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I'm Gordon Ramsay, for goodness sake: people know I'm volatile. -- Gordon Ramsay
As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold. -- Jonathan Swift
There is a volatile mix, and that's because we're all intense. And there's no denying that. -- Alex Van Halen
Accounting does not make corporate earnings or balance sheets more volatile. Accounting just increases the transparency of volatility in earnings. -- Diane Garnick
We're quite volatile as individuals, but that doesn't work exponentially when we are together. Relationships are about eating humble pie. -- Guy Ritchie
It's a lot of random situations that combine in a certain volatile form and create a bigger-than- the-whole situation that nobody could have predicted. -- Paul Kantner
People clinging to job security, savings, retirement plans, and other relics will be the ones financially-ravaged from 2010-2020, the most volatile world-changing decade in history. -- Robert Kiyosaki
Global warming creates volatility. I feel it when I'm flying. The storms are more volatile. We are paying the price in more hurricanes and tornadoes. -- Debbie Stabenow
Fear tends to manifest itself much more quickly than greed, so volatile markets tend to be on the downside. In up markets, volatility tends to gradually decline. -- Philip Roth
The lawlessness of frontier life in America has been pictured as a remarkable phenomenon. In reality, it was the natural consequence of indiscriminate mixing of volatile substances. -- Paul Harris
It's volatile, the marriage. Which one isn't? Nothing better than a good, full-on row. Get it all out. Say rude and nasty things. And then be sorry. Genuinely sorry, afterwards. -- John Lydon
A lot of actors, and artists in general, never feel secure in love. They always feel everything's going to be taken away from them, professionally and personally; they're extremely emotional and volatile. -- Sylvester Stallone
We're in such a volatile climate right now politically. I think they didn't want Assassins to not succeed due to popular opinion and politics, versus on its own merits. I can respect that. -- Neil Patrick Harris
Gingrich was a far more volatile and aggressive individual than Boehner, but the institutional norms of self-restraint, and perhaps even self-interest, have broken down under the pressure of an increasingly abnormal Republican Party. -- George Packer
I have a great map of the Tibesti Mountains in the southern Sahara or Northern Chad. It's a dream of mine to go there, but it's such a volatile area, you have to be prudent. -- Werner Herzog
In an extreme credit crunch, leveraged purchases of gold cause forced sales, because any price correction triggers margin calls. As a result, gold can be very volatile - upward and downward - at the peak of a crisis. -- Nouriel Roubini
You were saying that once when visiting Yale, you were struck that unlike Pound, Williams's thinking was volatile, I mean, did not stay locked into a pattern of concepts that then defined his subsequent necessary behavior, whereas Pound did. -- Robert Creeley
You can't invest in natural gas on a daily basis. It's too volatile. But if you think of natural gas as a long-term holding, then you push your profit horizon out. A long-term time horizon would be at least two years. -- T. Boone Pickens
Those who know New York City primarily through tourism or mass culture may think of us natives as possessing certain shared characteristics, not all of them flattering. But the true, volatile charisma of New York lies in how balkanised it is. -- Jonathan Dee
My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to some music, some opera, which has nothing at all to do with a volatile human condition or struggle or whatever. It enriches me as a human being. -- Wole Soyinka
Back in the 1950s, there was a top-secret program code-named SUNTAN being conducted at a top-secret facility called Skunk Works. Its objective? To develop a liquid-hydrogen-powered spy plane. Because liquid hydrogen is incredibly volatile, early experiments were conducted inside a bomb shelter with eight-foot-thick walls. -- Annie Jacobsen
At the heart of banking is a suicidal strategy. Banks take money from the public or each other on call, skim it for their own reward and then lock the rest up in volatile, insecure and illiquid loans that at times they cannot redeem without public aid. -- James Buchan
Immigration is a volatile issue, but we're in the middle of it now, and probably the worst thing to do is to not do anything. Everybody recognizes the current system is not working the way we want it to work. It has huge flaws to it; need to do something. -- Sam Brownback
Countries around the world have their own immigration laws and methods of dealing with a recurring theme: desperate people searching for peace from volatile parts of the world. And nations everywhere thrive and prosper from the contributions of immigrants and the children of immigrants - including right here in the U.S. -- Al Sharpton
My parents were very volatile but very loving. My father would get jealous if my mother looked at somebody. I used to be insanely jealous. It comes out of insecurity. It can come and go, but you get to the point in life where you don't have this raging jealousy and protectiveness about your world. -- Felicity Kendal
I do not want to admit to the world that I can be a bad person. It is just that I don't want anyone to have false expectations. Moviemaking is a harsh, volatile business, and unless you can be ruthless, too, there's a good chance that you are going to disappear off the scene pretty quickly. -- Tom Hanks
Grief and passion make a volatile mix. -- Marianne Curley
It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness. -- George Santayana
I feel something for you, some dangerous thing, some volatile thing. -- Nora Roberts
That most risky and volatile of all things a self-pitying majority. -- Christopher Hitchens
Maximum of an average is necessarily less volatile than the average maximum -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Women are the volatile vote at the end-particularly independent, non-college-educated married women. -- Celinda Lake
Thought is not a gift to man but a laborious, precarious and volatile acquisition. -- Jose Ortega y Gasset
The volatile truth of our words should continually betray the inadequacy of the residual statement. -- Henry David Thoreau
