Quotes with dead-end

Quotes 601 till 620 of 1106.

  • Bernie Sanders Not only must we fight to end disastrous unfettered free trade agreements with China, Mexico, and other low wage countries, we must fight to fundamentally rewrite our trade agreements so that American products, not jobs, are our number one export.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
    - +
     0
  • Walter Pater Not the fruit of experience but experience itself, is the end.
    Walter Pater
     
    - +
     0
  • Barbara W. Tuchman Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
    - +
     0
  • Bob Edwards Now I know what a statesman is; he's a dead politician. We need more statesmen.
    Bob Edwards
    American broadcast journalist
    - +
     0
  • Billy Collins Now that I'm older, a real source of interest is the ages of the dead, the number; the day is off to an optimistic start when the departed are all older than I.
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
    - +
     0
  • Winston Churchill Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.
    Source: Speech november 1942
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
    - +
     0
  • John Ruskin Obey something, and you will have a chance to learn what is best to obey. But if you begin by obeying nothing, you will end by obeying the devil and all his invited friends.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
    - +
     0
  • Angela Davis Obviously there are some organizations that go out on the street and say we want an end to the capitalist system. But obviously that is not going to happen as a result of just assuming that stance.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
    - +
     0
  • C. S. Lewis Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
    - +
     0
  • Bobbi Kristina Brown Of course we had our arguments; we had everything, but at the end of the day, that was still my mother, my confidante - my everything.
    Bobbi Kristina Brown
    American reality television personality, media personality, and singer (1993 - 2015)
    - +
     0
  • Barack Obama Of course, violence will not end with our combat mission. Extremists will continue to set off bombs, attack Iraqi civilians and try to spark sectarian strife. But ultimately, these terrorists will fail to achieve their goals.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
    - +
     0
  • Charles Caleb Colton Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
    - +
     0
  • Lord George Byron Oh Time! the beautifier of the dead, adorer of the ruin, comforter and only healer when the heart hath bled... Time, the avenger!
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
    - +
     0
  • Tennessee Williams Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.
    Tennessee Williams
    American playwright (1911 - 1983)
    - +
     0
  • Anita Brookner Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.
    Anita Brookner
    British Writer (1928 - 2016)
    - +
     0
  • Barbara W. Tuchman On being shown a relic said to be a bone of St. Elizabeth, he (Sigismund) turned it over and remarked that it could just as well be that of a dead cobbler.
    Source: A Distant Mirror
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
    - +
     0
  • Caroline Knapp On the broad spectrum of solitude, I lean toward the extreme end: I work alone, as well as live alone, so I can pass an entire day without uttering so much as a hello to another human being. Sometimes a day's conversation consists of only five words, uttered at the local Starbucks: 'Large coffee with milk, please.'
    Caroline Knapp
    American writer and columnist
    - +
     0
  • Oliver Wendell Holmes On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
    - +
     0
  • Richard Nixon Once one determines that he or she has a mission in life, that's it's not going to be accomplished without a great deal of pain, and that the rewards in the end may not outweigh the pain -if you recognize historically that always happens, then when it comes, you survive it.
    Richard Nixon
    American president (1913 - 1994)
    - +
     0
  • G. C. Lichtenberg Once the good man was dead, one wore his hat and another his sword as he had worn them, a third had himself barbered as he had, a fourth walked as he did, but the honest man that he was - nobody any longer wanted to be that.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
    - +
     0
All dead-end famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 31)