Premature Quotes - Page 3

• I would have, had someone not detonated their charges prematurely. (Nykyrian) Yeah, Cruel. You have to watch that premature detonation problem of yours. (Hauk)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Watches, Problem, Yeah

  4 Copy quote

• Don't you make fun of me or my children! Some babies are premature. Mine were all postmature. That's why they're so smart. Their brains had longer to develop.

  Jeannette Walls

  Baby, Children, Fun

  Jeannette Walls (2009). “The Glass Castle: A Memoir”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death.

  Anton Chekhov

  Wise, Men, Soul

  Anton Chekhov (2009). “Selected Stories of Anton Chekov”, p.104, Modern Library

  21 Copy quote

  Show source

• He had married (as most young men did) because he had met a perfectly charming girl at the moment when a series of rather aimless sentimental adventures were ending in premature disgust; and she had represented peace, stability, comradeship, and the steadying sense of an unescapable duty.

  Edith Wharton

  Girl, Adventure, Men

  Edith Wharton (2016). “The Age of Innocence: American Literature”, p.144, VM eBooks

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• This perversion of the truth, familiar to the artist though it was, always unnerved him afresh and proved too much for him. What was a consequence of the premature ending of his fast was here presented as the cause of it! To fight against this lack of understanding, against a whole world of nonunderstanding, was impossible.

  Franz Kafka

  Fighting, Artist, Understanding

  Franz Kafka (1979). “The Basic Kafka”, p.85, Simon and Schuster

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• History did not demand Yossarian's premature demise, justice could be satisfied without it, progress did not hinge upon it, victory did not depend on it. That men would die was a matter of necessity; WHICH men would die, though, was a matter of circumstance, and Yossarian was willing to be the victim of anything but circumstance. But that was war. Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated children from the pernicious influence of their parents.

  Joseph Heller

  Children, War, Men

  Joseph Heller (1999). “Catch-22: A Novel”, p.72, Simon and Schuster

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I wonder who it was defined man as a rational animal. It was the most premature definition ever given. Man is many things, but he is not rational.

  Oscar Wilde

  Animal, Men, Definitions

  The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 2 (1891)

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• God screens us evermore from premature ideas.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Ideas, Evermore, Screens

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.149, Harvard University Press

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• As a father and grandfather, I have witnessed firsthand the joy of new life entering the world. I know the pain and apprehension that goes along with premature births and birth defects.

  Solomon Ortiz

  Pain, Father, Birth Defects

  10 Copy quote

• Anybody who knows about having a premature baby, it's horrific. He was part of a twin, and I lost his sister.

  Sherri Shepherd

  Baby, Twins, Lost

  6 Copy quote

• If efforts to do social work are couched in selfish motives, then they will die a premature death. Why would my efforts get politicised? I have values I inherited from my father. He helped many. Anyone, even a postman knocking on our door would get a glass of water and some sweets.

  Sachin Tendulkar

  Sweet, Father, Selfish

  11 Copy quote

• And Father said, “There are no happy endings.” “Right!” cried Iowa Bob – an odd mixture of exuberance and stoicism in his cracked voice. “Death is horrible, final, and frequently premature,” Coach Bob declared. “So what?” my father said. “Right!” cried Iowa Bob. “That’s the point: So what?” Thus the family maxim was that an unhappy ending did not undermine a rich and energetic life. This was based on the belief that there were no happy endings.

  John Irving

  Father, Iowa, Voice

  "The Hotel New Hampshire". Book by John Irving, 1981.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source
• 

  The only thing we don't have a god for is premature ejaculation... but I hear that it's coming quickly.

  Mel Brooks

  Sex, Ejaculation, Premature Ejaculation

  "History of the World: Part I". www.imdb.com. 1981.

  64 Copy quote

  Show source

• (Ravic speaking of a butterfly caught in the Louvre) In the morning it would search for flowers and life and the light honey of blossoms and would not find them and later it would fall asleep on millennial marble, weakened by then, until the grip of the delicate, tenacious feet loosened and it fell, a thin leaf of premature autumn.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  Morning, Flower, Fall

  23 Copy quote

• We loved each other with a premature love, marked by a fierceness that so often destroys adult lives.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Adults, Fierceness

  Vladimir Nabokov (2016). “Lolita”, p.8, Hamilton Books

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• If a given scientist had not made a given discovery, someone else would have done so a little later. Johann Mendel dies unknown after having discovered the laws of heredity: thirty-five years later, three men rediscover them. But the book that is not written will never be written. The premature death of a great scientist delays humanity; that of a great writer deprives it.

  Jean Rostand

  Book, Science, Men

  Jean Rostand (1962). “The substance of man”

  56 Copy quote

  Show source

• I went to a meeting for premature ejactulators. I left early.

  Jack Benny

  Funny Love, Love You, Romantic Love

  34 Copy quote

• Science is not a system of certain, or -established, statements; nor is it a system which steadily advances towards a state of finality... And our guesses are guided by the unscientific, the metaphysical (though biologically explicable) faith in laws, in regularities which we can uncover-discover. Like Bacon, we might describe our own contemporary science-'the method of reasoning which men now ordinarily apply to nature'-as consisting of 'anticipations, rash and premature' and as 'prejudices'.

  Karl Popper

  Nature, Science, Men

  31 Copy quote

• The power of population is so superior to the power of the earth to produce subsistence for man, that premature death must in some shape or other visit the human race.

  Thomas Malthus

  Men, Race, Population

  Thomas Malthus (2015). “An Essay on the Principle of Population and Other Writings”, p.90, Penguin UK

  53 Copy quote

  Show source

• My objection to organized religion is the premature conclusion to ultimate truth that it represents.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Conclusion, Organized, Ultimate Truth

  6 Copy quote

• Our suicidal poets (Plath, Berryman, Lowell, Jarrell, et al.) spent too much of their lives inside rooms and classrooms when they should have been trudging up mountains, slogging through swamps, rowing down rivers. The indoor life is the next best thing to premature burial.

  Edward Abbey

  Suicidal, Journey, Should Have

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.36, RosettaBooks

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• I can enjoy a vacation as well as the next person, as long as I know it's a vacation and not a premature retirement.

  Mary Crosby

  Retirement, Vacation, Long

  7 Copy quote

• Racism, specifically, is the state-sanctioned or extralegal production and exploitation of group-differentiated vulnerability to premature death.

  Ruth Wilson

  Racism, Groups, States

  5 Copy quote

• Talk of fighting Tyson is a little premature. I'm an addict and an alcoholic

  Michael Dokes

  Fighting, Boxing, Littles

  6 Copy quote

• I was born a premature birth.
  My first words were "bleep, bleep" and "Curse, Curse"
  My breath still stinks and I'm on my 3rd cert.

  Eminem

  Hip Hop, Firsts, Birth

  20 Copy quote