Toppling Quotes

#1. Philosophers and scientists confidently offer up traits said to be uniquely human, and the monkeys and apes casually knock them down
toppling the pretension that humans constitute some sort of biological aristocracy among the beings on Earth.

Carl Sagan

#2. The war against ISIS will pose many new challenges for the next commander-in-chief. The last two presidents [George W. Bush and Barack Obama] pursued a Middle East policy that supported toppling dictators to try to promote democracy.

Wolf Blitzer

#3. Toppling face first into a neat, fresh pile of Danny the carthorse's nuggets.

Andrew Peterson

#4. 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

#5. Recall that Hillary Clinton was all for toppling [Moammar] Gadhafi then didn't listen to her own people on the ground. And then of course, when she lied about the terrorist attack in Benghazi, she invited more terrorist attacks.

Carly Fiorina

#6. He sits with the pen in his hand, holding himself back from a descent into representations that have no place in the world, on the point of toppling, enclosed within a moment in which all creations lies open at his feet, the moment before he loosens his grip and begins to fall.

J.M. Coetzee

#7. If you control the cause you own the effect. If you don't, events will unfold like dominoes toppling and you will have no one to blame but yourself.

Karen Marie Moning

#8. In marriage, the point is not to achieve a rapid union by tearing down and toppling all boundaries. Rather, in a good marriage, each person appoints the other to be the guardian of his solitude and thus shows him the greatest faith he can bestow.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#9. 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 and creating their own.

Ike Skelton

#10. Making a nation awesome takes more than just Twitter outrage, street protests and a toppling of governments in elections. It asks for a fundamental shift in societal values, culture and habits.

Chetan Bhagat

#11. 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 root out al Qaeda and find Osama bin Laden.

Chris Van Hollen

#12. As long as men completely dominate business and political life, as long as women are economically dependent on men, as long as the burden of child care falls wholly on women's shoulders (toppling even the most egalitarian couples), you cannot speak of a liberated female sexuality.

Esther Perel

#13. Toppling sounds like it jumped from a tall building and landed gracefully on is g.

Edmond Manning

#14. The toppling of idols - even respectable, admired, best-practice, fastest-growing idols - is always the road to liberation.

John Ortberg

#15. Pride juggles with her toppling towers, They strike the sun and cease, But the firm feet of humility They grip the ground like trees.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#16. The population of the United Kingdom has, for the first time, reached sixty million. If they stood on each other's shoulders they would reach perhaps twenty feet in the air before toppling over.

Eddie Mair

#17. Then the ogre fell down and broke his crown, and the beanstalk came toppling after.

Joseph Jacobs

#18. 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 own weight soon brings it toppling down.

Ovid

#19. The West was involved in toppling the Mossadegh government. That ultimately led to the Iranian revolution.

Salman Rushdie

#20. Toppling secular dictators in the Middle East has only led to chaos and the rise of radical Islam.

Rand Paul

#21. Felixstowe, the United Kingdom's largest port, stops work only for Christmas Day and for crane-toppling Force 9 gales.

Rose George

#22. 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 came to toppling the government. They didn't want kids to know how much power they really had.

Neal Shusterman

#23. I suppose love falls where it falls.'
'Generally, one can see it toppling from afar, and make an effort to get out of the way.

Joe Abercrombie

#24. We can no more analyse such peace in the soul than we can conceive in our heads the whole enormous and dizzy equilibrium by which, out of suns roaring like infernos and heavens toppling like precipices, He has hanged the world upon nothing.

G.K. Chesterton

#25. Days pass, time ticks away, seconds click forward like dominoes toppling in a line.

Lauren Oliver

#26. Max is an idiot," Ivy said, struggling to her feet and almost toppling over before Jack caught her. "Slow down, Speed Racer," he said. "You need to move slowly until your body adjusts to its new reality." "And what reality is that?" "The one where you're not super human.

Lily Harper Hart

#27. Adios

Her pretty picture
lying on the
ground was like
the toppling
of some
fascist
regime
And burning
the photograph,
was the
celebration

Phil Volatile

#28. The animal kingdom has nothing else like this column of flesh and bone always in danger of toppling, this proud unsteady tower.

Rebecca Solnit

#29. 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 later Napoleon Bonaparte as emperor.

Loretta Napoleoni

#30. The sergeant had been leaning, arms crossed, against one of the marble pillars encircling the fountain, but at seeing the tall dragon-masked figure he came near to toppling into the fountain behind him.

Steven Erikson

#31. It's early spring, some late or early hour with Orion toppling backward onto the serrated edge of the mountains and not crying out but silent, silent as he tries to shoot the bull before it tramples him. Sometimes he is very peaceful not tonight. Tonight he is fighting for his life.

Peter Heller

#32. ... books are a very recent means of expression in the broad sweep of history, capable of changing the world and toppling tyrants.

Nina George