The downturn following the collapse of Japan's so-called bubble economy of the 1980s was not as severe as the Great Depression. — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
The precedent is that civilizations collapse, and everything's stacked up for this one to go, and it's a mess when it happens. — Gail Bradbrook Copy Share Image
With QE3, we are essentially being bought out with our own money...and unemployment is being used to facilitate this process in a… — Catherine Austin Fitts Copy Share Image
What if a small group of world leaders were to conclude that the principal risk to the Earth comes from the actions… — Maurice Strong Copy Share Image
If you fail to take advantage of your enemies' collapse, they may recover. — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
In youth we may have an absolutely new experience, subjective or objective, every hour of the day. Apprehension is vivid, retentiveness strong,… — William James Copy Share Image
“The world economy would collapse if a significant number of people were to realize and then act on the realization that it… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Particularly at around the age of 70 you reach a stage where you have to be very careful. If, at that point,… — Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Copy Share Image
Visual ideas combined with technology combined with personal interpretation equals photography. Each must hold it's own; if it doesn't, the thing collapses. — Arnold Newman Copy Share Image
...the collapse of tsarism, while not improbably, was certainly not inevitable. — Richard Pipes Copy Share Image
Wormholes - if you don't have something threading through them to hold them open, the walls will basically collapse so fast that… — Kip Thorne Copy Share Image
If we tried to rely entirely on reason, and pressed it hard, our lives and beliefs would collapse - a form of… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
[My grandfather] was very, very fortunate that he was never trapped in a mining cave-in. But he lost his brother in a… — Dwight Yoakam Copy Share Image
Now we are intimately locked together. You get swine flu in Mexico; it’s a problem for Charles de Gaulle Airport 24 hours… — Paddy Ashdown Copy Share Image
If money is not maintained, it can collapse like a bridge along Interstate 5 and fixing it, even with determined politicians, will… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“person’s faith can collapse almost overnight if she has failed over the years to listen patiently to her own doubts, which should… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
No good to paint in the head - what happens is what happens when you put the paint down - you can… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
We seem to be in the midst of a process of cascading bifurcations that may last some 50 more years. We can… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
Grace cannot prevail...until our lifelong certainty that someone is keeping score has run out of steam and collapsed. — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
A power struggle collapses when you withdraw your energy from it. Power struggles become uninteresting to you when you change your intention… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
As great edifices collapse of their own weight, so Heaven sets a similar limit to the growth of prosperous states. — Lucan Copy Share Image
...the limitations of my endurance were expanded over and over. At times I felt that if I did not sit down I… — Marlo Morgan Copy Share Image
Parents shouldn't assume children are made out of sugar candy and will break and collapse instantly. Kids don't. We do. — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
Perhaps more than anything else, failure to recognize the precariousness and fickleness of confidence - especially in cases in which large short-term… — Carmen Reinhart Copy Share Image