Demise Quotes - Page 2

• I want to die at a hundred years old with an American flag on my back and the star of Texas on my helmet, after screaming down an Alpine descent on a bicycle at 75 miles per hour. I want to cross one last finish line as my wife and my ten children applaud, and then I want to lie down in a field of those famous French sunflowers and gracefully expire, the perfect contradiction to my once anticipated poignant early demise.

  Lance Armstrong

  Stars, Children, Lying

  "It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life". Book by Lance Armstrong, 2001.

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• It is quite normal to fear what one most desires. We desire to transcend the Story of the World that has come to enslave us, that indeed is killing the planet. We fear what the end of that story will bring: the demise of much that is familiar.Fear it or not, it is happening already.

  Charles Eisenstein

  Desire, Stories, World

  Charles Eisenstein (2013). “The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible”, p.8, North Atlantic Books

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• Living sites are only as good as today's update. If the words are dull, nobody will read them, and nobody will come back. If the words are wrong, people will be misled, disappointed, infuriated. If the words aren't there, people will shake their heads and lament your untimely demise.

  Mark Bernstein

  People, Dull, Today

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

  Mort Kondracke

  Medicine, Drug, Cures

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• Fortune raises up and fortune brings low both the man who fares well and the one who fares badly; and there is no prophet of the future for mortal men.

  Sophocles

  Men, He Man, Prophet

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• Most of the vices and mortal sins condemned today correspond to inclinations that were purely adaptive or at least harmless in primitive man

  Konrad Lorenz

  Men, Primitive Man, Vices

  Konrad Lorenz (1966). “On aggressión”

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• Truth is immortal; error is mortal.

  Mary Baker Eddy

  Mistake, Errors, Truth Is

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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

  Distance, Leader, Paranoia

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• George Orwell once blamed the demise of the English language on politics. It's quite possible he never read a prospectus.

  Arthur Levitt Jr

  Language, English Language

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• When I introduced a black soldier, Lt. Flap, in 1971, the Stars and Stripes banned the strip. They were having racial problems and thought it would increase the tensions.

  Mort Walker

  Stars, Soldier, Black

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• So many of the things we are doing right now as a country are things that lead to loss of a country. I leave you with this thought and challenge any historian, no mater who you are where you are. You show me a country that ever met its demise while as a nation it was honoring the one true God. You won't find it. Let's keep this country alive.

  Louie Gohmert

  Country, Loss, Evil

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• To the newcomer to the south, hearing that a coworker plans a weekend visit to 'mama and them's' (the correct plural possessive, don'tchaknow), might make him think that mama has been left alone either throught an act of scoundreldom involving the town's resident hoochie-mama (an altogether different kind of mama) or Daddy's untimely demise.

  Celia Rivenbark

  Weekend, Thinking, Daddy

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• And I think my sexuality was heavily repressed by the church, by the, you know, the design of the mortal sins.

  Thomas Keneally

  Thinking, Design, Church

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• Nearer the gods no mortal may approach.

  Edmond Halley

  May, Approach, Mortals

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• What the reporters are like! They are mad with excitement at the thought of my approaching demise. Kind Sister Farquhar, my nurse, spends much of her time in throwing them downstairs. But one got in the other day, and asked me if I mind the fact that I must die.

  Edith Sitwell

  Nurse, Mad, Mind

  Edith Sitwell (Dame), John Lehmann, Derek Parker (1970). “Selected letters”, MacMillan

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• Leaders who fail to prune their pride will meet demise. That's not a guess, it's a guarantee. With pride, it's not a matter of 'if' we will fall, but 'when.' There are no exceptions.

  John C. Maxwell

  Fall, Pride, Leader

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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

  Avarice

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• To our enemies all over the world who plan America's demise, please take my advice. Give up now. No matter what, you will lose. You will lose it all.

  Henry Rollins

  Giving Up, America, Advice

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• I think human arrogance will be the demise of civilization.

  Adam Ferrara

  Thinking, Civilization, Arrogance

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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

  Levels, Temperature, Global Warming

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Stereotyping and generating brands around musicians I think contributes to their eventual demise.

  Squarepusher

  Thinking, Musician, Stereotype

  Source: thequietus.com

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• With the demise of the biblical religions that have provided the American people with their core values since their country's inception, we are reverting to the pagan worldview. Trees and animals are venerated, while man is simply one more animal in the ecosystem - and largely a hindrance, not an asset.

  Dennis Prager

  Country, Biblical, Animal

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• Latin food is my guiltiest pleasure and my demise. My trainer hates when I go home to visit my mom and her cooking.

  Zulay Henao

  Mom, Hate, Latin

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• The demise of the monolithic record industry has been, for a lot of people, really liberating and emancipating.

  Moby

  People, Records, Has Beens

  "'The Humility That Comes From Being Hated': Moby Interviewed". Interview with Stephen Dalton, thequietus.com. May 9, 2011.

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• The demise of higher education as a public good is also evident in light of the election of a number of right-wing politicians who are cutting funds for state universities and doing everything they can to turn them in training centers to fill the needs of corporations. This new and intense attack on both the social state and higher education completely undermines the public nature of what education is all about.

  Henry Giroux

  Cutting, Wings, Numbers

  "Higher Education Under Attack". Interview with C. Cryn Johannsen, www.truth-out.org. April 22, 2011.

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