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Demise Quotes

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We all seem to stumble, planning our own demise, Getting the big picture, and making it wallet-sized.
Kendrick Lamar

Authors on Demise Quotes: David Byrne Jonathan Sacks Peter Morgan Kathy Eldon Sir Fulke Greville Beatrice Webb Mark Twain Lady Gaga Sallust Allen Klein Luke Harding Elizabeth I Grace Napolitano Robert Smith Dianna Agron Moby Phil Keoghan Heidi Julavits Skitch Henderson Adam Weishaupt Jean Giraudoux Zebulon Pike Virgil Anne Rice Howard Coble Elizabeth Lesser Kendrick Lamar Sydney Schanberg Chalmers Johnson Mort Sahl Pierce Brosnan George Berkeley Slash
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To come to know your enemy, first you must become his friend, and once you become his friend, all his defences come down. Then you can choose the most fitting method for his demise.
Ieyasu Tokugawa

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My own reaction from a distance is that Pol Pot's demise as the leader of the Khmer Rouge was inevitable, and that his own paranoia did him in as much as anything else.
Sydney Schanberg

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I'm not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I'm living on.
David Bowie

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Restlessness is a fickle catalyst; it can drive you to achieve or it can coax your demise, and sometimes the choice isn't yours
Slash

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The imminent demise of the large record companies as gatekeepers of the world's popular music is a good thing, for the most part.
David Byrne

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The freedom-lovers of the world mourn the sad demise of Imam Khomeini.
Ruhollah Khomeini

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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?
Adam Weishaupt

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That thing of hell and eternal punishment is the most absurd, as well as the most disagreeable thought that ever entered into the head of mortal man.
George Berkeley

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The demise of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century.
Vladimir Putin

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Nearer the gods no mortal may approach.
Edmond Halley

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We have found ourselves in the period of "interregnum": the old works no more, the new is not yet born. But the awareness that without it being born we are all marked for demise, is already much alive, as is the awareness that the hard nut we must urgently crack is not the presence of "too many poor", but "too many rich".
Zygmunt Bauman

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To suspect your own mortality is to know the beginning of terror, to learn irrefutably that you are mortal is to know the end of terror.
Frank Herbert

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Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ASK. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds.
Anne Rice

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I've read that if an avalanche buries you and you're lying there underneath all that snow, you can't tell which way is up or down. You want to dig yourself out but pick the wrong way, and you dig yourself to your own demise.
Khaled Hosseini

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In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.
Anthony Trollope

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We are our own wicked gods with little 'g's' and big dicks, sadistic and constantly inflicting a slow demise.
Marilyn Manson

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Everything I do has the tinge of the finite, of my own demise. At some point you either accept death or you just keep pushing it back as you get older and older. I've accepted it.
Robert Smith

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Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.
C. S. Lewis

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Reason is immortal, all else mortal.
Pythagoras

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If a weakly mortal is to do anything in the world besides eat the bread thereof, there must be a determined subordination of the whole nature to the one aim no trifling with time, which is passing, with strength which is only too limited.
Beatrice Webb

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No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests.
Sallust

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I'd always felt like I was going to take part in adventures in my life. That's what led me to diving in the shipwreck to begin with. But when you're faced with your own demise, you have to accept that you are vulnerable and that you are only here for a set period of time.
Phil Keoghan

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I was kicked out of The Stars And Stripes twice, and finally got back in.
Mort Walker

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Avarice starves its possessor to fatten those who come after, and who are eagerly awaiting the demise of the accumulator.
Sir Fulke Greville

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A mortal lives not through that breath that flows in and that flows out. The source of his life is another and this causes the breath to flow.
Paracelsus

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Nothing is more heart-breaking than the demise of decency.
Guo Moruo

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Truth is immortal; error is mortal.
Mary Baker Eddy

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My mortal foe can no ways wish me a greater harm than England's hate; neither should death be less welcome unto me than such a mishap betide me.
Elizabeth I

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Should I be the happy mortal destined to turn the scale of war, will you not rejoice, O my father?
Zebulon Pike

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Every art form changes, often at rates and in ways that cause discomfort to its devotees. But the arts also have a remarkable ability to withstand and absorb those changes, and to prove wrong the prophecies of their demise.
A. O. Scott

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Fate is never too generous even to its favorites. Rarely do the gods grant a mortal more than one immortal deed.
Stefan Zweig

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What name to call thee by, O virgin fair, I know not, for thy looks are not of earth And more than mortal seems thy countenances
Petrarch

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I feel that if I can show my demise artistically to the public, I can somehow cure my own legend.
Lady Gaga

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the rumors of the White Sox demise are greatly exaggerated.
Mark Twain

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Social Security has been effective for 70 years; prior predictions of its demise have been totally overstated.
Grace Napolitano

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Zen teaches that once we can open up to the inevitability of our demise, we can begin to transform that situation and lighten up about it.
Allen Klein

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Stress is the worst thing. That's the ultimate demise of any good thing.
Dianna Agron

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I've watched the demise of the Hollywood orchestra, the house orchestras of the big studios.
Skitch Henderson

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I fear that CAFTA will accelerate the demise of these domestic textile jobs.
Howard Coble

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Reagan won because he ran against Jimmy Carter. If he ran unopposed he would have lost.
Mort Sahl

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The demise of the American empire will be no more regretted than the demise of the Soviet empire.
Chalmers Johnson

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Such sins, even if they do not kill all grace in us, do harm, nevertheless; and though they are only venial in themselves, they make us apt, ready, and inclined to lose grace and to fall into mortal sin.
Johannes Tauler

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And there are lots of drug companies that are working on cure or medicine.
Mort Kondracke

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A god implants in mortal guilt whenever he wants utterly to confound a house.
Aeschylus

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Although the 'New York Times' annually declares that Broadway is on its deathbed, news of its demise is greatly exaggerated. There's a lot of life yet in the old tart.
John Lahr

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Mark Twain put it best when he said, 'Reports of my demise are greatly exaggerated.
Bill Bradley

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No hero is mortal till he dies.
W. H. Auden

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A man has only one way of being immortal on earth: he has to forget he is a mortal.
Jean Giraudoux

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Tuvalu's future at current levels of global warming is already bleak. Any further temperature increase will spell its total demise.
Enele Sopoaga