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  • Any job ends up with stress, and certainly there's always a deadline looming when you work in TV. It's sort of constant.

    Jobs   Stress   Tvs  
    "We Just Keep Trying to Beat Every Show With the Funny Stick Until It's Funny". Interview with Dana Stevens, www.slate.com. June 10, 2015.
  • There are grave difficulties on every hand, and more are looming ahead. Therefore, we must go forward.

  • So virtuous are the programs said to be - pensions for the elderly, compensation for the unemployed, medicine for the sick, and assistance for the disabled - few dare ring the alarm of looming economic catastrophe that threatens to destabilize the civil society.

    Elderly   Medicine   Sick  
    Mark R. Levin (2009). “Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto”, p.95, Simon and Schuster
  • When the news you don't want to hear is looming before you like Everest, two things can happen. Tragedy can run you through like a sword, or it can become your backbone. Either you fall apart and sob, or you say, 'Right. What's next?

    Running   Fall   Two  
    Jodi Picoult (2012). “Lone Wolf: A Novel”, p.75, Simon and Schuster
  • There were signs. Probably more of them than I ever caught, even after the fact. But I missed them all. Maybe because I wasn’t looking for them. I was too busy checking over my shoulder at the fire I’d just come through to pay much attention to the thousand-foot cliff looming in front of me.

    Fire   Feet   Attention  
    Gayle Forman (2011). “Where She Went”, p.55, Penguin
  • We are now going through a period of demolition. In morals, in social life, in politics, in medicine, and in religion there is a universal upturning of foundations. But the day of reconstruction seems to be looming, and now the grand question is: Are there any sure and universal principles that will evolve a harmonious system in which we shall all agree?

    Catharine Esther Beecher (1857). “Common Sense Applied to Religion: Or, The Bible and the People”, p.9
  • The idea occurred to him when he was twenty. At first it was only a vague idea, a question looming — what should I do? — with an answer taking shape: nothing.

    Georges Perec (1987). “Life, a user's manual: fictions”, Collins Harvill Press
  • June 1st is a date that is looming in everybody's mind with the final enforcement of the UIGEA. I actually think it may, finally, once and for all prove that it's an ineffective law. Congress created that law and now Congress has to do something to correct it.

    Thinking   June   Law  
  • We all accuse Vladimir Putin of Cold War nostalgia, but Washington's elites - politicians and intellectuals - miss the old days as well. They wish for the world in which the United States was utterly dominant over its friends, its foes were to be shunned entirely, and the challenges were stark, moral, and vital. Today's world is messy and complicated. China is one of our biggest trading partners and our looming geopolitical rival. Russia is a surly spoiler, but it has a globalized middle class and has created ties in Europe.

    Leadership   Money   War  
  • Death releases the energy into air. If a true catastrophe is looming, the disturbance becomes such that a sensitive individual may become highly troubled by it. He may be aware exactly when and where it will occur. He may see an aura around people who are soon to die. Or he may see images of the disaster beforehand.

    Air   People   Energy  
    Jed Rubenfeld (2011). “The Death Instinct: A Novel”, p.202, Penguin
  • Life is a loom, weaving illusion.

    Vachel Lindsay (1963). “Selected poems”
  • This debt crisis coming to our country. The wall and tidal wave of debt that is befalling our nation. Medicare and Social Security go bankrupt within ten years, we have a debt that is looming so high that in the last year of President Obama's budget just the interest payments on our debt is $916 billion dollars.

    Country   Wall   Years  
    "Politico" Interview, www.politico.com. March 24, 2010.
  • So here I am. Twenty-eight years old, with thirty looming on the horizon. Drunk. Fat. Alone. Unloved. And, worst of all, a cliche, Ally McBeal and Bridget Jones put together, which was probably about how much I weighed.

    Eight   Years   Here I Am  
    Jennifer Weiner (2013). “Good Men: An eShort Story”, p.33, Simon and Schuster
  • The English language is direct, unapologetic, and wonderfully amoral. Italian has a beautiful sound, but you cannot help but feel that you are always dealing with ghosts from the past and the looming dark presence of the Vatican.

    "Go Forth (vol. 5)". Interview with Brandon Hobson, logger.believermag.com. November 21, 2012.
  • Time and again our best and brightest have alerted society to looming problems, but our persistent pattern has been to ignore the warnings and suffer the consequences. The pathetic refrain of recent years --'Nobody saw this coming'--is always a self-serving lie.

