Topple Quotes
32 quotes by 31 authors
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Do you see this egg? With this you can topple every theological theory, every church or temple in the world.
— Denis Diderot
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We all know why [the generals] are so critical of the defense secretary. They're being defensive because they weren't able to implement his brilliant plan…
— Stephen Colbert
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Heaven and Earth are meeting in a storm that, when it's over, will leave the air purer and the leaves fertile, but before that happens,…
— Paulo Coelho
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The greatest human ideal is the great cause of bringing together the thoughts of Europe and Asia; the great soul of India will topple our…
— Romain Rolland
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All grandeur, all power, and all subordination to authority rests on the executioner: he is the horror and the bond of human association. Remove this…
— Joseph de Maistre
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Ridding Iraq of weapons of mass destruction. That was the whole idea, right? That‘s why we went. I am reluctant to let that fact disappear…
— Rachel Maddow
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We cannot afford the luxury of self pity. Our top priority now is to get on with the building process. My personal peace has come…
— Mamie Till
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Leave safety behind. Put your body on the line. Stand before the people you fear and speak your mind - even if your voice shakes.…
— Maggie Kuhn
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Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed. I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him…
— Etienne de La Boetie
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We saw the strong trees struggle and their plumes do down, The poplar bend and whip back till it split to fall, The elm tear…
— May Sarton
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Now it is you who everyone presumes is so fragile. Wounded. Scarred. Maybe they're right. Perhaps you are. A nursery rhyme comes into your head,…
— Chris Bohjalian
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In a future that portends stronger and more-frequent hurricanes striking North America's Atlantic coast, ferocious winds will pummel tall, unsteady structures. Some will topple, knocking…
— Alan Weisman
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Corporations, government entities and media conglomerates-fear the ideology of an animal liberationist could catch hold and topple them from their golden thrones, reducing their animal…
— Charlotte Laws
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The lies we tell about our duty and our purposes, the meaningless words of science and philosophy, are walls that topple before a bewildered little…
— John Steinbeck
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You have won the Cold War. ... [Your] underappreciated valor [helped] topple the Berlin Wall, and bring down dictators the world over. ... For the…
— Bob Dole
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I`m very proud of the fact that Israel is the one country in a very broad radius that - in which Arabs have free and…
— Benjamin Netanyahu
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Any medium powerful enough to extend man's reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
— Alan Kay
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When a tree has been transplanted, though fierce winds may blow, it will not topple if it has a firm stake to hold it up.…
— Nichiren
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Did you see the statue topple? Bill Clinton got nostalgic seeing something that big in a beret go down.
— Craig Kilborn
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Lower oil prices won't, by themselves, topple the mullahs in Iran. But it's significant that, historically, when oil prices have been low, Iranian reformers have…
— James Surowiecki
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