Top 239 Collapsed Quotes & Sayings

The scientific argument advanced for intelligent design at the Dover trial, those arguments collapsed, scientifically and intellectually

The Spanish Empire eventually collapsed because of its expensive taste for warfare and conquest.

Every civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed.

What girl could fail to make a conquest who collapsed at a man's feet in the moonlight?

The U.N. system, born after the Second World War, collapsed. It's worthless.

Anyway, I collapsed in France in the middle of a tour. I hadn't been eating properly, I was getting very phobic about audiences, and I collapsed in pure fright.

The dreams of the 1960s began to disappear in the 1970s. The economy collapsed, and so did the optimism of the Metabolists.

Obviously, the institution of marriage in America has utterly collapsed.

I was stabbed when I was 17. It was touch and go, and my lung collapsed, and I was in hospital for five days. It is part of my back story.

I think those autoworkers whose industry would have collapsed if the president hadn't intervened are certainly better off.

England has collapsed politically, monetarily, constitutionally, and economically. It is not reasonable to demand from them to trigger Article 50.

Arab civilization has collapsed. It won’t recover in my lifetime.

My life collapsed. People ran from me because suddenly it was 'Oh my God! It's over for her now!'

Grace cannot prevail...until our lifelong certainty that someone is keeping score has run out of steam and collapsed.

If all the suns but ours collapsed tonight, how many lifetimes would it take us to realize that we were alone?

When the USSR collapsed, I was 11, and unlike many people, I don't miss it.

The man who has allowed his body to deteriorate cuts a pitiful figure - chest collapsed, stomach protruding.

You simply collapsed, sir. In layman's terms, your body revoked its permission for you to continue heaping abuse upon it.

The Holy Book calls upon Muslims to resist tyranny. Dictatorships in Pakistan, however long, have, therefore, always collapsed in the face of this spirit.

By 2007, Iraqi society had completely collapsed.

Germany collapsed as a result of having engaged in a struggle for empire with the concepts of provincial politics.

The Soviet Union collapsed without a lot of people thinking it should or would, whereas for Estonia, it was something we'd been praying for for 60 years.

Industry has left Punjab. Economy has collapsed.

I knew very well that I could not stay. Everything collapsed. Everything in my life just collapsed, and it started with the kidnapping of three teenaged settlers and then judging the life - the young Palestinian from Jerusalem. That was the day that I decided that I have to go now.

The I-95 bridges were built in the early 1960s and are now more than 50 years old. The same vintage as the I-35 bridge that collapsed in Minnesota back in 2007, killing 13 people and injuring 145. The antiquated Skagit River Bridge in Washington state that collapsed last May after a truck hit one of the trusses was even older. And it's not just bridges. According to the American Society of Civil Engineers, 32 percent of the major roads in America are now in poor condition and in need of major repairs.

Poem (Lana Turner has collapsed!) Lana Turner has collapsed! I was trotting along and suddenly it started raining and snowing and you said it was hailing but hailing hits you on the head hard so it was really snowing and raining and I was in such a hurry to meet you but the traffic was acting exactly like the sky and suddenly I see a headline LANA TURNER HAS COLLAPSED! there is no snow in Hollywood there is no rain in California I have been to lots of parties and acted perfectly disgraceful but I never actually collapsed oh Lana Turner we love you get up

People aren't as impressed by homes anymore after they saw how they collapsed in price with the financial crisis.

As soon as I got the Nobel Prize my back collapsed and I was in hospital.

A pear tree is blooming, by a collapsed house, on an old battlefield.

I have been to lots of parties and acted perfectly disgraceful but I never actually collapsed oh Lana Turner we love you get up

After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.

The studio system collapsed only when Elizabeth Taylor charged $1 million for Cleopatra.

So the crow spirals down through a collapsed dream and the only sound it makes in like a concave scream.

It's a relationship I went through that collapsed my entire view of the world in a very extreme way.

There were 15 terrorists, We killed 3 suspects, building collapsed on 5. All of them are dead.

A short story can be packed with meaning and impact, with the concentrated density of a collapsed star, but should preferably also have a kind of elegant simplicity.

The scientific argument advanced for intelligent design at the Dover trial, those arguments collapsed, scientifically and intellectually.

Iceland is a rich country, but in the early 21st century, this prosperity got to our heads, and in 2008, it collapsed.

So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.

My life collapsed. People ran from me because suddenly it was, "Oh my God! It's over for her now!"

That's what was wrong with drinking too much. You became immune to drunken delights. There was no solace in liquor. Before you got happy, you collapsed.

I recently went for a walk in a state park and found that some of my favorite trees had collapsed. It makes me feel vulnerable, personally and for my children.

It was generally believed that Catholics were not interested in arts and science graduate schools. They weren't going to be intellectuals. And so I put the theses to the test. And they all collapsed.

Having lived in a collapsed empire before - I lived in Russia right after the Soviet Union collapsed - you can see a lot of the classic signs of an empire that's on its way out.

What you have now is a Hollywood that is pure poison. Hollywood was a central place in the history of art in the 20th century: it was human idealism preserved. And then, like any great place, it collapsed, and it collapsed into the most awful machinery in the world.

We always seem to be surprised by events, especially by catastrophes, but also by wonderful events. Look at 1990, the year that the Soviet Union collapsed and apartheid in South Africa collapsed and the Berlin Wall came down. I don't know anyone who foresaw those events. It seems to me that as a species we are constantly trying to adapt ourselves to the unexpected. In the meantime, we talk as if we are in control, and we're not. This seems to me to be the truth about the twentieth century.

No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.

When the internet came up, scores of companies were created. But many of them collapsed during the dot.com bubble.

'What's a couple?' I asked my mum. She said, 'Two or three'. Which probably explains why her marriage collapsed

Many of our forces collapsed when Daesh rolled into Iraq.

When the economy collapsed, our construction company was in Calgary, but the U.S. was further along in the recession, so I made the move down to Vegas.

Afghanistan had collapsed and everyone's life now lies broken at different levels within the rubble.

You can still do the Big Lie in Miami and get away with it. This is a town where the basic institutions have collapsed.

The United States has collapsed economically, socially, politically, legally, constitutionally, and environmentally.

Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now.

As a result of the World War, this old Germany collapsed. It collapsed in its constitution, in its social order, in its economic structure. Its thinking and feeling changed.

People are not killed by earthquakes alone, but by collapsed buildings.

I don't think I could ever go to Auschwitz, because when we took that tour of MGM, I nearly collapsed outside the Thalberg building.

I believe I can steal Fairfax's reputation in six months. It is an empty edifice. It has collapsed.

I collapsed to my knees and looked up at the predawn sky. "I hate you," I said softly."I love you," the voice whispered back.