Collapse Quotes · Page 9

If honesty were suddenly introduced into American life, the whole system would collapse.

— George Carlin

No part of Italian society should see itself as exempt from the effort to save Italy from collapse.

— Giorgio Napolitano

If I said that oil production would collapse I was wrong.

— Vladimir Putin

How many times do you take yourself to the brink of complete collapse? It's not a real fun place to go.

— Bryan Clay

“the collapse of the housing market as it relates to an increase in suburban poverty.” So there.”

— Jessica Park

No civilization on the brink of collapse has ever changed fast enough to avert collapse.

— Joel Salatin

[W]e must never allow the future to collapse under the burden of memory.

— Milan Kundera

“We are nearing Rose’s Folly. I’m programming an asymmetrical directional collapse of our warp field.”

— Scott Pearson

Sexually awakened women, affirmed and recognized as such, would mean the complete collapse of the authoritarian ideology

— Wilhelm Reich

The West may collapse very suddenly. Complex civilizations do that, because they operate, most of the time, on the edge of chaos.

— Niall Ferguson

“To be heroic may mean nothing more than this then, to stand in the face of the status quo, in the face…

— Mike Alsford

I want to make something that is breathtaking. Of course, you can't make something that is always breathtaking, or you would never…

— Brian Eno

[ René Lévesque] didn't understand why things do collapse. It's usually a very banal reason why things do collapse. It's not a…

— Jane Jacobs

Despite elections and the experience of post-Soviet personal freedoms by the Russian people, the fate of democracy in Russia is perhaps more…

— Richard Lugar

Perhaps September 11 could be called the first historic world event in the strictest sense: the impact, the explosion, the slow collapse…

— Jurgen Habermas

We may get to the point where the only way of saving the world will be for industrial civilization to collapse.

— Maurice Strong

I think the popular concept of the artist is a person who has this great passion and enthusiasm and super emotion. He…

— Richard Estes

That's absolutely true, but one problem with the digital revolution, which may tie into what I said earlier, is that there can…

— William Monahan

I collect church collapses, recreationally. Did you see the recent one in Sicily? Marvelous! The facade fell on sixty-five grandmothers at a…

— Thomas Harris

Music. Close your eyes and it's a rosebush blooming in time lapse so that it shoots and blossoms flow outward in a…

— Laini Taylor

“My thoughts are free to roam back to the way she leaned her head on my arm for a split second, as…

— Jasinda Wilder

…Abe didn’t say a word. He made straight for his journal and wrote down a single sentence. One that would radically alter…

— Seth Grahame-Smith

It was leadership here at home that gave us strong American influence abroad, and the collapse of imperial Communism. Great nations have…

— Ronald Reagan

Marriage is a public good, not just a private relationship. We have a public stake in healthy marriages and two-parent families. Our…

— William J Doherty

What they don't realize is that I'm not in the business to make clothes. I'm not in the business to make more…

— Yvon Chouinard

At first I hoped that such a technically unsound project would collapse but I soon realized it was doomed to success. Almost…

— Anonymous

A faith without some doubts is like a human body with no antobodies in it. People who blithely go through life too…

— Anonymous

To make a resolution and act accordingly is to live with hope. There may be difficulties and hardships, but not disappointment or…

— Shinichi Suzuki

Since the State thrives on what it expropriates, the general decline in production that it induces by its avarice foretells its own…

— Frank Chodorov

Financial innovation can be highly dangerous, though almost no one will tell you this. New financial products are typically created for sunny…

— Seth Klarman

How could Digital's collapse be so precipitous? It's because, in many ways, financial performance data is misleading. As you move up to…

— Clayton Christensen

Men in America were terrified that if women got an equal say in society, the system would collapse and their lives would…

— Gary Yourofsky

Man, wonderful man, must collapse, into nature's cauldron, he is no deity, he is no exception.

— Charles Darwin

Break your every dream, every pleasure collapse angered by themselves are seen

— Mak_786

If you line everything up, just right, you walk through a doorway where the world as you know it collapses.

— Frederick Lenz

Every wave, regardless of how high and forceful it crests, must eventually collapse within itself.

— Stefan Zweig

A couple of flop plays, a death in the family, and it could all collapse.

— Patrick Marber

Now, our Sun will not collapse to a black hole. It's actually not massive enough.

— Janna Levin

It is when people do not allow God to show up through them ... that the world collapses in on itself.

— Donald Miller

Two significant developments in the past several decades have been the collapse of communism as an ideology and the general acceptance, in…

— Samuel P. Huntington