“Give a small number of people the power to enrich themselves beyond everyone's wildest dreams, a philosophical rationale to explain all the damage they're causing, and they will not stop until they've run the world economy off a cliff.” PeopleWorldGivingDreamRunningNumbersEconomyPhilosophicalDamageCliffsSmall NumbersWorld EconomyRationaleWildest Dreams Author:Philipp Meyer
“I've learned to deal with stress. In fact, things that would make the next person go over a cliff don't even make my radar anymore.” PersonsFactsNextDealsStressI've LearnedCliffsRadarDealing With Stress Author:Kate Gosselin
“I kind of came from the Townes Van Zandt school of throwing yourself off a cliff and then that's what you write about, and that rule number one of creative writing is you have to have conflict. But if you write about yourself mostly, then if you don't have conflict, then you create it. And the older I get, the more I realize that that's not a very smart way to do this. Not to say I'm the most self destructive person on earth, but it's easy to do.” IfsWayWritingKindPersonsSelfSchoolEarthEasyRealizingNumbersCreativeConflictSmartDestructiveAbout YourselfThrowingCreative WritingVansCliffsSelf DestructiveVery SmartSelf Destruct Author:John Fullbright
“I'm not a lemming about to run off the end of a cliff.” EndsRunningCliffsLemmings Author:Glenn Roeder
“I think we're out on a limb right now, hanging over a cliff, and we're trying to find a way to get back.” ThinkingWayTryingRight NowGet BackLimbsCliffs Author:Charlie Manuel
“Big Cliff Lazarenko's idea of exercise is sitting in a room with the windows open taking the lid off something cool and fizzy.” IdeasBigsRoomsExerciseSittingWindowCliffsDarts Author:Sid Waddell
“We as young men need just one of our peers to stand up and trust his God completely and without reserve. We need just one who will start climbing the rugged mountain cliffs in the direction of his King. We need just one to hear the call of the wild, to charge the fields of Bannockburn and fight for something that really matters. I appeal to you, as a young man, to consider that throughout history, it has often been when one young man stood up to be counted that the course of a nation was forever altered.” MenNeedsMatterYoungFightingCoursesNationsForeverFieldsKingsMountainAppealsYoung ManJust OneClimbingReservesPeersCliffsAlteredStood UpRugged Author:Eric Ludy
“As a new president takes office and elevates global warming alarmism to official federal policy, much of America is experiencing record low temperatures. While the deep freeze amounts to little more than irony, Americans should nevertheless take what could well be a last opportunity to reconsider the cliff off which Barack Obama, Al Gore and the rest of the global warming industry want us to jump.” WantShouldWellsLittlesLastsAmericaOpportunityPresidentRecordsPolicyIndustryAmountOfficeLowsBarackIronyOfficialsGlobal WarmingAlsNeverthelessWant UCliffsTemperatureGoreFreeze Author:Steven Milloy
“The essence of the this-time-is-different syndrome is...rooted in the firmly held belief that financial crises are things that happen to other people in other countries at other times; crises do not happen to us, here and now. We are doing things better, we are smarter, we have learned from past mistakes. The old rules of valuation no longer apply. Unfortunately, a highly leveraged economy can unwittingly be sitting with its back at the edge of a financial cliff for many years before chance and circumstance provoke a crisis of confidence that pushes it off.” PeopleYearsDifferentCountryHappensPastBeliefChanceMistakeEconomyCircumstancesSittingEssenceCrisisFinancialEdgesRootedOther CountriesSmarterProvokingCliffsHere And NowSyndromesFinancial CrisisValuationPast Mistakes Author:Carmen Reinhart
“They say the definition of ambivalence is watching your mother-in-law drive over a cliff in your new Cadillac.” LawMotherDefinitionsCliffsIn-lawsMother In LawAmbivalenceCadillacs Author:David Mamet
“Seek out some retired and old-world spot, far from the madding crowd, and dream away a sunny week among its drowsy lanes - some half-forgotten nook, hidden away by the fairies, out of reach of the noisy world - some quaint-perched eyrie on the cliffs of Time, from whence the surging waves of the nineteenth century would sound far-off and faint.” WorldDreamSoundHalfWeekCenturyForgottenWaveCrowdsSpotsFairyRetiredCliffsSunnyLanesNineteenth CenturyNoisyOld WorldQuaintDrowsy Book:Three Men in a Boat and Three Men on the Bummel Source: Three Men in a Boat and Three Men on the Bummel
