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
Related You create your life, and you can recreate it, too. In times of economic downturn and uncertainty, i... KEN ROBINSON We begin to fight. The wind and I. Horns locked. Battling each other with elements. LAURA DOCKRILL His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha... TEKOA MANNING We're at a perfect storm. Business units are requiring IT departments to do more with less. We have ... BEN WILLIAMS She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl... IN THE MAKING We've never gone through an adverse economic cycle with this type of lending. The uncertainty is wha... BUD WARD It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Complacency is the biggest challenge. When you've seen success, you can start loosening the belt a l... TOM PIENTOK The problem of a rising population destroying more than four tons of soil for every human already al... ALLAN SAVORY It is clear to everybody that France needs reform. Our unemployment is too high, particularly among ... LAURENCE PARISOT Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different. JOHNNIE DENT JR. We pledge to you that we will create jobs. End economic uncertainty and make America more competitiv... KEVIN MCCARTHY A great future starts with what you can see SOTONYE ANGA You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace." I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl... TAMMARA WEBBER The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... FRANCINE RIVERS If the American government can't stand behind the dollar, the world's benchmark currency, th... ADAM DAVIDSON That has been the story throughout 2005 -- more jobs coupled with rising unemployment, producing an ... CARLOS CRACRAFT If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever. FRANCINE RIVERS The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... FRANCINE RIVERS Mother Superior jump the gun... -The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun LAUREN MYRACLE Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. A clear lesson of history is that a 'sine qua non' for sustained economic recovery following... JANET YELLEN The Bush tax cuts should be extended permanently for families with annual incomes of less than $250,... MARK ZANDI The fact that the President is calling for still more tax cuts at the same time the Congress is bein... PAUL SARBANES I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix. DEYTH BANGER That's why we seize the moment try to freeze it and own it, squeeze it and hold it. EMINEM Substantive future investments from our federal government must be rooted in the principles of accou... MARY LANDRIEU I thought you'd be interested in these things as a government man. Ain't you mixed up in the prices ... ERNEST HEMINGWAY We could have another economic downturn. We need to maintain a reserve. PAUL HUBBERT I'm a political scientist and I study these things, and I know that economic problems, with the ... JEANE KIRKPATRICK Raising taxes in an economic downturn is not a good idea. MARTHA MCSALLY The potential for a cyclical downturn in 2008-09 -- or sooner if we have a global economic recession... ADAM SIEMINSKI Privatization of government enterprises can't be a solution to the problem of economic recession and... ANUJ SOMANY Fear is caused by the uncertainty of the future. Sorrow is caused by the remembrance of the past. Tr... JEFFREY FRY Uncertainty of future government programs was the biggest response. TROY LOUWAGIE What Democrats haven't focused on are the kind of policies that would promote economic growth - ... BOB BEAUPREZ Hispanic unemployment is higher than the national average and when the federal government is killing... TED CRUZ We've been stung in the past and [again now] with the economic downturn, so we spend a lot more time... JOHN MOON It is opposition to economic orthodoxy that leads us into austerity and cuts. But it is also a thirs... JEREMY CORBYN Well, it's very clear that the Arab population is rising because they'd like to have a say i... AL-WALEED BIN TALAL If our mind was an ocean then every now and then we would have the perfect storm happening in it.Gar... GARY F EVANS... Learn to appreciate every moment of your life, stop thinking of the future too much, you have a choi... AULIQ ICE He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself LOIS LOWRY Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed. A.A. MILNE We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet. Even longer,' Pooh answered.” ... A.A. MILNE In a period of economic downturn, the overwhelming instinct is to pare back, cut costs, and lay off.... MICHAEL PORTER Because tax cuts create an incentive to increase output, employment, and production, they also help ... ARTHUR LAFFER Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full. CHLOE THURLOW Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play. J.R. RIM A conservative government tends to have a lower tax, less spending and small government. Financial m... FIRAS ASKARI Try to come to a place where you accept your own imperfections. Where it‟s okay to be less than pe... DANU MORRIGAN Sometimes, tax rate increases create the very problems that the spending is intended to cure. In oth... ARTHUR LAFFER A new day is here! yesterday is gone! tomorrow is preparing to come! but why is today here? ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Wake up to a brand new day and realize why you woke up to meet the day! Live to the end of another d... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH From the ashes of a financial crash, there is a chance to create a new economic settlement that is m... FRANCES O'GRADY a major reason why we wake up each day is to know the real reasons why we wake up each day ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH What we have here is a dangerous mix of fast-growing debt and fast-rising unemployment that could qu... JOHN LONSKI I think we owe it really to those forces, and to their families back home, to make quite clear what ... CHARLES KENNEDY This is a simple change that will provide a huge financial boost for many Americans, particularly lo... JIM COOPER We got good looks (against the box-and-one) and once we settled down and started setting better scre... JEFF DELLIS Protectionism is a very real danger. It is understandable that in times of a severe downturn protect... MANMOHAN SINGH The universe is so vast, so immense, we can never expect to explore it all. It is in effect, not so ... CHRISTINA ENGELA Despite the strong revenue growth and market momentum we have achieved over the last seven quarters,... GREG OWENS All a guy needed was a chance. Somebody was alway controlling who got a chance and who didn't. CHARLES BUKOWSKI The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have. CRAIG GROESCHEL How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS He looks at this as a historic opportunity - handed to Congress by God - to actually reduce the size... WILL ADAMS We are clearly in a state of economic uncertainty and the prudent thing to do in such times is to do... DAVID ROSENBERG Why do we fall down? so we can rise up and become stronger, better, people than we were before we fe... GARY F EVANS... This will lead to rising unemployment levels in Germany. IAN HARNETT Higher energy prices and uncertainty about interest rates as economic growth continues are making it... PHILIPPE GIJSELS With rising crime, and the threat of terrorism putting ever more pressure on the police, it is not s... DAVID DAVIS The scientific method gives us
