Precipitating Quotes

#1. Why are we even here [on earth], what's our human nature? It's precipitating a real philosophical crisis that I find quite fascinating.

Douglas Coupland

#2. Almost no one will accept responsibility for his or her role in precipitating a crisis: not leveraged speculators, not willfully blind leaders of financial institutions, and certainly not regulators, government officials, ratings agencies or politicians.

Seth Klarman

#3. The acid of fury ran through him, eating away the brute patience and sluggishness that had made a cipher of Gully Foyle, precipitating a chain of reactions that would make an infernal machine of Gully Foyle. He was dedicated.

Alfred Bester

#4. The moral and constitutional obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the world, precipitating no-win wars, while bringing bankruptcy and economic turmoil to our people.

Ron Paul

#5. Readiness,' far far from assuring peace, has at all times and in all countries been instrumental in precipitating armed conflicts.

Emma Goldman

#6. By precipitating change, you'll create value. Those that do this best will win.

Ben Keighran

#7. We are born for synergy, just like the feet, just like the hands, just like the eyes, just like the rows of upper and lower teeth. Working against each other is unnatural, and being annoyed and turning one's back is counterproductive.

Marcus Aurelius

#8. I started walking at night with my sister in law which has been amazing. It really does something for you. It just kind of clears the mind, it just makes you feel better, things start to tighten a little bit.

Ashley Scott

#9. I am in total ecstasy with where my life is now.

Wavy Gravy

#10. You don't have to justify your education by demonstrating its financial rewards. You don't have to maintain an impeccable credit score. Anyone who expects you to do any of those things has no sense of history or economics or science or the arts.

Cheryl Strayed

#11. Her scream echoed through my soul, and at that moment, I knew I had one. Human or not, it rocked me to my very core.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#12. I don't find myself as sexy as everyone thinks. I'm a lot more insecure than people would assume, but with little stupid things. When I get dressed, I'm always so indecisive.

Kim Kardashian

#13. What remains in diseases after the crisis is apt to produce relapses.

Hippocrates

#14. I think everyone on the planet is a fan of a painting because everyone is a fan of visual stimulation, but I've had freedom in the world [of painting] because I've kept it to myself.

Scott Avett

#15. I don't need to argue here that the evil in the world proves that the universe is not designed, but only that there are no signs of benevolence that might have shown the hand of a designer.

Steven Weinberg

#16. Maybe your life will work.
Most likely it won't at first
but that
will give you poetry.

Yrsa Daley-Ward

#17. I know how bad Albany is. I know it better than most. I understand why people are angry. I'm angry. The question is going to be, how do you change Albany, what is the plan for change, and then how do you actually get it done?

Andrew Cuomo

#18. They looked at each other, baffled, in love and hate.

William Golding

#19. If you want your lie to be believed then you need to speak thousand truths before you lie.

Amit Kalantri

#20. But what's worth more than gold?"
"Practically everything. You, for example. Gold is heavy. Your weight in gold is not very much gold at all. Aren't you worth more than that?

Terry Pratchett

#21. One thing I've learned to do with my age, I really don't look ahead. For years, I've been preaching the precious present and having to always subscribe to it.

Rick Pitino

#22. But on 1 March 1881 the conspirators succeeded in assassinating the Tsar. To

Isaac Deutscher