“Then something fails and they're all out again, but DVD revenue is disappearing, you know, it's not disappearing but it's going off a cliff and what that's done is it's polarized the industry in a way that I've never seen before where studios are making less, they're bifurcating their choices where they're either going very, very big or they're just picking up a few rights on an acquisition basis or making really small things.” KnowsWayDoneBigsChoicesRightsFailingIndustryBasesStudiosDisappearRevenueSmall ThingsCliffsAcquisitionDvds Author:Eric Fellner
“The elections are run by the same guys who sell toothpaste. They show you an image of a sports hero, or a sexy model, or a car going up a sheer cliff or something, which has nothing to do with the commodity, but it's intended to delude you into picking this one rather than another one.” ShowsRunningGuySportsCarHeroModelsElectionSellsSexySheerCommodityCliffsToothpasteSports Hero Author:Noam Chomsky
“I think that was in the discussions when NBC finally bought it and was trying to figure out how to distinguish it as an event. I'll be honest, we did shoot it with the idea of it being an on-going series, but because I am insane when I get to the end of a season and they give you a big, giant cliff-hanger with no answers, I insisted that we provide all the answers to the questions that we set up, at the beginning.” ThinkingGivingTryingIdeasEndsBigsAnswersHonestEventsFiguresSeasonsSeriesInsaneBeing HonestDiscussionGiantsCliffsNbcHangers Author:Remi Aubuchon
“My most memorable adventure was investigating the chalk cliffs in Yorkshire. While clambering over kelp-covered boulders half-covered by the sea, I fell and smashed my tail bone on one of them.” HalfSeaAdventureBonesMemorableCoveredTailsCliffsInvestigatingChalkBouldersMost MemorableYorkshire Author:Maggie Stiefvater
“It's tough to know who's better in cliff diving. Like, you see a guy diving off a cliff and you go, Oh, man, a guy diving off a cliff! And then another guy'd dive- Oh, there's another guy diving off a cliff there. But you can't tell who's better, y'know? Like, uh- if you survive at all, hey, you're a great- you're a great cliff diver there. There's only two classifications in cliffdiving. There's, uh- 'Grand Champion' and then, uh- 'Stuff On a Rock.' Very hard to make a comeback in that sport, I'll tell you that.” IfsKnowsMenTwoHardGuyStuffSportsRocksLike YouToughHeyChampionCliffsComebackOther GuysDivingClassificationHey You Author:Norm MacDonald
“At the edge of the cliffs, the wind is a smack, and D-day becomes wildly clear: climbing that cutting edge into the bullets.” ClearCuttingWindEdgesClimbingBulletsCliffsSmackCutting EdgeD Day Author:John Vinocur
“As a kid, when I got to the edge of a cliff I wanted to jump off. I didn't want to kill myself. I wanted to fly.” WantKidsWantedEdgesCliffs Author:Tom Cruise
“I had simply been inspired by Arthur Godfrey (40's) and Ukulele Ike and Cliff Edwards (20's). In there day, they were huge in this country. I bought Godfrey's book "You Too Can Learn To Play Ukulele" and taught myself. It's a very romantic instrument. You can take it on a canoe.” BookCountryPlayTaughtHugeInstrumentsInspiredCliffsArthurUkuleleVery Romantic Author:Tiny Tim
“The reason we tend to support Republicans is they're taking us toward the cliff at only 70 miles per hour miles an hour and the Democrats are taking us 100 miles an hour.” ReasonHoursSupportRepublicanDemocratMilesCliffs Author:Charles Koch
“With a chip on his shoulder larger than his margin of victory, Barack Obama is approaching his second term by replicating the mistake of his first. Then his overreaching involved health care - expanding the entitlement state at the expense of economic growth. Now he seeks another surge of statism, enlarging the portion of gross domestic product grasped by government and dispensed by politics. The occasion is the misnamed "fiscal cliff," the proper name for which is: the Democratic Party's agenda.” FirstsStatesGovernmentCareNamesGrowthTermPartyMistakeEconomicProductsVictoryInvolvedDemocraticShouldersOccasionsBarackHealth CareAgendasExpensesPortionsGrossChipsExpandingCliffsDemocratic PartyEconomic GrowthMarginsEntitlementGross Domestic ProductOverreachingFiscal Cliff Author:George Will
