Termination Quotes

• Without life there can be no action — no objects of pursuit — no restless desires — no tormenting passions. Hence it is that we fondly cling to it — that we dread its termination as the close, not of enjoyment, but of hope.

  William Hazlitt

  Hope, Expectations, Enjoyment

  "Collected Works of William Hazlitt".

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• It is safe to assert that no government proper ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Gratitude, Government, Law

  First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1861

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• I have become a prisoner of the peace movement. But you can't say that the termination is coming and then say that you are going back to your own garden to dig.

  E. P. Thompson

  Peace, Garden, Movement

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• A DNA sequence for the genome of bacteriophage ΦX174 of approximately 5,375 nucleotides has been determined using the rapid and simple 'plus and minus' method. The sequence identifies many of the features responsible for the production of the proteins of the nine known genes of the organism, including initiation and termination sites for the proteins and RNAs. Two pairs of genes are coded by the same region of DNA using different reading frames.

  Frederick Sanger

  Reading, Science, Simple

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• Intelligence and war are games, perhaps the only meaningful games left. If any player becomes too proficient, the game is threatened with termination.

  William S. Burroughs

  Meaningful, War, Player

  William S. Burroughs (1993). “The Adding Machine: Selected Essays”, p.124, Arcade Publishing

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• The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Crime, Plague, Criminality

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• Life never presents us with anything which may not be looked upon as a fresh starting point, no less than as a termination.

  Andre Gide

  Life, May, Fresh Start

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• Over the last 40 years, I have built MW into a multi-billion dollar company with amazing employees and loyal customers who value the products and service they receive at MW. Over the past several months I have expressed my concerns to the Board about the direction the company is currently heading.Instead of fostering the kind of dialogue in the Boardroom that has in part contributed to our success, the Board has inappropriately chosen to silence my concerns through termination as an executive officer.

  George Zimmer

  Past, Years, Loyal Customers

  "Fired Men's Wearhouse Founder Slams The Board In An Explosive Statement" by Ashley Lutz, www.businessinsider.com. June 19, 2013.

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• If we all knew each morning that there was going to be another morning, and on and on and on, we's tend not to notice the sunrise, or hear the birds, or the waves rolling into the shore. We'd tend not to treasure our time with the people we love. Simply the awareness that our mortal lives had a beginning and will have an end enhances the quality of our living. Perhaps it's even more intense when we know that the termination of the body is near, but it shouldn't be.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Morning, People, Bird

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• We are forced to choose, for the processes we have initiated in our lifetime cannot continue in the lifetime of our children. Whatever we do either creates the framework for continuing the supreme adventure of life and consciousness on this planet or sets the stage for its termination. The choice before us is urgent and important: it can neither be postponed nor ignored.

  Ervin Laszlo

  Inspiring, Children, Adventure

  Ervin Laszlo (1994). “The Choice: Evolution Or Extinction? : a Thinking Person's Guide to Global Issues”, Tarcher

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• A termination of one's life is necessary in the scheme of things to provide a logical reason for unselfishness. . . . The fact that there is an end to one's life compels one to take an interest in things that will continue to live after one is dead.

  Paul Dirac

  Facts, Life Is, Reason

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• Abortion is inherently different from other medical procedures, because no other procedure involves the purposeful termination of a potential life.

  Potter Stewart

  Abortion, Different, Medical

  "Harris v. McRae, 448 U.S. 297". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. June 30, 1980.

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• Something is wanting, and something must be done, or we shall be involved in all the horror of failure, and civil war without a prospect of its termination.

  Henry Knox

  War, Failure, Done

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• Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Our Actions, Rhyme, Please

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• All analyses end badly. Each 'termination' leaves the participants with the taste of ashes in their mouths; each is absurd; each is a small, pointless death. Psychoanalysis cannot tolerate happy endings; it casts them off the way the body's immunological system casts off transplanted organs.

  Janet Malcolm

  Ashes, Analysis, Mouths

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• Death--some form of termination--is the universal ending of all living things; but only man, by virtue of his verbally reportable introspective life, can conceptualize his own cessation.

  Edwin S. Shneidman

  Men, Virtue, Form

  Edwin S. Shneidman (1974). “Deaths of man”, Penguin Books

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• It is obviously easier, for the short run, to draw cheap labor from adjacent pools of poverty...than to find it among one's own people. And to the millions of such prospective immigrants from poverty to prosperity, there is, rightly or wrongly, no place that looks more attractive than the United States. Given its head, and subject to no restrictions, this pressure will find its termination only when the levels of overpopulation and poverty in the United States are equal to those of the countries from which these people are now so anxious to escape.

  George F. Kennan

  Running, Country, People

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• God wants us to know that life is a series of beginnings not endings. Just as graduations are not terminations but commencements. Creation is an ongoing process and when we create a perfect world where love and compassion are shared by all suffering will cease.

  Bernie Siegel

  Compassion, Perfect, Suffering

  "The Inner Life: Why Do We Suffer?" by Bernie Siegel, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• With the 2001 terror attacks, airline bankruptcies, pension terminations, loss of pay, changes in work rules — we're all working harder and longer than we used to.

  Chesley Sullenberger

  Loss, Terror Attacks, Pay

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• The KGB still killed people, the KGB would not execute its last prisoner until the final days of its existence in 1991, but by the eighties a termination required paperwork and signatures and a post-action review.

  Tom Clancy

  Kgb, People, Signatures

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• The purposes of the Almighty are perfect, and must prevail, though we erring mortals may fail to accurately perceive them in advance. We hoped for a happy termination of this terrible war long before this; but God knows best, and has ruled otherwise. We shall yet acknowledge His wisdom, and our own error therein. Meanwhile we must work earnestly in the best lights He gives us, trusting that so working still conduces to the great ends He ordains. Surely He intends some great good to follow this mighty convulsion, which no mortal could make, and no mortal could stay.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Religious, War, Errors

  Abraham Lincoln, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.330, Fordham Univ Press

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• M. Mabeuf’s political opinion was a passionate fondness for plants, and a still greater one for books. He had, like everybody else, his termination in ist, without which nobody could have lived in those times, but he was neither a royalist, nor a Bonapartist, nor a chartist, nor an Orleanist, nor an anarchist; he was an old-bookist.

  Victor Hugo

  Book, Political Opinions, Passionate

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.461, Wordsworth Editions

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• If her breath were as terrible as her terminations, there were no living near her, she would infect to the north star!

  William Shakespeare

  Stars, North Star, Terrible

  'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 2, sc. 1, l. [257]

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• You swore you loved me, and laughed and warned me that you would not love me forever. I did not hear you. You were speaking in a language I did not understand. Never, never, I can conceive of a love which is able to foresee its own termination. Love is its own eternity. Love is in every moment of its being: all time. It is the only glimpse we are permitted of what eternity is. So I did not hear you. The words were nonsense.

  Thornton Wilder

  Love, Forever, Age

  Thornton Wilder (2009). “The Bridge of San Luis Rey and Other Novels, 1926-1948”

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• Relying, as I do, upon the Almighty Power, and encouraged as I am by these resolutions which you have just read, with the support which I receive from Christian men, I shall not hesitate to use all the means at my control to secure the termination of this rebellion, and will hope for success.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Christian, Religious, Mean

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.245, Wildside Press LLC

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