Precipitate Quotes
17 quotes by 17 authors
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How many of us persist in a precipitate course which, but for a moment of heedlessness we might never have entered upon, simply because we…
— William James
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War is the spectacular and bloody projection of our everyday living. We precipitate war out of our daily lives; and without a transformation in ourselves,…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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There is nothing like a doorbell to precipitate the potential into the kinetic.
— Wallace Stegner
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Where mass opinion dominates the government, there is a morbid derangement of the true functions of power. The derangement brings about the enfeeblement, verging on…
— Walter Lippmann
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I think that Iran with a nuclear weapon is extremely destabilizing. I think it could precipitate a nuclear arms race in the region.
— Robert M. Gates
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Death is not something to be feared, but rather anticipated. Of course, we are not to precipitate it ourselves, as suicide is surrender and defeat…
— David Berg
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In an economy that already has lost some momentum, one must remain alert to the possibility that greater caution and weakening asset values in financial…
— Alan Greenspan
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It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster.
— Rebecca West
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The president of the United States has claimed, on more than one occasion, to be in dialogue with God. If he said that he was…
— Sam Harris
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Precipitate as weather, she appeared from somewhere, then evaporated, leaving only memory.
— Haruki Murakami
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What the semicolon's anxious supporters fret about is the tendency of contemporary writers to use a dash instead of a semicolon and thus precipitate the…
— Lynne Truss
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Past and future monopolize the poet’s sensory and intellectual faculties, detached from the immediate spectacle. These two philtres become utterly clear the moment one stops…
— Andre Breton
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I have no fear of God, and yet fear keeps me awake at night,fear of the devil. And if I believe in the devil, I…
— Anais Nin
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When desire is still in this pure state, the man and the woman fall in love with life, they live each moment reverently, consciously, always…
— Paulo Coelho
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The two biggest threats to international security in 2013 are Iran getting a nuclear weapon, and Iran being bombed to stop it getting a nuclear…
— David Miliband
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If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
— Henry J Tillman
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Because of you, the heady perfumes of Summer pain me; because of you, I again Seek out the signs that precipitate desires: Shooting stars, falling…
— Hussein Nishah
Who Wrote These Precipitate Quotes
17 authors contributed a total of 17 Precipitate Quotes as follows: