Collapse Quotations

Once we start deliberately messing with the climate systems, we could inadvertently shift rainfall patterns (climate models have shown that rainfall in the Amazon might be particularly vulnerable), causing collapse of ecosystems, drought, famine, and more.

I will not remain silent, resigned to watch as my fellow prisoners collapse under the strain of slavery-like conditions.

General relativity predicts that time ends inside black holes because the gravitational collapse squeezes matter to infinite density.

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

A quarter-century after the end of the Vietnam War, and eleven years after the collapse of the Berlin wall, it has become commonplace to say that we Americans have no consensus on foreign policy. Across the political spectrum, left or right, most Americans still cling to whatever assumptions they held during our long journey through the Cold War.

Civilization must stand up and combat the current collapse of governance, the rise of violence, and the spread of chaos and fear in many parts of the world.

You can't have a United States if you are telling some folks that they can't get on the train. There is a cracking point where a society collapses.

Defense leaders should be searching for ways to reform out-of-date procurement processes, to collapse layers of Pentagon bureaucracy, and to restrain the growth in personnel and benefits costs. A critical first step in that process should be to conduct a full Pentagon audit to determine how DOD spends taxpayer dollars.

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, and it's all going to collapse on itself, and we're all just here, just 'cuz. Just 'cuz.' That to me, is the most ridiculous explanation ever.

We know there are poets who are chosen: by what or whom, we no more know than what lies beyond our final breath, or what caused a certain action which resulted in the fulfillment or the desecration and collapse of what we most cared for in life.

Every wave, regardless of how high and forceful it crests, must eventually collapse within itself.

Ever since the collapse of cap and trade legislation and the realization that President Obama is unlikely to ever utter the words 'climate change' in public again, much less use the bully pulpit to prepare the nation for the catastrophic risks of inaction, the movement has been in a funk.

I think it would collapse my heart if I was super famous. I don't have the nerve for it, I'm too anxious. I don't know how you're not obsessed with how people perceive you, because they're real people, you know? You can convince yourself that they don't really know you, and that's true, but how can it not hurt your feelings?

The roof cannot collapse when the value pillars of government and society are sound and strong.

Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse.

Notionally a left-wing movement, the Anti-Germans were born after the collapse of the Berlin wall. While most Germans rejoiced at the end of the Cold War, the Anti-Germans feared that a united Germany might lead to a fourth Reich - and a return of anti-Semitism.

Events like Hurricane Katrina and the Minnesota bridge collapse suggest a national infrastructure that has suffered from lack of tending.

People in all walks of life, and especially business, do not want to experience the collapse of cities like New York along with global finance and economy in chaos, but this is what business faces if we continue to attribute climate change to fossil fuels alone.

Communism in Cuba will collapse sooner or later because you can't control the free flow of information. Communism prevents organizations from developing by stopping the flow of information. The system is based on police and listening devices and triggers the worst characteristics in humans.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the United States and China are more likely to view each other as competitors if not adversaries. But the die has not been cast. The best possible outcome is a new understanding that when they cannot cooperate, they will coexist and allow all countries in the Pacific to grow and thrive.

The collapse of the Tower of Babel is perhaps the central urban myth. It is certainly the most disquieting. In Babylon, the great city that fascinated and horrified the Biblical writers, people of different races and languages, drawn together in pursuit of wealth, tried for the first time to live together - and failed.

It is common knowledge now that we depend on insects for our continued existence; that, without key pollinators, the human population would collapse in less than a decade.

You have to separate what needs to be done to avoid the fiscal cliff and what needs to be done longer range. It's a mistake to essentially collapse those two - they're not the same. I don't think you can achieve everything at once.

What the Web has never figured out is how to pay for reporting, which, with the collapse of print newspapers, is in desperately short supply, and without which even the most prolific commenters will someday run out of things to say.

Climate change is not a discrete issue; it's a symptom of larger problems. Fundamentally, our society as currently designed has no future. We're chewing up the planet so fast, in so many different ways, that we could solve the climate problem tomorrow and still find that environmental collapse is imminent.

If your theory is found to be against the second law of theromodynamics, I give you no hope; there is nothing for it but to collapse in deepest humiliation.

I think there are specific times where film noir is a natural concomitant of the mood. When there's insecurity, collapse of financial systems - that's where film noir always hits fertile ground.

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

I usually point out that most loss of life and property has been due to the collapse of antiquated and unsafe structures, mostly of brick and other masonry.

In whose interest is it to hype up the collapse of the Internet from a DDoS attack? Why, the people who provide cyber security services, of course.

Billy is a funny, cheeky, lovely boy and I love being with him. Parenthood is terrifying though. I can barely walk past a building without panicking that it's going to collapse on his head.

