Collapsed Quotes

134 quotes by 129 authors

Western societies from ancient Athens to imperial Rome to the French republic rarely collapsed because of a shortage of resources or because foreign enemies proved… — Victor Davis Hanson
Now small fowls flew screaming over the yet yawning gulf; a sullen white surf beat against its steep sides; then all collapsed; and the great… — Moby
It's a relationship I went through that collapsed my entire view of the world in a very extreme way. — Evan Glodell
There are three basic problems: how a mind can know the world of nature, how it is possible for one mind to know another, and… — Donald Davidson
Anyway, I collapsed in France in the middle of a tour. I hadn't been eating properly, I was getting very phobic about audiences, and I… — Andy Partridge
Dictators cause the world's worst problems: all the collapsed states, and all the devastated economies. All the vapid cases of corruption, grand theft, and naked… — George Ayittey
Stars, too, were time travelers. How many of these ancient points of light were the last echoes of suns now dead? How many had been… — Ransom Riggs
Saying Good-bye to the God of Disease (1) Mauve waters and green mountains are nothing when the great ancient doctor Hua To could not defeat… — Mao Zedong
One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for… — Dale Carnegie
Roman Polanski is a man who cares deeply about his art and its place in this world. What happened to him on his incredible path… — Harvey Weinstein
The idea to use backpacks came from my visit to Sichuan after the earthquake in May 2008. During the earthquake many schools collapsed. Thousands of… — Ai Weiwei
For the past 50 years, we've been fishing the seas like we clear-cut forests. It's hard to overstate the destruction. Ninety percent of large fish,… — Dan Barber
The old bastions of the post-communist regime collapsed before my very eyes. The monsters who had kept Ukraine in a criminal state left the stage. — Yulia Tymoshenko
As a result of the World War, this old Germany collapsed. It collapsed in its constitution, in its social order, in its economic structure. Its… — Gustav Stresemann
Grace cannot prevail...until our lifelong certainty that someone is keeping score has run out of steam and collapsed. — Robert Farrar Capon
In 1494, King Charles VIII of France invaded Italy. Within months, his army collapsed and fled. It was routed not by the Italian army but… — Carl Zimmer
I missed the moment when time collapsed and memory was erased, replaced by finicky social experiments, lost in the blur of intoxication, sucked through multi-colored… — Alex Gaskarth
I never knew how much we consumed. It seems as if we are all appetite, as if a human being is simply a bundle of… — Jean Hegland
This deliberately nurtured hatred then spreads to all that is alive, to life itself, to the world with its colors, sounds, and shapes, to the… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The clarity was startling and Samson wondered whether he was imagining these moments. Not that they hadn't happened at all, but that they had been… — Nicole Krauss

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