Bad thing Quote by Mark Ravenhill Download Open image “The financial crisis happened because no-one could actually say out loud how bad things were.” — Mark Ravenhill ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bad thing Bad things Crisis Financial Financial crisis Happened Loud Money
Let's stop for a second and remember where we were eight years ago [in 2008]. We had the worst financial crisis, the Great Recession,… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
From the beginning of time, we've had financial crises. People always blame the banks and for good reason. When you look for the root… — Henry Paulson Copy Share Image
The financial crisis revealed important weaknesses in many areas of our financial system. — Jerome Powell Copy Share Image
This crisis exposed very significant problems in the financial systems of the United States and some other major economies. Innovation got too far out… — Timothy Geithner Copy Share Image
If you look at what happened, I came in the middle of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. And unlike Franklin Delano… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation, rather than by greed. — Nigel Farage Copy Share Image
A financial crisis is a great time for professional investors and a horrible time for average ones. — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
The financial crisis was a classic case of the political class failing the American people. Twenty-five agencies were supposed to be minding the store… — Carly Fiorina Copy Share Image
You can't look back at the worst financial crisis of our lifetimes that started in 2008 and not have some important lessons about the… — Austan Goolsbee Copy Share Image
Financial crises are an unfortunate but necessary consequence of modern capitalism. — Andrew Lo Copy Share Image
The times are too difficult and the crisis too severe to indulge in schadenfreude. Looking at it in perspective, the fact that there would… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The financial crisis of 2008-09 was in large part the result of the so-called 'success' of people who did not understand their fiduciary duty.… — Li Lu Copy Share Image
Rereading Candide, I was struck by the link between optimism and the optimal, the idea that we have been placed in this optimal world… — Mark Ravenhill Copy Share Image
Twenty years ago, when you bumped into someone and asked how they were, they would say, 'Mustn't grumble' or 'Getting by': now they feel… — Mark Ravenhill Copy Share Image
Optimism and happiness are not the same thing, but they are becoming interchangeable, and it seemed to me that Voltaire's Candide gave me a… — Mark Ravenhill Copy Share Image
The American journalist Barbara Ehrenreich has written about this in her book Smile or Die: How Positive Thinking Fooled America and the World (2009) . She talks about the happiness industry, the rise of medication to make us happy and of self-help books, and the influence of all this on religion. In many ways religion has become another form of… — Mark Ravenhill Copy Share
The title's so upfront. It gives fair warning about the play's content. I'm writing about a kind of disenchantment, an anger, but quite a cool 90's anger, at a time when we're not very good at openly being angry. . . . I don't think I ever thought the title was titillating. I thought it was incredibly catchy. If the… — Mark Ravenhill Copy Share
There is a remarkable nimbleness of style, a balancing act of tone, in Voltaire, which is hard to bring off on stage. When you… — Mark Ravenhill Copy Share Image
I have adapted the whole book [Candid] into tweets of 140 characters, and these are being sent out daily, at the rate of eight… — Mark Ravenhill Copy Share Image
In the business world, the idea of positive thinking is absolutely entrenched. — Mark Ravenhill Copy Share Image
Theatre within theatre, when characters sees themselves on stage, always raises philosophical questions of choice and free will. — Mark Ravenhill Copy Share Image
Even within single sentences, there are sudden changes of register. And when the travellers go to Venice, they see a play by Voltaire! This… — Mark Ravenhill Copy Share Image
Translating Candide into tweets has really deepened my appreciation of his writing - it wouldn't work so well with nineteenth-century authors. Every single sentence… — Mark Ravenhill Copy Share Image
There is the question of language. Although the play [Candid] is not written in strict verse form, there is an underlying beat of rhyming… — Mark Ravenhill Copy Share Image
As a child, I had a lot of older gay men taking care of me. There's a trust there. I feel like little girls and old gay men together - there's a safety. They make a shield from all of the bad things they've experienced in the world. They make a home together. There are no songs about that. I… — Margaret Cho Copy Share
I think the people I talk about are generally so stupid that they don't even know I'm saying bad things about them. I've run… — Chelsea Handler Copy Share Image
One thing I always tell players is that there are three bad things: Nothing good happens after midnight, nothing good happens when you're around… — Nick Saban Copy Share Image
I'm not going to pretend that bad things don't happen. I just hope my daughter has enough understanding that when they do, just give… — John Krasinski Copy Share Image
I've heard some pretty bad things in my life. I'm just one of those people I've gotten to a point where I don't want… — Sophia Bush Copy Share Image
Like everybody, you get nights where you feel completely depressed. You start thinking about all the bad things and think about the glass half… — Lights Copy Share Image
Be Thankful for all things in life. Even for the bad things. SOMETIMES the worst situations in life turn out to be the best… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In my business, you should be very strong in mind. You have to be sure about yourself and about your work and your career,… — Irina Shayk Copy Share Image
“I don’t know why I latched onto the idea of being friends, but it sits right with my gut. I want Hartley in my… — Erin Watt Copy Share Image
I'm just grateful to people who are willing to admit how bad things feel for them. — Ezra Furman Copy Share Image
I love it when television is shot in a cinematic way and I think to aspire to that is no bad thing. — Matthew Rhys Copy Share Image