Toppling Quotes
14 quotes by 14 authors
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Our model of Nature should not be like a building-a handsome structure for the populace to admire, until in the course of time some one…
— Arthur Eddington
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Philosophers and scientists confidently offer up traits said to be uniquely human, and the monkeys and apes casually knock them down -- toppling the pretension…
— Carl Sagan
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This body, the United States Congress, was united, Republicans and Democrats alike, in taking that action, toppling the Taliban government, and working to try and…
— Chris Van Hollen
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The preachers and lecturers deal with men of straw, as they are men of straw themselves. Why, a free-spoken man, of sound lungs, cannot draw…
— Henry David Thoreau
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The West was involved in toppling the Mossadegh government. That ultimately led to the Iranian revolution.
— Salman Rushdie
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Jamie chose that moment to almost fall down the stairs. Mae took his whole weight and grabbed the banister. Seb reached out but Jamie shied…
— Sarah Rees Brennan
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Maybe this is the point: to embrace the core sadness of life without toppling headlong into it, or assuming it will define your days.
— Gail Caldwell
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Suddenly it was obvious to Connor why they don't teach it. Once education was restructured and corporatized, they didn't want kids knowing how close they…
— Neal Shusterman
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Europeans are forever the offspring of Machiavelli, trapped in a historical rollercoaster that can bring us a monarchy-toppling French Revolution and then a few years…
— Loretta Napoleoni
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The toppling of idols - even respectable, admired, best-practice, fastest-growing idols - is always the road to liberation.
— John Ortberg
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The insurgents are Baathists and Sunnis in Iraq who have as their goal a separate and distinct one of toppling the government that is there…
— Ike Skelton
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I was dressed in a prom gown and heels for the season finale. I was supposed to run up this road, jump onto this box,…
— Allison Mack
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When a house is tottering to its fall, The strain lies heaviest on the weakest part, One tiny crack throughout the structure spreads, And its…
— Ovid
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Like the bee that now is blown, Honey-heavy on my hand, From his toppling tansy-throne In the green tempestuous land
— Edmund Blunden
Who Wrote These Toppling Quotes
14 authors contributed a total of 14 Toppling Quotes as follows: