Quotes with dead-end

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  • Billy Collins My poems tend to have rhetorical structures; what I mean by that is they tend to have a beginning, a middle, and an end. There tends to be an opening, as if you were reading the opening chapter of a novel. They sound like I'm initiating something, or I'm making a move.
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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  • Taylor Swift My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.
    Taylor Swift
    American singer-songwriter (1989 - )
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  • Allen Tate Narcissism and the Confederate dead cannot be connected logically, or even historically; even were the connection an historical fact, they would not stand connected as art, for no one experiences raw history.
    Allen Tate
    American poet and essayist (1899 - 1979)
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  • Socrates Nature has given us two ears, two eyes, and but one tongue-to the end that we should hear and see more than we speak.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • Alcee Hastings Nearly 60 years ago, the international community made a commitment to put an end to the crime of genocide by ratifying the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.
    Alcee Hastings
    American politician (1936 - )
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  • Jean Baudrillard Neither dead nor alive, the hostage is suspended by an incalculable outcome. It is not his destiny that awaits for him, nor his own death, but anonymous chance, which can only seem to him something absolutely arbitrary. He is in a state of radical emergency, of virtual extermination.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • Epictetus Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? is not this also a return?
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • Robert Southey Never let any man imagine that he can pursue a good end by evil means, without sinning against his own soul! Any other issue is doubtful; the evil effect on himself is certain.
    Robert Southey
    British writer (1774 - 1843)
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  • Abraham Joshua Heschel New insight begins when satisfaction comes to an end, when all that has been seen, said, or done looks like a distortion. Man's true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
    Who Is Man? (1965)
    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    Polish-American rabbi (1907 - 1972)
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  • Evelyn Waugh News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read. And it's only news until he's read it. After that it's dead.
    Evelyn Waugh
    British novelist (1903 - 1966)
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  • O. J. Simpson NFL owners should quit worrying about silly things like players celebrating in the end zone. They should give them something to really celebrate. Get rid of the artificial surfaces.
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow No literature is complete until the language it was written in is dead.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Marquis de Sade No lover, if he be of good faith, and sincere, will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead than unfaithful.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • Sydney Smith No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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  • John S. Bonnell No man or woman has achieved an effective personality who is not self-disciplined. Such discipline must not be an end in itself, but must be directed to the development of resolute Christian character.
    John S. Bonnell
    American pastor
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  • Francis Bacon No man's fortune can be an end worthy of his being.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Ellen Glasgow No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book.
    Ellen Glasgow
    American writer (1873 - 1945)
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  • Robert Frost No memory of having starred
    Atones for later disregard,
    Or keeps the end from being hard.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • William Hazlitt No wise man can have a contempt for the prejudices of others; and he should even stand in a certain awe of his own, as if they were aged parents and monitors. They may in the end prove wiser than he.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Søren Kierkegaard Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wander whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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