Collapse Quotes

501 quotes by 435 authors

I go from exasperation to a state of collapse, then I recover and go from prostration to Fury, so that my average state is one… — Gustave Flaubert
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
The existing order is breaking down at a very rapid rate, and the main uncertainty is whether mankind can exert a positive role in shaping… — Richard A. Falk
The budget targets imposed by the Bretton Woods institutions, combined with the effects of the devaluation, trigger the collapse of public investment. — Michel Chossudovsky
We just want to make the walls cave in and the ceiling collapse. Music is meant to be played as loudly as possible, really raw… — Bon Scott
Pseudo faith always arranges a way out to serve in case God fails it. Real faith knows only one way and gladly allows itself to… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
It's my nature to go around in high spirits most of the time and then to collapse. — Margaret Sullavan
Ugly programs are like ugly suspension bridges: they're much more liable to collapse than pretty ones, because the way humans (especially engineer-humans) perceive beauty is… — Eric S. Raymond
[Magic] can guide people to the very edge of reason - and then push them off. Thoughts collapse for a moment and the mind is… — Patrick Martin
At first I hoped that such a technically unsound project would collapse but I soon realized it was doomed to success. Almost anything in software… — Tony Hoare
Some beliefs may be subject to such instant, brutal and unambiguous rejection. For example: no left-coiling periwinkle has ever been found among millions of snails… — Stephen Jay Gould
That we do not discover reality but rather invent it is quite shocking for many people. And the shocking part about it - according to… — Paul Watzlawick
The suddenness of the leap from hardware to software cannot but produce a period of anarchy and collapse, especially in the developed countries. — Marshall McLuhan
Homosexuality is not a civil right. Its rise almost always is accompanied, as in the Weimar Republic, with a decay of society and a collapse… — Pat Buchanan
Every day there comes a moment when a person lays his hands in his lap and all his busyness collapses like ashes. The work accomplished… — Robert Musil
The progressive Left can be in favor of Big Government or population control but not both. The mutual incompatibility is about to plunge Europe into… — Mark Steyn
Ironically, the universities have trained hundreds of thousands of graduates for jobs that soon will not exist. They have trained people to maintain a structure… — Chris Hedges
Borrowers will default. Markets will collapse. Gold (the ultimate form of safe money) will skyrocket. — Mike Belkin
On golfer Rory McIlroy's collapse in the final round of the 2011 Masters: We had hoped to compare the young Northern Irishman to the great… — Matt Dickinson
The bottom line for housing is that the concerns we used to hear about the possibility of a devastating collapseâ€”one that might be big enough… — Janet Yellen

Who Wrote These Collapse Quotes

435 authors contributed a total of 501 Collapse Quotes, led by these top contributors: