Quotes with dead-ends

Quotes 261 till 280 of 516.

  • John Ruskin No good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow No literature is complete until the language it was written in is dead.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Marquis de Sade No lover, if he be of good faith, and sincere, will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead than unfaithful.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • Ellen Glasgow No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book.
    Ellen Glasgow
    American writer (1873 - 1945)
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  • Francis Thompson Nothing begins, and nothing ends, That is not paid with moan; For we are born in others pain And perish in our own.
    Francis Thompson
    English poet and mystic (1859 - 1907)
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  • Tom Cruise Nothing ends nicely, that's why it ends.
    Tom Cruise
     
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Bob Edwards Now I know what a statesman is; he's a dead politician. We need more statesmen.
    Bob Edwards
    American broadcast journalist
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  • Billy Collins Now that I'm older, a real source of interest is the ages of the dead, the number; the day is off to an optimistic start when the departed are all older than I.
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Lord George Byron Oh Time! the beautifier of the dead, adorer of the ruin, comforter and only healer when the heart hath bled... Time, the avenger!
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman On being shown a relic said to be a bone of St. Elizabeth, he (Sigismund) turned it over and remarked that it could just as well be that of a dead cobbler.
    Source: A Distant Mirror
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg Once the good man was dead, one wore his hat and another his sword as he had worn them, a third had himself barbered as he had, a fourth walked as he did, but the honest man that he was - nobody any longer wanted to be that.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Boris Vian One ends up relying on pure musical inspiration, and failing that, the music won't lead to anything good, or it will alienate all but the most die-hard fans.
    Boris Vian
    French writer, poet and engineer (1920 - 1959)
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  • Carl Sagan One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • A. W. Tozer One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organizations do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team. The first requisite is life, always.
    A. W. Tozer
    American Christian pastor, preacher and author
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  • Brendon Urie One of the most frustrating parts about songwriting for me is production, but it makes me want to get better at it and ends up being one of the most rewarding parts of it.
    Brendon Urie
    American singer, songwriter, and musician (1987 - )
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  • Dustin Hoffman One thing about being successful is that I stopped being afraid of dying. Once you're a star you're dead already. You're embalmed.
    Dustin Hoffman
    American actor and director (1937 - )
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  • Eleanor Roosevelt One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And, the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    American "First Lady" and columnist (1884 - 1962)
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  • Alice Walker Only dead people need loud music.
    Source: The Temple of My Familiar (1989)
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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