Rapids Quotes - Page 8

• The meditative angler is not exempt from sensational periods. There are times when all the uncertainty of his chosen pursuit seems to condense itself into one big chance, and stand out before him like a salmon on the top wave of a rapid. He sees his luck hangs by a single strand of gut, and he cannot tell whether it will hold or break. This is the thrilling moment and he never forgets it.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Sea, Fishing, Rivers

  Henry Van Dyke (2015). “Fisherman's Luck and Some Other Uncertain Things”, p.23, Read Books Ltd

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• In contrast to the speculators preoccupation with rapid gain, value investors demonstrate their risk aversion by striving to avoid loss.

  Seth Klarman

  Loss, Risk, Aversion

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• [The Internet] is by far the most important innovation in the media in my lifetime. It's like having a huge encyclopedia permanently available. There's a tremendous amount of rubbish on the world wide web, but retrieval of what you want to so rapid that it doesn't really matter

  Richard Dawkins

  Media, Innovation, Important

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• I am concerned that many young people in the Hemisphere seem to envision the United States as a nation intoxicated by power, addicted to warfare, controlled by a military-industrial complex, and determined to preserve the status quo, that we are against rapid economic and social growth.

  Luis A. Ferre

  Military, People, Growth

  National Governors Association Annual Meeting NGA, 1971.

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• The aging and decreasing population is a serious problem in many developed countries today. In Japan's case, these demographic changes are taking place at a more rapid pace than any other country has ever experienced.

  Toshihiko Fukui

  Country, Japan, Serious

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• We will see the increasingly rapid rate of growth weve already been seeing in Colorado continue.

  John Hickenlooper

  Growth, Colorado, Rate

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• I don't think anybody can prepare on a physical level. It isn't possible to prepare for what is about to happen. The Pentagon gives us one to three years left of normal life on this planet. Now you have Al Gores movie "An Inconvenient Truth", whom I find very optimistic, as he gives us ten years. But I don't know a single scientist on the planet who gives us ten years or anybody else who gives us that long. What the Pentagon talks about is the rapid changes in climate, making it impossible to live in certain areas. Exactly where those areas are, they don't know.

  Drunvalo Melchizedek

  Optimistic, Thinking, Years

  Source: beforeitsnews.com

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• I don't want to make vast generalizations about people who go into legal professions, but there are similarities in the barristers that I met and interacted with, in the sense that they tend to be highly eloquent, highly analytical, thinking people who have a very rapid-fire think-before-they-speak button, as it were.

  Rebecca Hall

  Thinking, Fire, People

  Source: collider.com

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• The desire of perfection became the ruling passion of their soul; and it is well known, that while reason embraces a cold mediocrity, our passions hurry us, with rapid violence, over the space which lies between the most opposite extremes.

  Edward Gibbon

  Lying, Passion, Opposites

  Edward Gibbon (1837). “The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire”, p.180

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• If we contrast the rapid progress of this mischievous discovery [gunpowder] with the slow and laborious advances of reason, science, and the arts of peace, a philosopher, according to his temper, will laugh or weep at the folly of mankind.

  Edward Gibbon

  Art, Discovery, Laughing

  The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire ch. 65 (1776 - 1788)

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• The spectator and historian of [Belisarius's] exploits has observed, that amidst the perils of war, he was daring without rashness, prudent without fear, slow or rapid according to the exigencies of the moment; that in the deepest distress he was animated by real or apparent hope, but that he was modest and humble in the most prosperous fortune.

  Edward Gibbon

  Real, War, Humble

  Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman (1840). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.143

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• Rapid increases in the quantity of money produce inflation. Sharp decreases produce depression.

  Milton Friedman

  Increase, Produce, Decrease

  Milton Friedman (1994). “Money Mischief: Episodes in Monetary History”, p.277, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In timing a film, we used to assume that sneaks move slowly. This was great for animators-thirty-six to forty-eight drawings for a single step-but it was sheer hell for the pace of the picture. So the rapid tiptoe was invented.

  Chuck Jones

  Moving, Forty Eight, Drawing

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• A group of protesters who are very unhappy at the rapid expansion of Starbucks have been repeatedly smashing the windows of a Starbucks store in Maine. Customers say it's been really inconvenient because, several times now, they've had to use the Starbucks across the street.

  Conan O'Brien

  Unhappy, Expansion, Groups

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• You may cure yourself of a depression by forcing yourself to perform, in rapid order and with excruciating concentration, half a dozen or so unpleasant chores, especially if they have long been postponed. This is a kind of homeopathic purgative, a treatment of like with like.

  Robert Grudin

  Order, Long, Half

  Robert Grudin (1982). “Time and the art of living”, Harpercollins

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• All the great enterprises of the world are run by a few smart men: their aides and associates run down by rapid stages to the level of sheer morons. Everyone knows that this is true of government, but we often forget that it is equally true of private undertakings. In the average great bank, or railroad, or other corporation the burden of management lies upon a small group. The rest are ciphers.

  H. L. Mencken

  Running, Smart, Lying

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.121, Knopf

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• My life has always been rapid and crazy. It has just gotten a little faster.

  Brandon Jacobs

  Crazy, Littles, Faster

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• Corruption of morals is rapid enough in any country without a bounty from government. And...the Chief Magistrate of the United States should be the last man to accelerate its progress.

  Daniel Webster

  Country, Men, Progress

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• The continued rapid cooling of the earth since WWII is in accord with the increase in global air pollution associated with industrialisation, mechanisation, urbanisation and exploding population.

  Reid Bryson

  Air, Environmental, Population

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• In the present age when communication is so rapid, we should create a different tradition, traditions are created everyday. Five years now is like 100 years before. We are living in a society that has no history. There’s no precedent for this kind of society so we can break the old patterns.

  Yoko Ono

  Communication, Years, Everyday

  "The Lost John Lennon Interview". Interview with Tariq Ali, Robin Blackburn, www.counterpunch.org. December 8, 2005.

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• The common man, finding himself in a world so excellent, technically and socially, believes it has been produced by nature, and never thinks of the personal efforts of highly endowed individuals which the creation of this new world presupposed. Still less will he admit the notion that all these facilities still require the support of certain difficult human virtues, the least failure of which would cause the rapid disappearance of the whole magnificent edifice.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Believe, Men, Thinking

  Jose Ortega Y Gasset (1960). “the Revolt of the Masses”

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• The painter... will find [photography] a rapid way of making collections of studies he could otherwise obtain only with much time and trouble and, whatever his talents might be, in a far less perfect manner.

  Paul Delaroche

  Photography, Perfect, Might

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• All the science in the last few years, or almost all of it, really serves to show that the [climate] effects are larger and more rapid than we had thought even a decade ago.

  Bill McKibben

  Years, Climate, Lasts

  Source: theotherjournal.com

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• There is no real scientific debate over what is happening; of course there is debate over exactly how it is going to play out in the decades ahead, because this is a large experiment that we haven't done before, and no one knows precisely how one can ever precisely predict what effects this heat will have. But all the science in the last few years, or almost all of it, really serves to show that the effects are larger and more rapid than we had thought even a decade ago.

  Bill McKibben

  Real, Years, Play

  Source: theotherjournal.com

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• We finally know where the red line for climate really is. After the rapid melt of arctic ice in the summer of 2007, our best scientists, led by NASA's Jim Hansen, went back to work and produced a series of papers showing that with more than 350 ppm (parts per million) of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, we couldn't have a planet "similar to the one on which civilization developed and to which life on earth is adapted."

  Bill McKibben

  Summer, Ice, Civilization

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