Quotes with dead-ends

Quotes 81 till 100 of 516.

  • Sir Walter Scott Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land!
    Sir Walter Scott
    British writer and poet (1771 - 1832)
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  • Frank Lloyd Wright Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60. They are like custard pies; you can't nail them to a wall
    Frank Lloyd Wright
    American architect (1867 - 1959)
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  • Bill Nye Burning carbon-based substances like oil, gas, and especially coal, produces billions of tons of extra carbon dioxide each year. Methane gas from cows and pigs and other animals on our large farms ends up in the atmosphere as well, trapping more of the sun's energy as heat.
    Bill Nye
    American science communicator, television presenter (1955 - )
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  • Abraham Lincoln But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Aldous Huxley But the nature of the universe is such that the ends never justify the means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Anthony Doerr But then of course you reach a point where you have to say, I've got to figure out how this book's going to end. Otherwise, you're going to write yourself into so many dead-ends.
    Anthony Doerr
    American author (1973 - )
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  • Buddy Valastro Cakes are special. Every birthday, every celebration ends with something sweet, a cake, and people remember. It's all about the memories.
    Buddy Valastro
    American baker and reality television personality (1977 - )
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  • Aeschylus Call no man happy till he is dead.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Karl Marx Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.
    Karl Marx
    German economist and state philosopher (1818 - 1883)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books nobody reads.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Calvin Coolidge Changing a college curriculum is like moving a graveyard-you never know how many friends the dead have until you try to move them!
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Cyril Connolly Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.
    Cyril Connolly
    British criticus (1903 - 1974)
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  • Barbara Kingsolver Codi: Gives you the willies, doesn't it? The thought of raising kids in a place where the front yard ends in a two-hundred-foot drop? [referring to cliff dwellings] Loyd: No worse than raising up kids where the front yard ends in a freeway.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Aldous Huxley Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Bill Hybels Creating planets didn't seem to be much of a problem for God. Neither was raising the dead. Nothing is too difficult for God to handle, but we won't see much proof of this until we actually ask him to handle it.
    Source: Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Berkeley Breathed Dear Lord, I've been asked, nay commanded, to thank Thee for the Christmas turkey before us... a turkey which was no doubt a lively, intelligent bird... a social being... capable of actual affection... nuzzling its young with almost human-like compassion. Anyway, it's dead and we're gonna eat it. Please give our respects to its family.
    Berkeley Breathed
    American cartoonist, director and screenwriter (1957 - )
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  • William Somerset Maugham Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Bhagavad Gita Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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