“From millions of men . . . one man must step forward who with apodictic force will form granite principles from the wavering idea-world of the broad masses and take up the struggle for their sole correctness, until from the shifting waves of a fre thought-world there will arise a brazen cliff of solid unity in faith and will.” MenWorldIdeasFormForceStepsPrinciplesMillionsStruggleMassUnityWaveAriseOne ManBroadsSoleShiftingCliffsCorrectnessSteps ForwardBrazenGraniteWavering Book:Mein Kampf Source: Mein Kampf
“But actually theory is very practical. Gravity is a theory, for example. It allows you to predict that if you step off a cliff you will fall; you don't have to collect data on that.” IfsFallStepsExampleTheoryPracticalsDataGravityCliffs Author:Clayton Christensen
“Vertigo doesn't apply in planes for some reason. You think it's some kind of magic and you don't know how it's keeping you up, but when you're on a cliff top it's a different matter.” ThinkingKnowsKindDifferentMatterReasonKnow HowMagicPlanesCliffsVertigo Author:Jonathan Meades
“Most kids who grow up in Alaska and spend a fair degree of time in the wilderness, grow up being pretty self-reliant. You have to be, in order to survive all the animals and cliffs and crevasses and rapids - at some point, your brain has to kick [out of] that childish daydream world and start making I-want-to-live decisions.” WorldWantSelfKidsOrderGrowsDecisionAnimalBrainGrowing UpDegreesFairsKicksWildernessRapidsCliffsDaydreamingAlaskaSelf ReliantBeing Pretty Author:Leigh Newman
“I definitely felt frightened [on Skyfall], but never in danger, because they were always so careful about everything. Some of the driving, particularly on that road around the sheer-drop cliff was actually done by stunt driver Ben Collin, who is otherwise known as The Stig from the TV show Pop Gear. He's a brilliant drive, nonetheless, it was terrifying to be careening along when a wrong turn would mean a thousand-foot drop and you're not in control and you want to slow the car down.” WantMeanDoneShowsTurnsFeltKnownFeetCarDangerTvsThousandCarefulPopsBrilliantDrivingDriversFrightenedSheerTv ShowsCliffsGearsWrong TurnSkyfallStig Author:Naomie Harris
“Coming upon a space that sounds unique and incredible is just the best feeling. Sometimes, it's under a bridge or down a stairwell or hallway. Sometimes, it's pitch-black or incredibly warm or in full daylight on a rooftop. I did a shoot recently for a clothing line, Somedays Lovin. I got to stand on the edge of a cliff overlooking the ocean and play my guitar basically all day. It felt endlessly powerful.” SometimesPlayFeelingsFeltSoundBlackLinesSpacePowerfulOceanUniqueGuitarIncrediblesEdgesWarmBridgesClothingsCliffsDaylightHallwaysRooftopsOverlookingPitch BlackClothing Line Author:Madi Diaz
“This whole thing about not kicking someone when they are down is b.s. Not only do you kick him—you kick him until he passes out—then beat him over the head with a baseball bat—then roll him up in an old rug—and throw him off a cliff into the pounding surf below!!!!!” WholeBeatsBaseballKicksBatsCliffsKickingSurf Author:Michael Scanlon
“I'm a pretty wild guy and I live pretty close to nature - I've often lived in caves or on the edge of cliffs or in forests - so it's just second nature for me to tap into the movings of the weather and the world.” WorldMovingGuyEdgesForestsWeatherCavesCliffs Author:Dean Potter
“It was a very comfortable and personal relationship [Cliff Martinez ].'The Neon Demon'is our third movie and the music has never been as important as for this movie.” ImportantComfortableThirdsDemonCliffsPersonal RelationshipsNeon Author:Nicolas Winding Refn
“I do think it's true that a huge amount of the oversight that the White House engages in with respect to the Executive Branch is out of fear that somebody's going to do something crazy and drive the president off a cliff.” ThinkingHousePresidentWhiteCrazyHugeAmountBranchesExecutivesWhite HouseCliffsOversightExecutive Branch Author:Donald Verrilli Jr.
