Quotes with dead-ends

Quotes 381 till 400 of 516.

  • 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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  • Milan Kundera The reign of imagagology begins where history ends.
    Milan Kundera
    Tsjech writer and criticus (1929 - 2023)
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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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  • Auberon Herbert The ruling idea of the politician - stated rather bluntly - is that those who are opposed to him exist for the purpose of being made to serve his ends, if he can get power enough in his hands to force these ends upon them.
    Auberon Herbert
    British writer, theorist, philosopher
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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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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are - 1. Security to possessors; 2. Facility to acquirers; and, 3. Hope to all.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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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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  • 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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  • Nathaniel Howe The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones.
    Nathaniel Howe
    American priest (1764 - 1837)
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  • Chief Seattle The white man's dead forget the country of their birth when they go to walk among the stars. Our dead never forget this beautiful earth, for it is the mother of the red man.
    Chief Seattle
    Suquamish Tribe chief (1786 - 1866)
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  • Charles Bukowski The whole LSD, STP, marijuana, heroin, hashish, prescription cough medicine crowd suffers from the ''Watchtower'' itch: you gotta be with us, man, or you're out, you're dead. This pitch is a continual and seeming MUST with those who use the stuff. It's no wonder they keep getting busted.
    Charles Bukowski
    American writer (1920 - 1994)
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  • Bow Wow The whole point of the game is not to stick with one thing, because when that one thing ends, then what are you going to do? For me, I have movies, '106 & Park,' music, and other things to fall back on.
    Bow Wow
    American rapper and actor (Shad Gregory Moss) (1987 - )
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  • W. H. Auden The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Ann Macbeth The worst thing that you can do in terms of bringing a product up to the market is to be two days after someone else has brought a similar product to the international market-It's dead.
    Ann Macbeth
    British embroiderer, designer, teacher and author (1875 - 1948)
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  • William Blake Then my verse I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade and my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame; and my talents I bury, and dead is my fame.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Michael Ondaatje There always should be something hanging unfinished before a scene ends so that there's a reason for going to the next scene.
    Michael Ondaatje
    Sri Lankan-born Canadian poet, fiction writer (1943 - )
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  • T. S. Eliot There are flood and drought over the eyes and in the mouth, dead water and dead sand contending for the upper hand. The parched eviscerate soil gapes at the vanity of toil, laughs without mirth. This is the death of the earth.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Helen Rowland There are only two kinds of men; the dead and the deadly.
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Bob Ross There are thousands of very, very talented artists who will never be known, even after they are dead.
    Bob Ross
    American painter, art instructor and television personality (1942 - 1995)
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