Escalate Quotes

#1. I question why the Department continued to watch the costs escalate without informing Parliament and without considering alternatives.

Sheila Fraser

#2. Sure we could replace war with paintball battles. But it would escalate to paint grenades, paint bombs, weapons of mass paint. I don't want to live in a world where my kids have to worry about what color they will be in the morning.

Dan Florence

#3. If you allow disagreements and arguments to escalate, you are making the bone of contention of whatever you are heatedly arguing about more important than your relationship.

Chris Prentiss

#4. It. I guess humans like to watch a little destruction. Sandcastles, houses of cards, that's where they begin. Their great skill is their capacity to escalate.

Markus Zusak

#5. Not only is this teacher educating her children in violence, she also has to continuously escalate her own violence to keep control. Her method of teaching breeds disrespect and prejudice. Her students have been dehumanized.

Arun Gandhi

#6. Ultimately, wars escalate by eating their own shit, shitting bigger and eating bigger.

David Mitchell

#7. Human population growth is a problem in that most humans consume more than they need. The Earth's resources are now strained to sustain the needs and wants of the human population, which continues to escalate.

Sharon Gannon

#8. Through Nic's drug addiction, I have learned that parents can bear almost anything ... I shock myself with my ability to rationalize and tolerate things once unthinkable. The rationalizations escalate ... It's only marijuana. He gets high only on weekends. At least he's not using hard drugs ...

David Sheff

#9. All too often, parents and kids struggle to find an empathetic ear when confronting bullying situation; these escalate and too often result in marginalization, on top of what may well be a daily gauntlet of harassment and abuse that is fundamentally torture.

Lee Hirsch

#10. It's better to avoid than to run; better to run than to de-escalate; better to de-escalate than to fight; better to fight than to die. The very essence of self-defense is a thin list of things that might get you out alive when you are already screwed.

Rory Miller

#11. Germ warfare against the United States would escalate to war against all humanity.

Yoshijiro Umezu

#12. It is better to avoid than to run, better to run than to de-escalate, better to de-escalate than to fight, better to fight than to die.

Rory Miller

#13. Confidence cannot escalate to arrogance, it only happens if the blood of pride is running through your veins.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#14. Glossed over the disastrous war and its multibillion-dollar price tag and implied again that our presence in Iraq is somehow improving the situation in that chaotic and turbulent country. The Congress must stand up against Bush's plan to escalate the war.

John F. Kerry

#15. The Hedonic Treadmill By failing to anticipate the extent of our hedonic adaptation, as consumers we routinely escalate our purchases, hoping that new stuff will make us happier.

Dan Ariely

#16. So long as there is an Israeli occupation in Palestine and so long as U.S. policy is biased, the so-called terrorism that the United States fears will escalate because the mistakes of U.S. foreign policy are pouring oil on fire.

Khaled Mashal

#17. When we are anxiously attached, our inability to trust the intentions and behaviors of others will often lead us to escalate situations and then reject attempts to reassure us. It is a painful and dramatic spiral.

Mary Crocker Cook

#18. If patterns of human love subtly change, all sorts of social and political atrocities can escalate.

Helen Fisher

#19. One of the tricks to writing great plays is to get people in a room together and not let them leave. You want the tension to escalate. Keeping them there is the hardest part, so you have to take away any excuse for them to leave.

Adam Rapp

#20. When leaders reframe customers into guests, and results into experiences, profits escalate.

Eric Schiffer

#21. To de-escalate a potential conflict, one method is to take a step backwards.

David W. Earle

#22. What was that? Rich combined the pain of a crooked arm with the indignity of a flicked ear. I could only hope the situation didn't escalate to the dreaded purple nurple.

Molly Harper

#23. The first thing was not to panic, because all panic does is escalate the problem. (This is the first mistake that people make in situations like this: the cats lose their pee and the humans lose their shit.)

Jackson Galaxy

#24. I guess humans like to watch a little destruction. Sand castles, houses of cards, that's where they begin. Their great skills is their capacity to escalate.

Markus Zusak

#25. Arguments escalate when we want to be right more than we want to be CHRIST. It's easy to get blinded in the heat of disagreement. Soon, all we want is to win. Even if victory requires sin. The one who wins the argument is usually the one who acts LESS like Christ.

Francis Chan

#26. Expand your inner circle to include those who can challenge your thinking and escalate you to unreached heights of success.

Simon T. Bailey

#27. Better to avoid than run, better to run than de-escalcate, better to de-escalate than fight, better to fight than die.

Rory Miller

#28. Like everything else, holiday gifts escalate. The presents get better and better until one year you decide you don't need anything else and start making donations to animal shelters. Even if you hate dogs and cats, they're somehow always the ones who benefit.

David Sedaris

#29. When you have police officers like Office Encinia who is a trained professional, who is trained to de-escalate a situation where a motorist may not be in the best of moods because of an encounter that they're having with you, you are trained to respond differently.

Sharon Cooper

#30. The way humor's usually used in horror, it's as a pressure-release valve; without it, the drama would escalate out of all control almost immediately.

Stephen Graham Jones

#31. The next time, Mr. Potter, that you choose to escalate a contest rather than lose, you may lose all the stakes you place on the table.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#32. The conflict in Darfur could escalate to where we're seeing 100,000 victims per month.

Nicholas D. Kristof

#33. Part of the reason I embrace nonviolence is that it's the most effective thing we can do. It's a more advanced tactic than violence. If people who engage in violence want to escalate their tactics, they would escalate to nonviolence.

Tim DeChristopher

#34. Human violence as a kind of fractal - self-similar on all scales from bar fight to system-wide war. The buildup of insults and lost face that swelled over the course of an evening or a century. The shoving and shoving back, neither side sure they wanted to escalate and uncertain how to back down.

James S.A. Corey

#35. Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.

Alvin Toffler