Collapse Quotes - Page 17

• The plague did not lead to Europe’s economic collapse. Rather, Europe’s currency-driven economic collapse led to the plague.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Europe, Economic, Currency

  7 Copy quote

• If we and the rest of the back-boned animals were to disappear overnight, the rest of the world would get on pretty well. But if the invertebrates were to disappear, the world's ecosystems would collapse

  David Attenborough

  Nature, Animal, Ecosystems

  39 Copy quote

• Until we go through it ourselves, until our people cower in the shelters of New York, Washington, Chicago, Los Angeles and elsewhere while the buildings collapse overhead and burst into flames, and dead bodies hurtle about and, when it is over for the day or the night, emerge in the rubble to find some of their dear ones mangled, their homes gone, their hospitals, churches, schools demolished - only after that gruesome experience will we realize what we are inflicting on the people of Indochina.

  William L. Shirer

  New York, War, Home

  13 Copy quote

• Harry Reid was talking about soup lines, and Hillary Clinton was talking about the economy being on the verge of collapse. Yet, in the same breath, they say that Social Security is rock solid, and there's no crisis there. How are you going to work-you said you're going to reach out to these people-how are you going to work with people who seem to have divorced themselves from reality?

  Jeff Gannon

  Reality, Rocks, Talking

  Jeff Gannon (2007). “The Great Media War: A Battlefield Report”, Iuniverse Inc

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The idea that there will be something spiritual or subtle, some sort of consciousness that can escape the collapse of the body and brain, is not very credible in the modern scientific worldview.

  Stephen Batchelor

  Spiritual, Ideas, Brain

  4 Copy quote

• I have too much potential for collapse. There's an anonymity that makes people feel safe to participate in hatefulness. I like a good old-fashioned fistfight if people are pissed off at each other. I just feel like if you're really mad and want to have a fight, then put your dukes up.

  Julia Roberts

  Fighting, People, Mad

  12 Copy quote

• I just love it so much [acting]. When I get passionate, I’ll give you everything until I collapse. That’s not in any ’Look at me, I’m a saint’ kind of way. It’s very selfish in a way. I’m doing this really awesome exploration, and it’s like a drug, because I completely disappear.

  Ellen Page

  Selfish, Giving, Drug

  4 Copy quote

• The collapse of the stellar universe will occur - like creation - in grandiose splendor.

  Werner Herzog

  Splendor, Creation, Stellar

  "Herzog: Ecstatic Truths - A Werner Herzog Documentary Retrospective". mubi.com. March 31, 2016.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Everyone in my industry, the movie industry, is looking at the music industry and going, 'How do we avoid that collapse?' And I don't know if you can, to be quite honest!

  Colin Hanks

  Honest, Music Industry, Knows

  4 Copy quote

• Basically ... out of all the ridiculous religion stories which are greatly, wonderfully ridiculous—the silliest one I've ever heard is, 'Yeah ... there's this big giant universe and it's expanding, it's all gonna collapse on itself and we're all just here just 'cause ... just 'cause'. That, to me, is the most ridiculous explanation ever.

  Trey Parker

  Giants, Stories, Causes

  9 Copy quote

• That eerie hissing you hear may well be the air beginning to seep out of the green energy bubble. The sound is similar to the pfffffft and sshhhhsssssp noises we heard in the early days of the dot-com bubble collapse or the subprime mortgage meltdown.

  Terence Corcoran

  Air, Eerie, Energy

  4 Copy quote

• If all women on earth woke up tomorrow feeling truly positive and powerful in their own bodies, the economies of the globe would collapse overnight.

  Laurie Penny

  Powerful, Feelings, Body

  Laurie Penny (2011). “Meat Market: Female Flesh Under Capitalism”, p.9, John Hunt Publishing

  33 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's my nature to go around in high spirits most of the time and then to collapse.

  Margaret Sullavan

  Spirit

  "Haywire". Book by Brooke Hayward. Jonathan Cape Ltd., p. 215., 1977.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• You know what happens when windmills collapse into the sea? A splash.

  Bill Maher

  Sea, Environmental, Windmills

  "Gulf oil spill: A hole in the world" by Naomi Klein, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2010.

  52 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think the world has mostly ended because the cities we wander through are as rotten as we are. Buildings have collapsed. Rusted cars clog the streets. Most glass is shattered and the wind drifting through the hollow high-rises moans like an animal left to die. I don't know what happened. Disease? War? Social collapse? Or was it just us? The Dead replacing the Living? I guess it's not so important. Once you're arrived at the end of the world, it hardly matters which road you took.

  Isaac Marion

  War, Thinking, Animal

  Isaac Marion (2016). “Warm Bodies and The New Hunger: A Special 5th Anniversary Edition”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• My older sister has entire kingdoms inside of her, and some of them are only accessible at certain seasons, in certain kinds of weather. One such melting occurs in summer rain, at midnight, during the vine-green breathing time right before sleep. You have to ask the right question, throw the right rope bridge, to get there-and then bolt across the chasm between you, before your bridge collapses.

  Karen Russell

  Summer, Rain, Sleep

  4 Copy quote

• I think it’s important to have a good hard failure when you're young. I learned a lot out of that. Because it makes you kind of aware of what can happen to you. Because of it I’ve never had any fear in my whole life when we’ve been near collapse and all of that. I’ve never been afraid. I’ve never had the feeling I couldn’t walk out and get a job doing something.

  Walt Disney

  Jobs, Thinking, Feelings

  9 Copy quote

• i cried when i saw those buildings collapse on themselves like a broken heart.

  Suheir Hammad

  Heart, Broken, Saws

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  Relationship, Struggle, Winning

  FaceBook post by Gary Zukav from Oct 09, 2014

  62 Copy quote

  Show source

• I search his eyes for the slightest sign of anything, fear, remorse, anger. But there's only the same look of amusement that ended our last conversation. It's as if he's speaking the words again. "Oh, my dear Miss Everdeen. I thought we had agreed not to lie to each other." He's right. We did. 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.

  Suzanne Collins

  Lying, Eye, Arrows

  4 Copy quote

• He was a commander in the Russian army at a time when the Russians were our enemies and still part of the Soviet Union . This wasn't very long ago, Alex.The collapse of communism. It was only in 1989 that the Berlin Wall came down." She stopped. "I suppose none of this means very much to you." "Well, it wouldn't," Alex said. "I was only two years old.

  Anthony Horowitz

  Wall, Mean, Army

  4 Copy quote

• Burn, baby, burn,” she muttered in a hard, satisfied voice. I cleared my throat. “As much as I hate to interrupt the supreme satisfaction you’re taking in watching the mansion blaze to the ground, I’d really like to get out of here before the whole house collapses on top of us.

  Jennifer Estep

  Baby, Hate, Voice

  5 Copy quote

• In the deepest places, where physical norms collapse under the crushing water, bodies still fall softly through the dark, days after their vessels have capsized. They decay on their long journey down. Nothing will hit the black sand at the bottom of the world but algae-covered bones.

  China Mieville

  Crush, Fall, Dark

  11 Copy quote

• My heart and my trust were in the process of collapsing. And that collapse created a vacuum in my chest.

  Jay Asher

  Heart, Vacuums, Process

  Jay Asher (2011). “Thirteen Reasons Why”, p.159, Penguin

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Why are you breaking down, incidentally? I mean if you’re able to go into a collapse with all your might, why can’t you use the same energy to stay well and busy?

  J. D. Salinger

  Mean, Energy, Use

  4 Copy quote