Top 100 Collapses Quotes
#1. All ponzi schemes are upheld by a centripetal force caused by those orbiting the circles of power, celebrity and wealth and trying to get in. When the ponzi scheme reaches its point of maximum growth, the force disperses and the ponzi scheme collapses.
Heather Marsh
#2. The larger a star the shorter its life, but all the more fascinating its death. As it collapses within it's body, the infalling material can be no longer be compressed; the star is blown to pieces; its shattered mass realeases out ward at the speed of light.
Kelly Easton
#3. Do you fix a wheel that isn't broken, or do you wait until the cart collapses?
Jodi Picoult
#4. If the tonal collapses completely, then you're crazy functionally, you're psychotic.
Frederick Lenz
#7. A power struggle collapses when you withdraw your energy from it. Power struggles become uninteresting to you when you change your intention from winning to learning about yourself.
Gary Zukav
#8. He who does not attempt to make peace / When small discords arise, / Is like the bee's hive which leaks drops of honey / Soon, the whole hive collapses.
Akkineni Nagarjuna
#9. Once thing goes wrong, then the whole house of cards collapses. And there's no way you can extricate yourself. Until someone comes along to drag you out.
Haruki Murakami
#10. When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
Bertolt Brecht
#11. If you look at the carrying capacity of agricultural areas throughout the world, their ecological habitats are changing. So I think we're looking at - in our lifetime - great collapses of food services.
Dan Barber
#12. Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon.
Walter Lippmann
#13. When the dollar collapses, it's not doing it in a vacuum. If the dollar loses value, it's doing so relative to some other currency. So the purchasing power that we lose, somebody else gets.
Peter Schiff
#14. Whenever the internal dialogue stops, the world collapses, and extraordinary facets of ourselves surface, as though they had been kept heavily guarded by our words.
Carlos Castaneda
#15. You don't realize how many bridges there are until the sight of one collapses something inside of you.
Cora Carmack
#16. It is when people do not allow God to show up through them ... that the world collapses in on itself.
Donald Miller
#17. Some people wait so long for their ship to come in, their pier collapses.
John Goddard
#18. Marriage is like a well-built porch. If one of the two posts leans too much, the porch collapses. So each must be strong enough to stand on its own.
Deb Caletti
#19. I collect church collapses, recreationally. Did you see the recent one in Sicily? Marvelous! The facade fell on sixty-five grandmothers at a special mass. Was that evil? If so, who did it? If he's up there, he just loves it, Officer Starling. Typhoid and swans - it all comes from the same place.
Thomas Harris
#20. Who is Hope? she says, barely above a whisper.
How do I say it? How do I tell her the answer to that question, because as soon as I do, I know I'll have to watch as her entire world collapses around her. - Dean Holder
Colleen Hoover
#21. Follow the trace of time
until the start
collapses with the end
in the space of the heart.
Ivan M. Granger
#22. You can't have a United States if you are telling some folks that they can't get on the train. There is a cracking point where a society collapses.
Bruce Springsteen
#23. For it is not true that an uneventful time in the past is remembered as fast. On the contrary, it takes the time-stones of events t give a memory past dimension. Eventlessness collapses time.
John Steinbeck
#24. If you see there is no meaning to anything that you are doing, your ego collapses; so you are trying to find all kinds of fake meanings.
Jaggi Vasudev
#25. You & I, Love, together we ratify the silence,
while the sea destroys its perpetual statues,
collapses its towers of wild speed and whiteness:
because in the weavings of those invisible fabrics,
galloping water, incessant sand,
we make the only permanent tenderness.
Pablo Neruda
#26. Once introduced discontinuity, once challenge any of the properties of visual space, and as they flow from each other, the whole conceptual framework collapses.
Marshall McLuhan
#27. It is almost as if you were frantically constructing another world while the world that you live in dissolves beneath your feet, and that your survival depends on completing this construction at least one second before the old habitation collapses.
Tennessee Williams
#28. Religion reminds me of a lace condom. While lovingly crafted, it's not designed for pleasure; unless inflated with fervour, it collapses; one size does not fit all; and no matter how many times you dunk it in holy water, it will not prevent misconceptions or contagion.
Lowestoft Thellow
#29. A nation without borders is like a house without walls - it collapses. And that is what is going to happen to our wonderful America.
Jan Brewer
#30. Yoga has trimmed my body in a way that the gym never could. I used to be a gym rat, but I switched to yoga and am now almost 10 pounds lighter. One important thing I've gotten from yoga is breathing. When I'm cooking, the top part of my body collapses down. It cuts off my diaphragm.
Giada De Laurentiis
#31. The proof of the depth and embodiment of your realization will be seen in your love relationship. That's where the proof is in the pudding. If it all collapses in your relationship, you have some work to do. And people do have a lot of difficulties in their relationships.
Adyashanti
#32. The constraints of melodrama can be a great blessing, because they demand that all the characters involved - as absurd and extreme as they may initially seem - must stay utterly rooted in their own reality, or the whole project collapses.
Stanley Tucci
#33. If one person has loved another truly and wholly, then it is more than love that collapses when one side of the indissoluble partnership turns away with a tearful goodbye.
