Collapsing Quotes
76 quotes by 73 authors
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Maturity is the ability to control anger and settle differences without violence or destruction. The mature person can face unpleasantness, frustration, discomfort and defeat without…
— Ann Landers
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Could I have made mistakes? One does not build cities if one is guided by doubt. But can one govern in absolute certainty? I know…
— Andrew Ryan
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The welfare state is collapsing all around us. There are people that realize that we can't go on this way, but I'm not sure how…
— Rush Limbaugh
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I was married to someone who wanted me to change. Become more adult, more responsible. I began not to like myself, not like what I…
— Marilyn Manson
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My mother was very strong. Once, she picked up a coconut and smashed it against my father's head. It taught me about women defending themselves…
— Alice Walker
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I don’t actually take much stock in the collapsing culture bit. I’m beginning to see it instead as the conduct of life without input from…
— Saul Bellow
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The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the…
— Carl Sagan
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The world was collapsing, and the only thing that really mattered to me was that she was alive.
— Rick Riordan
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Maybe it didn’t seem like a big deal to you Zach. But now, I hope you understand. My world was collapsing. I needed those notes.…
— Jay Asher
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She looked at me, like she was drinking in the fact that I was still here. And I realized I was doing the same thing.…
— Rick Riordan
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Thousands of lives were suddenly ended by evil, despicable acts of terror. The pictures of airplanes flying into buildings, fires burning, huge structures collapsing, have…
— George W. Bush
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She wasn't happy, but then she wasn't unhappy. She wasn't anything. But I don't believe anyone is a nothing. There has to be something inside,…
— John Steinbeck
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The fire was silent, the little houses collapsing into the flames without complaint, flocks of sparks rising to the sky. At a distance it seemed…
— David Benioff
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She pictured herself running from a hoard of ravenous zombies on a hot day eventually collapsing from heatstroke and getting devoured. Then she imagined Hal…
— Brandon Mull
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I would far prefer to have things happen as they naturally do, such as the mousse refusing to leave the mold, the potatoes sticking to…
— Julia Child
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My heart and my trust were in the process of collapsing. And that collapse created a vacuum in my chest.
— Jay Asher
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He felt his smile slide away, melt, fold over and down on itself like a tallow skin, like the stuff of a fantastic candle burning…
— Ray Bradbury
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We've got a problem!" I shouted. "No, I heard that. I mean, what's the problem now?" "I have the solution!" Jack interrupted. "What?" I sat…
— Kiersten White
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We just want to walk. Our legs need to move to keep our minds from collapsing.
— David Levithan
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Best Friends. And I thought of what she had done all the millions of times I cried to her, collapsing at even the slightest wounding…
— Sarah Dessen
Who Wrote These Collapsing Quotes
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