Quotes of: Financial-collapse Keyword

Unfortunately for the existing mature systems in nature, the rapid expansion of the human bubble is destroying them. Unfortunately for us, we can't exist without them any more than a living person can exist without oxygen or a body can exist without ...

Early Retirement Extreme: A Philosphical and Practical Guide to Financial Independence

There really are two Americas, one for the grifter class and one for everybody else. In everybody-else land, the world of small businesses and wage-earning employees, the government is something to be avoided, an overwhelming, all-powerful entity who...

Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America

... toxic derivatives were underpinned by toxic economics, which, in turn, were no more than motivated delusions in search of theoretical justification; fundamentalist tracts that acknowledged facts only when they could be accommodated to the demands...

The Global Minotaur: America, the True Origins of the Financial Crisis and the Future of the World Economy

Regular crises perpetuate the past by reinvigorating cycles which started long ago. In contrast, (capital-C) Crises are the past's death knell. They function like laboratories in which the future is incubated. They have given us agriculture and the i...

The Global Minotaur: America, the True Origins of the Financial Crisis and the Future of the World Economy

Some take pains to be biblical, but many [Christian financial teachers, writers, investment counselors, and seminar leaders] simply parrot their secular colleagues. Other than beginning and ending with prayer, mentioning Christ, and sprinkling in som...

Money, Possessions and Eternity

The free enterprise concept inherent in the economic model of capitalism should mean common people, or lower and middle class wage-earners, have greater potential to rise up and gain financial independence. In reality, however, free enterprise all to...

The Orphan Conspiracies: 29 Conspiracy Theories from The Orphan Trilogy

The waves of probabilities collapse into a physical reality through observation by a conscious mind.

Change: Realizing Your Greatest Potential

She collapsed. I stepped forward and caught her. I thought of two trees nearly unrooted and leaning against each other.

The Dog Stars

Her courage seemed to collapse around her ankles like an old pair of elastic undies

Escape From The Forbidden Planet

He snatched the book from me and replaced it hastily on its shelf, muttering that if one brick was removed the whole library was liable to collapse.

The Great Gatsby

I’m not the white-picket-fence kind of guy. So don’t go building castles in the air. You’ll get trapped in the rubble when they collapse.

Baby Bonanza

Together, they would watch everything that was so carefully planned collapse, and they would smile at the beauty of destruction.

The Book Thief

Particularly at around the age of 70 you reach a stage where you have to be very careful. If, at that point, you abandon the work you have been doing, there is a good chance that you will just collapse and drift.

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

He relented to the kiss and gave of himself what she required, his lips parting in symmetry with hers until the moment of realization collapsed.

Artificial Gods

When trauma involves intentional harm, such as in a crime or abuse, trust can totally collapse.

Life After Trauma: A Workbook for Healing

Amazing how a confluence of praise and lust can just make your defensive barriers collapse like Jell-O on a hot stove

The Price of Dick

One of the best things about Kickstarter and crowdfunding and the collapse of the music business is a lot of artists like me have been forced to face our own weird mess about ourselves and what we thought it meant to become musicians.

Amanda Palmer

I think the best president - because he changed the whole mood of the country, the whole economy of the country, and stood up to Communism... that was continuing its causes around the world, and backed them off and caused them to collapse - and that ...

Pat Boone

In St. Louis, some people were hurt seriously when some fans got on top of a roof that was where other fans were underneath it, at a park somewhere, and it collapsed.

Phil Lesh

The U.S. spent years and years and billions of dollars to build the Iraqi army only to watch it collapse and hand over so many of its weapons.

Richard Engel

I knew what he felt. The huge buoyant air sack of love that filled his body had just exploded and the collapse was devastating.

Katherine Dunn