Doris Lessing
#34. What's old collapses, times change, and new life blossoms in the ruins.
Friedrich Schiller
#35. How gratifying to be there when arrogance collapses. How much more so to be the instrument. (Alfred Gillette)
Robert Ludlum
#36. The only thing of value I have in this life is my ability to tell a story, whether in print, orating, writing it down or having people acting it out. That's why I'm always hoping society never collapses because the first ones to go will be entertainers.
Kevin Smith
#37. When the family collapses, it is the children that are usually damaged. When it happens on a massive scale, the community itself is crippled.
Lyndon B. Johnson
#38. I was just thinking... isn't it lucky that we decided to become co-editors? If one takes a blow to the head, the other can fill in. If the other's lung spontaneoulsy collapses, the one can fill in. It's a perfect system once you think about it."
~Will Landsman
Gabrielle Zevin
#39. The point of my arrow shifts upward. I release the string. And President Coin collapses over the side of the balcony and plunges to the ground. Dead.
Anonymous
#40. This world can seem marvelously convincing until death collapses the illusion and evicts us from our hiding place.
Sogyal Rinpoche
#41. In this age, if the currency of a major nation collapses, or its access to borrowing ends, it just can't function.
Roger Altman
#42. I feel the weight of his chest on top of me as he finally collapses; I close my eyes and try to bring myself back to earth. I might have been safer at Dave
Kyra Davis
#43. This world can seem marvellously convincing until death collapses the illusion and evicts us from our hiding place. What will happen to us then if we have no clue of any deeper reality?
Sogyal Rinpoche
#44. Civilization is faces, "appearances": when these collapse, civilization collapses as well.
Joyce Carol Oates
#45. Even if you succeed in study and business, if your nation collapses, then what good is it for?
Ito Hirobumi
#46. For the fundamentalist who wants to believe every word of the Bible, however, life is a house of cards, with each card a tenet of faith. If you remove one card, the entire house collapses.
Morris Sullivan
#47. If the day comes when the two-state solution collapses, and we face a South African-style struggle for equal voting rights (also for the Palestinians in the territories), then, as soon as that happens, the State of Israel is finished,
Ehud Olmert
#48. No one will remember that President Obama supported the Arab Spring if it eventually fails and the region collapses back into the political Dark Ages. If we actively engage these movements with advice, with money, and, when necessary, with military force, then we get a vote in how it all turns out.
Sebastian Junger
#49. Every day there comes a moment when a person lays his hands in his lap and all his busyness collapses like ashes. The work accomplished is, from the soul's point of view, entirely imaginary.
Robert Musil
#50. A regime, an established order, is rarely overthrown by a revolutionary movement; usually a regime collapses of its own weakness and corruption and then a revolutionary movement enters among the ruins and takes over the powers that have become vacant.
Walter Lippmann
#51. Some women cry easily. The tears fall as gently as fragrant raindrops in a sun-shower, and leave the face clear and clean and almost radiant. Other women cry hard, and all the loveliness in them collapses in the agony of it.
Gregory David Roberts
#52. Everything pivots around the complex event that had happened: the Messiah died, was buried, was raised, was seen. Take that away and Christianity collapses. Put it in its proper place and the whole world is different. That is the news.
Anonymous
#53. Unless we stop the degradation of our oceans, marine ecological systems will begin collapsing and when enough of them fail, the oceans will die. And if the oceans die, then civilization collapses and we all die
Paul Watson
#54. Society collapses when no two come together as one; however, when things do come together true beauty can occur.
James C. Reeves III
#55. Like in the paintings, there has to be moments that are completely right to be able to feel how wrong it is when the space gets flattened or the space collapses. It's the same with the technique in the sculptures: for some to feel really wrong, you have to have parts be really right.
Francesca DiMattio
#56. I believe in God. When everything collapses, we grip the last hold, we look from the secure haven how the godless society of the old, holy Europe falls apart. May the game begin.
Joseph Goebbels
#57. Morrow [ ... ] felt that OASIS had evolved into something horrible. It had become a self-imposed prison for humanity. A pleasant place for the world to hide from its problems while human civilization slowly collapses, primarily due to neglect.
Ernest Cline
#58. In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.
E. O. Wilson
#59. If the financial system collapses, it's really, really hard to put it back together again.
Henry Paulson
#60. I don't understand my own sporadic collapses into passivity. Perhaps I never will.
Helen Garner
#61. When wealth ascends to a point where the majority of the poor finally comprehend that it is, for each of them, unattainable, then all civility collapses, and anarchy prevails.
Steven Erikson
#62. Be a man! ... What good is religion if it collapses under calamity? Think of what earthquakes and floods, wars and volcanoes, have done before to men! Did you think that God had exempted [us]? He is not an insurance agent.
H.G.Wells
#63. To know the future absolutely is to be trapped into that future absolutely. It collapses time. Present becomes future. I require more freedom than that. Jessica
Frank Herbert
#64. Are there rules?'
'No gods, no staffs, first man to stay down for the count loses and we suspend the contest if the building collapses.'
