Collapse Quotes
501 Collapse quotes by 422 unique authors
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What you of the CHOAM directorate seem unable to understand is that you seldom find real loyalties in commerce ... Men must want to do…
— Frank Herbert
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A new space race has begun, and most Americans are not even aware of it. This race is not about political prestige or military power.…
— Ben Bova
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The scientist is a practical man and his are practical (i.e., practically attainable) aims. He does not seek the ultimate but the proximate. He does…
— Gilbert N. Lewis
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There is an old song which asserts 'the best things in life are free.' Not true! Utterly false! This was the tragic fallacy which brought…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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Cyprus was a breath away from economic collapse. It was a big battle in which we came out wounded, but upright and determined to make…
— Nicos Anastasiades
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As species are exterminated by shifting climate zones, ecosystems can collapse, destroying more species.
— James Hansen
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In a campaign against more than one state or army, it is more fruitful to concentrate first against the weaker partner than to attempt the…
— B. H. Liddell Hart
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The universal line of distinction between the strong and the weak is that one persists; the other hesitates, falters, trifles, and at last collapses or…
— Edwin Percy Whipple
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For they (capitalists) hold as their chief heresy, in a coarser form, the fundamental falsehood that things are not made to be used but made…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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You're going to go to stillness. When that happens, the world collapses. There is no time, no space, no viewer, no viewing, no object in…
— Frederick Lenz
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If I work incessantly to the last, nature owes me another form of existence when the present one collapses.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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It is terrifying to see how easily, in certain people, all dignity collapses. Yet when you think about it, this is quite normal since they…
— Albert Camus
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Without artists, the sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed.
— Guillaume Apollinaire
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He who does not attempt to make peace / When small discords arise, / Is like the bee's hive which leaks drops of honey /…
— Akkineni Nagarjuna
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Despite elections and the experience of post-Soviet personal freedoms by the Russian people, the fate of democracy in Russia is perhaps more ambiguous now than…
— Richard Lugar
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When you look at the things people are really fed up with, like the collapse of the pension system, like the failure to get money…
— George Osborne
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I want to collapse. I want to fall on the sidewalk right there and drag myself to the ivy.
— Jay Asher
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I have severe osteoporosis. Your bones start to collapse.
— Joan Kirner
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If we would accept heaven's life, we need by all means to live in the world and to participate in its duties and affairs. In…
— Emanuel Swedenborg
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The larger a star the shorter its life, but all the more fascinating its death. As it collapses within it’s body, the infalling material can…
— Kelly Easton
Who Wrote These Collapse Quotes
422 authors contributed a total of 501 Collapse Quotes, led by these top contributors: