Best Looming Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“When the ashes of the wildfire of love have been scattered in the hazy den of oblivion and emotions have gone out of commission, life gets unremittingly tangled up, if no inner voices emerge to enlighten the looming shadows of hesitant expectations, if no shimmer sparks the magic appeal of ‘Being in the world’. ("Fish for silence." )”

Love Emotions Ashes Oblivion Looming Shimmer Enlighten Wildfire Inner Voices

Author:Erik Pevernagie

“It seems impossible to wheedle his way out of his impending death. No one has before him. But just as a young person feels invincible, he cannot bring himself to accept the looming train as he stands upon the tracks feeling the deep rumbling of the behemoth barreling straight toward him.”

Acceptance Death And Dying Looming Impending

Book:Aulay

Source: Aulay

“The Tower trembles; the worlds shudder in their courses. The rose feels a chill, as of winter.”

Ominous Looming Dark Tower Dark Tower Series Cryptic

Book:UR

Source: UR

“Inimene, kes on valinud elukutseks loometee, kaubitseb imedega. Loomulikult vaadatakse ta peale viltu nagu nõiasaatest välja kukkunud šarlatanile. Aga need, kes on loomingu imest osa saanud, ei taha enam kunagi tagasi seda aega, kui nad seda etendust näinud, seda laulu kuulnud või seda raamatut lugenud.”

Looming Ime Jim Ashilevi

Book:Armastuskirju teatrile

Source: Armastuskirju teatrile

“The pandemic has created a new wave of homelessness and we are not prepared for the consequences of this looming tsunami.”

Mental Health Addiction Recovery Pandemic Homeless Addict Homelessness Tsunami Asa Don Brown Looming

Author:Asa Don Brown

“For so long he had loomed large as Melina's nemesis. She had grown him to monstrous proportions, and he'd taken up an outsize amount of her emotional and intellectual energy, seeding so much doubt that it crowded out space for anything else.”

Mind Darkness Doubt Monster Looming Nemesis

Book:By Any Other Name

Source: By Any Other Name

“Feeling earthquakes was part of growing up, and also preparing for them: doing earthquake drills, or having earthquake supplies. The looming feeling was part of my life. My experience of earthquakes has always been more the fear of them, or the possibility.”

Feelings Growing Up Growing Possibility Preparing Earthquakes Supplies Drills Looming

Author:Karen Thompson Walker

“Any job ends up with stress, and certainly there's always a deadline looming when you work in TV. It's sort of constant.”

Ends Jobs Tvs Stress Constant Deadline Looming

Author:Dan Povenmire

“As the United States continues its slow but steady recovery from the depths of the financial crisis, nobody actually wants a massive austerity package to shock the economy back into recession, and so the odds have always been high that the game of budgetary chicken will stop short of disaster. Looming past the cliff, however, is a deep chasm that poses a much greater challenge -- the retooling of the country's economy, society, and government necessary for the United States to perform effectively in the twenty-first century.”

“A happening was looming. It was out there somewhere beyond the regular enclosed life that I had been living. It was out there, not waiting, but existing. Being. Perhaps it was only slightly wondering if I would come to it.”

Ifs Waiting Wonder Happenings Looming

Book:Underdogs

Source: Underdogs

“What I do I am driven to do. I follow the dictates of a looming and unseen force. I try to become like a musical instrument, intruding no sound of its own but bringing forth such tones as are played upon it by a master's hand.”

Trying Hands Force Sound Painting Masters Instruments Musical Driven Tone Unseen Musical Instruments Looming Unseen Forces

Author:Arnold Friberg

“Even if the crises that are looming up are overcome and a new run of prosperity lies ahead, deeper problems will still remain. Modern capitalism has no purpose except to keep the show going.”

Ifs Stills Shows Problem Running Lying Purpose Modern Capitalism Overcoming Crisis Prosperity Deeper Looming

Book:Economic heresies: some old-fashioned questions in economic theory

Source: Economic heresies: some old-fashioned questions in economic theory

“Life is a loom, weaving illusion.”

