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If we expect them to ever come out of the proverbial rabbit hole, we have to understand what brought them in in the first place. – Joseph Ma Pierre	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Oil and gas companies do not want to drill more, they are under pressure from the financial community to pay more dividends, to do more share buybacks, instead of the proverbial 'drill baby drill,' which is the way they would have done things 10 years ago. Corporate strategy has fundamentally changed. – Pavel Molchanov	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We can travel all over the world in a soul quest to “find ourselves” and answer proverbial questions about the meaning of life. – Lisa Haisha	added by lisa.haisha 2 years ago
It is the proverbial camel's nose under the tent.Expect much worse denial of freedom to follow.This is especially true as evidenced by the Kremlin's recent decision to clamp down on anti-war protesters. – Col Robert Lee Maginnis	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Oil and gas companies do not want to drill more, they are under pressure from the financial community to pay more dividends, to do more share buybacks instead of the proverbial' drill baby drill,' which is the way they would have done things 10 years ago. Corporate strategy has fundamentally changed. – Pavel Molchanov	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Putin's decision to limit access to Facebook is a terrible omen for Russian freedom, it is the proverbial camel's nose under the tent.Expect much worse denial of freedom to follow.This is especially true as evidenced by the Kremlin's recent decision to clamp down on anti-war protesters. – Col Robert Lee Maginnis	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Los Angeles was Los Angeles, in a nutshell, the state preemption threw a huge kink in our efforts towards carbon neutrality. This isn't the first time the state has preempted things that have made us go back to the proverbial drawing table and figure out how we get creative and innovative in a space where we don't have funding. – Nicole Antonopoulos	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Just because the reef currently doesn't show any impacts from climate change, it doesn't mean that's going to hold into the future, and so we can't just assume that because no one knew it was there, and when we found it, it was in good shape that it will continue to dodge the proverbial climate bullets. – Steven Mana'oakamai Johnson	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Between yield differentials and COVID-driven safe-haven demand, the U.S. dollar has been the proverbial belle of the forex ball this week. – Matt Weller	Found on Reuters 2 years ago
Prince Harry tells Oprah that every time Prince Harry'd be on a flight returning to London, Prince Harry was triggered because of what had happened to Prince Harry growing up there, i found Harry's revelation about being triggered every time Prince Harry was about to touch down in London again so striking. Of course, Prince Harry was born into a family where … as the proverbial ‘ spare ’ one would think that he would have more freedom to be the architect of his destiny than William, whose destiny was set from the day he was born. – You Can	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
one thing poverty has taught me is how to be patient.because I learn that so many times,-driven by our desire to make things better with our circumstances, we often overlook the dangers of unforeseen catastrophic consequences. my beloved mother would say-tek time, run fast. jamaican proverbial wisdom. – RAS CARDO REGGAE	added by RASCARDOFROMTRENCHTOWN 3 years ago
So (a) green light from Trump to Turkey to go ahead and get S400s - or that is now the Turkish view, i would imagine U.S. diplomat and defense department officials are in disbelief - Trump is like the proverbial bull in the China shop. – Tim Ash	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
When you look at the courts order, they were hoping that Texas would give them a way out by accommodating Patrick Murphys request, texas has chosen not to do that, so its likely that the ball with be back in the proverbial judicial court. – Dominique Ray	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
Well, I think North Korea almost dared Trump to cancel the summit, and he did North Korea, the North Korean statement yesterday was the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back. – Srinivasan Sitaraman	Found on CNN 5 years ago
It is a truism that when one is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. The glory of art is that it can show this proverbial hammer how everything looks to a screwdriver--and to a plowshare, and to an earthenware pot. If reality is the sum of our perceptions, to acquire more varying points of view is to acquire, literally, more reality. – Matthew Stover	added by regnumveritatis 6 years ago
Rice gives nourishment to the proverbial belly of the ethnic Chinese people. I used rice (as a medium) to encourage Taiwan's leader, Tsai Ing-wen, hoping that she can take care of the common people, so they don't need to endure hunger, and improve their financial situation. – Chen Forng-Shean	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Our World War II cases are the ultimate cold cases. All of the crimes took place many decades ago on the other side of a vast ocean, it's very much a search for the proverbial needle in a haystack. – Eli Rosenbaum	Found on CNN 8 years ago
It's the proverbial dead-cat bounce. After days of worries, the market's in a relief rally on the heels of New York and hopes that we get a respite on everything from China to Greece, but those issues still fester...We're in uncharted waters as far as the Greece exit, and the (Chinese) market collapse is only 30 percent after a 150 percent gain. – John Ing	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
BDNF deficiency may not cause full-blown disease, but it could be the proverbial straw that leads to a 'broken heart,'. – Nazareno Paolocci	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
to men and women alike your age just a number if you love the person for who they are what they are and respect there beliefs and accept them for who they are you love them in short love is all you need in a relationship and throw your age out the proverbial window. – Bryan benjamin nicholls	added by ben6780 9 years ago
The anxiety over the Fed meeting has abated for now, with the Fed using that word 'patient', you had the beginning of the proverbial Santa Claus rally. – Quincy Krosby	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age. He can only get a vision of the unselfish forces in the world by appealing to them, and every appeal is a call to arms. If he fights he must fight, not one man, but a conspiracy. He is always at war with a civilization. On his side is proverbial philosophy, a galaxy of invisible saints and sages, and the half-developed consciousness and professions of everybody. Against him is the world, and every selfish passion in his own heart. – John Jay Chapman	added by anonymous 10 years ago
It is a proverbial expression that every man is the maker of his own fortune, and we usually regard it as implying that every man by his folly or wisdom prepares good or evil for himself. But we may view it in another light, namely, that we may so accommodate ourselves to the dispositions of Providence as to be happy in our lot, whatever may be its privations. – Von Humboldt	added by anonymous 12 years ago
What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes. Take fifty of our current proverbial sayings-- they are so trite, so threadbare. None the less they embody the concentrated experience of the race, and the man who orders his life according to their teachings cannot be far wrong. Has any man ever attained to inner harmony by pondering the experience of others? Not since the world began! He must pass through fire. – Norman Douglas	added by anonymous 13 years ago

