Collapse Quotes

501 quotes by 435 authors

Support for Saddam, including within his military organization, will collapse after the first whiff of gunpowder. — Richard Perle
To the naked eye, our oceans are beautiful. But scientists tell us that all of the world's fisheries will collapse by 2048, unless we change… — Ted Danson
The only hope is that our civilization will collapse at a certain point, as always happens in history. Then, out of barbarity, a renaissance. — Pierre Schaeffer
Cracks make caves collapse. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I think fashion is repulsive. The whole idea that someone else can make clothing that is supposed to be in style and make other people… — Steve Albini
The creative act is also in a small way a suffering act - we start out with our ego, this hope of making this thing… — Michael Leunig
I've often reflected on the rather obvious thought that when his disciples were about to have the world collapse in on them, our Lord spent… — Sinclair B. Ferguson
When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain. — Bertolt Brecht
I have always thought that if we began for one moment to say what we thought, society would collapse. — Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
There is no indispensable man. The government will not collapse and go to pieces if any one of the gentlemen who are seeking to be… — Woodrow Wilson
Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse. — C. Northcote Parkinson
But ice-crunching and loud gum-chewing, together with drumming on tables, and whistling the same tune 70 times in succession, because they indicate an indifference on… — Robert Benchley
It seems to me that there must be an ecological limit to the number of paper pushers the earth can sustain, and that human civilization… — Barbara Ehrenreich
Without energy life would be extinguished instantaneously, and the cellular fabric would collapse. — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
I think money is due for some sort of collapse. People are going to realize that money has a half-life, like radioactive elements. — Douglas Coupland
No part of Italian society should see itself as exempt from the effort to save Italy from collapse. — Giorgio Napolitano
Actually I can't imagine Nato troops on the ground and I think it's also important to send that very clear message to the UN and… — Anders Fogh Rasmussen
One of the most destructive things that's happening in modern society is that we are losing our sense of the bonds that bind people together… — Alexander McCall Smith
If you line everything up, just right, you walk through a doorway where the world as you know it collapses. — Frederick Lenz
The ecosystem of our world is a closed system: it would run out of gas, collapse of its own weight. — Joan D. Vinge

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