Collapse Quotes
Civilization sails prettily like a child's rubber balloon until it hits a sharp object; then it is likely to collapse like the balloon.
There will be no future without forgiveness. Any process of peace is bound to collapse if this is missing. There is no way peace and stability can come through the gun of vengeance.
Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse.
I think money is due for some sort of collapse. People are going to realize that money has a half-life, like radioactive elements.
Gladio had been necessary during the days of the Cold War but, in view of the collapse of the East Block, Italy would suggest to Nato that the organisation was no longer necessary.
When we were doing a scene, lots of times we would collapse giggling because it seemed so silly because it felt like we were doing a home movie at times.
An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of the triumph of quantity over quality that the world has yet seen.
I've been in on the beginning, the rise, peak, collapse and end of the talking picture.
Marriage is like a temple resting on two pillars. If they come too close to each other the temple will collapse.
If they lost the incredible conviction that they can change their wives or husbands, marriage would collapse at once.
Falling in love is not an extension of one's limits or boundaries; it is a partial and temporary collapse of them.
It's my nature to go around in high spirits most of the time and then to collapse.
I felt just overwhelmed by input: the Vietnam War and the collapse of the '60s and the proliferation of media' it just felt like everything was too much to handle and you just tuned out.
We must support government coercion over enforcing international protocols and speed limits on motorways if we want the global economy not to collapse and millions, billions of people to die.
All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.
Well-established theories collapse under the weight of new facts and observations which cannot be explained, and then accumulate to the point where the once useful theory is clearly obsolete.
Ellen Barkin, your upcoming TV show ‘The New Normal’ premiers on September 11th. September 11th, that sounds about right. Every clip I’ve seen feels like I’m watching a third tower collapse.
It is when people do not allow God to show up through them ... that the world collapses in on itself.
My staff was unanimous in believing that Japan was on the point of collapse and surrender.
The plague did not lead to Europe’s economic collapse. Rather, Europe’s currency-driven economic collapse led to the plague.
If the propositions of this Discourse are tenable, the "state of progressive collapse" is precisely that state in which alone we are warranted in considering All Things.
Agreement reached by the negotiators?usually starts to collapse in the hands of those who implement it, no matter how carefully cleared at the top.
Without artists, the sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed.
As species are exterminated by shifting climate zones, ecosystems can collapse, destroying more species.
I want to collapse. I want to fall on the sidewalk right there and drag myself to the ivy.
We're finally going to get the bill for the Industrial Age. If the projections are right, it's going to be a big one: the ecological collapse of the planet.
Parents shouldn't assume children are made out of sugar candy and will break and collapse instantly. Kids don't. We do.
We're still in the collapse that began after 2008. There's not a new collapse, there hasn't been a recovery.
It is simply science fiction fantasy to say that, if you do not raise the debt ceiling, that everything is going to collapse.
Happy in all that ragged, loose collapse of water, the fountain, its effortless descent and flatteries of spray.
What is born will die, What has been gathered will be dispersed, What has been accumulated will be exhausted, What has been built up will collapse, And what has been high will be brought low.
In the West, since the collapse of communism and the fall of the Soviet Union, the one discipline both the official and unofficial cultures have united in casting aside has been history.
Are we amateurs and not professionals? We know the lessons of history, we know the mistakes and we either act accordingly or collapse. Salvation lies in clarity and the courage to implement change
A person's faith can collapse almost overnight if she failed over the years to listen patiently to her own doubts, which should only be discarded after long reflection.