Art Philosophy Life Is History Illusion Weaving Looming Such Is Life

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“I think about death a lot, like I think we all do. I don't think of suicide as an option, but as fun. It's an interesting idea that you can control how you go. It's this thing that's looming, and you can control it.”

Thinking Ideas Fun Interesting Suicide Looming Interesting Ideas

Author:Ryan Gosling

“Christmas, so long looming over everyone's head, finally surged up, buried everyone alive and ebbed away, leaving its victims distinctly cross.”

Long Alive Crosses Victim Leaving Christmas Buried Looming

Book:Northbridge Rectory

Source: Northbridge Rectory

“From the earliest age on, even as we toy with it, we instinctively know there is something mighty about the truth, that it is an immobile, looming star. We grow to crave it.”

Knows Truth Age Stars Grows Toys Crave Looming

Author:Amy Krouse Rosenthal

“The English language is direct, unapologetic, and wonderfully amoral. Italian has a beautiful sound, but you cannot help but feel that you are always dealing with ghosts from the past and the looming dark presence of the Vatican.”

Feels Helping Past Beautiful Language Sound Dark Direct Ghost Italian English Language Looming Unapologetic

Author:Chiara Barzini

“I write pretty much year-round, but I definitely do more when a deadline is looming.”

Writing Years Rounds Deadline Looming

Author:Jason Isbell

“Climate change is destroying our path to sustainability. Ours is a world of looming challenges and increasingly limited resources. Sustainable development offers the best chance to adjust our course.”

World Courses Challenges Chance Path Development Offers Resources Climate Climate Change Destroying Sustainability Sustainable Development Looming Limited Resources

Author:Ban Ki-moon

“I am about to die. It is September 11, and every cell in my body is acutely aware of my looming demise. The certainty of it. The inevitability. Not years from now, not weeks nor days. Moments.”

Years Moments Body Dies Week Certainty Cells September September 11 Inevitability Demise Looming

Book:Machine Learning: New and Collected Stories

Source: Machine Learning: New and Collected Stories

“We all accuse Vladimir Putin of Cold War nostalgia, but Washington's elites - politicians and intellectuals - miss the old days as well. They wish for the world in which the United States was utterly dominant over its friends, its foes were to be shunned entirely, and the challenges were stark, moral, and vital. Today's world is messy and complicated. China is one of our biggest trading partners and our looming geopolitical rival. Russia is a surly spoiler, but it has a globalized middle class and has created ties in Europe.”

“June 1st is a date that is looming in everybody's mind with the final enforcement of the UIGEA. I actually think it may, finally, once and for all prove that it's an ineffective law. Congress created that law and now Congress has to do something to correct it.”

Thinking Mind May Law Prove Finals Congress Enforcement June Looming

Author:John Pappas

“We are now going through a period of demolition. In morals, in social life, in politics, in medicine, and in religion there is a universal upturning of foundations. But the day of reconstruction seems to be looming, and now the grand question is: Are there any sure and universal principles that will evolve a harmonious system in which we shall all agree?”

Seems Social Moral Principles Periods Universal Agree Foundation Medicine Evolve Social Change Harmonious Social Life Reconstruction Looming Demolition

Book:Common Sense Applied to Religion: Or, The Bible and the People

Source: Common Sense Applied to Religion: Or, The Bible and the People

“Well, you're either lovers or you're wanting to be lovers or you're trying not to be lovers so you can be friends, but any way you look at it, sex is always looming in the picture like a shadow, like an undertow.”

Way Trying Wells Looks Sex Lovers Shadow Looming Undertow

Author:Andrew Schneider

“The legacy of the Bush administration is a lack of positive action on energy and the environment and profligate and irresponsible spending with no commensurate action to deal with looming liabilities.”

Action Energy Deals Environment Spending Administration Legacy Irresponsible Liability Looming

Author:Lawrence Wilkerson

“I can tell that the Greater Yellowstone from the Tetons, to the Lamar Valley where wolves howl and grizzlies roam, acts as my spine, my range of memory that ties me to landscape of Other. And that the ocean from the rocky coast of Maine, to the Florida everglades, to the looming cliffs at Big Sur, sustain me, remind me we are nothing without salt water, wind, and waves.”