When Texans suffered from the collapse of the oil market in the 1980s, they could rely on the fiscal union to help them. When Texas boomed with rising oil prices in the 2000s, it contributed to the union to help harder hit regions.

Most people understand that Lehman Brothers didn't collapse because Gordon Brown built too many schools and hospitals.

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!

School-leavers unfortunately will come away thinking the First World War consisted simply of 'going over the top' on the Western Front to slaughter in no-man's-land, when the conflict extended so much further, to the collapse of four empires and numerous civil wars.

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

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

The last three decades have seen the collapse of the family wage system.

I'll be honest, watching the music industry collapse has been demoralizing and disheartening at times.

We print journalists are victims of economic forces beyond our control. We were as surprised as everyone else was by the sudden collapse of the reliable reporting market. We had no idea that real news and clear-eyed analysis were being 'bundled' with subprime celebrity gossip, 'U.S. Weekly' derivatives, and Jennifer Aniston/Angelina Jolie swaps.

Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse.

Pot barley takes longer to cook than pearl, but an overnight soak in water will speed things along. It's a robust grain that, if overcooked, won't collapse but will become more tender.

The possibility of a US dollar collapse or sharp decline may be small at this point but it would generate very significant turmoil so East Asian economies... ought to be ready for that.

We stopped the rescue operation around 11 o'clock (Thursday) night, ... As the tide came in, the structure began to move, and other parts began to collapse again. We made the decision to pull our divers out.

Whether you call it consolidation, rationalization or getting your competitor to go out of business, it's a way for these companies to effectively deal with the collapse of commodity prices. In virtually every sector involved in something that comes out of the ground, we've seen consolidation.

Unless a solution is found, we may be facing the financial collapse of the PA within two weeks.

We knew we would have a very weak number because of a collapse in auto sales after two big months in a row and the incentives kind of stop working ... But if you look at the rest of the report, every single major component was up. It was very broad-based growth across many components.

We knew they were going to collapse on our post players. We just tried to find good looks, and they happened to be from the outside.

When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.

Whenever you have a collapse in a particular output price -- and we certainly saw a lot of that following Asia's decline -- it places a lot of pressure on companies to deal with keeping their revenues up. In that context consolidation isn't a big surprise.

When he first gets off the plane, I'm going to hug him. Then I'm going to collapse for a few hours, and then we're going to sit down for a long discussion about the consequences.

The regard in which he is held by people from every walk of life in virtually every corner of the world has added incalculably to our ability to cover such historic events as the Gulf War and the war in Iraq, the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe, the crackdown in Tiananmen Square and the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon,

There are plenty of bubbles around the country that are losing air rapidly and more are likely to follow. But so far there is no generalized collapse in the market.

We tried to collapse on her and push out of the paint.

We tried to collapse more on Peterson, but basically we went with the same game strategy. We were just lucky. We're very fortunate.

The problem with these types of witnesses is they can collapse like wet cardboard boxes. Inmate testimony doesn't have that great a ring of credibility.

The real case, as you probably know, went for over 20 years. We had to collapse the time frame just for dramatic purposes.

We're looking forward to nailing down the details as quickly as we can. We'll continue to talk until people collapse and even then we could talk in our sleep if we have to.

We've taken more water out of the system than the environment can sustain, ... As a result, we have degraded habitat and a lake that's near collapse and a river that's very unhealthy.

When the Gulf War happened, spending fell immediately thereafter. You had collapse of communism, and the need for budget cuts, ... Now the budget is heavily in surplus, and the public is crying out for protection. I think you'll have sustained increase in defense spending.

Oldsmobile demand and sales did not collapse overnight. GM sat back and watched it happen, ... Your father's car ultimately became a hearse. You've got to have product categories that are growing categories. The four-door sedan is not the growing category.

Some models say the collapse can be very sudden. It can happen in a matter of months.

Shaq is Goliath. I was just playing off him, ... They collapse on him and make it hard for him to breathe down there. Then that?s when I take over.

Most of the time, your risk management works. With a systemic event such as the recent shocks following the collapse of Lehman Brothers, obviously the risk-management system of any one bank appears, after the fact, to be incomplete. We ended up where banks couldn't liquidate their risk, and the system tended to freeze up.

Neoconservatism in all its pomp conceived - in the Project for a New American Century - that, following the collapse of the Soviet Union, the world could be remade in the American image, that the previous bipolar world could be replaced by a unipolar one in which the U.S. was the dominant arbiter of global and regional affairs.

My advice to organizations I work with is always to be proactive rather than simply reactive when it comes to human rights issues. After all, the important process of improving company policies and practices must be carried out without having to be prompted by a labour strike, factory collapse or other crisis.

