quotes about Collapse
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When I make a work, I often take it to the very edge of its collapse, and that's a very beautiful balance.
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Time collapses and expands like an erratic accordion ...
-- Bel KaufmanSource : Bel Kaufman (2012). “Up the Down Staircase”, p.109, Open Road Media
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How many times do you take yourself to the brink of complete collapse? It's not a real fun place to go.
-- Bryan Clay -
Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse.
-- C. Northcote ParkinsonSource : Parkinson's Law ch. 6 (1957)
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I have always thought that if we began for one moment to say what we thought, society would collapse.
-- Charles Augustin Sainte-BeuveSource : "Live Chat with Chris Hegedus and D A Pennebaker". Live Chat, www.pbs.org.
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The last three decades have seen the collapse of the family wage system.
-- Christopher Lasch -
I would sign on for projects that were meant to shoot in July, and then they would postponed and they would bleed into the following semester, and then I'd take a semester off, and then the movie would collapse.
-- Claire Danes -
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 -
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It is when people do not allow God to show up through them ... that the world collapses in on itself.
-- Donald Miller -
I'd be kidding if I said that I predicted the financial collapse.
-- Fareed Zakaria -
When you live in a false society, that bases its wealth upon money, then that society itself will collapse eventually. Not because I say so, because it's not based on physical reference.
-- Jacque Fresco -
I have severe osteoporosis. Your bones start to collapse.
-- Joan Kirner -
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I've been in on the beginning, the rise, peak, collapse and end of the talking picture.
-- Joseph L. MankiewiczSource : Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Brian Dauth (2008). “Joseph L. Mankiewicz: Interviews”, p.160, Univ. Press of Mississippi
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Monotony collapses time. Novelty unfolds it.
-- Joshua FoerSource : Joshua Foer (2011). “Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything”, p.61, Penguin
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The collapse of Russia was the second great event of 1917.
-- Kelly MillerSource : Kelly Miller (1919). “History of the World War for Human Rights”
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The human organism has only so much energy at its disposal. If you divert a great deal of it into any one channel, you can expect the others to collapse or atrophy. If you squander your vital energies on your emotional life, as you have been doing, plan to be physically and mentally bankrupt, as it were.
-- Lisa AltherSource : Lisa Alther (2017). “The Novels of Lisa Alther: Kinflicks, Original Sins, and Five Minutes in Heaven”, p.144, Open Road Media
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It's my nature to go around in high spirits most of the time and then to collapse.
-- Margaret SullavanSource : "Haywire". Book by Brooke Hayward. Jonathan Cape Ltd., p. 215., 1977.
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Calamitous collapse is better than mediocre defeat!
-- Martin FirrellSource : The London Evening Standard, August 09, 2001.
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A couple of flop plays, a death in the family, and it could all collapse.
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I didn't understand that playing roles in any relationship is false and will inevitably lead to the relationship's collapse. No one can be any one thing all the time.
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How gratifying to be there when arrogance collapses. How much more so to be the instrument. (Alfred Gillette)
-- Robert LudlumSource : Robert Ludlum (2013). “The Jason Bourne Series 3-Book Bundle: The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy, The Bourne Ultimatum”, p.332, Bantam
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I predict the Internet will soon go spectacularly supernova and in 1996 catastrophically collapse.
-- Robert MetcalfeSource : "Zen and the Art of Systems Analysis: Meditations on Computer Systems Development". Book by Patrick McDermott, 2002.
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If you died it would be like my bones had been removed. No one would know why, but I would collapse.
-- Sarah KaneSource : Sarah Kane (1998). “Crave”, Bloomsbury Methuen Drama
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Every wave, regardless of how high and forceful it crests, must eventually collapse within itself.
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Sexually awakened women, affirmed and recognized as such, would mean the complete collapse of the authoritarian ideology
-- Wilhelm Reich -
If we went into stores only when we needed to buy something, and if once there we bought only what we needed, the economy would collapse, boom.
-- Paco Underhill -
...the collapse of tsarism, while not improbably, was certainly not inevitable.
-- Richard Pipes