Words matter. These are the best Tipping Quotes from famous people such as Susanna Reid, Al Gore, Paul Bloom, Yu Darvish, John Niven, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
The truth is women have a tendency to say ‘yes’ even when we’re at tipping point. The challenge is saying ‘enough’.
I do genuinely believe that the political system is not linear. When it reaches a tipping point fashioned by a critical mass of opinion, the slow pace of change we’re used to will no longer be the norm. I see a lot of signs every day that we’re moving closer and closer to that tipping point.
We benefit, intellectually and personally, from the interplay between different selves, from the balance between long-term contemplation and short-term impulse. We should be wary about tipping the scales too far. The community of selves shouldn’t be a democracy, but it shouldn’t be a dictatorship, either.
A couple of Astros players told me I was tipping pitches, but now it comes out they were stealing signs. Was I tipping, or were they stealing?
I returned from my last L.A. visit to find myself tipping the scales like Homer Simpson when he tries to gain enough weight to qualify as disabled to be allowed to work from home. All I was missing was his kaftan and Fat Guy Hat. So, I decided it was time to diet.
When certain things reach a tipping point, and you know people’s lives are in danger, you have to decide that it’s time to speak up, and you have to say something loud and clear.
Cash as a physical entity will virtually cease to exist, with coins and checkbooks consigned to museums. As people conduct their financial transactions on hand-held devices made secure by advanced biometrics, even tipping will be done electronically.
I’m a big Alex Cora fan, as far as aggressiveness, the things that he sees like pitch tipping. His eyes are really good.
I drove an electric car for seven years because of its advanced technology, not because I have any concerns about energy resources. I have none at all. And when environmentalists say that global warming is dangerous, unprecedented and that we’ll have a tipping point for atmospheric carbon dioxide, it’s just nonsense.
Understand tipping culture. Whereas Americans tip 15-20% when dining out, most European countries don’t tip, as a service charge is typically included in the bill. Make sure you’re not over-tipping by doing research before traveling.
The pace of global warming is accelerating and the scale of the impact is devastating. The time for action is limited – we are approaching a tipping point beyond which the opportunity to reverse the damage of CO2 emissions will disappear.
I love a bit of ‘Tipping Point’; I sit there and sometimes the dog starts watching it. It’s just like the going in and out and the coins falling, it can be quite trance-like.
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.
We used to go around tipping outhouses over, or turning over corn shocks on Halloween. Anything to be mean.
There have been a couple of things I’ve been involved in launching that have been a bit more public, but I’ve always had other things tipping away in the background.
I am not alone in thinking that we are at a tipping point ecologically and morally and politically. Democracy cannot survive without a vibrant middle class, yet the policies of one of the parties has been committed to wiping it out for 30 years.
Some experts look at global warming, increased world temperature, as the critical tipping point that is causing a crash in coral reef health around the world. And there’s no question that it is a factor, but it’s preceded by the loss of resilience and degradation.
I’ve got my eye on Big Cass and Enzo Amore. I think they ooze everything that it takes to be a WWE superstar. They have so much energy. Those guys and the Vaudevillains are the guys I’ve been tipping my cap to on the viewership side.
People really feel that, when they go to the gas pump now, that the oil cartel is holding them by the legs and tipping them upside down and shaking money out of their pockets.
I didn’t want to be short. I’ve tried to pretend that being a short guy didn’t matter. I tried to make up for being short by affecting a strut, by adopting the voice of a much bigger man, by spending more money than I made, by tipping double or triple at bars and restaurants, by dating tall, beautiful women.
After ‘Inconvenient Truth,’ we hit a tipping point where almost everybody in America cares about the environment.
Sometimes I think I’d be perfectly happy to go on rewriting ‘Tipping the Velvet’ forever because it was so much fun.
The people I spoke to who were worried they would be killed for talking to me are now all ministers in the government. This is a major, major breakthrough. You have democracy actually working, the return of the rule of law, in an area of the world which was really tipping into the night.
Like all paradises, Topanga is pitched at the tipping point of promise and peril.
Tipping points are so dangerous because if you pass them, the climate is out of humanity’s control: if an ice sheet disintegrates and starts to slide into the ocean there’s nothing we can do about that.
If I am at home I’ll put ‘Tipping Point’ on and will always learn something from it.
The tabloids had a field day with ‘Tipping The Velvet,’ which was great for the viewing figures but not necessarily for the actors involved.
Even if I was tipping my pitches, I could have thrown pitches good enough to not be hit.
In New England, the pin oak thrives, its leaves tipping to a thorny point in a good-natured impression of its evergreen neighbor, the holly bush.
Women are especially sensible in matters relating to tipping: fair but not foolish.
We should quit using phrases like ‘turning points’ and ‘tipping points.’ There’s been multiple turning points, multiple tipping points.
Tipping your hat to a lady is good form. If you’re at a dinner table, you’d most certainly take your hat off – cowboy hat, baseball hat, or otherwise.
I always get involved with the environment because once you go past the tipping point with the environment, you don’t get it back.
