End Of The World Quotes - Page 4

• Hence the end of the world should be awaited with all longing by all believers.

  William Ames

  Longing, Ends, Should

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• I could have made money this way, and perhaps amused myself writing code. But I knew that at the end of my career, I would look back on years of building walls to divide people, and feel I had spent my life making the world a worse place.

  Richard Stallman

  Wall, Writing, Years

  Richard Stallman (2002). “Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman”, p.14, Lulu.com

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• Winning isn't the end of the world

  David Pleat

  Letting Go, Being Single, Breast Cancer

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• The United States has made a massive effort since the end of the Second World War to secure the dominance of its films in foreign markets - an achievement generally pushed home politically, by writing clauses into various treaties and aid packages.

  Fredric Jameson

  War, Home, Writing

  Fredric Jameson (2009). “Valences of the Dialectic”, Verso Books

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• Changes are not unusual - I mean, most movies, when they release them, they make changes. But somehow, when I make the slightest change, everybody thinks it's the end of the world.

  George Lucas

  Mean, Thinking, World

  "5 Questions With George Lucas: Controversial 'Star Wars' Changes, SOPA and 'Indiana Jones 5'". Interview With Alex Ben Block, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 9, 2012.

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• I think maybe because I do other things and they mean as much to me as movie acting, it takes the onus off me. It's not the end of the world if I can't get a film job, or if a movie doesn't turn out well - even though I don't like it when that happens.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Jobs, Mean, Thinking

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• I want my world to get bigger and not end up in a small corner.

  Sarah Polley

  World, Want, Ends

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• I told my therapist I was having nightmares about nuclear explosions. He said don't worry it's not the end of the world.

  Jay London

  Worry, Nuclear, World

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• And I thought my loss was not, certainly, the end of the world, but to lessen the enthusiasm of those young people who were signed up, I thought that was tragic.

  Birch Bayh

  Loss, People, World

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• It can be liberating to get fired because you realize the world doesn't end. There's other ways to make money, better jobs.

  Ron Livingston

  Jobs, Work, Fire

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

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• We experienced similiar fears in the 1880s, at the end of World War I and II. And we ran out in the 1970s.

  Daniel Yergin

  War, World, Ends

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• You can have a revolution wherever you like, except in a government office; even were the world to come to an end, you'd have to destroy the universe first and then government offices.

  Karel Capek

  Government, Office, Literature

  "The Absolute at Large". Book by Karel Capek, 1922.

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• The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity.

  Jean Paul

  Family, Dad, Children

  Jean Paul (1866). “Levana: or, The doctrine of education”, p.17

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• Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Time, Inspiration, Live Life

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• During the last times, men will be lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God. When you think of our sports-driven society, and our media-driven society, and our leisure-driven society, then you understand we are living in the last days.

  Jerry Falwell

  God, Sports, Christian

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• If the apocalypse comes...beep me!

  Joss Whedon

  Funny, Vampire, Sound

  "Buffy the Vampire Slayer / Never Kill a Boy on the First Date". www.imdb.com. 1997.

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• Remember, we know the end of the story of World War II and the Cold War. But day by day, living in fear of the Nazis and then in fear of the Soviets, the outcome was by no means certain.

  Christopher Bond

  War, Mean, Stories

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• To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.

  Ramakrishna

  Mean, Attachment, Punishment

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• It's an end of the world I guess. I guess you'd currently call it disaster movie. But really they weren't disaster movies. They were more end of the world movies. This is more an end of the world movie.

  Michael O'Donoghue

  World, Disaster, Ends

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• Sure, I suffered a lot. But it's not like the end of the world and it's not who I am. I lead quite a pleasant life and I'm able to divorce a perceived reality from my actual experience of life.

  Ben Affleck

  Divorce, Reality, Who I Am

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

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• The international order established at the end of World War II could certainly have been worse. However, this order did contain certain factors which bore within them the seeds of instability.

  Eisaku Sato

  War, Order, World

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• I've learned the lesson that when you're in the middle of something that seems overwhelming, or you're in a bad situation and it seems like it's the end of the world or whatever, then you learn that it's not.

  Lee Ann Womack

  World, Lessons, I've Learned

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• While the end-of-the-world scenario will be rife with unimaginable horrors, we believe that the pre-end period will be filled with unprecedented opportunities for profit.

  Robert Mankoff

  Believe, Opportunity, World

  "Reality check: for real sustainability, some economies will need to shrink" by Erik Assadourian, www.theguardian.com. May 15, 2014.

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• The Four Horsemen whose Ride presages the end of the world are known to be Death, War, Famine, and Pestilence. But even less significant events have their own Horsemen. For example, the Four Horsemen of the Common Cold are Sniffles, Chesty, Nostril, and Lack of Tissues; the Four Horsemen whose appearance foreshadows any public holiday are Storm, Gales, Sleet, and Contra-flow.

  Terry Pratchett

  War, Holiday, Storm

  "Interesting Times". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1994.

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• Thunder and lightning, it's like the end of the world.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Lightning, World, Thunder

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