information by testing and repeating observable things so that we
can... LEWIS N. ROE The economic environment looks much less favorable than we had anticipated at the beginning of the y... EDOUARD MICHELIN An "acceptable" level of unemployment means that the government economist to whom it is acceptable s... FRANK P. LOUCHHEIM If it looks like a storm is going to come in, as a disaster task force, we should get prepared. JOANNE CALLAHAN This shows the increase in spending is not due to a one-off factor. We are seeing consumers becoming... MASAAKI KANNO Those on the downside of rising economic inequality generally do not want government policies that l... ROBERT J. SHILLER There’s no need to sharpen your pencils any more. Even the dull ones can make a mark. ZE FRANK The Biggest Threat to our Democracy, Freedoms and Future is Leadership that fosters and Appeases the... MICHAEL HARRIS Love is a growing, or full constant light, And his first minute, after noon, is night. JOHN DONNE You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. HENRY JAMES A root cause of rising unemployment is not illiteracy but sycophancy mainly at the top hierarchy. ANUJ SOMANY In this time of budget cuts, we cannot forget that basic science is a building block for scientific ... TIM BISHOP I saw the government really using the excuse of a weak economy and a financial crisis to create more... ROB PORTMAN Americans are living longer, healthier lives and will need more income to see them through their ret... ANN COMBS As machines become more and more efficient and perfect, so it will become clear that imperfection is... ERNST FISCHER 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give... JAMES C. DOBSON It is doubtful that the government knows much more than the public does about how government Economi... W. ALLEN WALLIS He brings the greatest conflict into the history of mankind. He will come soon to our world just lik... TOBA BETA She would tuck Sam into her heart, a bright light for her to take out whenever things were darkest. SARAH J. MAAS That's the last thing we need is to see another refinery shut out. We have a tight situation without... ED SILLIERE We hear a lot of about the impending economic recession, but that does not imply an ad recession. In... LOWRY MAYS I think things would be much worse if we just tried to sweep under the rug what everybody understand... MICHAEL BLOOMBERG Washington politicians think that government can make better decisions than you and me. But we know ... BRAD WENSTRUP Uncertainty is normal in the first few days of a new government. VICTOR PONTA We worry about appearing awkward in a presentation. But up to a point, most people seem to feel more... JOHN P. KOTTER The more adaptability exists for a given kind of decision, the less risky it is to make plans for th... THOMAS SOWELL The basic idea that if you increase government spending or you cut people's taxes that stimulate... CHRISTINA ROMER
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not have given them to such a sco... JONATHAN SWIFT He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be pu... JONATHAN SWIFT Two Wrongs Don't Make a Right, nor do Two Rights Make a Left. Which ever side you think i... JONATHAN BAILEY If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scou... JONATHAN SWIFT Since our technology is really just an extension of ourselves, we don’t have to have contempt for ... JONATHAN FRANZEN Happiness is a perpetual possession of being well deceived. JONATHAN SWIFT The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false op... JONATHAN SWIFT Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old. JONATHAN SWIFT Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he canno... JONATHAN SWIFT Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires. JONATHAN SWIFT I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the ... JONATHAN SWIFT In the school of political projectors, I was but ill entertained, the professors appearing, in my ju... JONATHAN SWIFT The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance and never to keep his w... JONATHAN SWIFT A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart. JONATHAN SWIFT I beg people not to accept the seasonal ritual of well-timed charity on Christmas Eve. It's blas... JONATHAN KOZOL I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy ch... JONATHAN SWIFT Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches to conceive how others can be in want. JONATHAN SWIFT If the scandal of Jesus was that He was always touching the wrong people and inviting the wrong peop... JONATHAN MARTIN The true art of government consists in not governing too much. JONATHAN SHIPLEY The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome. JONATHAN SWIFT The most positive men are the most credulous. JONATHAN SWIFT Real love is always chaotic. You lose control; you lose perspective. You lose the ability to protect... JONATHAN CARROLL Belief is best when uncomplicated by reason. JONATHAN TOM More mony is put into prisons than into schools. That, in itself, is the description of a nation ben... JONATHAN KOZOL May you live every day of your life. JONATHAN SWIFT Every good writer I know needs to go into some deep, quiet place to do work that is fully imagined. ... JONATHAN FRANZEN Everyone always wants to know how you can tell when it's true love, and the answer is this: when the... JONATHAN TROPPER Can you define "plan" as "a loose sequence of manifestly inadequate observations and conjectures, he... JONATHAN STROUD A footman may swear; but he cannot swear like a lord. He can swear as often: but can he swear with e... JONATHAN SWIFT A short story is a sprint, a novel is a marathon. Sprinters have seconds to get from here to there a... JONATHAN CARROLL Vision is the art of seeing things invisible. JONATHAN SWIFT Your language indicates──and limits──what you think. JONATHAN PRICE Freedom is an illusion. It always comes at a price. Thinking JONATHAN STROUD The stories that bind us, Halli. The stories we live by, that dictate what we do and where we go. Th... JONATHAN STROUD Looks?” the skull said. “Who cares about that? It’s superficial. Outward appearance doesn’t ... JONATHAN STROUD Oh, we'll suffer in silence. You've given us plenty of practice at that. JONATHAN STROUD