Quotes with death-like

Quotes 3301 till 3320 of 4355.

  • Howard Nemerov The only way out is the way through, just as you cannot escape from death except by dying. Being unable to write, you must examine in writing this being unable, which becomes for the present - henceforth? - the subject to which you are condemned.
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  • Rick Pitino The only way to get people to like working hard is to motivate them. Today, people must understand why they're working hard. Every individual in an organization is motivated by something different.
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  • Elie Wiesel The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.
    Elie Wiesel
    Rumanian-born American Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • Aleister Crowley The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript.
    Aleister Crowley
    British occultist, writer, and mountaineer (1875 - 1947)
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  • John Cheever The organizations of men, like men themselves, seem subject to deafness, near-sightedness, lameness, and involuntary cruelty. We seem tragically unable to help one another, to understand one another.
    John Cheever
    American writer (1912 - 1982)
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  • Abdelkader El Djezairi The other world is as to this like the east to the west. We cannot approach the one without turning away from the other.
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  • Barry McGee The parts of graffiti I like are really antagonizing still - it's not something that a museum would really embrace.
    Barry McGee
    American artist
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  • Jean de la Bruyère The passion of hatred is so long lived and so obstinate a malady that the surest sign of death in a sick person is their desire for reconciliation.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Christian Nevell Bovee The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
    Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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  • John Berger The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
    John Berger
    English art critic, novelist, painter and poet (1926 - 2017)
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  • Stephen Hawking The past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities.
    Stephen Hawking
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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  • Angela Merkel The people in East Germany have lived through so many changes in the last 15 years like never before in the country, and they did this often with great enthusiasm. But in the West we also have a high degree of transformations.
    Angela Merkel
    German politician and chancellor (1954 - )
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  • William S. Burroughs The people in power will not disappear voluntarily, giving flowers to the cops just isn't going to work. This thinking is fostered by the establishment; they like nothing better than love and nonviolence. The only way I like to see cops given flowers is in a flower pot from a high window.
    William S. Burroughs
    American writer and artist (1914 - 1997)
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  • St. Augustine of Hippo The people who remained victorious were less like conquerors than conquered.
    St. Augustine of Hippo
    Roman African Christian theologian and philosopher (354 - 430)
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  • Brad Katsuyama The people who watch a movie like 'Wolf of Wall Street' and want to work on Wall Street are exactly the kind of people who shouldn't.
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  • Seng-Ts'an The Perfect Way is only difficult for those who pick and choose. Do not like, do not dislike; all will then be clear. Make a hairbreadth difference, and Heaven and Earth are set apart.
    Seng-Ts'an
    Chinese third patriarch of Zen Buddhism
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The pest of society are the egotist, they are dull and bright, sacred and profane, course and fine. It is a disease that like the flu falls on all constitutions.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Aaron Klug The philosophy of the school was quite simple - the bright boys specialised in Latin, the not so bright in science and the rest managed with geography or the like.
    Aaron Klug
    British biophysicist (1926 - 2018)
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  • Burt Rutan The photographs of space taken by our astronauts have been published all over the place. But the eye is a much more dynamic mechanism than any camera or pictures. It's a more exciting view in person than looking at the photographs. Of course, I personally am sick and tired of hearing people talk like that: I want to see it myself!
    Burt Rutan
    American aerospace engineer and entrepreneur (1943 - )
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  • Seneca The pleasures of the palate deal with us like the Egyptian thieves, who strangle those whom they embrace.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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