Demise famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?
-- Adam Weishaupt -
A god implants in mortal guilt whenever he wants utterly to confound a house.
-- Aeschylus -
Rumors of coal's demise may have been greatly exaggerated.
-- Alan Johnson -
Zen teaches that once we can open up to the inevitability of our demise, we can begin to transform that situation and lighten up about it.
-- Allen Klein -
Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ASK. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds.
-- Anne Rice -
George Orwell once blamed the demise of the English language on politics. It's quite possible he never read a prospectus.
-- Arthur Levitt Jr -
If a weakly mortal is to do anything in the world besides eat the bread thereof, there must be a determined subordination of the whole nature to the one aim no trifling with time, which is passing, with strength which is only too limited.
-- Beatrice Webb -
Mark Twain put it best when he said, 'Reports of my demise are greatly exaggerated,.
-- Bill Bradley -
Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.
-- C. S. Lewis -
It is quite normal to fear what one most desires. We desire to transcend the Story of the World that has come to enslave us, that indeed is killing the planet. We fear what the end of that story will bring: the demise of much that is familiar.Fear it or not, it is happening already.
-- Charles Eisenstein -
I'm not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I'm living on.
-- David Bowie -
Life is about change, it never stops, it's moving and it's moving this human body inexorably towards its demise.
-- Elizabeth Lesser -
To suspect your own mortality is to know the beginning of terror, to learn irrefutably that you are mortal is to know the end of terror.
-- Frank Herbert -
Social Security has been effective for 70 years; prior predictions of its demise have been totally overstated.
-- Grace Napolitano -
Nothing is more heart-breaking than the demise of decency.
-- Guo Moruo -
I fear that CAFTA will accelerate the demise of these domestic textile jobs.
-- Howard Coble -
To come to know your enemy, first you must become his friend, and once you become his friend, all his defences come down. Then you can choose the most fitting method for his demise.
-- Ieyasu Tokugawa -
A man has only one way of being immortal on earth: he has to forget he is a mortal.
-- Jean Giraudoux -
Such sins, even if they do not kill all grace in us, do harm, nevertheless; and though they are only venial in themselves, they make us apt, ready, and inclined to lose grace and to fall into mortal sin.
-- Johannes Tauler -
Although the 'New York Times' annually declares that Broadway is on its deathbed, news of its demise is greatly exaggerated. There's a lot of life yet in the old tart.
-- John Lahr -
We all seem to stumble, planning our own demise, Getting the big picture, and making it wallet-sized.
-- Kendrick Lamar -
I've read that if an avalanche buries you and you're lying there underneath all that snow, you can't tell which way is up or down. You want to dig yourself out but pick the wrong way, and you dig yourself to your own demise.
-- Khaled Hosseini -
I feel that if I can show my demise artistically to the public, I can somehow cure my own legend.
-- Lady Gaga -
Living sites are only as good as today's update. If the words are dull, nobody will read them, and nobody will come back. If the words are wrong, people will be misled, disappointed, infuriated. If the words aren't there, people will shake their heads and lament your untimely demise.
-- Mark Bernstein -
And there are lots of drug companies that are working on cure or medicine.
-- Mort Kondracke -
Reagan won because he ran against Jimmy Carter. If he ran unopposed he would have lost.
-- Mort Sahl -
I was kicked out of The Stars And Stripes twice, and finally got back in.
-- Mort Walker -
A mortal lives not through that breath that flows in and that flows out. The source of his life is another and this causes the breath to flow.
-- Paracelsus -
To see a lot of the smaller labels disappear or get gobbled up by the bigger labels, that's a shame. It was a bit of a shock at first to see the demise of the record stores.
-- Phil Collins -
Everything I do has the tinge of the finite, of my own demise. At some point you either accept death or you just keep pushing it back as you get older and older. I've accepted it.
-- Robert Smith -
I've paid the price; I definitely have a reputation that precedes me, and there is a camp that plots my demise. But then again... it's funner that way.
-- Rufus Wainwright -
The freedom-lovers of the world mourn the sad demise of Imam Khomeini.
-- Ruhollah Khomeini -
Avarice starves its possessor to fatten those who come after, and who are eagerly awaiting the demise of the accumulator.
-- Sir Fulke Greville -
I've watched the demise of the Hollywood orchestra, the house orchestras of the big studios.
-- Skitch Henderson -
Restlessness is a fickle catalyst; it can drive you to achieve or it can coax your demise, and sometimes the choice isn't yours
-- Slash -
Borders had lousy management and made bad corporate decisions, so its fate is less like a terrible accident than a slow-motion slide into a ditch, but it's hard to be happy about a bookseller's demise.
-- Susan Orlean -
My own reaction from a distance is that Pol Pot's demise as the leader of the Khmer Rouge was inevitable, and that his own paranoia did him in as much as anything else.
-- Sydney Schanberg -
The superabundance alludes to the myth that is ensuring our demise but it's also the space around and possibly the void that we enter into, beyond that delusion.
-- Daniel O'Sullivan -
Tuvalu's future at current levels of global warming is already bleak. Any further temperature increase will spell its total demise.
-- Enele Sopoaga -
Heroes, whatever high ideas we may have of them, are mortal and not divine. We are all as God made us and many of us much worse.
-- John Osborne -
The one thing in the world of value is the active soul. And I think that soul doesn't necessarily die after we're dead and maybe there's a sense of sometimes we know more than we think we know about our lives and our demise.
-- Kathy Eldon -
By the time of the GDR's demise, two in every 13 citizens were informers.
-- Luke Harding -
The only demise of Shaquille O'Neal will be his age.
-- Shaquille O'Neal -
When I die, I don't want my demise to be used as a political rally, and that's what happened yesterday.
-- Bill O'Reilly -
The demise of the American empire will be no more regretted than the demise of the Soviet empire.
-- Chalmers Johnson -
You know and I know that as soon as it's done, you have to get it out there. You want what's best for it. And especially in owning a label, which some days is the greatest thing for me and in some days is my demise because you see the truth and the work that goes into things and you see things happen and you see things not happen, and all you want in this world of currency right now is popularity, that's it!
-- Kevin Drew
