The U.S. spent years and years and billions of dollars to build the Iraqi army only to watch it collapse and hand… — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
The blowback against a bailout of Lehman would have been fierce. It is often forgotten, but the prevailing wisdom the day after… — Andrew Ross Sorkin Copy Share Image
I was filming in the Czech Republic once, and it was so cold I thought I was going to collapse. An extra… — Tara Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
There are specific times where film noir is a natural concomitant of the mood. When there's insecurity, collapse of financial systems -… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
That's why you did it. You wanted your world to collapse around you. You wanted everything to get as dark as possible. — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
There is an old maxim that says that two empires that are too large will collapse. The analog in set theory is… — Saharon Shelah Copy Share Image
The collapse of the global marketplace would be a traumatic event with unimaginable consequences. Yet I find it easier to imagine than… — George Soros Copy Share Image
In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems. — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
If now, after the collapse, should any of these lackeys of Adolf Hitler have the insolence to claim they were merely harmless… — Friedrich Kellner Copy Share Image
The question we all face is what sort of culture we will live in for the rest of our lives and then… — Tammy Bruce Copy Share Image
I think that what's actually happening is the collapse of the Center - the centrist semi-coalitions, mildly social-democrat, mildly conservative, that have… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Animal experiments occupy a central place in the material and spiritual edifice of our whole civilization. We are speaking here of one… — Rudolf Bahro Copy Share Image
This is the Cuzco asking you to pull on your armor and, mounted on the ample back of a powerful horse, cleave… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Nothing in my life had prepared me to see things that were strange or beyond belief. I was a simple kid in… — James Dashner Copy Share Image
The longer I've looked at these questions, of the American diet and the public health crisis that we face because of that… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Poetry is the most subtle of the literary arts, and students grow more ingenious by the year at avoiding it. If they… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
It is simply science fiction fantasy to say that, if you do not raise the debt ceiling, that everything is going to… — Mike Lee Copy Share Image
People in Russia say that those who do not regret the collapse of the Soviet Union have no heart, and those that… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
I'm a big believer in the system, but I just don't think we follow our own system and laws very well. I… — Matt Lindland Copy Share Image
If you can create even the illusion of high profitability for a few years, then when the thing collapses you can walk… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
What is needed for a sound expansion of production is additional capital goods, not money or fiduciary media. The credit expansion is… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Governments usually end not with a bang but with a whimper, as the Conservatives learned in the 1990s. Support and authority erodes… — John McDonnell Copy Share Image
A power struggle collapses when you withdraw your energy from it. Power struggles become uninteresting to you when you change your intention… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
We're on the verge of a financial collapse unless we balance the budget, and that means some really, really tough decisions. — Gary Johnson Copy Share Image
The IMF economists were doubtless shaken by the extreme failures of their prescriptions over many years, and by the collapse of the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I speak of a clinical depression that is the background of your entire life, a background of anguish and anxiety, a sense… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
If money is not maintained, it can collapse like a bridge along Interstate 5 and fixing it, even with determined politicians, will… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Civilization sails prettily like a child's rubber balloon until it hits a sharp object; then it is likely to collapse like the… — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
I think it's more difficult now to write a spy thriller with the collapse of the Soviet Union. Many authors have tried,… — Nelson DeMille Copy Share Image
The biggest threat to global stability is the potential for food crises in poor countries to cause government collapse. — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
How gratifying to be there when arrogance collapses. How much more so to be the instrument. (Alfred Gillette) — Robert Ludlum Copy Share Image
We believe we are creating the beginning of a new world order coming out of the collapse of the U.S.-Soviet antagonisms. — Brent Scowcroft Copy Share Image
We have a freer world because of the collapse of the Soviet Union and the changes in China. Those two have been… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
A Christian fellowship lives and exists by the intercession of its members for one another, or it collapses. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
I love that the collapse of The Other Side is being felt in both 'The Vampire Diaries' and 'The Originals' universes -… — Rebecca Serle Copy Share Image
I'm constantly working on these edges of photography, either to employ so much information or reduce information to the point of collapse. — Ori Gersht Copy Share Image
Pressure hulls collapse at the speed of sound. Once that starts, you're inside your own little imploding atomic bomb, and you're gone. — Graham Hawkes Copy Share Image
If the propositions of this Discourse are tenable, the "state of progressive collapse" is precisely that state in which alone we are… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Innovation is a twofold threat to academic mediocrities: it endangers their oracular authority, and it evokes the deeper fear that their whole,… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
