Elsa Hosk Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
This life and this job and this position that I'm put in, it forces you to grow up quick. I definitely got dropped in the deep end.
-
The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.
-
When someone was hitting me, or like sexually molesting me, it just seemed normal to continue to do that to myself.
-
I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.
-
As a child, I wanted to go into advertising. I had a love affair with the advertising industry.
-
I don't know that there is a, quote, 'hip-hop lifestyle.' I think the music responds to complex social issues and injustices; I think it also raises complex social questions.
-
Competition is like a treadmill. If you stand still, you get swept off. But when you run, you can never really get ahead of the treadmill and cover new terrain - so you never run faster than the speed that is set.
-
Dread lord and cousin, may the almighty preserve your reverence and lordship in long life and good fortune.
-
Russia, their number one client in the Middle East is Syria; that is their foothold in the Middle East. They want to have influence there.
-
Dan Henderson, even when you're close and he hits you from very, very close, you can feel how heavy his hands are. His hands are pretty powerful.
-
Adventuring can be for the ordinary person with ordinary qualities, such as I regard myself.
-
If you look at Republicans, they always run these old war horses.
-
I like new challenges and new experiences.
-
To get a good deal, I buy them all with a friend. The houses, the boat, everything. We each buy half. So I pay half price! They get used more.
-
The first thing that is not obvious to people is global warming is a less-than-1% effect. It's like being shortchanged at the bank by a penny every dollar. Over a long period of time with lots of transactions, that piles up.
-
Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.
-
Long-distance relationships are hard no matter what. When you don't have face-to-face time, it's just different.
-
Simplicity is the glory of expression.
-
In this job, you're constantly surrounded by people. There are a lot of demands on your time. And I guess those moments when you can switch off and get away from it are really important.
-
Nothing beats a private visit to Number Ten or Chequers to take the wind out of rebellious sails.
-
Both of my grandfathers fought in the Second World War, and my great-grandfather died at the Somme in the First World War. I never truly believed that the War just finished and everyone was happy-clappy, brought out the bunting, and felt everything was okay again. That's definitely not my impression of the fall-out of war.
-
[I]t being reasonable and just, I should have a right to destroy that which threatens me with destruction: for by the fundamental law of nature, man being to be preserved as much as possible, when all cannot be preserved, the safety of the innocent is to be preferred: and one may destroy a man who makes war upon him, or has discovered an enmity to his being, for the same reason that he may kill a Wolf or a lion.
-
The Upside of Heuristics The economist Harry Markowitz won the 1990 Nobel Prize in Economics for developing modern portfolio theory: his groundbreaking “mean-variance portfolio optimization” showed how an investor could make an optimal allocation among various funds and assets to maximize returns at a given level of risk. So when it came time to invest his own retirement savings, it seems like Markowitz should have been the one person perfectly equipped for the job. What did he decide to do? I should have computed the historical covariances of the asset classes and drawn an efficient frontier. Instead, I visualized my grief if the stock market went way up and I wasn’t in it—or if it went way down and I was completely in it. My intention was to minimize my future regret. So I split my contributions fifty-fifty between bonds and equities. Why in the world would he do that?
-
Working with Victoria's Secret, it is very celebrated to have curves.
