Top 772 Collapse Quotes & Sayings

In New York, one must collapse to be indolent.

What has happened to Africa is very severe. We are talking about the collapse of this and the collapse of that, of good government, of the economy particularly. And this has hit education badly. The news you get from the universities in Nigeria is often appalling. I don't think a lot of it gets out. There is the obsession with cults and all kinds of dreadful things going on and all this is taking its toll and it is not surprising that quality of students and graduates who come out is not good. It will not be surprising if this shows in the quality of work they do.

Donald was one of the people who rooted for the housing crisis. He said, back in 2006, gee, I hope it does collapse because then I can go in and buy some and make some money. Well, it did collapse.

The key strengths of civilizations are also their central weaknesses. You can see that from the fact that the golden ages of civilizations are very often right before the collapse. The Renaissance in Italy was very much like the Classic Maya. The apogee was the collapse. The Golden Age of Greece was the same thing. We see this pattern repeated continuously, and it is one that should make us nervous. I just heard Bill Gates say that we are living in the greatest time in history. Now you can understand why Bill Gates would think that, but even if he is right, that is an ominous thing to say.

I had this dream in my head of, if I got hired by 'SNL, what that moment would be like. And I dreamed that I would, like, collapse on the sidewalk and cry to the heavens. I got this call, and it didn't happen naturally. But I did it anyway because I wanted to have that moment. So I did collapse.

No civilization on the brink of collapse has ever changed fast enough to avert collapse.

The internet will catastrophically collapse in 1996.

[Donald Trump] said, back in 2006, "Gee, I hope it does collapse, because then I can go in and buy some and make some money." Well, it did collapse.

I went to India as a missionary to save England from spiritual collapse.

The interest on our debt is going to collapse this country.

I have severe osteoporosis. Your bones start to collapse.

The collapse of the housing bubble sent the world spiraling into recession. The collapse of the energy and commodity bubble threatens to be just as damaging.

Calamitous collapse is better than mediocre defeat!

For the economy itself will die if our ecosystems collapse.

...the collapse of tsarism, while not improbably, was certainly not inevitable.

We have said we will never collapse, never ever. We may have our droughts, our poverty, but as a people we shall never collapse, never ever.

If I said that oil production would collapse I was wrong.

The Roman world is in collapse but we do not bend our neck.

[W]e must never allow the future to collapse under the burden of memory.

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

When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.

A couple of flop plays, a death in the family, and it could all collapse.

The possibility of physical and mental collapse is very real now... but collapse is out of the question; as a solution or even a cheap alternative, it is unacceptable. No sympathy for the devil; keep that in mind.

I believe the collapse of the House of Windsor is tied in with the collapse of the Church of England.

The collapse of Enron and the subsequent collapse of Arthur Andersen were tremendous tragedies. But as I stated at the time of my indictment on July 8, 2004, failure does not equate to a crime.

[ René Lévesque] didn't understand why things do collapse. It's usually a very banal reason why things do collapse. It's not a grand reason, why they collapse economically, at least in the West.

We can't have a government that will collapse in three months.

Capitalism, the ogre of those protesting Wall Street, has suffered a public relations crisis in the wake of the global economic collapse. But any remedy to the systemic corruption that led to the collapse should not displace recognition that capitalism creates wealth. Capitalism, and no other economic system, has raised millions from poverty around the world.

Our economy is at war with many forms of life on earth, including human life. What the climate needs to avoid collapse is a contraction of humanity's use of resources; what our economic model demands to avoid collapse is unfettered expansion. Only one of these sets of rules can be changed, and it's not the laws of nature

Do we want to be remembered as the generation that saved the banks and let the biosphere collapse?

I confidently predict the collapse of capitalism and the beginning of history. Something will go wrong in the machinery that converts money into money, the banking system will collapse totally, and we will be left having to barter to stay alive. Those who can dig in their garden will have a better chance than the rest. I'll be all right; I've got a few veg.

There's no denying that a collapse in stock prices today would pose serious macroeconomic challenges for the United States. Consumer spending would slow, and the U.S. economy would become less of a magnet for foreign investors. Economic growth, which in any case has recently been at unsustainable levels, would decline somewhat. History proves, however, that a smart central bank can protect the economy and the financial sector from the nastier side effects of a stock market collapse.

I come from a country in which I experienced economic collapse.

The last thing to collapse is the surface.

The presently existing global financial and monetary system will disintegrate during the near term. The collapse might occur this spring, or summer, or next autumn; it could come next year; it will almost certainly occur during President William Clinton's first term in office; it will occur soon. That collapse into disintegration is inevitable, because it could not be stopped now by anything but the politically improbable decision by leading governments to put the relevant financial and monetary institutions into bankruptcy reorganization.

Old houses are full with memories and that's why they resist to collapse!

The State of Israel is not collapsing and will not collapse.

With the collapse of vaudeville new talent has no place to stink.

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

I always like to have a glimmer of hopefulness, even in collapse.

Most of us don't collapse into puddles of stress-related disease.

Without good drawing, the foundation of a painting will collapse.

What caused the economic collapse 2008? It was the subprime mortgage crisis.

We're still in the collapse that began after 2008. There's not a new collapse, there hasn't been a recovery.

A sign of a culture that has lost its faith - Moral collapse follows upon spiritual collapse.

When the enemy starts to collapse you must pursue him without the chance of letting go. If you fail to take advantage of your enemies collapse, they may recover.

Paintings. Or the collapse of time in images.

Be glad that you're greedy; the national economy would collapse if you weren't.

We are no longer dealing with historical events, but with places of collapse.

Men in America were terrified that if women got an equal say in society, the system would collapse and their lives would be valued less. Whites in America were scared that if blacks obtained their freedom and equality, the system would collapse and their lives would be devalued. Heterosexuals are terrified that the psychotic institution of marriage will collapse if gays are given their right to marry. And humans are terrified that if animals are liberated and no longer viewed as inferior subordinates, human life will be valued less.

I have a thing where if I'm not in control, I feel the whole world is about to collapse.

The collapse of Russia was the second great event of 1917.

I'd be kidding if I said that I predicted the financial collapse.

Cracks make caves collapse.

My staff was unanimous in believing that Japan was on the point of collapse and surrender.

A United States collapse would be much different than a Greece collapse. Greece can collapse, and there's a ripple. We collapse, and the world feels it.

You're taught that you can keep going in the military. Your point of collapse is not what you thought it was. Your body is built to survive, and when you think you're going to collapse, you still have so much more left in you.

A Christian life based on feeling is headed for a gigantic collapse.

Look at any financial institution, at any bank. They're all photocopies of each other. There's no diversity of institutions and even less diversity of currency. Therefore, just as you say its very logical that an ecosystem like this will collapse, it's very predictable a monetary system like this will collapse, too. And it hasn't finished collapsing, by the way.

If the U.N. is ineffective, the whole concept of multilateralism will collapse.