Quotes About Downfall

I stop reading after half an hour. I've had enough. Humanity has hit a brick wall. We're facing our end, like the dinosaurs millions of years before us. The only difference is we've got journalists on hand to document every blow and setback, cataloguing our rapid, painful downfall in vibrant, vicious detail. Personally, I think the dinosaurs had the better deal. When it comes to impending, unavoidable extinction, ignorance is bliss.

The wise councillor must always prepare for his fall.

Heath Ledger once said to me, 'It's built you up to knock you down and that's all it is.

Fury would be her downfall, she'd been told...Fury would push her over the edge of sanity.

I have to listen to my heart," Helen said quietly. That elicited a bitter scrape of laughter, "The downfall of every woman since Eve has begun with those exact words.

In 2007, Lindsay Lohan seemed to be on top of the world, a bona fide star who had her pick of acting gigs. But it wasn't long before the veneer cracked, and Lindsay's life began to shatter.

Spike," but at some point, he decided to go by "Magic Spike." That tells you everything. In his own mind, he became magic. That was his downfall. And it's the downfall of almost all players and gangsters and hustlers. They get away with breaking the law so many times,

Greed and ego are too often the downfall of mankind

Love will be the downfall of God himself.

Self-conceit may lead to self destruction.

Pride comes before a fall.

A man is proud until he falls.

Yet Henley never wholly lost that first admiration, for after Wilde's downfall he said to me: "Why did he do it? I told my lads to attack him and yet we might have fought under his banner.

Imagine yourself acclaimed, a decorated national hero, an idol to millions of desperate people, then within six months, condemned to death by hanging.

How come princesses always have some huge flaw that can cause their downfall?

Prachtig subliem in zijn ondergang, verheerlijkte hij zich in de krankzinnigheid zijner tragedie

Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down.

Repression by brute force is always a confession of the inability to make use of the better weapons of the intellect—better because they alone give promise of final success. This is the fundamental error from which Fascism suffers and which will ultimately cause its downfall.

Rebellion leads to ruin.

The amateurs usually do not have cash flow, which sets up a downfall, or "crash," one sees in the cyclical real estate market.

It is a true saying of good Archbishop Leighton: 'The way of sin is down hill; a man cannot stop when he would.

Stupid Americans. Didn't they comprehend what was happening? They were killing themselves. While they foolishly spent their treasure and spilled their blood in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Yemen, the very ideology they were fighting to defeat was moving into their cities, their schools, their very government. The freedoms the West championed so proudly would be their ultimate downfall. Those freedoms would be targeted and exploited. Their freedoms were their weakness. Know thy enemy.

There you go, being human again,' said the Doctor. He put an arm around Rose, and hugged her to him. 'It's not fair, is it, when we're forced into pitying someone we hate. Feels like the world's turned topsy-turvy. But it's all right. You're still allowed to hate them. As long as you don't gloat at their downfall, that's all.

There are two kinds of scholars: those who act on their knowledge, these are the saved ones; and those who do not put into practise what they know, these are led to their downfall.