- on magical duels
Ben Aaronovitch
#65. To know the future absolutely it to be trapped into that future absolutely. It collapses time. Present becomes future.
Frank Herbert
#66. I release Josef, who collapses to my feet, and confesses not just to all war crimes at Auschwitz but also for being responsible for the colossal mistakes New Coke and Sex and the City 2.
Jodi Picoult
#67. I can't praise a young lady who is alive only when people are admiring her, but as soon as she is left alone, collapses and finds nothing to her taste
one who is all for show and has no resources in herself
Leo Tolstoy
#68. Young people need plenty of difficulties to achieve something ... If you receive a little money for this, a little money for that, everything becomes mediocre, and collapses ignominiously.
Salvador Dali
#69. When the south wing collapses, there could be flying debris," Father remarked. "Any one of us could be injured." He sounded very cheerful about this. 'Best to stop on our way home and see the Silent Brothers.
Cassandra Clare
#70. Humanity is the keystone that holds nations and men together. When that collapses, the whole structure crumbles. This is as true of baseball teams as any other pursuit in life.
Connie Mack
#72. And all goes onward and outward, nothing collapses, / and to die is different from that anyone supposed, and luckier.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#73. In my mind I am eloquent; I can climb intricate scaffolds of words to reach the highest cathedral ceilings and paint my thoughts. But when I open my mouth, everything collapses.
Isaac Marion
#74. If, at some future point, my face collapses around my eyes, I'd probably do something about it. My eyes are where I live, and if people couldn't see them, no one would know me.
Heidi Julavits
#75. What good is religion if it collapses under calamity?
H.G.Wells
#76. Without faith, no faith without hope, no love without trust, no trust without love. Remove one and the entire human house of cards collapses.
Rick Yancey
#77. In fact, these possibility collapses happen at the level of elementary particles, but they happen in just the same way: one moment several things are possible, the next moment only one thing happens, and the rest don't exist. Except that other worlds have sprung into being, on which they did happen.
Philip Pullman
#78. The negative way [of describing God] is a cardboard prop of Christianity to conceal its unknowable God. When this prop collapses, theistic agnosticism emerges, complete with its package of contradictions and non-sensical utterances.
George H. Smith
#79. I'm feeling incredibly Botox-tempted as my face collapses around my shoulders.
Sally Phillips
#80. We were using a hand-held camera to film the scene when Morse collapses. The camera wouldn't start. Three times they said action and it still wouldn't work. To this day, they still don't know what was wrong.
John Thaw
#81. As soon as you impose Western chords on an Indian scale, something great collapses.
Jonny Greenwood
#83. No hope without faith, no faith without hope, no love without trust, no trust without love. Remove one and the entire human house cards collapses.
Rick Yancey
#84. There's only so far you can push a horse before it collapses
Ekaterina Sedia
#85. Life, like getting an erection, is a spontaneous process which collapses when one tries to force it to happen.
Alan W. Watts
#86. Now we are intimately locked together. You get swine flu in Mexico; it's a problem for Charles de Gaulle Airport 24 hours later. Lehman Brothers goes down; the whole lot collapses. There are fires in the steppes of Russia; food riots in Africa.
Paddy Ashdown
#87. 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
#88. You're going to go to stillness. When that happens, the world collapses. There is no time, no space, no viewer, no viewing, no object in view.
Frederick Lenz
#89. This is the Cuzco asking you to pull on your armor and, mounted on the ample back of a powerful horse, cleave a path through the defenseless flesh of a naked Indian flock whose human wall collapses and disappears beneath the four hooves of the galloping beast.
Ernesto Che Guevara
#90. A great team with no bench eventually collapses. The 17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork
John C. Maxwell
#91. If the foundation of your house is righteousness then your wealth will not be like a cardboard house that collapses under a gentle blow of wind
Sunday Adelaja
#92. Among young people, often a key factor in them committing suicide is the trauma of transient relationships. They throw themselves into a friendship or network of friendships, then it collapses and they're desolate.
Vincent Nichols
#93. Time collapses and expands like an erratic accordion ...
Bel Kaufman
#94. The daily world exists because we know how to hold its images; consequently, if one drops the attention needed to maintain those images, the world collapses
Carlos Castaneda
#95. stability of the capitalist system is shaken by the alternation of attempts to stop economic progress in order to protect old investments and tremendous collapses when those attempts fail.
Jeremy Rifkin
#96. Imagine one day, the hateful world around you collapses. And it is your attitude, words and actions that put an end to it. Will you be excited?
Ai Weiwei
#97. Some place existed before the universe, exists outside of it now, and will exist when the universe collapses back upon itself. In that mysterious place, outside of time, Stormy waits for me.
Dean Koontz
#98. But fear isn't a quiet pet that stays in a cage in the back room. Rather, as termites undermine the internal workings of a structure until it collapses from within, fear spreads to every part of your life unless you deal with it.
Amy Layne Litzelman
#99. The thing about the end of the world is that not just the West collapses, the whole world does.
Douglas Coupland
#100. Just when we think we have a system, ... the system collapses. Just when we know our way around, we get lost. Just when we think we know what's coming next, everything changes.
Anthony Doerr
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