Quotes with dead-end

Quotes 821 till 840 of 1106.

  • David Gemmell The purpose of debates is to explore issues, not end them.
    David Gemmell
    British author of heroic fantasy (1948 - 2006)
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  • Dag Hammarskjöld The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.
    Dag Hammarskjöld
    Swedish diplomat (1905 - 1961)
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  • George Orwell The quickest way to end a war is to lose it.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Robert Alan The rain may be falling hard outside, But your smile makes it all alright. I'm so gland that you're my friend. I know our friendship will never end.
    Robert Alan
    American singer/songwriter and comic book creator (1971 - )
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  • Candace Bushnell The reality about being economically dependent on someone else usually doesn't work out for women in the end. It's about being an adult and being responsible for your life. Most women have to work, so let's just get on with it.
    Candace Bushnell
    American author and journalist (1958 - )
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  • Roger Simon The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
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  • Bob Schaffer The recent history of Ukraine is replete with dead journalists, beaten journalists, news agencies being shut down, and politicians being injured or killed. Most are killed in mysterious auto accidents.
    Bob Schaffer
    American politician (1962 - )
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  • Charles Lamb The red-letter days, now become, to all intents and purposes, dead-letter days.
    Charles Lamb
    English essayist (1775 - 1834)
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  • Jules Renard The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead.
    Jules Renard
    French writer (1864 - 1910)
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  • Barbara Demick The scene that has raised the most objections in 'The Interview' is at the very end, when Kim's head dissolves into flames. To me, it feels gratuitous.
    Barbara Demick
    American journalist
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  • Adam Clarke The Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, said an eminent scholar, have God for their Author, the Salvation of mankind for their end, and Truth without any mixture of error for their matter.
    Adam Clarke
    British Methodist theologian (1760 - 1832)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Washington Irving The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.
    Washington Irving
    American writer (1783 - 1859)
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  • Ben Bernanke The stress on the financial system in the fall of 2007 was significant, but not so significant as to threaten the overall stability of the U.S. economy, although it did lead to the beginning of a recession at the end of 2007.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Stokely Carmichael The time for running has come to an end. You tell them white folk in Mississippi that all the scared niggers are dead!
    Stokely Carmichael
    American activist (1941 - 1998)
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  • Bao Dai The time has come to put an end to the fratricidal war and to recover at last peace and accord.
    Bao Dai
    Vietnamese emperor
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  • Adlai Stevenson II The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.
    Speech San Francisco (9 september 1952)
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Dhammapada The traveler has reached the end of the journey! In the freedom of the infinite he is free from all sorrows, the fetters that bound him are thrown away, and the burning fever of life is no more.
    Dhammapada
    collection of sayings of the Buddha in verse form
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  • Olive Schreiner The troubles of the young are soon over; they leave no external mark. If you wound the tree in its youth the bark will quickly cover the gash; but when the tree is very old, peeling the bark off, and looking carefully, you will see the scar there still. All that is buried is not dead.
    Olive Schreiner
    South African author and anti-war campaigner (1855 - 1920)
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  • Aristotle The true end of tragedy is to purify the passions.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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