Collapsed Quotes
134 quotes by 129 authors
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Sam, clinging to Frodo's arm, collapsed on a step in the black darkness. 'Poor old Bill!' he said in a choking voice. 'Poor old Bill!…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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You simply collapsed, sir. In layman's terms, your body revoked its permission for you to continue heaping abuse upon it.
— Scott Lynch
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Blue thought about what Gansey had said, about being wealthy in love. And she thought about Adam, still collapsed on their sofa downstairs. If he…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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80 percent of our global fish stocks are fully exploited, overly exploited or have collapsed. Two billion people rely on the oceans for their primary…
— Barton Seaver
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The movie industry has collapsed into two types of film - the $100 million blockbuster or the small independent film of $1 million or less…
— Jonathan LaPaglia
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When Enron collapsed, through court processes, thousands and thousands of emails came out that were internal, and it provided a window into how the whole…
— Julian Assange
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No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
— P.J. O'Rourke
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The Spanish Empire eventually collapsed because of its expensive taste for warfare and conquest.
— Robert Kiyosaki
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Scientists - who prefer explanations subject to laboratory tests - figure that everything we see today was as inevitable as wrinkles, once the Big Bang…
— Seth Shostak
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2013 was a year of myths falling apart. The myth of President Obama - a myth in which Obama was a messianic figure descending to…
— Ben Shapiro
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You know, oil prices from 2007, on the strength of a very robust global economy and a very robust emerging China, many of you will…
— Rex Tillerson
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In 2008, when Lehman Brothers collapsed, we anticipated that Europe was going to have a very different bailout scheme than the U.S. because of their…
— Lou Jiwei
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Enron had already collapsed and filed for bankruptcy protection by the beginning of 2002. But despite complaints from short sellers that corporations had used accounting…
— Alex Berenson
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By 2007, Iraqi society had completely collapsed.
— Richard Engel
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Obviously, the institution of marriage in America has utterly collapsed.
— Paul Singer
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Back in 1968, when I was 30, my entire life blew up. I had a life plan, and it collapsed for no rational reason.
— Gail Sheehy
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Initially charged with assaulting a police officer and resisting arrest I was held for 36 hours, was beaten by cops and made to stand spread…
— John Blair
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Then they held my mouth shut for a while and hit me in the face, and with a whip across chest and back. I then…
— Ernst Thalmann
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I remember in 1968 when we were in Cannes, in the festival, and we were supposed to be there 10 days, and the second day…
— Milos Forman
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We were in opposition to the decision to go to war. But after the war happened, it was clear that you could not sit and…
— Joschka Fischer
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