“We spent $100 billion on education, saving the education system 300,000 teachers who were laid off because of the recession. We also put tens of thousands of lower income kids in college through Pell grants which has fundamentally all their opportunity. We did the same thing with regard to what we did on transportation. So we weren't just trying to - we knew we had to do something big to keep us from going over the cliff into a depression and pull us out of hole.” TryingBigsKidsOpportunityTeacherCollegeRegardBillionsHolesIncomeSavingHaving FunGrantsCliffsTransportationRecessionsEducation SystemLaid OffPell Grants Author:Joe Biden
“The minute I spend any energy defending myself, explaining myself, or in the worst case scenario, trying to please those who are criticizing me, I will, you know, just fall off a cliff.” KnowsTryingFallEnergyCasesMinutesWorstPleaseCriticizeExplainingCliffsScenariosWorst Case Scenario Author:Amanda Palmer
“The further he raided, the closer he came to the other rooms. Those unused, cobwebbed chambers of her heart. Would he dare to venture there? She doubted. Jumping off a cliff was a flashy sort of courage, but a man would need true strength and valor to break through those padlocked doors. There were dark, uncharted spaces within her that had been built to house love, and even she was afraid to explore them. Terrified to learn just how vast and how achingly empty they truly were.” MenLoveNeedsHeartAgeHouseDarkSpaceRoomsBreakDoorsBuiltEmptyDareVentureTerrifiedJumpingChamberCliffsDoubtedValorBreak ThroughUnchartedFlashyJumping OffTrue StrengthJumping Off A Cliff Author:Tessa Dare
“Meekness is an unchanging state of mind, which both in honor and dishonor remains the same. Meekness consists in praying sincerely and undisturbedly in the face of afflictions from one's neighbor. Meekness is a cliff rising from the sea of irritability, against which all the that waves that strive against it break, but which is itself never broken.” InspirationalMindStatesChristianFacesReligiousBreakSeaBrokenPrayingHonorRemainsStriveWaveNeighborRisingOrthodoxState Of MindAfflictionSincerelyCliffsMeeknessUnchangingDishonor Author:John Climacus
“I have to dig from myself versus digging from something that I like. Digging from something you like is easy whereas from your inside, it's a totally different ballgame altogether. That's not a matter between picking red and blue, it's not like that. It's a decision, it's a choice and, like I've said in the past, it's like jumping off a cliff and hoping you survive the jump.” SaidDifferentMatterPastChoicesEasyDecisionRedBlueVersusJumpingCliffsDiggingJumping OffBallgameJumping Off A CliffRed And Blue Author:Jlin
“When you agree to collaborate, you agree to jump off a cliff holding hands with everyone, hoping the resourcefulness of each will insure that you all land on your feet.” HandsFeetLandAgreeCliffsHolding HandsResourcefulness Author:Frank Gehry
“The Republicans are... there is a small [Donald] Trump remnant, which is going over the cliff right now.” TrumpRepublicanRight NowCliffsRemnants Author:Jill Stein
“I'm driving down the freeway the other day, on my way to Knott's Scary Farm probably, and I hear this report on NPR that the whole lemmings thing was faked in the 1950s. They were shooting a wildlife documentary in the '50s, they found a group of lemmings, and the crew chased them all off a cliff. No lemming has ever jumped off a cliff, purposefully, ever. Isn't that unbelievable?” WayWholeFoundGroupsScaryDrivingMy WayShootingReportsFarmsCrewDocumentariesUnbelievableCliffsWildlifeFreewaysNprLemmings Author:Cassandra Peterson
