“It is hard to be enthusiastic about the economy's prospects when house prices are falling: Households spend less, small business owners can't use homes as collateral for loans and local governments are forced to cut jobs and programs as property-tax revenue disappears.” HardUseHomeGovernmentJobsFallHouseEconomyCuttingTaxesProgramPropertyDisappearLocalsOwnersHouseholdSmall BusinessRevenueLoanEnthusiasticProspectsBusiness OwnersLocal GovernmentSmall Business OwnersCollateralProperty TaxesHouse Prices Author:Mark Zandi
“It is so easy to waste our lives: our days, our hours, our minutes. It is so easy to take for granted the pale new growth on an evergreen, the sheen of the limestone on Fifth Avenue, the colour of our kids’ eyes, the way the melody in a symphony rises and falls and disappears and rises again. It is so easy to exist instead of live. Unless you know there is a clock ticking.” KnowsWayEyeKidsFallEasyGrowthHoursOur LivesMinutesWasteDisappearGrantedClockColourMelodyPaleFifthSymphonyAvenuesRise And FallEvergreensFifth AvenueClock TickingNew GrowthLimestone Book:A Short Guide to a Happy Life Source: A Short Guide to a Happy Life
“Nowadays, suicide is just a way of disappearing. It is carried out timidly, quietly, and falls flat. It is no longer an action, only a submission.” WayActionFallSuicideDisappearFlatsSubmission Book:This Business of Living Source: This Business of Living
“When the last deer disappears into the morning mist, When the last elk vanishes from the hills, When the last buffalo falls on the plains, I will hunt mice for I am a hunter and I must have my freedom.” LastsFallMorningDisappearHillsHuntingMiceHuntersHuntsMistDeerBuffaloElkMorning Mist Author:Chief Joseph
“Just a little rain falling all around The grass lifts its head to the heavenly sound Just a little rain, just a little rain What have they done to the rain? Just a little boy standing in the rain The gentle rain that falls for years And the grass is gone and the boy disappears And the rain keeps falling like helpless tears And what have they done to the rain? Just a little breeze out of the sky The leaves nod their heads as the breeze blows by Just a little breeze with some smoke in its eye And what have they done to the rain?” YearsLittlesDoneEyeFallSoundBoysGoneSkyTearsRainStandingEnvironmentalBlowDisappearSmokeLiftsGentleGrassHeavenlyPollutionHelplessBreezeLittle BoysRain FallingGentle RainStanding In The Rain Author:Malvina Reynolds