Quotes About Trend

Fashion is instant language.

I see a drift toward authoritarian capitalism that is shared in [the United States], Russia and China," Klein told an audience in New York. "Not to say that we're all at the same stage—but I see a trend toward a very disturbing mix of big corporate power and big state power cooperating in the interests of the elites."31

In 1992, a US Fortune 500 CEO had a 36 percent chance of retaining his or her job for the next five years; in 1998, that chance was down to 25 percent. By 2005, the average tenure of an American CEO had dwindled to six years. And the trend is global. In 2011, 14.4 percent of CEOs of the world's 2,500 biggest listed companies left their jobs. Even in Japan, famous for its relative corporate stasis, forced succession among the heads of large corporations quadrupled in 2008.

l'hypocrisie est un vice à la mode, et tous les vices à la mode passent pour vertus.

Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.

Although a life-long fashion dropout, I have absorbed enough by reading Harper's Bazaar while waiting at the dentist's to have grasped that the purpose of fashion is to make A Statement. My own modest Statement, discerned by true cognoscenti, is, "Woman Who Wears Clothes So She Won't Be Naked."

The word 'science' is the new trend in our society and our young generation.

A coat in the winter is not fashion.

Lead the ideas of your time and they will accompany and support you; fall behind them and they drag you along with them; oppose them and they will overwhelm you.

Look, you're not French, let's face it . . . and who wants to be, anyway, in this day and age? Being French is way past cool.

Pointing to a trend in Western democracies, Agamben posits that the declaration of an emergency state of exception itself has gradually been replaced by a "generalization of the paradigm of security as the normal technique of government" (2003/2005, 14), that is, the state of exception or emergency has become integrated in the normal functioning of the state.

Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.

There is no reason to sell a rising stock

Layla draws on her electronic cigarette. This is what the future looks like, Scott thinks. We smoke technology now.

A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.

Flurries early, pristine and pearly. Winter's come calling! Can we endure so premature a falling? Some may find this trend distressing- others bend to say a blessing over sage and onion dressing.

Religion is a fashionable substitute for Belief.

If you want to be a fucking individual, don't get a tattoo. Every fucker's got one these days.

magnificent canyon of fashion.

Pankaj Mishra (#iampm)

I travel around the world constantly promoting my projects and endorsing products. Yes, I do get paid to go to parties in fact, I'm the person who started the whole trend of paid appearances. But when you see me at a party, I'm always working or promoting something.

There are times in history where a particular doctrine becomes a symbol of a greater problem.

Instead, the most common strategy has been to watch the trend of PSA—to see what it does over time, with the idea that if it's coming from benign tissue, the PSA level should remain stable, but if it's coming from cancerous tissue, the PSA will creep back up as the cancer cells multiply.

Jeanie's the type who is only wearing black until they come up with something darker.