“I've probably said a million times in my life something about, "All those people are just lemmings. They'd follow each other off a cliff." Well, no such thing.” PeopleWellsSaidMillionsCliffsLemmings Author:Cassandra Peterson
“Maybe that's the problem. But whether they've heard it of not. The issue is the train that is going off the cliff. After we save the country, after we keep the train from going off the cliff, I would welcome, quite frankly, a discussion of morality in this country. I think it would be a wonderful thing if we bring back our Judeo-Christian values once again. I think it could do nothing but help us. I would be all in favor of that.” IfsThinkingCountryHelpingProblemWould BeChristianValuesIssuesWonderfulHeardMoralityTrainFavorsWelcomeDiscussionWonderful ThingsCliffsChristian Values Author:Benjamin Carson
“We've seen the Republican Party come apart at the seam with Donald Trump taking the remnants over the cliff. We've seen the basic foundation of the Republican Party move into the Democratic Party inside of Hillary's campaign.” MovingPartyTrumpRepublicanFoundationDemocraticCampaignsRepublican PartyCliffsDemocratic PartyRemnants Author:Jill Stein
“Through what I have witnessed and documented, with proper interventions you can break those cycles. When I made the first film on this subject, 'Paper Tigers,' kids were going off the cliff. But then there was intervention, and they won't go off the cliff.” FirstsMadeKidsFilmBreakSubjectsPaperCyclesTigersInterventionCliffs Author:James Redford
“It's going to be tough because the economy is going to be getting worse for a while. And it might fall off a cliff if this doesn't pass. But nobody will ever know that if it does.” IfsKnowsDoeMightFallEconomyToughCliffs Author:Warren Buffett
“We're not trying to be deliberately frustrating, but we are laying the tracks for a mystery, and it's one that we have all figured out. We wanted this to be kind of like the way that Cliff [Chang] and I felt about the Cold War in the '80s when we were 12.” WayTryingKindWarWantedFeltMysteryColdTrackBe KindCold War80sFrustratingCliffs Author:Brian K. Vaughan
“It's as though Trump has the charisma, the pied-piper effect, and could lead the whole nation off the cliff, and they would think they were on the way to Disney World.” ThinkingWorldWayWholeNationsEffectsTrumpCliffsCharismaPipersPied Piper Author:James Robison
“I will say it's great - that Method Man - Cliff Smith - plays a rapper in a laundromat who is working out some lyrics sort of to the rhythm of a washing machine. And something about hip-hop culture and hip-hop is the ability to use current language and slang and reference details of life is very, very strong for me.” MenPlayUseLife IsCultureLanguageStrongAbilityMachinesMethodHip HopCurrentsDetailsWork OutRhythmHipsHopsRapperVery StrongCliffsWashingSlangWashing MachinesDetails Of LifeLaundromats Author:Jim Jarmusch
“There are two ways that you can go wrong in our long-term fight against jihadis. One would be to not acknowledge that terrorism and especially jihadi-motivated terrorism, comes from specific places in the world and is connected to specific ideologies. But another way to fall off a cliff and harm our long-term interests would be to imply that the U.S. is at war with Islam.” WorldWayLongTwoWarWould BeFallFightingTermInterestIslamConnectedTerrorismHarmIdeologyAcknowledgeLong TermMotivatedAnother WayCliffsTwo WaysPlaces In The World Author:Benjamin E. Sasse