If we and the rest of the back-boned animals were to disappear overnight, the rest of the world would get on pretty… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
“Once I get under the water, however, I can't hold it in anymore. With a sob, I collapse on the tile floor.… — Erin Hayes Copy Share Image
Sometimes when someone says something stupid, my friends and I just read the reviews out loud and collapse with laughter at the… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
Once I've got home, sorted out things for the kids and caught up with my husband, there's not a lot of time… — Cathy Newman Copy Share Image
Every civilization depends on the quality of the individuals it produces. If you over-organize humans, over-legalize them, suppress their urge to greatness-they… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
If you're overfishing at the top of the food chain, and acidifying the ocean at the bottom, you're creating a squeeze that… — Carl Safina Copy Share Image
[Magic] can guide people to the very edge of reason - and then push them off. Thoughts collapse for a moment and… — Patrick Martin Copy Share Image
I think money is due for some sort of collapse. People are going to realize that money has a half-life, like radioactive… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
He was a commander in the Russian army at a time when the Russians were our enemies and still part of the… — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
The great trick of regarding small departures from the truth as the truth itself - on which is founded the entire integral… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
If the present civilisation does not acquire some stable moral fondations ("bases morales stables", Fr.), its existence will hardly be more assured… — African Spir Copy Share Image
“This evening he’ll hold one of his last training sessions with the A-team, and when the season is over he’ll go home… — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
If this really is true, then greed really isn't good, after all. It really isn't the way to maximize the best possible… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
The negative way [of describing God] is a cardboard prop of Christianity to conceal its unknowable God. When this prop collapses, theistic… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
Some doomsayers think the collapse will be triggered by runaway government spending, excessive taxation, oppressive regulation, food shortages, fuel shortages or natural… — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
A matter that seems to be very clear in terms of the alternative view, is what do you expect to happen in… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
Contemporary philosophers have exercised themselves with the problem of our knowledge of other minds. Enmeshed in the dogma of the ghost in… — Gilbert Ryle Copy Share Image
The agricultural co-operative movement has been a severe ideological and political struggle from the very beginning. No cooperative can be established without… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
For nearly two centuries, scholars and politicians have debated the future of capitalism. Its critics, most prominent among them Karl Marx, have… — Raghuram Rajan Copy Share Image
Why do you love the woman you're in love with? Because she is. And that, after all, is God's own definition of… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
When the people of a nation stop communicating, they lose the common purpose that made them great. Their cities become ghost towns.… — Jeff Myers Copy Share Image
“Humans aren’t going to do anything in time to prevent the planet from being destroyed wholesale. Poor people are too preoccupied by… — Aric McBay Copy Share Image
The bottom line for housing is that the concerns we used to hear about the possibility of a devastating collapse—one that might… — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
For they (capitalists) hold as their chief heresy, in a coarser form, the fundamental falsehood that things are not made to be… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
[Donald Trump] said, back in 2006, "Gee, I hope it does collapse, because then I can go in and buy some and… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Grace cannot prevail...until our lifelong certainty that someone is keeping score has run out of steam and collapsed. — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
After the collapse of Wall Street in the 1920s, the culture stopped being all about money, and the country survived and ultimately… — Graydon Carter Copy Share Image
The chief task was to stop the arms race before it brought utter disaster. However, after the collapse of communism and the… — Joseph Rotblat Copy Share Image
Events like Hurricane Katrina and the Minnesota bridge collapse suggest a national infrastructure that has suffered from lack of tending. — Nina Easton Copy Share Image
As before the collapse, the setting sun brushed the tiles, brought out the warm brown glow on the wallpaper, and hung the… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
It has always amazed me how tax cuts don't work until they take effect. Mr. Obama's experience with deferred tax rate increases… — Arthur Laffer Copy Share Image
Nine-tenths of the world is entertained by scandalous rumors, which are never dissected until they are dead and, when pricked, collapse like… — Horace Greeley Copy Share Image
I'm losing my hair. I'm overweight. It's not like that's at the top of the list when women go looking for a… — Graydon Carter Copy Share Image
We were using a hand-held camera to film the scene when Morse collapses. The camera wouldn't start. Three times they said action… — John Thaw Copy Share Image
Support for Saddam, including within his military organization, will collapse after the first whiff of gunpowder. — Richard Perle Copy Share Image
The precedent is that civilizations collapse, and everything's stacked up for this one to go, and it's a mess when it happens. — Gail Bradbrook Copy Share Image
“The building collapse is an act of carelessness. Therefore, the action should be taken! Things should be taken into strict actions. People… — Fahmid Hassan Prohor Copy Share Image
You're going to go to stillness. When that happens, the world collapses. There is no time, no space, no viewer, no viewing,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Happy in all that ragged, loose collapse of water, the fountain, its effortless descent and flatteries of spray... — Richard Wilbur Copy Share Image
The possibility of physical and mental collapse is now very real. No sympathy for the Devil, keep that in mind. Buy the… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image