Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sidney Blumenthal

collapse eventually of their own insubstantiality. And in these conversations with me, the First Lady has always been supportive of the president.

Stopping at this point is off the table unless there is some unexpected piece of news like a sudden collapse in the housing market.

Robert Higgs

Some doomsayers think the collapse will be triggered by runaway government spending, excessive taxation, oppressive regulation, food shortages, fuel shortages or natural disasters such as deadly pandemics or lethal changes in the world's climate.

They made it tough on us. When we collapsed on Gamble on the inside, No. 24 (Johnson) would hit those long 3s and when we went out to guard him, they would score underneath.

This is a very unusual recession in that the consumer did not collapse and incomes are in the black,

They're negotiating about an institution that doesn't exist and shows no signs of coming to life, ... The state collapsed in June, 2003, and definitely needs to be rebuilt.

We don't want to be responsible for the collapse of the government,

Conrad Black

The United States is a proud, determined, hard-working, talented, patriotic nation and people, and it is not over-extended in the manner of empires of the past that took over the lands of others and eventually collapsed under the weight of the over-ambitious hegemon.

This set the real issues aside, it did not solve them. But it prevents gridlock and a collapse of the talks. ... I see it as a positive but not a big substantive move, but it took some movement in the administration to make this happen.

These WTO rounds always look like they're going to collapse just before they get done. That's just the nature of the game.

The stock collapsed back down to 6 in two months because (the company's) growth rate was 650 percent in 1995 and it slowed to 87 percent in 1996. Eighty-seven percent is fast growth -- but it's at nosebleed valuations.

Tech cuts have been trending downward year after year as firms continue to regain their strength after the devastating dot-com collapse in 2000 and 2001.

James Harrison

There wouldn't be a problem flying. There's been no lung collapse or anything like that.

Doc Rivers

We're not out of it. But it's going to be nearly impossible, obviously, to get in. We need to have a total collapse of two teams (including ninth-place Chicago) now.

We're not insulted, ... The Collapse of Toilets in Glasgow.

We were looking at a total collapse back then.

We are trying to lift the collapsed section of the roof and send in search dogs.

That's another question, too: Was it secured properly, or were they in the process of doing that and that also contributed to why it collapsed the way it did?

It will create some short-term noise in a (stock) market that's already looking to try and take some profits on anything related to China. You are not going to get a collapse in demand out of China.

The wage story is gathering real momentum. The Fed is going to 5%, and more if housing does not collapse by mid-year.

They are looking at their GPS devices and may not see a collapsed mine and fall into it.

I wanted to be able to watch world history in the making. In less than two years, I was able to witness the collapse of two regimes. It's cool to open a world almanac and know that I was a part of history.

Gerry Adams

save the peace process from collapse and transform the situation.

He suffered some collapse of one of his lungs. And we're trying to reopen that and there's good progress there.

He's a powerful enough man that when you line him up inside, he can collapse the pocket. That makes us better on the perimeter, because he can take some pressure off those ends to have to get to the quarterback and force him to have to work towards our ends.

Diane English

I'll probably collapse for a day and get right back into something else.

Nicholas Sparks

I knew I wanted the ending of the story to be poignant and heart-felt, and secondly, because I didn't know if I would be able to do that, since my previous novels hadn't been good enough to publish. If I couldn't do it, I didn't want to waste my time writing the rest of the novel, knowing it would collapse at the end.

I knew that in the past that these financial panics had often triggered far worse consequences. I was actually less concerned about the market than the potential for collapse of the world financial system.

Jared Diamond

If one of those friendly societies itself runs into environmental problems and collapses for environmental reasons, that collapse may then drag down their trade partners.

If you pull troops out too quickly now, and you see the situation in Iraq collapse before the midterm elections, the impact is going to be far more serious than if you keep the troops in at reasonable levels.

If you pull out troops too quickly now, and you see the situation in Iraq collapse before the midterm elections, the impact is going to be far more serious than if you keep the troops in at reasonable levels.

John Burnside

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.

Benjamin Netanyahu

I don't see a collapse of America's involvement.