Precipitous Quotes

#1. With regard to precipitous heights, if you are beforehand with your adversary, you should occupy the raised and sunny spots, and there wait for him to come up.

Sun Tzu

#2. Sun Tzu said: We may distinguish six kinds of terrain, to wit: (1) Accessible ground; (2) Entangling ground; (3) Temporizing ground; (4) Narrow passes; (5) Precipitous heights; (6) Positions at a great distance from the enemy.

Sun Tzu

#3. If you just look at the data, you are led to believe that things are getting better, rather than worse. That's why the fall is really precipitous, once you hit the ceiling.

Clayton Christensen

#4. The plausible outcomes range from the gradual and benign to the more precipitous and damaging.

Timothy Geithner

#5. The friendship of the bad is like the shade of some precipitous bank with crumbling sides, which, falling, buries him who is beneath.

J. K. Bharavi

#6. having been jostled by a nautical-looking negro who had come from one of the queer dark courts on the precipitous hillside which formed a short cut from the waterfront to the deceased's home

H.P. Lovecraft

#7. In skydiving, it is the fear response that gradually weakens. During the precipitous descent, the amply tested parachutist can savor the thrill rather than endure the panic.

Dean Keith Simonton

#8. This dramatic increase in the speed of information and the precipitous decline in critical thinking have been disastrous.

Bronwen Dickey

#9. A strip club is one of the few places where two groups voluntarily come together who have such precipitous contrasts in net worth and familiarity with violence, each group with a head-and-shoulders edge in one category. The basic math of a tropical storm.

Tim Dorsey

#10. We Americans are world leaders and we must lead by example - particularly in times that require careful deliberation before any precipitous action - lest we fail to walk in the shoes of those we might injure.

Peter Yarrow

#11. No, my life is not this precipitous hour
through which you see me passing at a run.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#12. Eternity! How know we but we stand
On the precipitous and crumbling verge
Of Time e'en now, Eternity below?

Abraham Coles

#13. Precipitous creature,' Kruppe muttered, reaching for the mug of wine the man had left behind. 'Ah, look at this,' he said, frowning up at Crokus, 'nigh two-thirds full. A potential waste!' Kruppe drank it down in one swift gulp, then sighed. 'Said potential averted, Dessembrae be praised.

Steven Erikson

#14. The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.

Arthur C. Clarke

#15. If you give to get something, you're not giving, you're trading. Your motives are second in importance only to your actions

Jose Silva Jr.

#16. We fear things because we value them. We fear losing people because we love them. We fear dying because we value being alive. Don't wish you didn't fear anything. All that would mean is that you didn't feel anything. - Julian Blackthorn

Cassandra Clare

#17. I'm here for every bit of your life. The bad parts, the scary parts. And I vow to do all you ask of me that is fair ... even at the end." I knew I didn't have to elaborate; I could see that he'd gotten it, and that it moved him. "I do.

Lia Habel

#18. Then we're out into the bright Seattle May morning.

E.L. James

#19. But I don't want to lose touch with things like eating in Bob's Big Boy.

Drew Carey

#20. Hollywood has lost an enormous amount of quality.

Claire Trevor

#21. Fear has a large shadow, but he himself is small.

J. Ruth Gendler