Downfall Quotes - Page 5

• You will be my downfall, Riley Blackthorne.

  Jana Oliver

  Jana Oliver (2013). “Demon Trappers 1-3: Forsaken, Forbidden, Forgiven”, p.444, Pan Macmillan

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• Children demand that their heroes should be freckle less, and easily believe them so: perhaps a first discovery to the contrary is less revolutionary shock to a passionate child than the threatened downfall of habitual beliefs which makes the world seem to totter for us in maturer life.

  George Eliot

  Children, Hero, Believe

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• I, for my part, acknowledge another precept which says that man must deal the final blow to those whose downfall is destined by God.

  Adolf Hitler

  Blow, Men, Finals

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• Most modern biologists, having reviewed with satisfaction the downfall of the spontaneous generation hypothesis, yet unwilling to accept the alternative belief in special creation, are left with nothing.

  George Wald

  Special, Generations, Alternatives

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• When news of the surrender first reached our lines our men commenced firing a salute of a hundred guns in honor of the victory. I at once sent word, however, to have it stopped. The Confederates were now our prisoners, and we did not want to exult over their downfall.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  War, Gun, Men

  Ulysses S. Grant (2006). “Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant”, p.440, Cosimo, Inc.

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• One great blemish in the popular mind of America and the prolific parent of an innumerable brood of evils, is Universal Distrust . . . you no sooner set up an idol firmly, than you are sure to pull it down and dash it into fragments: and this because directly you reward a benefactor, or a public servant, you distrust him, merely because he is rewarded . . . . Any man who attains a high place among you, from the President downwards, may date his downfall from that moment.

  Charles Dickens

  Men, Idols, America

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• These tabloid magazines - I think they're hideous and the downfall of society.

  Scarlett Johansson

  Thinking, Magazines, Tabloids

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• I feel that flip-flops are the downfall of many relationships. It's, like, first it's the flip-flops, and then it's the sweatpants...it's the gateway drug to no sex.

  Lady Gaga

  Fashion, Sex, Drug

  "Tabloid tales from LA LA Land: 3am's round-up of this week's US celeb mags" by James Robertson, www.mirror.co.uk. September 26, 2013.

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• My dog doesn't worry about the meaning of life.  She may worry if she doesn't get her breakfast, but she doesn't sit around worrying whether she will get fulfilled or liberated or enlightened.  As long as she gets some food and a little affection, her life is fine.  But we human beings are not like dogs.  We have self-centered minds which get us into plenty of trouble.  If we do not come to understand the error in the way we think, our self-awareness, which is our greatest blessing, is also our downfall.

  Joko Beck

  Dog, Thinking, Blessing

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• It will come all right in the end. There is the steady impulse of your determination that sets you on your feet again after every downfall and breakdown. Gradually the obstacles are all overcome and your current becomes stronger. Everything comes right in the end. Steady determination is what is required.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Determination, Feet, Stronger

  Maharshi Ramana, Swami Saraswati Ramananda (1963). “Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi”

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• What I've learned is not to take anybody's advice. If you rely solely on your fans, it sets you up for the downfall
  on the industry side and if you rely on what your label is saying, it will disconnect you from your fans.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Advice, Fans, Labels

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• The needlework of lies and rumors seeks to distract peoples attention from the daily business of governance under the Presidents leadership. Those who continually plot for the Presidents downfall will never succeed because she is a hard-working President with no other agenda than to promote our peoples welfare

  Eduardo Ermita

  Lying, Hard Work, President

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• Upon the solution of this problem, or upon sufficient proof of the impossibility of synthetical knowledge a priori, depends the existence or downfall of metaphysics.

  Immanuel Kant

  Words Of Wisdom, Problem, Proof

  Immanuel Kant (2016). “Delphi Collected Works of Immanuel Kant (Illustrated)”, p.290, Delphi Classics

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• We need to graduate from the ridiculous notion that greed is some kind of elixir for capitalism - it's the downfall of capitalism. Self-interest, maybe, but self-interest run amok does not serve anyone. The core value of conscious capitalism is enlightened self-interest. As Jim Cramer on CNBC says, "Bulls make money, bears make money, pigs get slaughtered."

