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134 quotes by 129 authors

The man who has allowed his body to deteriorate cuts a pitiful figure - chest collapsed, stomach protruding. — Gene Tunney
If all the suns but ours collapsed tonight, how many lifetimes would it take us to realize that we were alone? — Carl Sagan
The three values which men held for centuries and which have now collapsed are: mysticism, collectivism, altruism. Mysticism - as a cultural power - died… — Ayn Rand
I went back in British history. Some 204 people died there after a mine collapsed in 1838. In 1866, 361 miners died in Britain. In… — Recep Tayyip Erdogan
I do believe it is the first time in history that fire has ever melted steel. I do believe that it defies physics for the… — Rosie O'Donnell
History shows us that other highly developed forms of civilization have collapsed. Who knows whether the same fate does not await our own? — Christian Lous Lange
She had lived in that house fourteen years, and every year she had demanded of John that she be given a pet of some strange… — Michael Ondaatje
The dreams of the 1960s began to disappear in the 1970s. The economy collapsed, and so did the optimism of the Metabolists. — Toyo Ito
People are not killed by earthquakes alone, but by collapsed buildings. — Shigeru Ban
If you could only see the vision I have. I wish I had your bodies to do this work. I would run from house to… — Spencer W. Kimball
The summer stretched out the daylight as if on a rack. Each moment was drawn out until its anatomy collapsed. Time broke down. The day… — China Mieville
After the Volcker Fund collapsed, I got another grant from the Lilly Endowment to do a history of the U.S., which I worked on from… — Murray Rothbard
Distributed intelligence is the key to the advancement of human civilization. Dictatorships, communist countries, monarchies in the past all eventually collapsed because of their inefficiency… — Al Gore
My life changed irrevocably four-and-a-half years ago when my spine failed and collapsed. I spent two years on the floor, in excruciating, debilitating and unrelenting… — Bill Walton
Total borrowing has imploded. Private borrowing has collapsed. And, in effect, the Treasury Department is the last borrower left standing. — Peter R. Orszag
If there is a pattern, it will come back - maybe in Russia more than anywhere else, because it has collapsed so many times. Maybe… — Tatyana Tolstaya
It was generally believed that Catholics were not interested in arts and science graduate schools. They weren't going to be intellectuals. And so I put… — Andrew Greeley
When I took over, the economy had almost collapsed. I told Malawians we needed to pass through difficult times. Two days ago I even cut… — Joyce Banda
Once, the parental bed collapsed because all the children sat on it at once. — Diane Cilento
What you have now is a Hollywood that is pure poison. Hollywood was a central place in the history of art in the 20th century:… — Emir Kusturica

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