#collapse

The man who has allowed his body to deteriorate cuts a pitiful figure - chest collapsed, stomach protruding. ↗

— Gene Tunney

#body #chest #collapsed #cuts #deteriorate

Roman Polanski is a man who cares deeply about his art and its place in this world. What happened to him on his incredible path is filled with tragedy, and most men would have collapsed. Instead, he became a great artist and continues to make great films. ↗

— Harvey Weinstein

#art #artist #became #cares #collapsed

The Berlin Wall wasn't the only barrier to fall after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Traditional barriers to the flow of money, trade, people and ideas also fell. ↗

— Fareed Zakaria

#also #barrier #barriers #berlin #berlin wall

British fans are exceptional, but the American fans are something else. Some of them fly 500 miles to stand in line for three hours, just to meet me, then when they do they collapse. ↗

— Craig Charles

#british #collapse #else #exceptional #fans

Yoga has trimmed my body in a way that the gym never could. I used to be a gym rat, but I switched to yoga and am now almost 10 pounds lighter. One important thing I've gotten from yoga is breathing. When I'm cooking, the top part of my body collapses down. It cuts off my diaphragm. ↗

— Giada De Laurentiis

#am #body #breathing #collapses #cooking

The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#about #collapse #diversity #emergence #family life

The last three decades have seen the collapse of the family wage system. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#decades #family #last #seen #system

Despite elections and the experience of post-Soviet personal freedoms by the Russian people, the fate of democracy in Russia is perhaps more ambiguous now than at any time since the collapse of the Communist system. ↗

— Richard Lugar

#any #collapse #communist #democracy #despite

Total borrowing has imploded. Private borrowing has collapsed. And, in effect, the Treasury Department is the last borrower left standing. ↗

— Peter Orszag

#borrowing #collapsed #department #effect #last

Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse. ↗

— C. Northcote Parkinson

#collapse #institutions #layout #only #perfection