Volatile Quotes
87 quotes by 84 authors
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At the heart of banking is a suicidal strategy. Banks take money from the public or each other on call, skim it for their own…
— James Buchan
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We have a potentially volatile situation but we sort of live with it, and we kick the ball down the field and hope that ultimately,…
— Mitt Romney
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The vanishing, volatile froth of the present which any shadow will alter, any thought blow away, any event annihilate, is every moment converted into the…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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After death, life reappears in a different form and with different laws. It is inscribed in the laws of the permanence of life on the…
— Louis Pasteur
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Acid Salts have the Power of Destroying the Blewness of the Infusion of our Wood [lignum nephreticum], and those Liquors indiscriminatly that abound with Sulphurous…
— Robert Boyle
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If the juices of the body were more chymically examined, especially by a naturalist, that knows the ways of making fixed bodies volatile, and volatile…
— Robert Boyle
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From the time I was a child I wanted to be like my mother. Not necessarily an actress - I never dreamed I'd have the…
— Isabella Rossellini
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In our relationship with children and young people, we are not dealing with mechanical devices that can be quickly repaired, but with living beings who…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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That beautiful sister of mine was an overwhelming and volatile mixture. One had the feeling that she'd been shot from a canon and showered her…
— Joan Bennett
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As long as Americans are not being injured or harmed or wounded or killed, it's fine with me and I hope it would be fine…
— John McCain
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The volatile truth of our words should continually betray the inadequacy of the residual statement.
— Henry David Thoreau
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America -- rather, the United States -- seems to me to be the Jew among the nations. It is resourceful, adaptable, maligned, envied, feared, imposed…
— Edna Ferber
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I'm not angry. As an athlete ... you should be open to criticism, and you're allowed to be criticized, because not everybody has the same…
— Roger Federer
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Fear tends to manifest itself much more quickly than greed, so volatile markets tend to be on the downside. In up markets, volatility tends to…
— Philip Roth
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Global warming creates volatility. I feel it when I'm flying. The storms are more volatile. We are paying the price in more hurricanes and tornadoes.
— Debbie Stabenow
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Women are the volatile vote at the end-particularly independent, non-college-educated married women.
— Celinda Lake
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I'm Gordon Ramsay, for goodness sake: people know I'm volatile.
— Gordon Ramsay
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We're hopeful it won't climb much more than that (10 percent). The reality is we're all looking at the price per gallon of gasoline and…
— Martin Murray
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Up here in Alaska we're sitting on billions of barrels of oil. We're sitting on hundreds of trillions of cubic feet of natural gas onshore…
— Sarah Palin
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The word is a thing of mystery, so volatile that it vanishes almost on the lip, yet so powerful that it decides fates and determines…
— Romano Guardini
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