Precipitously Quotes

#1. In life and business, there are two cardinal sins. The first is to act precipitously without thought and the second is to not act at all.

Carl Icahn

#2. If wells are constructed right and operated right, hydraulic fracturing will not cause a problem. ... Our natural gas supplies would plummet precipitously without hydraulic fracturing.

Scott Anderson

#3. In the earlier centuries the upper and lower social classes engaged in homicide at comparable rates. But as the homicide rate fell, it dropped far more precipitously among the upper classes than among the lower ones, an important social change

Steven Pinker

#4. Until well into the evening, when the vermillion sun plunged precipitously into the harbor, Alexandria remained a swirl of reds and yellows, a swelling kaleidoscope of music, chaos, and color.

Stacy Schiff

#5. There used to be this feeling under Eisenhower and Kennedy and Roosevelt and Truman that government was a solution. Trust in the presidency fell precipitously under Johnson - real lows. And it's never come back. It's a trend that, if you're liberal, is really discouraging.

Robert Caro

#6. Professor Lyall, cursing his Alpha for departing so precipitously, balled up the piece of paper and, after minor consideration for the delicacy of the information it contained, ate it.

Gail Carriger

#7. It's only now you're gone I see how you're my reason for doing things. Now I'm a stiltwalker with the stilts removed. My emptied trouser legs flap in the wind and I can't remember how to walk without being precipitously propped.

Sara Baume

#8. In this age of electronic money, investors are no longer seduced by a financial 'dance of a thousand veils.' Only hard and accurate information on reserves, current accounts, and monetary and fiscal conditions will keep capital from fleeing precipitously at the first sign of trouble.

Lawrence Summers

#9. Second, recent polls over there show that the majority of Iraqis want us to leave precipitously.

William Odom

#10. The Constitution is very clear on the - on the declaration of war or reacting to international crimes - crimes against nations. It is the role of Congress to debate and authorize this before the President acts precipitously.

Joe Pitts

#11. At the fourth grade level, girls at the same percentages of boys say they're interested in careers in engineering or math or astrophysics, but by eighth grade that has dropped precipitously.

Chelsea Clinton

#12. We are always searching for God afar off, when all the while He is nearer to us than our own soul.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

#13. With toddlers around, times are always interesting.

Beth Ann Fennelly

#14. The man who has nothing more than a kind of Sunday religion
whose Christianity is like his Sunday clothes put on once a week, and then laid aside
such a man cannot, of course, be expected to care about growth in grace.

J.C. Ryle

#15. To me, love has always meant friendship.

Jean Harlow

#16. A journey once begun, has no end

Kiran Desai

#17. Grammar and ordinary language are bad guides to metaphysics. A great book might be written showing the influence of syntax on philosophy.

Bertrand Russell

#18. I've learned the hard lesson that you can't pin your heart on anything until it's a completely done deal.

William Kempe

#19. I always devise a background so that it makes what your character goes through logical and keeps up the continuity.

Dexter Fletcher

#20. The construct of a dashboard, first of all should be drafted by the founder.

Keith Rabois

#21. And yet I wasn't sure what his weakness was. We all do that as we get to know someone. Like a tabloid editor, we search for both greatness and weakness, jotting down notes in our heads for future exploitation. We are never comfortable with those who have no visible flaw.

Wayne Elise

#22. We start dying when we have nothing worth living for. And we don't really start living until we find something worth dying for

Mark Batterson