Quotes with dead-end

Quotes 961 till 980 of 1106.

  • Ban Ki-moon We have a legal and moral obligation to rid our world of nuclear tests and nuclear weapons. When we put an end to nuclear tests, we get closer to eliminating all nuclear weapons. A world free of nuclear weapons will be safer and more prosperous.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Umberto Eco We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death. That's why we like all the things that we assume have no limits and, therefore, no end. It's a way of escaping thoughts about death. We like lists because we don't want to die.
    (2009)
    Umberto Eco
    Italian writer and critic (1932 - 2016)
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  • Bill Haslam We have a lot of entitlement programs in this country, and we've seen how much they cost us on the back end when people don't have the education they need. I say let's make this investment on the front end. I think it'll be better for the individual and better for our state in the long term.
    Bill Haslam
    American businessman and politician (1958 - )
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  • Lewis Mumford We have created an industrial order geared to automatism, where feeble-mindedness, native or acquired, is necessary for docile productivity in the factory; and where a pervasive neurosis is the final gift of the meaningless life that issues forth at the other end.
    Lewis Mumford
    American social philosopher (1895 - 1990)
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  • Boris Kodjoe We have relationships and know the exact outcome with that person because we don't deal with ourselves and don't deal with our issues and end up being attracted to the same person or the person is attracted to our energy.
    Boris Kodjoe
    Austrian-American actor, producer (1973 - )
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  • Bob Ainsworth We in the West walked away from Afghanistan at the end of the Cold War and left it as a country devastated socially and armed to the teeth. If we do that again, there will be consequences.
    Bob Ainsworth
    British Labour Party politician (1952 - )
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  • Carl Honore We know that no algorithm can solve global poverty; no pill can cure a chronic illness; no box of chocolates can mend a broken relationship; no educational DVD can transform a child into a baby Einstein; no drone strike can end a terrorist conflict. Sadly, there is no such thing as 'One Tip to a Flat Stomach.'
    Carl Honore
    Canadian journalist (1967 - )
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  • Jawaharlal Nehru We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
    Jawaharlal Nehru
    Indian nationalist and statesman (1889 - 1964)
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  • Herman Melville We may have civilized bodies and yet barbarous souls. We are blind to the real sights of this world; deaf to its voice; and dead to its death. And not till we know, that one grief outweighs ten thousand joys will we become what Christianity is striving to make us.
    Herman Melville
    American author (1819 - 1891)
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  • Jane Austen We met Dr. Hall in such deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • Bette Davis We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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  • Mark Twain We never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead - and not then until we have been dead years and years. People ought to start dead and then they would be honest so much earlier.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Voltaire We owe respect to the living. To the dead we owe only truth.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Alexander Volkov We really teach ourselves. If you want to learn, you will always find someone to learn from, be they dead or alive, great or unknown. You learn from everything you see and hear around you - if you are willing to pay attention.
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  • Blaise Pascal We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.
    Pensees
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Marlin Finch Lupus We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to help us through the never-ending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to comfort us along the way.
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  • T. S. Eliot We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started... and know the place for the first time.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Tryon Edwards We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living.
    Tryon Edwards
    American theologian (1809 - 1894)
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  • Louis de Bernieres We should care for each other more than we care for ideas, or else we will end up killing each other.
    Kapitein Corelli's mandoline
    Louis de Bernieres
    British novelist (1954 - )
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  • Jean de la Bruyère We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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