I Can Bigs Water Memories Greater Wind Ocean Wave Landscape Range Ties Valleys Salt Florida Coast Cliffs Spine Howl Maine Looming Grizzlies Salt Water Yellowstone Everglades Big Sur

Author:Terry Tempest Williams

“The same failure of liberalism is evident in Western Europe, where the dogma of multiculturalism has left a secular Europe very slow to address the looming problem of religious extremism among its immigrants. The people who speak most sensibly about the threat that Islam poses to Europe are actually fascists. To say that this does not bode well for liberalism is an understatement: It does not bode well for the future of civilization.”

“There will be other forms in addition to our classic marriage. One is already looming on the horizon: polyamory, or having more than one intimate partner.”

Form Partners Intimate Classic Horizon Looming Polyamory

Author:Volkmar Sigusch

“Time and again our best and brightest have alerted society to looming problems, but our persistent pattern has been to ignore the warnings and suffer the consequences. The pathetic refrain of recent years --'Nobody saw this coming'--is always a self-serving lie.”

Years Has Beens Self Problem Lying Suffering Saws Consequence Patterns Serving Warning Persistent Pathetic Refrain Self Serving Looming

Book:The Ragged Edge of the World: Encounters at the Frontier Where Modernity, Wildlands and Indigenous Peoples Mee t

Source: The Ragged Edge of the World: Encounters at the Frontier Where Modernity, Wildlands and Indigenous Peoples Mee t

“We need to expand Social Security to prevent the looming retirement crisis, and we can do it simply by asking billionaires to pay their fair share.”

Needs Social Can Do Pay Share Security Fairs Asking Crisis Retirement Social Security Billionaire Fair Share Looming

Author:Robert Reich

“So virtuous are the programs said to be - pensions for the elderly, compensation for the unemployed, medicine for the sick, and assistance for the disabled - few dare ring the alarm of looming economic catastrophe that threatens to destabilize the civil society.”

Said Economic Program Sick Medicine Dare Rings Virtuous Catastrophe Assistance Compensation Elderly Disabled Alarms Unemployed Civil Society Pension Looming

Book:Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto

Source: Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto

“Four hundred top-decision makers listed the myriad looming threats to global security, including famine, terrorism, inequality, disease, poverty and climate change. Yet when we tried to address each diverse force, we found them all attached to one universal security risk: fresh water.”

“Lord Rees-Mogg argues that the time for reconciliation in Tibet is passing with the looming departure of its spiritual leader.”

Spiritual Leader Lord Arguing Passing Passings Reconciliation Departure Tibet Spiritual Leader Looming

Author:William Rees-Mogg

“I like a tranquil, even-keeled, self-controlled God. A God who doesn't fly off the handle at the least provocation. A God who lives one step above the fray. A God who has that British stiff upper lip even when disaster is looming. When I read my Bible, though, I keep running into a different God, and I'm not pleased. This God says he "hates" sin. Well, he usually yells it. Read the prophets. It's just one harangue after another, all in loud decibels. And when the shouting is over, then comes the pouting. ... When all else fails, he throws himself in front of the car.”

“As the refugee crisis unfolds across Europe, another is looming in our backyard. The number of children crossing the southwest border unaccompanied has quietly surged more than a year after President [Barack] Obama referred to the problem as a quote "urgent humanitarian situation."”

Years Children Problem President Numbers Situation Europe Crisis Humanitarian Barack Borders Refugee Urgent Crossings President Barack Obama Backyards Refugee Crisis Looming

Author:Joy-Ann Reid

“That feeling of hopelessness and racism has been looming over Detroit ever since I was a kid.”

Has Beens Feelings Kids Racism Hopelessness Detroit Looming

Author:Robert Hood

“This time, we're living in such a crazy moment in history. People still write and talk about Watergate, which was such a huge, looming backdrop when I was coming of age and when I was a kid growing up. I think we're living in one of those times right now where, in 20 years, people will be writing and talking about it.”

