Quotes with dead-end

Quotes 781 till 800 of 1106.

  • St. Thomas Aquinas The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.
    St. Thomas Aquinas
    Italian philosopher and theologian (1225 - 1274)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche The historian looks backward. In the end he also believes backward.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • E. M. Forster The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius.
    E. M. Forster
    English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
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  • Aharon Appelfeld The Holocaust is a central event in many people's lives, but it also has become a metaphor for our century. There cannot be an end to speaking and writing about it. Besides, in Israel, everyone carries a biography deep inside him.
    Aharon Appelfeld
    Israeli writer (1932 - 2018)
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  • Caitlin Doughty The home funeral - caring for the dead ourselves - changes our relationship to grieving. If you have been married to someone for 50 years, why would you let someone take them away the moment they die?
    Caitlin Doughty
    American author, blogger (1984 - )
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  • Blair Underwood The hope is they would like to bring it to Broadway next year, so we'll see that's to come in the end of the finance year and everybody else and also real estate and what theaters are available at the time but I would like to come back with it.
    Blair Underwood
    American actor (1964 - )
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  • Booker T. Washington The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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  • Alex Grey The infinite vibratory levels, the dimensions of interconnectedness are without end. There is nothing independent. All beings and things are residents in your awareness.
    Alex Grey
    American visionary artist, author and teacher
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  • Thomas à Kempis The intention which is fixed on God as its only end will keep people steady in their purposes, and deliver them from being the joke and scorn of fortune.
    Thomas à Kempis
    Dutch medieval Augustinian canon, writer and mystic (1380 - 1471)
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  • Bette Davis The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead.
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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  • Lord George Byron The king-times are fast finishing. There will be blood shed like water, and tears like mist; but the peoples will conquer in the end. I shall not live to see it, but I foresee it.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Blaise Pascal The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • George Arnold The living need charity more than the dead.
    George Arnold
    American author and poet (1834 - 1865)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
    Henrietta Temple (1837) IV, ch 1
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Marguerite Yourcenar The memory of most men is an abandoned cemetery where lie, unsung and unhonored, the dead whom they have ceased to cherish. Any lasting grief is reproof to their forgetfulness.
    Marguerite Yourcenar
    French writer (1903 - 1987)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes The minute a phrase, becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Ian McEwan The moment you lose curiosity in the world, you might as well be dead.
    Ian McEwan
    English novelist and screenwriter (1948 - )
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  • Robert Wilson The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.
    Robert Wilson
    American theater stage director and playwright (1941 - )
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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