Quotes About Downfall

With the mega-fame came the mega-downfall - you know, with the press and everything - and at a young age, it was very stressful to me.

I tend to treat everyone like equals. That is my downfall, though, because Oprah is Oprah, and Barack is Barack, and you've gotta come in with a certain level of respect and admiration and love while still having that respect. Look at them - these people are, at this point, royalty. I think I get a little too chummy.

Blind party loyalty will be our downfall. We must follow the truth wherever it leads.

Expensive pleasures will soon bring the richest person down.

Love is the greatest corrupter ever known and has been the numbers one downfall of mankind since the first creation.

In Dune and Dune Messiah , he [Frank Herbert] was cautioning against pride and overconfidence, that form of narcissism described in Greek tragedies that invariably led to the great fall.

T)he downfall of the wise and the mighty comes not from being strong or wise, but from thinking you are stronger and wiser than you truly are, than any being can truly be.

The very roots of destruction are in the achievement of success itself.

If a ruler who wants to act honourably is surrounded by unscrupulous men, his downfall is inevitable.

I kicked off... and things went on from there... down and down.

One day, you're a nobody, and the next, you're in a movie that everybody is talking about. But Hollywood has a way of knocking you back down to Earth.

Things inexorably get worse.

Casual?" Elam halted and crossed his arms. "My good horse, there's a big difference between casual and confident. I am aware of the danger, but......I want to maintain a confident mind-set in full assurance of faith, otherwise my heart might melt within me." ..... "Take care that your confidence does not swell into arrogance, for that is the downfall of every man of pride.

A one-way ticket to Palookaville.

I don't drink tea. I hate it. It's mud. Moreover it's one of the main reasons for the downfall of the British Empire. Be a good girl and make me some coffee.

It could be my downfall, but I don't think it is - Hollywood is run on perception, and if you stray off the path of what you want to do with your career, it's suicide.

I'm not sure whether it's going to be the downfall of Rome - social media. There are too many secrets.

I was seventeen when I fell in love with the beast named Charlie. "Fell" is the appropriate word because it was indeed my downfall.

Rule and Ruin: The Downfall of Moderation and the Destruction of the Republican Party, From Eisenhower to the Tea Party

A woman's scorn has been the downfall of a goodly number of men and the cause of many a conflict.

some had falled

El orgullo, el hecho de creer mentiras sobre uno mismo para aumentar el valor de uno mismo, a menudo era el preludio de una desagradable caída.

Su misma superioridad lo perdió

He has gone to the demnition bow-wows.