Tottering Quotes

18 quotes by 17 authors

I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods, most of which… — Paul Auster
Ever building, building to the clouds, still building higher, and never reflecting that the poor narrow basis cannot sustain the giddy tottering column. — Friedrich Schiller
In Iraq #1 we stayed within U.N. mandates, limited our response, went home after Kuwait was freed - and were censured for allowing Shiites and… — Victor Davis Hanson
Time shakes the stable tyranny of thrones, And tottering empires rush by their own weight. — John Armstrong
This world loses its appeal when the steps become tottering, when the hearing becomes dim, when the faded eyes cannot see as they once did.… — John R. Rice
A half-starved limping government, always moving upon crutches and tottering at every step... — George Washington
We are friendly to our country, and when we speak of the flag of our Union, we love it, and we love the rights the… — Joseph Smith, Jr.
But as the work proceeded I was continually reminded of the fable about the elephant and the tortoise. Having constructed an elephant upon which the… — Bertrand Russell
It was with the advent of the Laudie London era that I realized the whole teenage epic was tottering to doom. — Colin MacInnes
The government is tottering. We must deal it the death blow an any cost. To delay action is the same as death. — Vladimir Lenin
When a pile of cups is tottering on the edge of the table and you warn that they will crash to the ground, in South… — Desmond Tutu
He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her up,… — Victor Hugo
The blackness he woke to on those nights was sightless and impenetrable. A blackness to hurt your ears with listening. Often he had to get… — Cormac McCarthy
Miss Grantham's sense of humour got the better of her at this point, and, tottering towards a chair, she sank into it, exclaiming in tragic… — Georgette Heyer
And so I ask myself: 'Where are your dreams?' And I shake my head and mutter: 'How the years go by!' And I ask myself… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Who knows the end? What has risen may sink, and what has sunk may rise. Loathsomeness waits and dreams in the deep, and decay spreads… — H P Lovecraft
What man is such a coward he would not rather fall once than remain forever tottering? — Cormac McCarthy
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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