARD YOUNG Black bears, though, are not fearsome. I encountered one on the road to my house in Vermont, alone a... EDWARD HOAGLAND Though the bribe be small, yet the fault is great. EDWARD COKE Virtue alone has majesty in death. EDWARD YOUNG Thy purpose firm is equal to the deed:Who does the best his circumstance allowsDoes well, acts nobly... EDWARD YOUNG Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed. EDWARD YOUNG The man of wisdom is the man of years. EDWARD YOUNG Early, bright, transient, chaste, as morning dew
She sparkled, was exhal'd, and went to heaven. EDWARD YOUNG Woes cluster; rare are solitary woes;
They love a train, they tread each other's heel. EDWARD YOUNG One to destroy is murder by the law,
And gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe;
To murder thousa... EDWARD YOUNG Think nought a trifle, though it small appear;
Small sands the mountain, moments make the year,
... EDWARD YOUNG To me, lighting really sets the mood for a room. A 40 watt bulb in a cheap lamp is the same as a 40 ... EDWARD WALKER As for the forces, electromagnetism and gravity we experience in everyday life. But the weak and str... EDWARD WITTEN I feel a buzzing at the base of my neck. It's like I'm on eternal 'vibrate' in case ... JOHN EDWARD The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back ... EDWARD FITZGERALD Make no mistake about it! There is an organized movement against organized labor and it's called... EDWARD KENNEDY It's now clear that from the very moment President Bush took office, Iraq was his highest priori... EDWARD KENNEDY The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and... EDWARD BACH The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as... EDWARD GIBBON The funny thing is, when you look at photos of Tuvia Bielski, he was fair, blue-eyed, and could pass... EDWARD ZWICK Like everyone, I was a kid who played chess when I was young. And I am admittedly old enough to have... EDWARD ZWICK It's a fact the whole world knows; That Pobbles are happier without their toes. EDWARD LEAR What this country needs is more unemployed politicians. EDWARD LANGLEY We are the trade union for pensioners and children, the trade union for the disabled and the sick...... EDWARD HEATH I come like Water, and like Wind I go. EDWARD FITZGERALD I think it's too easy often to find a villain out of the headlines and to then repeat that villa... EDWARD ZWICK The love of praise, howe'er conceal'd by art,Reigns more or less, and glows in ev'ry heart. EDWARD YOUNG A man of pleasure is a man of pains. EDWARD YOUNG When pain can't bless, heaven quits us in despair. EDWARD YOUNG My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India. EDWARD GIBBON Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes. EDWARD GIBBON Can wealth give happiness? look round and see
What gay distress! what splendid misery!
Whate... EDWARD YOUNG I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice. EDWARD MOORE To leave a sting within a brother's heart. EDWARD YOUNG What we need now are heroes and heroines, about a million of them, one brave deed is worth a thousan... EDWARD ABBEY Many are called but few are chosen. There are sayings of Christ which suggest that the Church he cam... EDWARD NORMAN Much learning shows how little mortals know:
Much wealth, how little worldlings can enjoy. EDWARD YOUNG And love is love, in beggars and in kings. EDWARD DYER The love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyong reach; it is also an expressi... EDWARD ABBEY I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars. EDWARD RICKENBACKER You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared ... EDWARD FLAHERTY God bless the Union; - it is dearer to us for the blood of brave men which has been shed in its defe... EDWARD EVERETT For her own breakfast she 'll project a scheme,Nor take her tea without a stratagem. EDWARD YOUNG The children are innocent until proven guilty. For their sake, not ours, we must soldier on, muddlin... EDWARD ABBEY كلما ازداد تعدي أوروبا على الشرق في القرن التاسع عشر از... EDWARD SAID You cannot continue to victimize someone else just because you yourself were a victim once—there h... EDWARD SAID In Italy, on the breaking up of the Roman Empire, society might be said to be resolved into its orig... EDWARD EVERETT A God all mercy is a God unjust. EDWARD YOUNG Contrary to popular belief an artist is never ahead of his time, but most people are far behind thei... EDWARD VARESE It was scarcely possible that the eyes of contemporaries should discover in the public felicity the ... EDWARD GIBBON Can't I another's face commend,
Or to her virtues be a friend,
But instantly your forehead lou... EDWARD MOORE The difference between psychedelia and digitalia ages will seem like a smooth blending in years to c... EDWARD RUSCHA I sometimes think that never blows so red The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled; That every Hyac... EDWARD FITZGERALD Those who build beneath the stars build too low. EDWARD YOUNG A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute. EDWARD GIBBON The man that makes a character, makes foes. EDWARD YOUNG The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, ... EDWARD RICKENBACKER Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared. EDWARD RICKENBACKER The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is th... EDWARD GIBBON It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to d... EDWARD GIBBON True the greater part of the Irish people was close to starvation. The numbers of weakened people dy... EDWARD RUTHERFURD Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success. EDWARD DOWDEN To live with fear and not be afraid is the final test of maturity. EDWARD WEEKS Less base the fear of death than fear of life. EDWARD YOUNG Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little wordings enjoy. EDWARD YOUNG When Honor's sun declines, and Wealth takes wings,
Then Learning shines, the best of precious thin... EDWARD COCKER Learn avidly. Question repeatedly what you have learned.
Analyze it carefully. Then put what you... EDWARD COCKER The art of creation is older than the art of killing. EDWARD KOCH If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail. EDWARD KOCH You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it's good for ones self-respect to be a punching bag. EDWARD KOCH Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity:... EDWARD ABBEY For there is a cloud on my horizon. A small dark cloud no bigger than my hand. Its name is Progress. EDWARD ABBEY Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube. There are some things one would rather ha... EDWARD ABBEY Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination EDWARD ABBEY That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of i... EDWARD ABBEY High technology has done us one great service: It has retaught us the delight of performing simple a... EDWARD ABBEY The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny. EDWARD ABBEY England has never enjoyed a genuine social revolution. Maybe that's what's wrong with that dear, te... EDWARD ABBEY Human history, like all great movements, was cyclical, and returned to the point of beginning. The i... EDWARD BELLAMY For just a little while, in all our lives, we're granted brief glimpses at the way things really ope... EDWARD MORRIS I took the other road, all right, but only because it was the easy road for me, the way I wanted to ... EDWARD ABBEY And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, They danced by the light of the moon. EDWARD LEAR When you get to the end of all the light you know and it's time to step into the darkness of the unk... EDWARD TELLER Frankly, I don't mind not being president. I just mind that someone else is. EDWARD KENNEDY A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. EDWARD ABBEY One final paragraph of advice: do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am - a reluctant enthusiast....a ... EDWARD ABBEY The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature. EDWARD GIBBON Men greet each other with a sock on the arm, women with a hug, and the hug wears better in the long ... EDWARD HOAGLAND One of the weaknesses in the cooperative is that it has never been sufficiently leavened by the imag... EDWARD DAHLBERG The majority of persons choose their wives with as little prudence as they eat. They see a troll wit... EDWARD DAHLBERG Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and instead of bleeding he sings. EDWARD GARDNER Man hoards himself when he has nothing to give away. EDWARD DAHLBERG There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the colde... EDWARD DAHLBERG Each mind is pressed, and open every ear, to hear new tidings, though they no way joy us. EDWARD FAIRFAX The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children. EDWARD WINDSOR There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is man himse... EDWARD STEICHEN Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and ski... EDWARD STEICHEN The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a... EDWARD STEICHEN Photography suits the temper of this age -- of active bodies and minds. It is a perfect medium for o... EDWARD WESTON Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure. EDWARD EGGLESTON The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet. EDWARD THOMAS Intellectual sodomy, which comes from the refusal to be simple about plain matters, is as gross and ... EDWARD DAHLBERG Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty. EDWARD GIBBON We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even w... EDWARD DAHLBERG Truth, naked, unblushing truth, the first virtue of all serious history, must be the sole recommenda... EDWARD GIBBON Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of comp... EDWARD GIBBON Ethics must begin at the top of an organization. It is a leadership issue and the chief executive mu... EDWARD HENNESSY The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular. EDWARD GIBBON Animals are stylized characters in a kind of old saga -- stylized because even the most acute of the... EDWARD HOAGLAND Animals used to provide a lowlife way to kill and get away with it, as they do still, but, more intr... EDWARD HOAGLAND There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad. EDWARD DAHLBERG The worst of all diseases is a nervous ability. EDWARD DYSON Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precis... EDWARD DAHLBERG When you come to the end of all the light you know, and it's time to step into the darkness of the u... EDWARD TELLER Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life. EDWARD EDWARDS The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. EDWARD GIBBON Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused. EDWARD GIBBON Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have b... EDWARD DAHLBERG To write is a humiliation. EDWARD DAHLBERG What has a writer to be bombastic about? Whatever good a man may write is the consequence of acciden... EDWARD DAHLBERG Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors. EDWARD DAHLBERG The work was like peeling an onion. The outer skin came off with difficulty... but in no time you'd ... EDWARD BLISHEN By night an atheist half believes in God. EDWARD YOUNG You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it's good for ones self-respect to be a punching bag. EDWARD KOCH Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine h... EDWARD DAHLBERG Our birth is nothing but our death begun. EDWARD YOUNG If you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think po... EDWARD RICKENBACKER Men often compete with one another until the day they die; comradeship consists of rubbing shoulders... EDWARD HOAGLAND You know...that a blank wall is an apalling thing to look at. The wall of a museum -- a canvas -- a ... EDWARD STEICHEN I would rather take hellebore than spend a conversation with a good, little man. EDWARD DAHLBERG We improve ourselves by victories over ourselves. There must be contest, and we must win. EDWARD GIBBON Country people tend to consider that they have a corner on righteousness and to distrust most manife... EDWARD HOAGLAND