Demise Quotes - Page 7

• Like the panic stricken populace of 'The War of the Worlds' and countless other 1950s invasion movies, the victims are there to provide the human ground over which monster and expert, threat and defender, disordering and ordering impulses can battle it out. Second-class citizens of the genre, they are narratively indispensable because physically entirely disposable. We are only really involved with them in the momentary tension of their capture or demise.

  Andrew Tudor

  War, Class, Battle

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• Life is about change, it never stops, it's moving and it's moving this human body inexorably towards its demise.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Moving, Body, Life Is

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• Whenever I can’t sleep, I like to lie in the darkness and pretend I’ve been assassinated. I’ve found this is the best way to get comfortable. I imagine I’m in the coffin at my funeral, and people from my past are walking by my corpse and making comments about my demise.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Lying, Sleep, Past

  Chuck Klosterman (2013). “Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs”, p.199, Faber & Faber

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• 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

  Choices, Fickle, Sometimes

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• I need to capture my sprite with trembling hands. Except I could crush her. Wonder how many small things of beauty - flowers, seashells, dragonflies - have met such a demise. Wonder how much fragile love has collapsed beneath the weight of confession.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Crush, Flower, Hands

  Ellen Hopkins (2013). “Fallout”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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• After the Israelites safely crossed the Red Sea, the Egyptians chased after them and were drowned. God's angels wanted to celebrate the enemy's demise. God saw this and grew angry. He said, in essence, 'Stop celebrating. For they are my children,too.

  Mitch Albom

  Children, Angel, Sea

  Mitch Albom (2009). “Have a Little Faith: A True Story”, Hyperion

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• If untimely death came only those who deserved that fate, Keturah, where would choice be? No one would do good for its own sake, but only to avoid an early demise. No one would speak out against evil because of his own courageous soul, but only to live another day. The right to choose is man's great gift, but one thing is not his to choose--the time and means of death.

  Martine Leavitt

  Mean, Fate, Men

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• The only demise of Shaquille O'Neal will be his age.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Age

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• The imminent demise of the church has been predicted since the middle of the 18th century. This is the regular secular mantra if churchgoing declines. I could take you to plenty of churches that are full to bursting and new churches being built.

  N. T. Wright

  Church, Century, Decline

  "N.T. Wright: On Jesus and Writing". Interview with Marcia Z. Nelson, www.publishersweekly.com. November 23, 2011.

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• I cannot help but wonder whether, by continuing and expanding the school lunch program, we aren't witnessing, if not encouraging, the slow demise of yet another American tradition: the brown bag. Perhaps we are beholding yet another break in the chain that links child to home.

  Charles Mathias

  Children, School, Home

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• the rumors of the White Sox demise are greatly exaggerated.

  Mark Twain

  White, Rumor, Exaggerated

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• Mark Twain put it best when he said, 'Reports of my demise are greatly exaggerated.

  Bill Bradley

  Said, Mark, Exaggeration

  "Amiable Democratic debate may signal endgame of Gore-Bradley contest" by Mike Ferullo, www.cnn.com. March 2, 2000.

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• Instead, he would make death his final project, the center point of his days. Since everyone was going to die, he could be of great value, right? He could be research. A human textbook. Study me in my slow and patient demise. Watch what happens to me. Learn with me.

  Mitch Albom

  Watches, Finals, Textbooks

  Mitch Albom (2007). “Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson”, p.10, Broadway Books

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• Reason is immortal, all else mortal.

  Pythagoras

  Reason, Immortal, Mortals

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• National Defense A strong USA defense brought down the Soviet Union. It was Ronald Reagan - first in a speech at Notre Dame University in May 1981, then his 'Evil Empire' speech of March 1983 - who most eloquently declared communism's imminent demise. Reagan was right. And even Soviet officials attribute Ronald Reagan's rhetoric and foreign policy to bringing down that 'evil empire.' By Christmas Day, 1990, the Soviet Union ceased to exist. Liberals wished it were other things.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Strong, Usa, Evil

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• If kind parents love their children and delight in their happiness, then he who is perfect goodness in sending abroad mortal contagions doth assuredly direct their use.

  John Woolman

  Love, Happiness, Children

  Benjamin Franklin, John Woolman (2010). “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, the Journal of John Woolman, Fruits of Solitude by William Penn”, p.207, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Should I be the happy mortal destined to turn the scale of war, will you not rejoice, O my father?

  Zebulon Pike

  Father, War, Should

  Zebulon Montgomery Pike, Elliott Coues (1987). “The expeditions of Zebulon Montgomery Pike”, Dover Pubns

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• 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

  Plot, Way, Reputation

  "Rufus and Martha Wainwright on Family Memories, Jealousy, and Fame". Interview with Miranda Siegel, www.vulture.com. February 19, 2013.

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• 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

  Pushing It, Accepted, Accepting

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• There is a moment in every relationship when one of the parties senses its imminent demise. There's a moment of incredible clarity when your stomach drops with a heavy sense of dread, and you feel like control is slipping through your fingertips even as you try to hold on.

  Allison Winn Scotch

  Party, Trying, Slipping

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• I was kicked out of The Stars And Stripes twice, and finally got back in.

  Mort Walker

  Stars, Stripes

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• The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.

  John F. Kennedy

  Science, Technology, Men

  Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1961

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• I intend to live forever, or die trying.

  Groucho Marx

  Death, Funny Life, Forever

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• Men are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and die.

  B. R. Ambedkar

  Men, Ideas, Needs

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• I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Humble, Humility

  Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.180, Vintage

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