Perfect Storm Quotes:

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

- Khalil Gibran

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Lovely Life, Strength In Adversity

If Mad Men had taken place in the '90s it would have been just as believable. But the fact is that was the perfect storm and with the fashion and the sets and the writing and the actors it just all made sense and it just was one of those things that you can't explain.

- Christina Hendricks

source: "Christina Hendricks: What Joan from start of ‘Mad Men’ would tell Joan at the end". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. March 1, 2016.

topic: Fashion, Taken, Writing, Mad Men, Perfect Storm

Let's stop for a second and remember where we were eight years ago [in 2008]. We had the worst financial crisis, the Great Recession, the worst since the 1930s. That was in large part because of tax policies that slashed taxes on the wealthy, failed to invest in the middle class, took their eyes off of Wall Street, and created a perfect storm.

- Hillary Clinton

source: Source: time.com

topic: Wall, Eye, Eight, Perfect Storm, Great Recession

Part of it is eight years of a black president, and white America still lost their [minds] about that. Part of it is a Republican politics of vicious, vicious partisan [stuff] that has completely poisoned what we would call the political rhetorical sphere. All of these things come together in a perfect storm.

- Junot Diaz

source: "Junot Díaz is staying put". Interview with Marcela García, www.bostonglobe.com. April 6, 2016.

topic: America, Eight, Years, Partisans, Perfect Storm

The Sixties was a perfect storm of disaffection with political leaders trying to pass off the same old platitudes to maintain the status quo and an unexpected courageousness in the masses of youth. Nothing on this scale had ever happened before in U.S. history and it hasn't happened since.

- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

source: Source: www.sbnation.com

topic: Perfect, Leader, Political, Perfect Storm

In many ways, the longer I live, I understand that there are so many things outside my control. That's why I believe faith is such a big part of the story. There are so many things that were orchestrated by God, that were put into place to make this perfect storm, that created Linsanity.

- Jeremy Lin

source: "The Legacy of Linsanity: A Conversation With Jeremy Lin". Interview with Chuck Leung, www.slate.com. October 2, 2013.

topic: Believe, Perfect, Storm, Perfect Storm

There's sort of a theory that's going around in the China-watching community about a perfect storm coming up with the 2008 Olympics, a U.S. election and a Taiwanese election, some sort of mutually reinforcing explosion and crisis.

- Bonnie Blair

topic: Perfect, Community, Storm, Storms Coming, Perfect Storm

Radio is aimed at the 30-year-old market, so you have to have great music and appeal to get that age group. And you need a record company to believe in you. It's like a bit of the perfect storm.

- Kenny Rogers

topic: Believe, Years, Perfect, Perfect Storm, Record Companies

The internet's perfect for all manner of things, but productive discussion ain't one of them. It provides scant room for debate and infinite opportunities for fruitless point-scoring: the heady combination of perceived anonymity, gestated responses, random heckling and a notional “live audience” quickly conspire to create a “perfect storm” of perpetual bickering.

- Charlie Brooker

source: Charlie Brooker (2009). “Dawn of the Dumb”, p.164, Faber & Faber

topic: Opportunity, Perfect, Storm, Perfect Storm, Bickering

Thats usually what I gravitate to, I read The Perfect Storm, then I read Into Thin Air .

- Max Lucado

source: Source: www.crosswalk.com

topic: Air, Perfect, Storm, Perfect Storm, Thin Air

A perfect storm is in the making: financial uncertainty, economic downturn, government cuts, rising unemployment and a future that looks less clear the more we try to fathom it.

- Jonathan Sacks

topic: Cutting, Government, Perfect, Perfect Storm, Economic Downturn

The media agency model has been hit by a perfect storm ... We are chasing share in a broken system, rather than changing the system.

- Nick Manning

topic: Business, Media, Agency, Perfect Storm

"The ultimate recession": a recession caused not by failed regulation and bankers' greed, but by very high oil prices, food and water shortages, disappearing forests, accelerating climate change, forced migration and mass civil disruption...The long and the short of it, unfortunately, is this: more politicians still believe that economic recovery depends on continuing to live beyond our means (financially and ecologically) than on learning to live within our means. And that's why the ultimate "Perfect Storm" recession still looms on the horizon

- Jonathon Porritt

topic: Business, Believe, Recovery, Perfect Storm, Economic Recovery

Poverty feeds into the clean-water crisis, which contributes to hunger, and so on. There's undeniable interconnectivity among these issues. Just one of these problems can be deadly on its own, but in the most disadvantaged areas there is a perfect storm of problems. And it takes its greatest toll on children.

- Matt Damon

topic: Children, Issues, Perfect, Clean Water, Water Crisis

And were in the middle of a perfect storm. These days, government social services are being bad-mouthed and defunded. The non-profit world is looking more and more like the for-profit world. The growing gap between rich and poor makes most of us very anxious about where we stand.

- Arlie Russell Hochschild

source: Source: www.salon.com

topic: Government, Perfect, Storm, Perfect Storm, Being Bad

Because of the kind of music that I liked, and the different way that I dressed, it was kind of a perfect storm, creating a situation where I existed on my own throughout my schooling.

- Andy Biersack

topic: Creating, Perfect, Storm, Perfect Storm

I remember the first time Bill Fichtner and I had a scene together. I've seen him in a few movies, from Armageddon to The Perfect Storm and Contact, and suddenly he's on a bunk bed and I'm on a bunk bed and we're doing this scene together. That was a real 'pinch me' moment.

- Chris Vance

topic: Real, Perfect, Storm, Armageddon, Perfect Storm

After A Perfect Storm came out, I heard from a young reader, who had suffered a similar background as Arizona, that I had helped her to find peace. That was the most amazing thing in the world to me.

- Lori Foster

source: "Interview: Lori Foster, 'Bare It All'". Interview with Joyce Lamb, happyeverafter.usatoday.com. May 1, 2013.

topic: Perfect, Storm, World, Perfect Storm