World Crumbling Quotes

#1. Always, some great culture is dying to enrich the soil of new harvests, some civlization is crumbling to rubbish to be the hill of a more beautiful city, some race is spending itself that a lower and more barbarous world may inherit its stored treasure house.

George Edward Woodberry

#2. Of all the time-saving techniques ever developed, perhaps the most effective is the frequent use of the word no.

Ed Bliss

#3. 1989 was such a very, very important year in Europe. The wall fell, the Soviet Union was crumbling, and so many things happened - in 15 minutes, the world changed.

Per Petterson

#4. I seriously wish that he had spent his entire childhood being serially arse-raped by teachers, scoutmasters, members of the clergy, relatives, policemen, doctors, door-to-door salesmen and all registered sex offenders within a 500-mile radius of his unprotected bedroom.

Douglas Coupland

#5. In a weird way, it's not different from any other kind of joke-telling. You make those calculations about jokes about celebrities: is this a fair hit or not? The stakes were higher because the whole world was crumbling around us, but in terms of joke-telling, it's all about feel.

Michael Schur

#6. White as a winding sheet, Masks blowing down the street: Moscow, Paris London, Vienna all are undone. The drums of death are mumbling, rumbling, and tumbling, Mumbling, rumbling, and tumbling, The world's floors are quaking, crumbling and breaking.

Edith Sitwell

#7. When I look down into this fucked out cunt of a whore I feel the whole world beneath me, a world tottering and crumbling, a world used up and polished like a leper's skull.

Henry Miller

#8. The love she left behind will be the reason dreams are reached. She was the rock in a world that was crumbling. Her strength will remain. It's in our hearts.

Abbi Glines

#9. I feel like my world is crumbling beneath my feet but Damon walks in and I have something to grab onto. It's frightening and comforting all in the same.

J.L. Mac

#10. On the other hand, even a big, '80s love van was less noticeable than six flying kids and their talking dog.
So there you go.

James Patterson

#11. It's about not taking things personally. Even when you feel the world is crumbling around you. It's about choosing happiness over suffering. It's about retraining the way we think.

Laura Munson

#12. Torn between the impulse to stroke his head, and the urge to cave it in with a rock, I did neither.

Diana Gabaldon

#13. Nick shook his head and found to his surprise that he did have tears left after all. He wasn't surprised by a talking cat. The world was crumbling around him and anything could happen.

Garth Nix

#14. My motto is to do everything absolutely flat out and to the best of your ability.

Allan McNish

#15. Gary's eyes narrowed. "I'm pretty sure I don't like you."
"My world is crumbling," Ryan said. I might have laughed. Because sass.

T.J. Klune

#16. Now that Sam was dead, there wasn't anything left outside of the dungeons worth fighting for, anyway. Not when Adarlan's Assassin was crumbling apart, and her world with her.

Sarah J. Maas

#17. Being a caretaker is, and never will be, an easy job; in fact, it is that hardest job in the world and many times a thankless job. You have to be the pillar of strength even when you feel like you are crumbling to pieces inside.

Jenna Morasca

#18. One person seeks a midwife for his thoughts; the other, someone he can assist. Here is the origin of a good conversation.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#19. What's wrong?" Elysia asked, concerned. "Is it the fact that the very foundation of our world is crumbling all around us and we're barreling forth into a hellish vision of uncertainty and terror the likes of which have never been seen?"

"Sounds wonderful to me," Edgar said, drifting by.

Gina Damico

#20. I don't want to see the dollar strong because the rest of the world is crumbling. I would like to see the dollar strong because the Fed has said it wants it to be strong in the future.

David Malpass

#21. His eyes flew back at me and I could see whole civilizations, cities that he'd built and cherished and planned for, like the model of an entire world, all crumbling.

Lyndsay Faye

#22. She was the rock in a world that was crumbling

Abbi Glines

#23. Jost's lips crush into mine, and I reach out without thinking and pull him closer against me. My hand tangles in his hair, and the web shimmers around us. The rest of the world is perfectly still, but we are in motion, crumbling into one another.

Gennifer Albin

#24. On Mars, the crumbling remains of ancient civilizations may be found, mutely testifying to the one-time glory of a dying world.

P. E. Cleator

#25. Nonetheless, out of a life of 60 or 70 years, three years is more than a thousand days and a thousand nights

Alija Izetbegovic

#26. Plum puffs can't minister to a mind diseased or a world that's crumbling to pieces

L.M. Montgomery

#27. The two heaviest known substances are neutronium and cartons of books.

Robert J. Sawyer

#28. The premium so often put in schools upon external "discipline," and upon marks and rewards, upon promotion and keeping back, are the obverse of the lack of attention given to life situations in which the meaning of facts, ideas, principles, and problems is vitally brought home.

John Dewey

#29. I think Dwight loves being number two. I don't think he has any desire to be number one. He wants to be number two no matter where he goes. It's like Avis. 'We try harder.' That's Dwight.

Rainn Wilson

#30. I have these guilty pleasures, these failed films that don't work at all, but I'll watch them if they're on. Like 'The Game.'

Shane Black

#31. When your world is in pieces, you can choose to see it as crumbling or building. Your attitude, resilience and determination mark the difference.

Rita Zahara

#32. The nature of the hybrid research/design model means that we often can see design efforts as attempts not to concretize the outcomes of research but instead to justify, promote, or initiate them

Paul Dourish

#33. Ask 'What' and 'When.' The 'How' will naturally be revealed.

Marshall Sylver

#34. But then an old man was discovered impaled in a ditch, and once again his world had started crumbling away beneath his feet. He wondered how long he could keep this up.

Henning Mankell

#35. Kings will be tyrants by policy when subjects are rebels from principle.

Edmund Burke

#36. I think the world is crumbling when I have a bad game.

Tyson Chandler

#37. You read too much and understand too little.

Robert Jordan