    Lying   Self   Years  
    Eugene Linden (2011). “The Ragged Edge of the World: Encounters at the Frontier Where Modernity, Wildlands and Indigenous Peoples Mee t”, p.231, Penguin
  • The root cause of the looming energy problem - and the key to easing environmental, economic and religious tensions while improving public health - is to address the unending, and unequal, growth of the human population. And the one proven way to reduce fertility rates is to empower young women by educating them.

    Religious   Keys   Roots  
    "How Women Can Save the Planet". The Scientific American Article, www.scientificamerican.com. November 1, 2009.
  • The two dozen commonplace childhood photographs - snowsuit, pony, tennis racket, looming fender of a Dodge - were an inexhaustible source of wonder for him, at her having existed before he met her, and of sadness for his possessing nothing of the ten million minutes of that black-and-white scallop-edged existence save these few proofs.

    "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay". Book by Michael Chabon, September 19, 2000.
  • Whether you're in the water staring up at a looming set or standing in front of 15000 people at a demo, you have to manufacture some courage and a sense of optimism in order to get through the moment, the day, the rest of your life.

    Order   People   Water  
    Source: www.sas.org.uk
  • Four hundred top-decision makers listed the myriad looming threats to global security, including famine, terrorism, inequality, disease, poverty and climate change. Yet when we tried to address each diverse force, we found them all attached to one universal security risk: fresh water.

    Water   Decision   Risk  
  • That feeling of hopelessness and racism has been looming over Detroit ever since I was a kid.

    Kids   Racism   Feelings  
    Source: thequietus.com
  • There will be other forms in addition to our classic marriage. One is already looming on the horizon: polyamory, or having more than one intimate partner.

    Source: www.spiegel.de
  • And let's just be honest, there is no such place called 'justice,' if by that we envision a finish line, or a point at which the battle is won and the need to continue the struggle over with. After all, even when you succeed in obtaining a measure of justice, you're always forced to mobilize to defend that which you've won. There is no looming vacation. But there is redemption in struggle.

    Tim Wise (2013). “White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son”, p.270, Soft Skull Press
  • Some people live their lives as if each day will be their last. Some approach love the same way, in a desperate attempt to outrun the tiny changes or huge ones that are always looming on each of our horizons. But the sense of urgency that comes from wanting to experience life and love to the fullest can force decisions that are not always in your best interests or anyone else's, for that matter. In fact, sometimes facing the consequences of your choices can be even worse than death. You may live only once, but you don't necessarily want it to feel like forever.

    Tonya Hurley (2012). “Ghostgirl: Lovesick”, p.11, Hachette UK
  • With such global events looming over us like mountains, nay, like entire mountain ranges, it may seem incongruous and inappropriate to recall that the primary key to our being or non-being resides in each individual human heart, in the heart’s preference for specific good or evil. Yet this remains true even today, and it is, in fact, the most reliable key we have. The social theories that promised so much have demonstrated their bankruptcy, leaving us at a dead end.

    "Have We Forgotten God?" by John W. Whitehead, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.
  • If forced to travel on an airplane, try and get in the cabin with the Captain, so you can keep an eye on him and nudge him if he falls asleep or point out any mountains looming up ahead.

    Fall   Airplane   Eye  
  • It’s a curse, really,” Lady Danbury said. “I’m the only person I know my age who has perfect hearing.” “Most would call that a blessing.” She snorted. “Not with that musicale looming over the horizon.

    Blessing   Perfect   Age  
    Laurie Paige, Julia Quinn (2015). “Something to Hide”, p.286, Harlequin
  • The death of Fidel Castro, of course, is not as significant when you first look at it, because Raul Castro, his brother, has been in power for years. But, in fact, he's been a looming figure even during his illness that I think has made a difference in holding us back in trying to open up more negotiations and move ahead with opening up relations between America and Cuba.

    Source: www.pbs.org
  • Even when I have to write a simple letter I'm scared stiff as if faced with looming seasickness.

    Fear   Writing   Simple  
  • Failing to warn the citizens of a looming weapon of mass destruction- and that's what global warming is- in order to protect oil company profits, well, that fits for me the definition of treason.

    "Real Time" with Bill Maher, votesmart.org. March 24, 2006.
  • There is a looming chasm between what your brain knows and what your mind is capable of accessing.

    Brain   Mind   Chasms  
    David Eagleman (2011). “Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain”, p.50, Canongate Books
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