Quotes with dead-ends

Quotes 41 till 60 of 516.

  • Alan Alda After a while I started to think of that as an image of something that went a lot deeper than the dead dog, which is you can't bring back anything to life.
    Alan Alda
    American actor, director, screenwriter, and author. (1936 - )
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  • Cato the Elder After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
    Cato the Elder
    Roman senator and historian (234 - 149)
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  • Ernest Hemingway After you finish a book, you know, you're dead.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Arthur Baer Alimony is like buying oats for a dead horse.
    Arthur Baer
    American journalist and humorist (1886 - 1969)
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • William Shakespeare All's well that ends well.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Mahatma Gandhi An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung An inflated consciousness is always egocentric and conscious of nothing but its own existence. It is incapable of learning from the past, incapable of understanding contemporary events, and incapable of drawing right conclusions about the future. It is hypnotized by itself and therefore cannot be argued with. It inevitably dooms itself to calamities that must strike it dead.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • Bret Harte And ever since then, when the clock strikes two, She walks unbidden from room to room, And the air is filled that she passes through With a subtle, sad perfume. The delicate odor of mignonette, The ghost of a dead and gone bouquet, Is all that tells of her story — yet Could she think of a sweeter way?
    Bret Harte
    American short story writer and poet (1836 - 1902)
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  • Bob Dylan And I hope that you die
    And your death'll come soon
    I will follow your casket
    In the pale afternoon
    And I'll watch while you're lowered
    Down to your deathbed
    And I'll stand o'er your grave
    'Til I'm sure that you're dead
    Source: The Freewheelin Bob Dylan (1963)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • T. S. Eliot And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • André Malraux And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own.
    André Malraux
    French writer and politician (ps. by A. Berger) (1901 - 1976)
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  • Emily Dickinson Anger as soon as fed is dead; 'Tis starving makes it fat.
    Emily Dickinson
    American poet (1830 - 1886)
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  • H. G. Bohn Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance.
    H. G. Bohn
    British publisher
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