Tipping Quotes

We are on the precipice of climate system tipping points beyond which there is no redemption.

Therapy is often a matter of tipping the first domino.

A single act of courage is often the tipping point for extraordinary change.

Do you think we're going to hit a tipping point and the world's going to end?

Juke glanced into her cup before tipping it down to her mouth. "Screw you!" "Now come on, sugar, you know I don't swing that way." "Whatever!

The English language is like a broad river on whose bank a few patient anglers are sitting, while, higher up, the stream is being polluted by a string of refuse-barges tipping out their muck.

As in the case of making a mound, if, before the very last basketful, I stop, then I shall have stopped. As in the case of leveling the ground, if, though tipping only one basketful, I am going forward, then I shall be making progress.

[F]rank knew he was guilty of arrogance and misanthropy, but he compensated by being kind to strangers and tipping really well at restaurants.

A tipping point is invisible, as we just saw in Greece. In most situations, everything appears fine until it's not fine, until, for example, no one shows up at a Treasury auction.

The end of the world was supposed to be gradual. There was supposed to be warning. A long, slow slide. What we got was punctuated equilibrium: a stately wobbling, then a sudden tipping point. There was plenty of warning, I suppose. We just weren’t paying attention.

I always get involved with the environment because once you go past the tipping point with the environment, you don't get it back.

As people's access to the internet grows we're seeing the sharing economy boom - I think our obsession with ownership is at a tipping point and the sharing economy is part of the antidote for that.

We used to go around tipping outhouses over, or turning over corn shocks on Halloween. Anything to be mean.

I'm tipping the hat and looking back.

There are exceptional people out there who are capable of starting epidemics. All you have to do is find them.

Look at the world around you. It may seem like an immovable, implacable place. It is not. With the slightest push - in just the right place - it can be tipped.

Doing the little things can make a big difference.

The answer is that the success of any kind of social epidemic is heavily dependent on the involvement of people with a particular and rare set of social gifts.

We are facing a tipping point of environmental crisis unprecedented in human history and our very survival is dependent on protecting nature.

Of course it hurts", she grumbled, tipping my head further back. "Life sucks. Get over it

Small mistakes, the lack of care, little accidents, and somewhere a tipping point is passed and things go badly wrong. Expedition history brims with tragedies built out of incremental missteps.

I think we could be at a tipping point

It's not tipping I believe in. It's overtipping.

When it comes to e-book playback devices and software, I have always thought that the emphasis on ergonomic concerns as a tipping point for the end-user population was misplaced.

For every reader who dies today, a viewer is born, and we seem to be witnessing . . . the final tipping balance.

Nobody should be wearing a scrunchie anymore. I feel angry. That is my tipping point.

There's something about looking at society's expectation of what [motherhood] is and tipping it.

I always encourage over-tipping if you can afford it because share the wealth.

I know they're not getting divorced or anything, but when your parents argue it makes the whole universe seem like it's tipping, like everything could change if they got mad enough at each other, like the world isn't a safe place. And of course, that's true, isn't it? The world is not a safe place.

I wore one on the first episode of season one [of Fuller House], and then I saw it, and I went back to my hairstylist, and I was like, "We are never using this again!" I know it was a good throwback for that first season, but I am 40, I cannot pull off a scrunchie anymore. Nobody should be wearing a scrunchie anymore. I feel angry. That is my tipping point.

Reminding myself of all that I have to be thankful for really helps ground me and keeps me from tipping over into that negative place.

It's part of the reason I decided to speak out now. This was the tipping point for me. If it's O.K. for [David Petraeus ] to campaign for a job in the administration, then I'm going to campaign to get back out there, too.

The urgency derives from the nearness of climate tipping points.

We don't know exactly where all the tipping points are in the physical world for inescapable damage, but we're clearly reaching close to some of them.