Quotes with dead-end

Quotes 81 till 100 of 1106.

  • Tacitus All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.
    Tacitus
    Roman senator and historian (56 - 117)
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  • Barbara Walters All of the religions - with the exception of Tibetan Buddhism, which doesn't believe in a heaven - teach that heaven is a better place. At the end of the program, I say that heaven is a place where you are happy. All of the religions have that in common.
    Barbara Walters
    American journalist and author (1929 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson All our progress is an unfolding, like a vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Joseph L. Mankiewicz All playwrights should be dead for three hundred years.
    Joseph L. Mankiewicz
    American film director, screenwriter, and producer (1909 - 1993)
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  • Adelbert von Chamisso All possible means were used by the infatuated parents to conclude the bargain; and deception put an end to these usual artifices.
    Adelbert von Chamisso
    German writer, liar and explorer (1781 - 1838)
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  • George Bernard Shaw All roads end at the grave, which is the gate to nothingness.
    Source: The Adventures Of Black Girl in Her Search for God 8
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Ernest Hemingway All stories, if continued far enough, end in death.
    Source: Death in the Afternoon (1932) Ch. 11
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Patrick McCabe All the beautiful things in this world are lies. They count for nothing in the end.
    Patrick McCabe
    Irish writer (1955 - )
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  • Eldridge Cleaver All the gods are dead except the god of war.
    Eldridge Cleaver
    American afro-amerikan leader, writer (1935 - 1998)
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  • Alberto Giacometti All the sculptures of today, like those of the past, will end one day in pieces... So it is important to fashion ones work carefully in its smallest recess and charge every particle of matter with life.
    Alberto Giacometti
    Swiss sculptor, painter, draftsman and printmaker (1901 - 1966)
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  • Ban Ki-moon All women and girls have the fundamental right to live free of violence. This right is enshrined in international human rights and humanitarian law. And it lies at the heart of my UNiTE to End Violence against Women campaign.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Bayard Taylor Alone each heart must cover up its dead; Alone, through bitter toil, achieve its rest.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Bill Cosby Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry.
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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  • Beth Behrs Always make sure you have your rent. At the end of the month, if you have to eat Ramen for a week because you won't have your rent money, just do it but make sure your rent is all there so you're not stressing about that. As long as you have your rent at least you have somewhere to live.
    Beth Behrs
    American actress and writer (1985 - )
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  • Bonnie Tyler Alzheimer's is a horrible thing. Some people are naive about it. They think, 'Oh it's just your memory,' but my mother was in terrible pain. Your body closes down. She didn't know if she'd eaten or if she wanted to eat. She couldn't remember how to walk. Towards the end, she didn't know us. It came gradually, then it got worse.
    Bonnie Tyler
    Welsh singer (1951 - )
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  • Edward Dahlberg Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is seeking.
    Edward Dahlberg
    American novelist, essayist and autobiographer (1900 - 1977)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Ambition makes the same mistake concerning power that avarice makes concerning wealth. She begins by accumulating power as a means to happiness, and she finishes by continuing to accumulate it as an end.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Yoshida Kenko Ambition never comes to an end.
    Yoshida Kenko
    Japanese author and monk (1283 - 1350)
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  • John Updike Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic uninterestingness as an intellectual position. Where was the ingenuity, the ambiguity, the humanity (in the Harvard sense) of saying that the universe just happened to happen and that when we're dead we're dead?
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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