Quotes with dead-ends

Quotes 221 till 240 of 516.

  • Dame Rose Macaulay It was a book to kill time for those who like it better dead.
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  • Anna Akhmatova It was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace.
    Anna Akhmatova
    Russian poet (1889 - 1966)
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  • Arthur Baer It was as helpful as throwing a drowning man both ends of the rope.
    Arthur Baer
    American journalist and humorist (1886 - 1969)
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  • Buddy Wakefield It was not my intention to make such a production of the emptiness between us, playing tuba on the tombstone of a soprano to try to keep some dead singer's perspective alive. It's just that I could have swore you had sung me a love song back there; and that you meant it.
    Source: Poetry Hurling Crowbirds at Mockingbars
    Buddy Wakefield
    American poet and actor (1974 - )
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Journalism consists largely in saying ''Lord James is dead'' to people who never knew Lord James was alive.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Oscar Wilde Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Edward. E. Cummings Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
    Edward. E. Cummings
    American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright (1894 - 1962)
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  • Bob Dylan Leave your stepping stones behind, something calls for you.
    Forget the dead you've left, they will not follow you.
    Source: Bringing It All Back Home (1965)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Bob Latta Let the living give thanks to our honored dead who have paid the ultimate sacrifice that the Constitution of the United States remains our guiding light.
    Bob Latta
    American politician (1956 - )
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Joan Didion Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.
    Source: The Year of Magical Thinking (2007) 4
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Woody Guthrie Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.
    Woody Guthrie
     
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Life is a dead-end street.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Søren Kierkegaard Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth - look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • Lord Chesterfield Lord Tyrawley and I have been dead these two years, but we don't choose to have it known.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Alexander Maclaren Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.
    Alexander Maclaren
    British preacher (1826 - 1910)
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  • Vance Havner Many people are in a rut and a rut is nothing but a grave - with both ends kicked out.
    Vance Havner
    American writer
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  • Bobby Darin Maybe I should quit the business. There's no one left for me to love. Mama's dead. Mr. Burns couldn't care less about me. What's left?
    Bobby Darin
    American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, impressionist, and actor (1936 - 1973)
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  • Walter Benjamin Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.
    Walter Benjamin
    German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
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