quotes about Tipping
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Small mistakes, the lack of care, little accidents, and somewhere a tipping point is passed and things go badly wrong. Expedition history brims with tragedies built out of incremental missteps.
-- Alan S. Kesselheim -
A single act of courage is often the tipping point for extraordinary change.
-- Andy Stanley -
I always get involved with the environment because once you go past the tipping point with the environment, you don't get it back.
-- Chris NothSource : "Exclusive: Chris Noth Opens Up About Playing Mr. Big On Sex and the City, His New Life On The Good Wife, and the Crusade He's On to End Hunger!". Interview with Lauren Brown, www.glamour.com. October 8, 2012.
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I know they're not getting divorced or anything, but when your parents argue it makes the whole universe seem like it's tipping, like everything could change if they got mad enough at each other, like the world isn't a safe place. And of course, that's true, isn't it? The world is not a safe place.
-- E. Lockhart -
The end of the world was supposed to be gradual. There was supposed to be warning. A long, slow slide. What we got was punctuated equilibrium: a stately wobbling, then a sudden tipping point. There was plenty of warning, I suppose. We just weren’t paying attention.
-- Elizabeth Bear -
The urgency derives from the nearness of climate tipping points.
-- James Hansen -
We are on the precipice of climate system tipping points beyond which there is no redemption.
-- James Hansen -
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The world beyond 450 ppm atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide, the world that crosses carbon cycle tipping points that quickly take us to 1000 ppm, is a world not merely of endless regional resource wars around the globe. It is a world with dozens of Darfurs. It is a world of a hundred Katrinas, of countless environmental refugees
-- Joseph J. Romm -
We used to go around tipping outhouses over, or turning over corn shocks on Halloween. Anything to be mean.
-- Loretta Lynn -
Right now over 70 percent of the world population is convinced that something serious has to be done about the dangers facing the planet. ...Most of humanity wants to know how to make the change. It's one of those tipping-point times where things can change unbelievably fast...
-- Paul Ray -
These 3 topics will always generate 100+ comments of irrational/ridiculous people: Taxes, tipping, and spending on weddings.
-- Ramit Sethi -
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Of course it hurts", she grumbled, tipping my head further back. "Life sucks. Get over it
-- Sarah Dessen -
Is it 10 years, 20, 50 before we reach that tipping point where climate change becomes irreversible? Nobody can know. There's clearly a probability distribution. We need to ensure this planet, and we need to do it quickly.
-- Vinod Khosla -
Do you think we're going to hit a tipping point and the world's going to end?
-- Eric AndreSource : Source: www.complex.com
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I wore one on the first episode of season one [of Fuller House], and then I saw it, and I went back to my hairstylist, and I was like, "We are never using this again!" I know it was a good throwback for that first season, but I am 40, I cannot pull off a scrunchie anymore. Nobody should be wearing a scrunchie anymore. I feel angry. That is my tipping point.
-- Andrea BarberSource : Source: www.cosmopolitan.com
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Reminding myself of all that I have to be thankful for really helps ground me and keeps me from tipping over into that negative place.
-- Nikki DeLoachSource : "Interview with Nikki Deloach, actress in the hit show Awkward". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
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It's part of the reason I decided to speak out now. This was the tipping point for me. If it's O.K. for [David Petraeus ] to campaign for a job in the administration, then I'm going to campaign to get back out there, too.
-- Paula BroadwellSource : Source: www.vanityfair.com