Crash Quotes - Page 22

• It’s easy to watch someone else’s life crash and burn, harder to watch your own accident up close.

  Patrick Jones

  Watches, Easy, Harder

  Patrick Jones (2006). “Things Change”, p.177, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• It was not hard to persuade people that the market was sound; as always in such times they asked only that the dispiriting voices of doubt be muted and that there should be tolerably frequent expressions of confidence.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Expression, Voice, People

  "The Great Crash, 1929". Book by John Kenneth Galbraith, Chapter V, The Twilight of Illusion, Section II, p. 70, 1954.

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• As Indian citizens, we subsist on a regular diet of caste massacres and nuclear tests, mosque breakings and fashion shows, church burnings and expanding cell phone networks, bonded labor and the digital revolution, female infanticide and the NASDAQ crash, husbands who continue to burn their wives for dowry and our delectable stockpile of Miss Worlds. What's hard to reconcile oneself to, both personally and politically, is the schizophrenic nature of it.

  Arundhati Roy

  Fashion, Husband, Cells

  Arundhati Roy (2001). “Power Politics”, South End Pr

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• People keep asking me if I'll marry again. It's as if after you've had one car crash you want another.

  Stephanie Beacham

  Car, People, Asking

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• The problem with the press is that they can't tell the difference between a bicycle crash and the end of civilization.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Civilization, Differences, Problem

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• I certainly came up in an era where women were really making strides and making a point to beat down doors and find their place and crash through the glass ceiling.

  Gina Torres

  Glasses, Doors, Ceilings

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• By sort of combining the research of a lot of smart people, I came up with an equation for dread [dread=uncontrollability+unfamiliarity+imaginability+suffering+scale of destruction+unfairness]. The dread equation is a simplification, but it's a way to explain why we fear something so much when it is so unlikely. Part of it is the lack of control. That's why we're more scared of plane crashes than car crashes even though we know rationally which is more dangerous.

  Amanda Ripley

  Smart, Car, People

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Most serious plane crashes are survivable. There's a sense that, 'Oh, if we go down, that's it, it's out of my hands.' And that's just statistically not true. I have more optimism and more faith that my own actions can make a difference.

  Amanda Ripley

  Differences, Hands, Optimism

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I think the best way to crash a stranger's party would be to arrive as the pizza person, buy pizza, buy some sort of pizza shirt, walk in like you're delivering the pizza, put it down and proceed to party while eating the pizza.

  Hannah Hart

  Party, Thinking, Would Be

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• The world is not against you, but the world is a place where bad things happen. It's just true. Airlines crash, people do evil things. A lot of bad things happen and it causes pain.

  Philip Yancey

  Pain, People, Evil

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• You need to decide whether you're willing to risk being hurt, plain and simple. You can go for it and have a wonderful relationship. Or you might go for it and crash and burn brilliantly. It's up to you if you want to take that risk, up to you if it's worth it or not.

  Erin McCarthy

  Hurt, Simple, Risk

  Erin McCarthy (2009). “Hard and Fast”, p.210, Penguin

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• If you ride like lightning, you're gonna crash like thunder.

  Ben Mendelsohn

  Lightning, Thunder, Ifs

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• Failure saves lives. In the airline industry, every time a plane crashes the probability of the next crash is lowered by that.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Next, Save A Life, Planes

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Revenge for a terror attack is ideal for Putin's model. His propaganda machine will be filled with scenes of crash victims if [Vladimir] Putin sees the need for a larger war to stoke his domestic support again as the Russian economy teeters.

  Garry Kasparov

  Revenge, War, Terror Attacks

  "Putin Needs Wars To Legitimize His Position". Interview with Erich Follath, www.spiegel.de. November 10, 2015.

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• Greece bankruptcy will trigger a market crash. My advice: Buy Bitcoin & Gold Both will rise when the markets crash.

  Kim Dotcom

  Advice, Gold, Bitcoin

  Kim Dotcom @KimDotcom, twitter.com. June 20, 2015.

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• An army of experts assured us on a daily basis that this boom couldn't possibly crash like previous booms because this boom was still going on whereas all previous booms had ended.

  Mark Steel

  Army, Experts, Bases

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• The causes of all panics, crashes and depressions can be summed up in only four words: the misuse of credit.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Causes, Credit, Four

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• Rising inequality can create a more highly leveraged economy, and it can then make the economy vulnerable to a crash like 2008.

  Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell

  Rising, Vulnerable, Economy

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Law Number XIV: After the year 2015, there will be no airplane crashes. There will be no takeoffs either, because electronics will occupy 100 percent of every airplane's weight.

  Norman Ralph Augustine

  Airplane, Years, Law

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• I'd rather see heaven crash from the skies than one grain of God's truth die.

  Martin Luther

  Sky, Heaven, Grain

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• There's no such thing beneath the heavens as conditions favorable to art. Art must crash through or perish.

  Sylvia Ashton-Warner

  Art, Heaven, Conditions

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• We no longer think of chairs as technology, we just think of them as chairs. But there was a time when we hadn't worked out how many legs chairs should have, how tall they should be, and they would often "crash" when we tried to use them. Before long, computers will be as trivial and plentiful as chairs and we will cease to be aware of the things. In fact I'm sure we will look back on this last decade and wonder how we could ever have mistaken what we were doing with them for "productivity"

  Douglas Adams

  Technology, Thinking, Should Have

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• What happens when you're in a crash is you join a crash club, and you talk endlessly about your crash because you don't want to bore your friends with it. And they've heard about the crash so many times.

  Laurie Anderson

  Clubs, Want, Heard

  "Laurie Anderson Reflects On Life And Loss In 'Heart Of A Dog'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 19, 2015.

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• I had an approach where everything that's happening it should be as though it's an experience for somebody. So if you're experiencing a hurricane, if you're experiencing a car crash or whatever it is, you're only experiencing as yourself, you're not experiencing it from some objective point of view.

  Jeff Baena

  Views, Car, Hurricanes

  Source: collider.com

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• Nothing provides the antidote to narcissism, or the environment for the healthy raising of children, or the way for people to take care of one another, as does the marriage of a man and a woman. And while most divorces are terribly sad, divorce itself no more undermines the institution of marriage than car crashes undermine the institution of driving.

  Dennis Prager

  Children, Divorce, Men

  "The 'Divorce Threatens Marriage' Lie" by Dennis Prager, www.realclearpolitics.com. April 12, 2005.

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