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The straight line leads to the downfall of humanity. -- Friedensreich Hundertwasser
When your outgo exceeds your income, the upshot may be your downfall. -- Paul Harvey
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A man's pride can be his downfall, and he needs to learn when to turn to others for support and guidance. -- Bear Grylls
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall. -- Frank Lloyd Wright
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
Racial history is therefore natural history and the mysticism of the soul at one and the same time; but the history of the religion of the blood, conversely, is the great world story of the rise and downfall of peoples, their heroes and thinkers, their inventors and artists. -- Alfred Rosenberg
But marriage goes in waves. You've got to be patient. People bail and give up on their marriages way too early. They just don't put the work and the effort into it. You've got to suck up your ego a lot of times, because that can be a big downfall. -- Anna Benson
One thing I teach my children and want everyone to know that even if you happen to be on a pedestal you should have the capacity to turn around and say, 'I don't know'. We are scared to go wrong. Downfall is part of life. -- Shah Rukh Khan
My downfall raises me to infinite heights. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
These tabloid magazines - I think they're hideous and the downfall of society. -- Scarlett Johansson
I think it's a bit silly to brand the Internet as the 'downfall of youth.' -- Ernest Cline
I like food too much to go on some crazy diet. French fries are my favorite downfall. -- Holly Madison
I do things because I enjoy it. That used to be my downfall, but now it's the upside. -- Waris Ahluwalia
No matter what players say or people say, you want to be liked and appreciated, even if you've had a downfall. -- Jason Giambi
I feel like the downfall of any person is the second an artist starts celebrating their work themselves, that becomes problematic. -- Questlove
Our epoch is a time of tragic collision between matter and spirit and of the downfall of the purely material world view. -- Wassily Kandinsky
Men are strong, women are smart, but no matter how smart, their bellies are always there to betray women and that's their downfall. -- Simone Schwarz-Bart
The downfall of the church will not come from a lack of apologetic teaching; it will come from disintegration of the families in the church. -- Josh McDowell
Falling down is a very big subject, and so is the concept of downfall. None of us escapes, and I have had my share of both. -- Michael Leunig
Every generation has a macabre notion that wars, government prohibition, natural disasters or mankind itself could be the downfall of society and the world as a whole. -- Lauren DeStefano
One of the remarkable things about my career is that it has been marked by steady, incremental progress. No sudden spikes up, and no sudden downfalls, either. -- Phil Hartman
Our downfall as a species is that we are arrogant enough to think that we can control Mother Nature and stupid enough to think it is our job. -- Greg Peterson
We all think we've got one more boxing match in us, and that, probably, will be the downfall of Floyd Mayweather, George Foreman, Manny Pacquiao. We'll overstay our welcome. -- George Foreman
I'm inspired by the poets, so I'm always going to give in that direction, rather than in any other. It's the making of me... and also the downfall of me. -- Roy Harper
The small companies who feel that the majors are a threat, or are predators, will use that as an excuse for their eventual downfall. Dont blame others for your own inadequacies. -- Greg Ginn
The small companies who feel that the majors are a threat, or are predators, will use that as an excuse for their eventual downfall. Don't blame others for your own inadequacies. -- Greg Ginn
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. -- Charlie Hunnam
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 -- Charlie Hunnam
I'm fighting a losing battle here: I'm trying to lose some weight. I love chocolate; that's one of my biggest downfalls. I haven't gotten a whole lot of chocolate, thank goodness, because I'd probably be about 300 pounds. -- Carrie Underwood
Leaving religious texts open too interpretation is the downfall of religion itself. If it is truly the word of God then there is no room for interpretation; you either take all of it or none. There is no selective belief -- Stephen Colbert
The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to permit the conquered Eastern peoples to have arms. History teaches that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by doing so. -- Adolf Hitler
The downfall of the industry seems to actually be good for art. I think the industry will find their way once the focus shifts from its greed-based origins, downsizes, and begins to support creative visions that speak to our times and shifting ideals. -- Saul Williams
I love to eat, I love to feed people, and I'm a great cook. I joked with my friends that I wanted to write a book where desserts had to be extensively researched, since I have a terrible sweet tooth. My particular downfall is cake. -- Julia Glass
I don't think there's anything inherently wrong with a bank being big. In fact, there are some good arguments about universality of geography that in theory, if you have all your eggs in one little community, and some big employer goes out, that could be your downfall. -- Wilbur Ross
