Systemic Failure Quotes & Sayings

Positive thinking relates to an art of reasoning with the quality of hope for a better future either in the face of difficulties or in the presence of abundance of opportunities. — Israelmore Ayivor

There's also something about ageing and the concomitant awareness of the fleeting nature of existence that tends to make you less worried about being ridiculous, and less judgemental about the quality of ridiculousness in others. — Tom Cox

The heart-sick faintness of the hope delayed! — Walter Scott

She was so funny, stubborn and courageous and I loved her. But all turned to be fake — M.F. Moonzajer

some of the boys she went with in Baltimore were "terrible speeds" and came to dances in states of artificial stimulation; — F Scott Fitzgerald

A society committed to the search for truth must give protection to, and set a high value upon, the independent and original mind, however angular, however rasping, however socially unpleasant it may be; for it is upon such minds, in large measure, that the effective search for truth depends. — Caryl Parker Haskins

Even though poetry was written for the 'minds ear' as well as the physical ear, the minds ear can be trained only by the other ... which comes back to reading poetry aloud ... — Yvor Winters

It's really important for the bass and the drums to somehow blend. — Mike Gordon

In the future, financial firms of any type whose failure would pose a systemic risk must accept especially close regulatory scrutiny of their risk-taking. — Ben Bernanke

A totalitarian dictatorship cannot explain; it can only suppress. — Robert Payne

I've loved my 20s, but I would never repeat them. — Kelly Clarkson

The failure to accept cancer as a systemic disease is one of the greatest failures in modern medicine. — Michael Lam

..."Not if I remember to take my pills," he said, as a tangible wave of longing hit him, lust and loneliness riding in on the wavelength of amphetamine. — William Gibson

Good deeds must be rewarded by the system and crimes be punished - this is the essence of meritocracy. — Imran Khan

In today's world more harm may be done by well-intentioned people trying to do good, who are unaware of the unintended consequences of their actions, than by people actually trying to cause harm. — Peter Coleman

When everyone was falling in and out of love with some random guy they sat next to in history, I never felt swoony or envious. It seemed a waste. Guys, or at least the ones I'd met, didn't seem worth the bother. — Eileen Cook

We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by those which have occurred to others. — Blaise Pascal

Getting things done in this country, if you want to build something, if you want to start a company, it's getting to be virtually impossible with all of the bureaucracy and all of the approvals. — Donald Trump

In truth, in the fairy-tale version of bailing out Lehman, the next domino, A.I.G., would have fallen even harder. If the politics of bailing out Lehman were bad, the politics of bailing out A.I.G. would have been worse. And the systemic risk that a failure of A.I.G. posed was orders of magnitude greater than Lehman's collapse. — Andrew Ross Sorkin