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Tipping Quotes - Page 2

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

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

Kathryn Hahn
Motherhood, Expectations, Tipping
"Here's Mila Kunis and Kathryn Hahn's Advice For Every Husband". Interview with Emily Zemler, www.esquire.com. July 29, 2016.

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

Jonathan Franzen
Balance, Finals, Tipping
Jonathan Franzen (2007). “How to Be Alone: Essays”, p.165, Macmillan

The urgency derives from the nearness of climate tipping points.

James Hansen
Climate, Tipping, Urgency
James Hansen (2011). “Storms of My Grandchildren: The Truth about the Coming Climate Catastrophe and Our Last Chance to Save Humanity”, p.4, A&C Black

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.

E. Lockhart
Mad, Parent, Tipping
E. Lockhart (2016). “Ruby Oliver 3: The Treasure Map of Boys”, p.58, Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.

I think we could be at a tipping point

Charles Schumer
Gun, Thinking, Tipping

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.

Bill McKibben
Tipping, World, Damage
Source: www.motherjones.com

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

Andrea Barber
Tipping, Should, Feels
Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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.

Andrea Barber
House, Tipping, Saws
Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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.

Alan S. Kesselheim
Mistake, Tragedy, Tipping

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