Sudden Collapse Quotes

there are many hours and minutes between now and tomorrowand in any one of them-even in a minute,the house falls

My knees buckled. It's the last thing I expected

The West may collapse very suddenly. Complex civilizations do that, because they operate, most of the time, on the edge of chaos.

The gun goes off. I fall.

I'm not a prophet, but I always thought it was natural for dictatorships to fall. I remember in 1989, two months before the fall of the Berlin Wall, had you said it was going to happen no one would have believed you. The system seemed powerful and unbreakable. Suddenly overnight it blew away like dust.

I have no idea how long Putin will last. The good news is, Putin doesn't know either. It will be sudden and it won't be peaceful. He has burned his bridges.

When a contestant actually loses consciousness, I think that's a good sign.

The ground we stand on looks solid enough, but if something happens it can drop right out from under you.

With a resigned shrug, she screamed and collapsed into a faint. She stayed resolutely fainted, despite the liberal application of smelling salts, which made her eyes water most tremendously, a cramp in the back of one knee, and the fact that her new ball gown was getting most awfully wrinkled.

I saw this thing years ago, where somebody filled a gymnasium with ping-pong balls and mousetraps. And then somebody threw just one more ping-pong ball in there, and literally, in five seconds, the room was popping. And then it was dead. And that's how it was with 'Dallas.' Just... 'boom!'

You feel fine, and then, when your body can't keep fighting, you don't.

Robbie James, who was a real good friend of mine, died on the pitch at 40.

I was so obsessed with football that you could say I was taking the goal home with me at night. And then one day the system fell apart.

I leaned on him for support when I got out of the cab, and he just crumpled to the ground. That's how we found out.

The two of them went down in a heap, with not even a turkey to break their fall.