Quotes with dead-ends

Quotes 421 till 440 of 516.

  • Herbert Spencer Time is that which a man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.
    Herbert Spencer
    British Philosopher (1820 - 1903)
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  • Og Mandino To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you're dead.
    Og Mandino
    American author (1923 - 1996)
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  • William Hazlitt To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Captain J. G. Stedman To be sure an European woman would blush to her fingers ends at the very idea of appearing publicly stark naked; but education and prejudice are everything, since it is an axiom, that where there is no feeling of self-reproach, there can assuredly be no shame.
    Captain J. G. Stedman
    British soldiar, writer, artist (1744 - 1797)
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  • Bertrand Russell To expect a personality to survive the disintegration of the brain is like expecting a cricket club to survive when all of its members are dead.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Bertrand Russell To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Samuel Butler To himself everyone is an immortal. He may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Marguerite Duras To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead - somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man - somewhere these, too, come together.
    Marguerite Duras
    French author and filmmaker (1914 - 1996)
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  • Jean Baudrillard To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • Billy West To me, it all comes down to things being character-driven. It's hard for me to look beyond that. CG and all this cool stuff - so be it. But to me, it pretty much begins and ends with character-driven plots rather than technologically-driven plots.
    Billy West
    American voice actor and musician (1952 - )
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  • Arnold Bennett To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists.
    Arnold Bennett
    British novelist (1867 - 1931)
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  • Voltaire To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American poet, philosopher and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Bjorn Ulvaeus Touring we thought was a waste of time. It was much more productive and much more creative to write and record. I am glad today that we didn't tour. We knew it begins and ends with a song. Back then the entire business revolved around the song.
    Source: Daily Telegraph, 5 Jul 2008
    Bjorn Ulvaeus
    Swedish songwriter, producer, member of ABBA (1945 - )
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes - our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking around.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Ben Foster Transcendental Meditation, for me, has been a way of turning down the outside racket and turning up the bandwidth of instinct, intuition, concentration, attention. On the light ends, it's a power nap. On the strong ends, it's a giant battery, and that battery doesn't run out.
    Ben Foster
    American actor (1980 - )
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  • Emily Brontë Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.
    Source: Wuthering Heights (1847)
    Emily Brontë
    British writer, poet (1818 - 1848)
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  • Arthur Koestler True creativity often starts where language ends.
    Arthur Koestler
    Hungarian Born British Writer (1905 - 1983)
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  • Bob Beauprez True enough, Osama bin Laden is dead and other al-Qaeda leaders have joined him. But, the assassination of Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans in Benghazi is a brutal reminder that radical Islamic terror groups have not disappeared and certainly are not dormant.
    Bob Beauprez
    American politician and member (1948 - )
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Trust no future, however pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act - act in the living Present! Heart within and God overhead.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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