People Thinking Writing Years Stills Moments Kids Age Talking Growing Up Growing Crazy Huge Right Now Coming Of Age Watergate Kids Growing Up Backdrop Looming

Author:Patterson Hood

“The death of Fidel Castro, of course, is not as significant when you first look at it, because Raul Castro, his brother, has been in power for years. But, in fact, he's been a looming figure even during his illness that I think has made a difference in holding us back in trying to open up more negotiations and move ahead with opening up relations between America and Cuba.”

“It's pretty intense to have someone (the camera) looming there when you are singing a song but it's sort of invigorating too.”

Song Singing Cameras Intense Invigorating Looming

Author:Emma Stone

“When Larry Wright won the Pulitzer for The Looming Tower we all strutted around for weeks, until some sourpuss among us noted that it was actually Larry, and not the rest of us, who won the prize.”

Week Prize Towers Larry Looming

Author:Elizabeth Crook

“Whether you're in the water staring up at a looming set or standing in front of 15000 people at a demo, you have to manufacture some courage and a sense of optimism in order to get through the moment, the day, the rest of your life.”

People Moments Order Water Fronts Standing Optimism Staring Rest Of Your Life Demos Looming

Author:Tim Winton

“Don't sit around waiting for the two corrupted established parties to restore the Constitution or the Republic. The founding generation was birthed by the rabble of all walks of life that got fed up and did risky things because they were captivated by the breath of liberty. There is a looming oligarchy and it is up to the people to organize a grassroots movement and push back.”

“I feel like my life is at its happiest when I don't have a looming deadline. There's some really groovy wonderful times, when I'm like, "I have a new piece, I'm excited about it, I'm reading all these books about it, but there's not a lot of time pressure, and I'm financially stable enough right now that I don't have to be trying to get another job." But that's so rare.”

Feels Trying Book Enough Jobs Life Is Reading Pieces Wonderful Right Now Pressure Excited Stable Deadline Looming Wonderful Times Groovy

Author:Annie Baker

“The root cause of the looming energy problem - and the key to easing environmental, economic and religious tensions while improving public health - is to address the unending, and unequal, growth of the human population. And the one proven way to reduce fertility rates is to empower young women by educating them.”

“The plastic surgery issue is really looming because girls in the U.S. are getting it in their teens.”

Girl Issues Plastic Teens Surgery Plastic Surgery Looming

Author:Camille Paglia

“This debt crisis coming to our country. The wall and tidal wave of debt that is befalling our nation. Medicare and Social Security go bankrupt within ten years, we have a debt that is looming so high that in the last year of President Obama's budget just the interest payments on our debt is $916 billion dollars.”

“Some calamities - the 1929 stock market crash, Pearl Harbor, 9/11 - have come like summer lightning, as bolts from the blue. The looming crisis of America's Ponzi entitlement structure is different. Driven by the demographics of an aging population, its causes, timing and scope are known.”

“The idea occurred to him when he was twenty. At first it was only a vague idea, a question looming — what should I do? — with an answer taking shape: nothing.”

Should Firsts Ideas Answers Shapes Twenties Should I Vague Looming Vague Ideas

Book:Life, a user's manual: fictions

Source: Life, a user's manual: fictions

“The Revolutionary Hill Estates had not been designed to accommodate a tragedy. Even at night, as if on purpose, the development held no looming shadows and no gaunt silhouettes. It was invincibly cheerful, a toyland of white and pastel houses whose bright, uncurtained windows winked blandly through a dappling of green and yellow leaves … A man running down these streets in desperate grief was indecently out of place.”

“So here I am. Twenty-eight years old, with thirty looming on the horizon. Drunk. Fat. Alone. Unloved. And, worst of all, a cliche, Ally McBeal and Bridget Jones put together, which was probably about how much I weighed.”

Years Together Worst Twenties Eight Fats Drunk Thirty Horizon Allies Cliche Here I Am Unloved Looming Bridget Jones Ally Mcbeal

Book:Good Men: An eShort Story

Source: Good Men: An eShort Story

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