I felt like anything rather than rejoicing at the downfall of a foe who had fought so long and valiantly, and had suffered so much for a cause, though that cause was, I believe, one of the worst for which a people ever fought, and one for which there was the least excuse. -- Ulysses S. Grant
As a politician, you have to deal with someone wanting you to fail every day. I think I prefer being in a situation where generally people are rooting for me, and if they aren't rooting for me, they aren't out there to see my downfall. I respect the people who have the stomach for it. -- John Legend
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
Toffee Crisp was my downfall. I once ate five at a sitting. Do you really need that third helping, Harry? My parents didn't overfeed me, nor did they make an issue of it. That's when things go wrong. It doesn't have to be a problem for children to be fat, but it does affect you: you aren't as happy in that skin. -- Harry Melling
In one point of view, we, the abolitionists and colored people, should meet [the Dred Scott] decision, unlooked for and monstrous as it appears, in a cheerful spirit. This very attempt to blot out forever the hopes of an enslaved people may be one necessary link in the chain of events preparatory to the downfall and complete overthrow of the whole slave system. -- Frederick Douglass
A villain must be a thing of power, handled with delicacy and grace. He must be wicked enough to excite our aversion, strong enough to arouse our fear, human enough to awaken some transient gleam of sympathy. We must triumph in his downfall, yet not barbarously nor with contempt, and the close of his career must be in harmony with all its previous development. -- Agnes Repplier
We should reflect on the idea that since the beginning of time sentient beings have been mentally unstable because they have been slaves of delusion, they lack the eye of wisdom to see the path leading to nirvana and enlightenment, and they lack the necessary guidance of a spiritual teacher. Moment by moment they are indulging in negative actions, which will eventually bring about their downfall. -- Dalai Lama
You are my sweetest downfall. -- Regina Spektor
Power, safely defied, touches its downfall. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
To be too knowing is a downfall. -- Laura Linney
I'm a food addict, that's my downfall. -- Valerie Bertinelli
Your soulmate can also be your downfall. -- Guillaume Musso
Conceit may bring about one's own downfall. -- Aesop
You will be my downfall, Riley Blackthorne. -- Jana Oliver
Cleland was the victim of his own downfall. -- Alan Parry
Complacency will be the architecture of your downfall. -- Jeremy Gutsche
Someone's writing down your mistakes, someone's documenting your downfall. -- Nicole Blackman
National injustice is the surest road to national downfall. -- William E. Gladstone
Displaying riches and titles with pride brings about one's downfall. -- Laozi
I don't spend my hours plotting for somebody else's downfall. -- Hillary Clinton
I have a bit of pride, which is always my downfall. -- Richard Armitage
He who prides himself upon wealth and honor hastens his own downfall. -- Laozi
It is the downfall of evil, that it never sees far enough ahead. -- Orson Scott Card
How come princesses always have some huge flaw that can cause their downfall? -- Rachel Cohn
The downfall of most diets is that they restrict your intake of food. -- Fran Lebowitz
One of Lyle's best assets was also his biggest downfall--he was a big dick. -- Tonya D. Floyd
It's a bonus if your girlfriend likes your music - definitely not a downfall. -- Ashton Irwin
The failure of the citizens to pray for the country, will lead to its downfall. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
For what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall? -- Saint Augustine
For what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall? -- Saint Augustine
Most men need their wives to need them, and I've seen that lead to their downfall -- Laird Hamilton
My downfall made a great noise: those who appeared most satisfied criticized the manner of it. -- FranÃ§ois-RenÃ© de Chateaubriand
Few things reveal more about political leaders and their systems than the manner of their downfall, -- Antony Beevor
If a ruler who wants to act honourably is surrounded by unscrupulous men, his downfall is inevitable. -- C.J. Sansom
Even as zombies, ridiculous prom gowns were the downfall of teenage girls, crippling them at the knees. -- G.G. Silverman
A world revolution to a higher social order, a world order, or utter downfall lies before us all. -- H. G. Wells
And besides, it drives the dragon crazy when you sing about his downfall even though you are bleeding -- Allan Boesak
Pride of opinion has been responsible for the downfall of more men on Wall Street than any other factor. -- Charles Dow
I basically lived through what could have been my downfall and survived it, so whatever comes my way, I'm ready. -- Donnis
Love is the greatest corrupter ever known and has been the numbers one downfall of mankind since the first creation. -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Niggas pray and pray on my downfall, But every time I hit the ground I bounce up like round ball -- Jay-Z