If we expect them to ever come out of the proverbial rabbit hole, we have to understand what brought them in in the first place.

– Joseph Ma Pierre

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Oil and gas companies do not want to drill more, they are under pressure from the financial community to pay more dividends, to do more share buybacks, instead of the proverbial 'drill baby drill,' which is the way they would have done things 10 years ago. Corporate strategy has fundamentally changed.

– Pavel Molchanov

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We can travel all over the world in a soul quest to “find ourselves” and answer proverbial questions about the meaning of life.

– Lisa Haisha

added by lisa.haisha
2 years ago

It is the proverbial camel's nose under the tent.Expect much worse denial of freedom to follow.This is especially true as evidenced by the Kremlin's recent decision to clamp down on anti-war protesters.

– Col Robert Lee Maginnis

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Oil and gas companies do not want to drill more, they are under pressure from the financial community to pay more dividends, to do more share buybacks instead of the proverbial' drill baby drill,' which is the way they would have done things 10 years ago. Corporate strategy has fundamentally changed.

– Pavel Molchanov

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Putin's decision to limit access to Facebook is a terrible omen for Russian freedom, it is the proverbial camel's nose under the tent.Expect much worse denial of freedom to follow.This is especially true as evidenced by the Kremlin's recent decision to clamp down on anti-war protesters.

– Col Robert Lee Maginnis

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Los Angeles was Los Angeles, in a nutshell, the state preemption threw a huge kink in our efforts towards carbon neutrality. This isn't the first time the state has preempted things that have made us go back to the proverbial drawing table and figure out how we get creative and innovative in a space where we don't have funding.

– Nicole Antonopoulos

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Just because the reef currently doesn't show any impacts from climate change, it doesn't mean that's going to hold into the future, and so we can't just assume that because no one knew it was there, and when we found it, it was in good shape that it will continue to dodge the proverbial climate bullets.

– Steven Mana'oakamai Johnson

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Between yield differentials and COVID-driven safe-haven demand, the U.S. dollar has been the proverbial belle of the forex ball this week.

