Demise Quotes - Page 5

• 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

  Names, Looks, Earth

  Francesco Petrarch (2016). “Delphi Collected Poetical Works of Francesco Petrarch (Illustrated)”, Delphi Classics

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• To see a lot of the smaller labels disappear or get gobbled up by the bigger labels, that’s a shame. It was a bit of a shock at first to see the demise of the record stores.

  Phil Collins

  Firsts, Labels, Records

  "Phil Collins goes "Back" to Motown favorites". Interview with Craig McLean, www.reuters.com. September 10, 2010.

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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

  Records, World, Good Things

  Interview with Anne Pasternak, creativetime.org.

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• In the rush of complex modern living, we have a tendency to laugh at the 'bring-Papa-his-pipe-and-slippers' approach to marriage - but most men are more than a little wistful at its demise. A man dreams of home as a haven and his wife as a romantic, fragrant creature whose most important goal in life is making him comfortable.

  Arlene Dahl

  Dream, Home, Men

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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

  Fate, Deeds, Immortal

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• An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick, unless soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing for every tatter in its mortal dress.

  William Butler Yeats

  Men, Elderly, Hands

  "Sailing to Byzantium" l. 9 (1928)

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• By the time of the GDR's demise, two in every 13 citizens were informers.

  Luke Harding

  Two, Citizens, Informers

  Luke Harding (2014). “The Snowden Files: The Inside Story of the World's Most Wanted Man”, p.165, Guardian Faber Publishing

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• Instead of plotting the demise of the traditional family, as some politicians and religious leaders would have you believe, gay people mow their lawns and watch 'American Idol' and video their children's concerts and have the same hopes and dreams that their straight counterparts do.

  Jodi Picoult

  Dream, Religious, Children

  "A conversation with Jodi about Sing You Home". www.jodipicoult.com.

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

  Dianna Agron

  Stress, Downtime, Good Things

  "Dianna Agron on Life, Glee, and the Paparazzi". Interview with Sam Bellikoff, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 18, 2011.

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• Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.

  George Santayana

  Heart, Thinking, Light

  George Santayana “The Works of George Santayana: The sense of beauty. Poems. Lucifer. Overheard in Seville”

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• As an organization grows and succeeds, it sows the seeds of its own demise by getting boring.

  Seth

  Business, Organization, Succeed

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

  Mort Sahl

  Lost, Carter, Ran

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• Washington couldn't tell a lie, Nixon couldn't tell the truth, and Reagan couldn't tell the difference.

  Mort Sahl

  Lying, Apology, Differences

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• If ye despise the human race, and mortal arms, yet remember that there is a God who is mindful of right and wrong.

  Virgil

  Race, Arms, Remember

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• A lot of people do talk about the demise of the album, but I still believe that if an artist tries hard to make a great album, people will buy it and listen to it as an album, rather than just a collection of random songs.

  Moby

  Song, Believe, Artist

  "With Destroyed, Moby Makes Sense of Shattered Musical Landscape". Interview With Scott Thill, www.wired.com. March 17, 2011.

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• In my opinion, this vicious circle will be broken by history itself. Because sticking to the current form of governance, which is to say guaranteeing the survival of [Vladimir] Putin's regime, will necessarily lead to the demise of Russia within its present borders.

  Garry Kasparov

  Russia, Circles, Broken

  Source: www.rferl.org

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

  Aeschylus

  House, Guilt, Want

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• The superabundance alludes to the myth that is ensuring our demise but it's also the space around and possibly the void that we enter into, beyond that delusion.

  Daniel O'Sullivan

  Space, Void, Delusion

  "A Flow Of Playfulness: An Interview With Laniakea". Interview with Russell Cuzner, thequietus.com. September 14, 2016.

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• The one thing in the world of value is the active soul. And I think that soul doesn't necessarily die after we're dead and maybe there's a sense of sometimes we know more than we think we know about our lives and our demise.

  Kathy Eldon

  Thinking, Soul, World

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• No hero is mortal till he dies.

  W. H. Auden

  Hero, Dies, Mortals

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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

  Men, Stones, Prophet

  Song: Quicksand, Album: Hunky Dory, 1971

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• Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.

  Edmund Burke

  Country, Wine, Beer

  Edmund Burke (1834). “The works of ... Edmund Burke”, p.256

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• The rumours of the demise of the U.S. manufacturing industry are greatly exaggerated.

  Elon Musk

  Rumours, Manufacturing, Industry

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.

  Sigmund Freud

  Betrayal, Eye, Keeping Secrets

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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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

  Mortality, Ends, Thrive

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.141, Penguin

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