The combination of foolishness in the heart and free will in the head is extremely volatile. -- John Rosemond
Since 1970, relationships can be more volatile, jobs more ephemeral, geographical mobility more intensified, stability of marriage weaker. -- Mary Douglas
Less volatile stocks tend to have negative abnormal profits; more volatile stocks tend to have positive abnormal profits. -- Robert Haugen
I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable... I suppose I'm larger than life. -- Bette Davis
Relationships change even more than people. It's like two people changing. It's exponentially more volatile. Especially two teenagers." -- Ned Vizzini
Relationships change even more than people. It's like two people changing. It's exponentially more volatile. Especially two teenagers. -- Ned Vizzini
You have to pick what you're going to be worried about. Markets are volatile, but retirement is certain. -- Nick Murray
There's something very intoxicating about playing someone so volatile and someone who can lose his temper at any second. -- Tom Felton
Any system that is deprived of its natural volatility, with government up (unintelligible) volatile, any system becomes very fragile. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
There are no fixtures in nature. The universe is fluid and volatile. Permanence is but a word of degrees. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is the difference betwixt lust and love that this is fixed, that volatile. Love grows, lust wastes by enjoyment. -- William Penn
I am clearly vulnerable to these more passionate and volatile unstable relationships. I am trying to not be so vulnerable. -- Salman Rushdie
Investment is not only volatile, it is the key motor of the economy's prosperity because it has a snowball effect. -- Will Hutton
Poems . . . are perfume bottles momentarily unstopped"?what they release is volatile and will vanish, and yet it can be released again, -- Jane Hirshfield
I am volatile for one, rigid for another, angular as an icicle in silver, or voluptuous as a candle flame in gold. -- Virginia Woolf
This may come as a shock to some of you, but I have a slightly volatile personality. I don't suffer fools well. -- Tucker Max
I think it's not misplaced in 'Doctor Who' to have someone who is little bit edgy and maybe a little volatile and dangerous. -- Peter Capaldi
We're not unique. We're quite volatile as individuals, but that doesn't work exponentially when we are together. Relationships are about eating humble pie. -- Guy Ritchie
I do believe that some of these regulations made the markets more volatile, and it remains to be seen how bad that can be. -- Jamie Dimon
We have no future because our present is too volatile. We have only risk management. The spinning of the given moment's scenarios. Pattern recognition. -- William Gibson
The vanishing, volatile froth of the present which any shadow will alter, any thought blow away, any event annihilate, is every moment converted into the adamantine. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I grew up in a mixed religious household. And it was volatile. My dad's atheist, my mom's agnostic. Just constant fighting. There's no God! There might be! -- Bonnie McFarlane
Markets are fundamentally volatile. No way around it. Your problem is not in the math. There is no math to get you out of having to experience uncertainty. -- Ed Seykota
I'm probably less volatile and tempestuous than a lot of Aries, but I think I'm probably quite loud and outgoing and passionate. Maybe a bit difficult or stubborn. -- Mackenzie Davis
I could do with a bit more excess. From now on I'm going to be immoderate--and volatile--I shall enjoy loud music and lurid poetry. I shall be rampant. -- Joanne Harris
Interviewer: Would it be fair to describe you as a volatile player? Beckham: Well, I can play in the centre, on the right and occasionally on the left side. -- David Beckham
It would be fun to be a redhead... you can get away with being, like, really volatile and fire-y because you're like, 'I'm just a redhead; what can I say?' -- Anna Kendrick
To me, politics is culture. I became a journalist, and later a filmmaker, to get to know my new country and my volatile place in it as a gay, undocumented Filipino-American. -- Jose Antonio Vargas
I look back over my shoulder and feel the presence of an intense young girl and then a volatile and disturbed young woman, both with high dreams and restless, romantic aspirations -- Kay Redfield Jamison
Society historically has a difficult time with the concept of something new and foreign that shakes up our comfortable views, especially if it involves the very volatile question of sexual identity. -- Mercedes Ruehl
We have a potentially volatile situation but we sort of live with it, and we kick the ball down the field and hope that ultimately, somehow, something will happen and resolve it. -- Mitt Romney
In order to understand the stock market we have to realize that, like anything enormous and inert, it's fundamentally stable, and, like anything emotion-driven, it's volatile as hell. Got that? Me neither. -- Mickey Rourke
The use of large-scale military force in volatile regions of underdeveloped countries is difficult to do right, has major unintended consequences and rarely turns out to be quick, effective, controlled and short lived. -- Dennis C. Blair
From the time I was a child I wanted to be like my mother. Not necessarily an actress - I never dreamed I'd have the courage. But an active, volatile woman like she was. -- Isabella Rossellini
Picasso has a volatile, explosive presence. He seems to take art back to an earlier function, before the centuries of museums and masterpieces; he is the artist as clown, as conjurer, as master funmaker. -- Pauline Kael
Greed, fear, lust, hate, jealousy, these are part of reality too ... bundles of consciousness wrapped tightly, barbs on which you can injure yourself, volatile energies that serve as separations between yourself and perfect stillness. -- Frederick Lenz
Greed, fear, lust, hate, jealousy, these are part of reality too ... bundles of consciousness wrapped tightly, barbs on which you can injure yourself, volatile energies that serve as separations between yourself and perfect stillness. -- Frederick Lenz

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