Collapse Quotes
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After World War II, the major estates really did collapse.
— Hugh Bonneville
As species are exterminated by shifting climate zones, ecosystems can collapse, destroying more species.
— James Hansen
The downturn following the collapse of Japan's so-called bubble economy of the 1980s was not as severe as the Great Depression.
— Ben Bernanke
We must produce a great age, or see the collapse of the upward striving of our race.
— Alfred North Whitehead
The plague did not lead to Europe's economic collapse. Rather, Europe's currency-driven economic collapse led to the plague.
— Douglas Rushkoff
When trauma involves intentional harm, such as in a crime or abuse, trust can totally collapse.
— Dena Rosenbloom
Some people are contriving ways and means of making us collapse.
— Robert Mugabe
The internet will catastrophically collapse in 1996.
— Robert Metcalfe
I have always thought that if we began for one moment to say what we thought, society would collapse.
— Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve
The biggest threat to global stability is the potential for food crises in poor countries to cause government collapse.
— Lester R. Brown
When I make a work, I often take it to the very edge of its collapse, and that's a very beautiful balance.
— Andy Goldsworthy
Be glad that you're greedy; the national economy would collapse if you weren't.
— Mignon McLaughlin
The collapse of Enron was devastating to tens of thousands of people and shook the public's confidence in corporate America.
— Robert Mueller
Catastrophe and exuberance are often partners in the dance of irony.
— Jeff W. Horton
Sometimes the weak will last for years, while the strong will suddenly collapse and die.
— Ruskin Bond
When I heard the words, I felt as if the blood had been frozen in my veins, and that my lungs must collapse for the want of air. Mr. Lincoln shot!
— Elizabeth Keckley
The world was different. The world feared touch.
— R.M. James
The last three decades have seen the collapse of the family wage system.
— Christopher Lasch
The U.S. spent years and years and billions of dollars to build the Iraqi army only to watch it collapse and hand over so many of its weapons.
— Richard Engel
We have said we will never collapse, never ever. We may have our droughts, our poverty, but as a people we shall never collapse, never ever.
— Robert Mugabe
And suddenly I wanted nothing more than to close all the little gaps that existed between our bodies, to collapse into one being.
— Ransom Riggs
I'm not the white-picket-fence kind of guy. So don't go building castles in the air. You'll get trapped in the rubble when they collapse.
— Maureen Child
My heart and my trust were in the process of collapsing. And that collapse created a vacuum in my chest.
— Jay Asher
It's a bit like running a marathon, isn't it? It's only when you reach the finish line that you have time to collapse.
— Lucinda Riley
Cyprus was a breath away from economic collapse. It was a big battle in which we came out wounded, but upright and determined to make a fresh start.
— Nicos Anastasiades
The last thing to collapse is the surface.
— Albert Einstein
And I might collapse from the cold anyway. How do you stand it, Rache? Tink's titties, I think parts of me fell off.
— Kim Harrison
We may get to the point where the only way of saving the world will be for industrial civilization to collapse.
— Maurice Strong
Whatever the country, whatever the culture, whatever the time, when you become a big enough organization, you start to collapse and slow down.
— Masayoshi Son
When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
— Pliny The Elder
If we went into stores only when we needed to buy something, and if once there we bought only what we needed, the economy would collapse, boom.
— Paco Underhill
If people feel lost and alone and helpless and broken and hopeless today, what will it be like if the world really begins to come apart at the hinges?
— Brandon Andress
What fascinates me is not so much humanity's engulfment in darkness, but what kind of culture we will construct from the rubble of this one.
— Carolyn Baker
Trust hipsters to make even the collapse of civilization unbearably twee.
— Charlie Jane Anders
If you owe ten pounds to the Bank of England, you get thrown in jail, but if you owe a million pounds, they invite you to sit on the Board
— Philippe Ries
I've been in on the beginning, the rise, peak, collapse and end of the talking picture.
— Joseph L. Mankiewicz
America cannot continue to lead the family of nations around the world if we suffer the collapse of the family here at home.
— Mitt Romney
Hollow slogans like "Making your country great again" only lead to one result, collapse.
— Paul Levitz
If we don't build our Spiritual Core our world is going to collapse.
— Christine Caine
Together, they would watch everything that was so carefully planned collapse, and they would smile at the beauty of destruction.
— Markus Zusak
The significant collapse of oil prices shows that it was previously way too high.
— Wolfgang Schauble
Calamitous collapse is better than mediocre defeat!
— Martin Firrell
Fundamentally, what all forms of positive thinking about collapse come down to is our own fear of death.
— Carolyn Baker
To know the future absolutely it to be trapped into that future absolutely. It collapses time. Present becomes future.
— Frank Herbert
Only a small crack ... but cracks make caves collapse.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
A warrior lives on his wars, whether offensive or defensive. And he suffers a collapse if he finds that his warring capacity is unwanted.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Why is no one talking about all the potential savings from a complete economic collapse?
— Eugene Mirman
Empires collapse,
Civilizations disappear,
Health deteriorates
And bodies turn to ash,
But life will always go on — Mouloud Benzadi
Civilizations disappear,
Health deteriorates
And bodies turn to ash,
But life will always go on — Mouloud Benzadi
The roof cannot collapse when the value pillars of government and society are sound and strong.
— Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
Every wave, regardless of how high and forceful it crests, must eventually collapse within itself.
— Stefan Zweig
It's as though a smile is ageless, or perhaps eternal, independent of the decay and collapse of the surrounding features.
— Justin Cartwright
When the officers are too strong and the common soldiers too weak, the result is COLLAPSE.
— Sun Tzu
After the collapse of Wall Street in the 1920s, the culture stopped being all about money, and the country survived and ultimately flourished.
— Graydon Carter
Paintings. Or the collapse of time in images.
— Paul Auster
Too much work will create too much motivation for the strong, and a big collapse for the weak! Strength gets great strength from the challenges!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Parents shouldn't assume children are made out of sugar candy and will break and collapse instantly. Kids don't. We do.
— Maurice Sendak
It's my nature to go around in high spirits most of the time and then to collapse.
— Margaret Sullavan
The collapse of Russia was the second great event of 1917.
— Kelly Miller
I knew what he felt. The huge buoyant air sack of love that filled his body had just exploded and the collapse was devastating.
— Katherine Dunn
Newspaper : A device unable to distinguish between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation.
— George Bernard Shaw
Cracks make caves collapse.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
If the government interferes to such an extent that the weak thrive and the strong are oppressed, society itself will collapse over time.
— Amish Tripathi
If tomorrow the Chinese decide not to supply the world with raw materials, the pharma industry would collapse.
— Yusuf Hamied
If the television market collapses - and it will collapse - then, it seems, there is too much regulation, and that's not a good thing.
— Ofra Strauss