Quotes with dead-ends

Quotes 121 till 140 of 516.

  • Herman Melville Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
    Herman Melville
    American author (1819 - 1891)
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  • William Hazlitt Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Alfred Lord Tennyson Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null, dead perfection; no more.
    Alfred Lord Tennyson
    English poet (1809 - 1892)
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  • Gloria Steinem Feminism starts out being very simple, and it ends up being a world view that questions hierarchy altogether.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Anne Dudley Film scores are often based on short themes, and it helps if you've got some way of developing these themes and making them sometimes last 4 minutes and sometimes last 40 seconds. One ends up doing it subconsciously.
    Anne Dudley
    English composer, keyboardist and conductor (1956 - )
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  • James Baldwin Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Lord Chesterfield For my own part, I would rather be in company with a dead man than with an absent one; for if the dead man gives me no pleasure, at least he shows me no contempt; whereas the absent one, silently indeed, but very plainly, tells me that he does not think me worth his attention.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Sophocles For the dead there are no more toils.
    Sophocles
    Greek poet (496 - 406)
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  • Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion.
    Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn
    Russian Novelist (1918 - 2008)
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  • Ayn Rand Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship, never.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Hilaire Belloc From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.
    Hilaire Belloc
    British Author (1870 - 1953)
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  • A. C. Swinburne From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.
    A. C. Swinburne
    English poet and playwright (1837 - 1909)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Who's sorry for a gnat or girl?
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    English poet (1806 - 1861)
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  • John Dryden Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.
    John Dryden
    English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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  • William Ellery Channing God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.
    William Ellery Channing
    American Unitarian minister (1780 - 1842)
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  • Irving Layton God is indeed dead. He died of self-horror when He saw the creature He had made in His own image.
    Irving Layton
    Canadian poet (1912 - 2006)
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  • Buzz Aldrin Going back to the moon is not visionary in restoring space leadership for America. Like its Apollo predecessor, it will prove to be a dead end littered with broken spacecraft, broken dreams and broken policies.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American poet, philosopher and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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