Our sins are our downfall. We must repent and return to the Lord. And He will receive and forgive us graciously. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
I wish we would all just fall apart so I wouldn't have to listen to the downfall happen, so slowly, so painfully. -- Hannah Moskowitz
From triumph to downfall is but a step. I have seen a trifle decide the most important issues in the gravest affairs. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
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
Corruption could lead to the collapse of the Party [Communist Party of China] and the downfall of the State [People's Republic of China]. -- Xi Jinping
Our need to knock celebrities is...Twisted: it's deep in the mid-brain below the survival instinct. That lust to see a downfall. It's animalistic. -- Peaches Geldof
In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall. -- Tacitus
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
Donald Trump does not stick to Republican orthodoxy, which, you know, and this is always supposed to have been his downfall. Maybe it's his strength. -- Chuck Todd
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
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. -- Vanilla Ice
My big downfall is deep-dish pizza from Chicago. That is why I can't go vegan - I can't give up cheese. I can't give up dairy. -- Parvesh Cheena
The downfall of every civilization comes, not from the moral corruption of the common man, but rather from the moral complacency of common men in high places. -- E. Digby Baltzell
The downfall of civilized states tends to come not from the direct assaults of foes, but from internal decay combined with the consequences of exhaustion in war. -- B. H. Liddell Hart
I think a lot of people can get wrapped up in comparing themselves. And that's when the tragic downfall comes, because there will always be someone more beautiful. -- Kesha
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
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
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
...[the downfall of our political system is the] buying and selling of politicians...bribery. In the private sector, you're arrested for it. In the public sector, it's the norm... -- Jesse Ventura
I'm overwhelmed. My biggest downfall is my brightest blessing, I feel too much, all the time. Ya Allah, if it'll keep my heart soft, break my heart every day. -- Warsan Shire
As far as we can look back into history, the downfall of any nation can be traced from the moment that nation became timid about spending its best blood. -- Frederick Russell Burnham
From triumph to downfall there is but one step. I have noted that, in the most momentous occasions, mere nothings have always decided the outcome of the greatest events. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Your very success is what's going to destroy you. The survival mechanism that you've developed is the very thing which will cause the downfall of your subtle physical body. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Those who pray for your downfall are concentrating negative thoughts towards you, without taking cognisance of the slippery ground in which they are standing, which could lead to their downfall. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
Those who pray for your downfall are concentrating negative thoughts towards you, without taking cognisance of the slippery ground in which they are standing, which could lead to their downfall. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
The downfall of democratic institutions in Russia doesn't add to the self-confidence of either [Vladimir] Putin or his friends, as the loss of power could lead to repercussions in Russian society. -- Garry Kasparov
The enemy plotted against you and awaited your downfall. Look at you surviving. And your enemies can not figure out how. What you have inside is greater than any negative force. -- Amaka Imani Nkosazana
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
I'm a patient person. I think that's one thing that I feel comfortable I can deal with - the downfall and the errors, as long as I see progress and people trying. -- Phil Jackson
The downfall of the industry is that there is a lot of pressure in it, a lot of rejection in it and a lot of competition in it. It's a whole mess. -- Mila Kunis
There is no media freedom in China. As a result, the society is corrupt and lacks productivity. It is unable to adjust itself for progress. This will lead to the country's eventual downfall. -- Ai Weiwei
I'm just a young guy with big dreams who is working hard to make it on top while many people are waiting for my downfall, they don't support but hate and talk negativity. -- Werley Nortreus
Africa's downfall has always been the cult of the personality. And their names always seem to begin with M. We've had Mobutu and Mengistu and I'm not going to add Meles to the list. -- Meles Zenawi
We had many good directors - John Carpenter, Brian De Palma - but things have become polluted by business, money and bad relationships. The success of the horror genre has led to its downfall. -- Dario Argento
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
When a man thinks he has got a good deal of strength, and is self-confident, you may look for his downfall. It may be years before it comes to light, but it is already commenced. -- Dwight L. Moody

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