  Patricia Aburdene

  Running, Business, Pigs

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• Why is the public so interested in movies about the wealthy? My answer is that Shakespeare wrote about kings. That's where the action is. And it's the classic, cathartic thing. You get to indulge in a lifestyle you're not part of, a tragic error leads to a downfall, and you get to say, 'Thank God I'm not him.'

  Nicholas Jarecki

  Kings, Indulge In, Errors

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Remember, Monsieur, that the downfall of most Communities comes from the cowardice of Superiors in not holding firm and in not purging them of the troublesome and incorrigible.

  Vincent de Paul

  Leadership, Community, Remember

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1990). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Correspondence; January 1640-July 1646)”

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• Show me one thing here on earth which has begun well and not ended badly. The proudest palpitations are engulfed in a sewer, where they cease throbbing, as though having reached their natural term: this downfall constitutes the heart's drama and the negative meaning of history.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Drama, Heart, Age

  Emile M. Cioran (1975). “A short history of decay”, Viking Books

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• I'm a food addict, that's my downfall.

  Valerie Bertinelli

  Addict

  "Valerie Bertinelli comes clean on drugs, infidelity" by Jen Brown and Bob Considine, www.today.com. October 14, 2016.

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• My upbringing was very un-Hollywood. I was born in New York and grew up on a ranch. I was never really smitten by the business in those days, never a fan type - just a basic kid watching TV. It wasn't like I was an insider. I was never really brought into the show business side of my father's life. I guess that's been a blessing and a downfall. But it's made my own work the initiation.

  Stephanie Zimbalist

  New York, Father, Kids

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• What is fantastic for me is that the Romantic movement comes out as a counter balance to everything that has been accumulating since the Age of Reason. I think the downfall of imagination as a genre or as a perception starts with the Age of Reason, which says everything else that came before us, all those superstitions, all those myths, are childish.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Thinking, Imagination, Perception

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• Most people wear clothing that is too big or too small for them. And "oversized" is the downfall for most of us. We have to be careful that we don't look like we're slipcovered!

  Tim Gunn

  People, Looks, Bigs

  "Tim Gunn's Take on Fall Fashion". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. September 25, 2006.

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• Those of us who always abhorred slavery as an atheistical iniquity, gladly we join in the exulting chorus of humanity over its downfall.

  Herman Melville

  Evil, Humanity, Atheism

  Herman Melville (1866). “Battle-pieces and aspects of the war [poems].”, p.268

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• To have striven so hard, to have molded a public personality out of so amorphous an identity, to have sustained that superhuman effort only to end with every weakness disclosed and every error compounding the downfall--that was a fate of biblical proportions. Evidently the Deity would not tolerate the presumption that all can be manipulated; an object lesson of the limits of human presumption was necessary.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Biblical, Fate, Errors

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• Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies. When they fail to come off its clergy simply say that they will be realized later on. Thus, if we have another boom, they will argue that the collapse of capitalism is only postponed. The fact that the greatest booms ever heard of followed Marx's formal prophecy of the downfall of capitalism is already forgotten, just as millions have long since forgotten the early Christian prophecy that the end of the world was at hand. The first Christians accepted postponements as docilely as the Communists of today.

  H. L. Mencken

  Christian, Hands, Long

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.277, Knopf

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• Those who are not with Mr. Bush are against him. Worse, they are with the enemy. Which is odd, because I'm dead against Bush, but I would love to see Saddam's downfall -- just not on Bush's terms and not by his methods. And not under the banner of such outrageous hypocrisy.

  John le Carre

  Hypocrisy, Enemy, Odd

  "British Novelist John le Carré on the Iraq War, Corporate Power, the Exploitation of Africa and His New Novel, “Our Kind of Traitor”". "Democracy Now" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. November 25, 2010.

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