No party has a monopoly on honesty, but with the collapse of old-style GOP machines in places like Indiana and Long Island, New York, it's Democrats who have a greater opportunity to cheat.

Now, our Sun will not collapse to a black hole. It's actually not massive enough.

Negative factors for consumers must include the 4.2 percent collapse in the share market in the days leading up to the survey. Consumers may also be somewhat frustrated the petrol prices have not come back further.

If we get a normal winter, we'll probably have enough inventories, but if we get a very harsh winter, inventories could collapse to unseen levels. The oil market would be very jittery with any supply disruptions.

If we fail in in our levy attempt, we will lose our progress. We will likely slide into a near total collapse of this school system.

I don't expect a settlement, and I don't expect a collapse of discussions.

I do not think that the Chinese Communist Party is going to implode and collapse like it did in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. This Communist Party is going to fight to stay in power, and it will use the military to stay there.

Based upon what we've seen in the basement, eventually left uncorrected, it could actually collapse to the center,

I don't think we're going to see jobs collapse or disappear. There is a bit of fear in the air with what's been going on with oil prices and the hurricane that there's going to be some kind of collapse. But I think this economy is resilient.

Given the paranoia of the cartel that it is currently pumping too much oil and that this threatens a price collapse early next year, caution will clearly be the main watchword.

He congratulated me, ... and I put my arm around him and said, 'I'm sorry.' At a time like that, you really feel for a fellow competitor. People still focus on the total collapse of Arnie, but they don't realize I shot 32 on the back nine to force that playoff. There were only 15 rounds under par at Olympic in '66, and I had four of them.

Kenneth Lay is charged with abusing his powerful position as chairman of the board and CEO and repeatedly lying in an effort to cover up the financial collapse that caused devastating harm to millions of Americans.

Journalism took me around the world. I worked in London for ten years and reported on the collapse of the Soviet Union, the troubles in Northern Ireland, and the first Gulf War.

It can spread through these tunnel complexes and, in many cases, without actually destroying them, ... So it'll kill the people that are in there, but it won't collapse the cave. Then you can go in and find out what's in there, (that's) the idea behind these, if it works perfectly.

It appears that the hole in probably stable at this point. We don't expect any additional collapse or settling other than maybe a few inches here or there.

I think it's a matter of weeks or months that we will have a collapse in many of our operations. As I told the Security Council today, I don't think the world has understood how bad it has become of late.

It is low in the index, and probably it makes sense to collapse the dual-listed structure.

It is in Israel's interests to avoid a collapse of the Palestinian economy.

I wrote a novel about an economic/environmental collapse titled 'Soft Apocalypse,' and that's definitely the sort I'm best prepared for. To write the novel, I did a lot of reading on what we might expect, so at the first sign, I'm ready to convert all of my assets to gold and ammo and stock up on freeze-dried food.

Larry, I spent probably most of my professional life helping to build Enron Corporation. I don't think there was anyone that was as shocked by the - by the collapse of the company as I was.

I saw three guys collapse and I put it up there.

People are de-motivated because every day their lives are getting worse and worse ... Low turnout shows a collapse in people's trust in the state, in its ability to protect citizens.

Our initial information is that there was a tunnel collapse and a fire broke out in one of the train carriages.

Response to a large building collapse requires protection different than what emergency responders are typically provided. The hazards following the collapse of a large multi-story building are larger and more uncertain, and the duration of the response is much longer than usual.

Recently released government economic statistics covering 2010, the first year of real recovery from the financial collapse of 2008, found that fully 93 percent of additional income gains coming out of the recession went straight into the wallets and purses of the top 1 percent.

Relationships based on deals between leaders or ruling elites tend to collapse amid popular anger.

Some have argued the fall in the Australian dollar at a time when commodity prices are still strong is telling us global growth is about to collapse. However, there are few indicators of any impending collapse in global growth or commodity prices. In fact, global growth seems to be strengthening thanks to stronger growth in Europe and Japan.

My players have been rightly hammered from pillar to post this week but at least they rolled their sleeves up and didn't collapse after that dreadful start.

Long droughts have been implicated in the collapse of many ancient civilizations on virtually every continent, including our example in eastern Africa, the Mayan in Central America and many others.

I think most people expect the economy to weaken in 1999, but certainly there's no sign of a collapse yet.

I think if you compare nation-building in other situations: after the war in Europe, building up stable nations from the collapse of the Soviet Union, look at Afghanistan; I think that is a reasonable prospect.

I think gold started declining after the dollar/yen's collapse overnight.

I thought he was going to collapse out there.

That was disappointing, but we made some poor decisions. They brought their triangle in real low and we still kept trying to squeeze plays. When you see a team collapse as much as they did, it would have been better for our guys to shoot.