Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse. Votes: 4
C. Northcote ParkinsonEvery wave, regardless of how high and forceful it crests, must eventually collapse within itself. Votes: 4
Stefan ZweigI've been in on the beginning, the rise, peak, collapse and end of the talking picture. Votes: 3
Joseph L. MankiewiczExercise? I get it on the golf course. When I see my friends collapse, I run for the paramedics. Votes: 3
Red SkeltonThe roof cannot collapse when the value pillars of government and society are sound and strong. Votes: 1
Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo...the collapse of tsarism, while not improbably, was certainly not inevitable. Votes: 0
Richard PipesPublic problems collapse into the limited and depoliticized register of private issues. Votes: 0
Henry GirouxThe most rigid structures, the most impervious to change, will collapse first. Votes: 0
Eckhart TolleTaking it easy is often the prelude to backsliding. Comfort precedes collapse. Votes: 0
Vance HavnerIf honesty were suddenly introduced into American life, the whole system would collapse. Votes: 0
George CarlinBe glad that you're greedy; the national economy would collapse if you weren't. Votes: 0
Mignon McLaughlinI predict the Internet will soon go spectacularly supernova and in 1996 catastrophically collapse. Votes: 0
Robert MetcalfeWithout energy life would be extinguished instantaneously, and the cellular fabric would collapse. Votes: 0
Albert Szent-GyorgyiWe are no longer dealing with historical events, but with places of collapse. Votes: 0
Jean BaudrillardIf you fail to take advantage of your enemies' collapse, they may recover. Votes: 0
Miyamoto MusashiSometimes all a country needs is an entire collapse for a new beginning! Votes: 0
Mehmet Murat ildanOld houses are full with memories and that's why they resist to collapse! Votes: 0
Mehmet Murat ildanCan we reach biosphere consciousness and global empathy in time to avert planetary collapse? Votes: 0
Jeremy RifkinRegimes collapse when people are no longer afraid and think they're no longer alone. Votes: 0
Gordon G. ChangThe significant collapse of oil prices shows that it was previously way too high. Votes: 0
Wolfgang Schaublei cried when i saw those buildings collapse on themselves like a broken heart. Votes: 0
Suheir HammadRelationships based on deals between leaders or ruling elites tend to collapse amid popular anger. Votes: 0
Stephen KinzerWithout artists, the sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed. Votes: 0
Guillaume ApollinaireWhy is no one talking about all the potential savings from a complete economic collapse? Votes: 0
Eugene MirmanHer courage seemed to collapse around her ankles like an old pair of elastic undies Votes: 0
Julie Anne GrassoNo civilization on the brink of collapse has ever changed fast enough to avert collapse. Votes: 0
Joel SalatinThe failure of the citizens to pray for the nation will lead to its collapse. Votes: 0
Lailah Gifty AkitaPrayer is the core of the day. Take prayer out, and the day would collapse ... Votes: 0
Amy CarmichaelThe collapse of the stellar universe will occur - like creation - in grandiose splendor. Votes: 0
Werner HerzogNow, our Sun will not collapse to a black hole. It's actually not massive enough. Votes: 0
Janna LevinI see the collapse of the Soviet Union as a great tragedy of the XX century. Votes: 0
Vladimir PutinParents shouldn't assume children are made out of sugar candy and will break and collapse instantly. Votes: 0
Maurice SendakMan, wonderful man, must collapse, into nature's cauldron, he is no deity, he is no exception. Votes: 0
Charles DarwinWhen trauma involves intentional harm, such as in a crime or abuse, trust can totally collapse. Votes: 0
Dena RosenbloomMy staff was unanimous in believing that Japan was on the point of collapse and surrender. Votes: 0
Douglas MacArthurWhen the officers are too strong and the common soldiers too weak, the result is COLLAPSE. Votes: 0
Sun TzuWe must produce a great age, or see the collapse of the upward striving of our race. Votes: 0
Alfred North WhiteheadA sign of a culture that has lost its faith - Moral collapse follows upon spiritual collapse. Votes: 0
C. S. LewisIt's my nature to go around in high spirits most of the time and then to collapse. Votes: 0
Margaret SullavanFaith is one of the forces by which men live, and the total absence of it means collapse Votes: 0
William JamesBut I never get attracted to fans cause the eager beaver could be the collapse of a dam Votes: 0
DrakeA collapse in U.S. stock prices certainly would cause a lot of white knuckles on Wall Street. Votes: 0
Ben BernankeNo part of Italian society should see itself as exempt from the effort to save Italy from collapse. Votes: 0
Giorgio NapolitanoDo we want to be remembered as the generation that saved the banks and let the biosphere collapse? Votes: 0
George MonbiotI want to collapse. I want to fall on the sidewalk right there and drag myself to the ivy. Votes: 0
Jay AsherThe ecosystem of our world is a closed system: it would run out of gas, collapse of its own weight. Votes: 0
Joan D. VingeIf you died it would be like my bones had been removed. No one would know why, but I would collapse. Votes: 0
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