End Of The World Quotes - Page 2

• Avoid the world, it's just a lot of dust and drag and means nothing in the end.

  Jack Kerouac

  Mean, Dust, World

  Jack Kerouac (1995). “The Portable Jack Kerouac”, Viking Adult

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• If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.

  John F. Kennedy

  Peace, Differences, Diversity

  1963 Speech, American University, Washington DC, 10 Jun.

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• I'd go to the end of the world for my husband. Of course, if he'd just stop and ask directions, I wouldn't have to.

  Martha Bolton

  Fun, Husband, World

  Martha Bolton (2000). “I Love You-- Still: To Keep the Love, Ya Gotta Laugh”, Fleming H Revell Company

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• It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice. There are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia.

  Frank Zappa

  Fire, Ice, Two

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.203, Simon and Schuster

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• Until now has there ever been a time in which so many of the prophecies are coming together? There have been times in the past when people thought the end of the world was coming, and so forth, but never anything like this.

  Ronald Reagan

  Funny, Past, People

  Reagan, Ronald (1984). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan, 1983”, p.1715, Best Books on

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• If the universe is running down like a clock, the clock must have been wound up at a date which we could name if we knew it. The world, if it is to have an end in time, must have had a beginning in time.

  William Ralph Inge

  Running, Names, World

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• The trouble with the media is that it seems unable to distinguish between the end of the world and a bicycle accident.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Truth, Knowledge, Media

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• Edmonton is not the end of the world but you can certainly see it from there.

  Mordecai Richler

  Funny, Edmonton, World

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  The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.

  Lily Tomlin

  Inspirational, Funny, Meaningful

  Quoted in People, 26 Dec. 1977. Although now associated with Tomlin, this saying appears anonymously in Robert Reisner, Graffiti (1971), in the form "Remember, even if you win the rat race - you're still a rat." Rosalie Maggio, in New Beacon Book of Quotations by Women, states that William Sloane Coffin said "Even if you win the rat-race, you're still a rat" as a chaplain at Williams College or Yale University in the 1950s or 1960s.

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• It's not the end of the world at all," he said. "It's only the end for us. The world will go on just the same, only we shan't be in it. I dare say it will get along all right without us.

  Nevil Shute

  Goes On, World, Ends

  Nevil Shute (1973). “A Nevil Shute omnibus”

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• From this day forward until the end of the world...we in it shall be remembered...we band of brothers.

  William Shakespeare

  Brother, Memorable, Band

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• The heart of a man to the heart of a maid-
  Light of my tents, be fleet-
  Morning awaits at the end of the world,
  And the world is all at our feet.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Life, Morning, Heart

  Rudyard Kipling (2016). “Selected Verse”, p.102, Pan Macmillan

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• Hooray! Hooray! The end of the world has been postponed!

  Herge

  World, Ends, Has Beens

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

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• Well, don't we all feel like jumping to the end of the world sometimes?

  Mick Jagger

  Jumping, World, Sometimes

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• God knows when the end of time will come, not some fanatic... The world will end someday, but the end of the world and the end of time are two different things.

  Dolly Parton

  Two, Different, World

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• Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Peace, Military, War

  Speech to American Society of Newspaper Editors, Washington, D.C., 16 Apr. 1953

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• They had stared at her with great uncomprehending eyes. Eyes that questioned nothing and asked everything. Unblinking and unabashed, they stared up at her. The end of the world lay in their eyes, and the beginning, and all the waste in bewteen.

  Toni Morrison

  Eye, World, Waste

  Toni Morrison (2017). “Race: Vintage Minis”, p.41, Random House

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• It ain't the end of the world, you know. Just the end of what you knew.

  Jasinda Wilder

  World, Ends, Knows

  Jasinda Wilder (2014). “Delilah's Diary: La Vita Sexy”, p.7, NLA Digital LLC

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• We won't be signing off until the world ends. We'll be on, and we will cover the end of the world, live, and that will be our last event . . . we'll play 'Nearer, My God, to Thee' before we sign off.

  Ted Turner

  Play, Events, World

  Todd Wilkinson, Ted Turner (2013). “Last Stand: Ted Turner's Quest to Save a Troubled Planet”, p.90, Rowman & Littlefield

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• If you are writing any book about the end of the world, what you are really writing about is what's worth saving about it.

  Justin Cronin

  Book, Writing, World

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• The last man of the world-city no longer wants to live--he may cling to life as an individual, but as a type, as an aggregate, no, for it is a characteristic of this collective existence that it eliminates the terror of death.

  Oswald Spengler

  Men, Cities, Lasts

  Oswald Spengler, Charles Francis Atkinson (1961). “The Decline of the West...: Perspectives of world-history”

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• No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library... When this is no longer true, then will our civilization have come to an end.

  Lawrence Clark Powell

  Greatness, Civilization, Library

  Lawrence Clark Powell (1985). “Books are basic: the essential Lawrence Clark Powell”, Univ of Arizona Pr

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• It's not the end of the world to lose.

  Andy Murray

  Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse, World, Baseball Love

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

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• All told, these profit levels have put the world's five largest publicly traded oil companies on track to earn more than $100 billion before year's end. Yet, at the same time that Big Oil's bottom line is going up, so are Americans' energy costs.

  Allyson Schwartz

  Years, Oil, Track

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• Every person should have their escape route planned. I think everyone has an apocalypse fantasy, what would I do in the event of the end of the world, and we just basically - me and Nick - said what would we do, where would we head?

  Simon Pegg

  Thinking, Should Have, Events

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