Quotes with death-like

Quotes 2541 till 2560 of 4355.

  • Barbara W. Tuchman Nothing is more certain than death and nothing uncertain but its hour.
    A Distant Mirror Enguerrand VII de Coucy, quoted on p. 570
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble like a Declaration of Independence, or the statute right to vote, by those who have never dared to think or to act.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Arthur Koestler Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.
    Arthur Koestler
    Hungarian Born British Writer (1905 - 1983)
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  • Gerard Manley Hopkins Nothing is so beautiful as spring - when weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush's eggs look little low heavens, and thrush through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring the ear, it strikes like lightning to hear him sing.
    Gerard Manley Hopkins
    English poet and Jesuit (1844 - 1889)
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  • William Cobbett Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt.
    William Cobbett
    British journalist (1763 - 1835)
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  • Oscar Wilde Nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • André Gide Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
    André Gide
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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  • Michel Leiris Nothing seems more like a whorehouse to me than a museum. In it you find the same equivocal aspect, the same frozen quality.
    Michel Leiris
    French ethnologist, poet and writer (1901 - 1990)
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  • Claud Cockburn Nothing sets a person up more than having something turn out just the way it's supposed to be, like falling into a Swiss snowdrift and seeing a big dog come up with a little cask of brandy round its neck.
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  • Elizabeth Cady Stanton Nothing strengthens the judgement and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
    Elizabeth Cady Stanton
    American suffragist, abolitionist and women's rights activist (1815 - 1902)
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  • Oscar Wilde Nothing succeeds like success.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Ernst Moritz Arndt Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.
    Ernst Moritz Arndt
    German nationalist historian, writer, and poet (1769 - 1860)
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  • Joseph Roux Nothing vivifies, and nothing kills, like the emotions.
    Joseph Roux
    French priest, writer and poet (1834 - 1905)
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  • P. Larkin Nothing, like something, happens anywhere.
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  • Joan Didion Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors. Every stroke you put down you have to go with. Of course you can rewrite, but the original strokes are still there in the texture of the thing.
    (2006)
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Albert Einstein Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • J. Robert Oppenheimer Now I am become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds.
    After first test of the atomic bomb
    J. Robert Oppenheimer
    American theoretical physicist and professor of physics (1904 - 1967)
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  • Buzz Osborne Now I have never met a group of people who hate music more than professional roadies, and it is clearly obvious that 99.9 percent of them know nothing at all about music. Nothing. I find this to be quite strange, really. It's like someone who works in a bakery knowing nothing about baking.
    Buzz Osborne
    American guitarist, vocalist and songwriter (1964 - )
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  • Blake Lewis Now I'm 'Blake Lewis' to the world, but I will always still be Bshorty from Bothell...I've never looked at it like a competition so I think I've won regardless. I won when I got to the top ten; I've already reached my goal.
    In interviews Hot Guy of the Week: American Idols Blake Lewis. U
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  • George Bernard Shaw Now that we have learned to fly the air like birds, swim under water like fish, we lack one thing - to learn to live on earth as human beings.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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