– Matt Weller

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

Prince Harry tells Oprah that every time Prince Harry'd be on a flight returning to London, Prince Harry was triggered because of what had happened to Prince Harry growing up there, i found Harry's revelation about being triggered every time Prince Harry was about to touch down in London again so striking. Of course, Prince Harry was born into a family where … as the proverbial ‘ spare ’ one would think that he would have more freedom to be the architect of his destiny than William, whose destiny was set from the day he was born.

– You Can

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

one thing poverty has taught me is how to be patient.because I learn that so many times,-driven by our desire to make things better with our circumstances, we often overlook the dangers of unforeseen catastrophic consequences. my beloved mother would say-tek time, run fast. jamaican proverbial wisdom.

– RAS CARDO REGGAE

added by RASCARDOFROMTRENCHTOWN
3 years ago

So (a) green light from Trump to Turkey to go ahead and get S400s - or that is now the Turkish view, i would imagine U.S. diplomat and defense department officials are in disbelief - Trump is like the proverbial bull in the China shop.

– Tim Ash

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

When you look at the courts order, they were hoping that Texas would give them a way out by accommodating Patrick Murphys request, texas has chosen not to do that, so its likely that the ball with be back in the proverbial judicial court.

– Dominique Ray

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

Well, I think North Korea almost dared Trump to cancel the summit, and he did North Korea, the North Korean statement yesterday was the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back.

– Srinivasan Sitaraman

Found on CNN
5 years ago

It is a truism that when one is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. The glory of art is that it can show this proverbial hammer how everything looks to a screwdriver--and to a plowshare, and to an earthenware pot. If reality is the sum of our perceptions, to acquire more varying points of view is to acquire, literally, more reality.

– Matthew Stover

added by regnumveritatis
6 years ago

Rice gives nourishment to the proverbial belly of the ethnic Chinese people. I used rice (as a medium) to encourage Taiwan's leader, Tsai Ing-wen, hoping that she can take care of the common people, so they don't need to endure hunger, and improve their financial situation.

– Chen Forng-Shean

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Our World War II cases are the ultimate cold cases. All of the crimes took place many decades ago on the other side of a vast ocean, it's very much a search for the proverbial needle in a haystack.

– Eli Rosenbaum

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It's the proverbial dead-cat bounce. After days of worries, the market's in a relief rally on the heels of New York and hopes that we get a respite on everything from China to Greece, but those issues still fester...We're in uncharted waters as far as the Greece exit, and the (Chinese) market collapse is only 30 percent after a 150 percent gain.

– John Ing

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

BDNF deficiency may not cause full-blown disease, but it could be the proverbial straw that leads to a 'broken heart,'.

– Nazareno Paolocci

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

to men and women alike your age just a number if you love the person for who they are what they are and respect there beliefs and accept them for who they are you love them in short love is all you need in a relationship and throw your age out the proverbial window.

– Bryan benjamin nicholls

added by ben6780
9 years ago

The anxiety over the Fed meeting has abated for now, with the Fed using that word 'patient', you had the beginning of the proverbial Santa Claus rally.

– Quincy Krosby

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age. He can only get a vision of the unselfish forces in the world by appealing to them, and every appeal is a call to arms. If he fights he must fight, not one man, but a conspiracy. He is always at war with a civilization. On his side is proverbial philosophy, a galaxy of invisible saints and sages, and the half-developed consciousness and professions of everybody. Against him is the world, and every selfish passion in his own heart.

– John Jay Chapman

added by anonymous
10 years ago

It is a proverbial expression that every man is the maker of his own fortune, and we usually regard it as implying that every man by his folly or wisdom prepares good or evil for himself. But we may view it in another light, namely, that we may so accommodate ourselves to the dispositions of Providence as to be happy in our lot, whatever may be its privations.

– Von Humboldt

added by anonymous
12 years ago

What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes. Take fifty of our current proverbial sayings-- they are so trite, so threadbare. None the less they embody the concentrated experience of the race, and the man who orders his life according to their teachings cannot be far wrong. Has any man ever attained to inner harmony by pondering the experience of others? Not since the world began! He must pass through fire.

– Norman Douglas

added by anonymous
13 years ago

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