Demise Quotes
Demise Quote of the day
We all seem to stumble, planning our own demise, Getting the big picture, and making it wallet-sized.
To come to know your enemy, first you must become his friend, and once you become his friend, all his defences come down. Then you can choose the most fitting method for his demise.
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.
I'm not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I'm living on.
Restlessness is a fickle catalyst; it can drive you to achieve or it can coax your demise, and sometimes the choice isn't yours
The imminent demise of the large record companies as gatekeepers of the world's popular music is a good thing, for the most part.
That thing of hell and eternal punishment is the most absurd, as well as the most disagreeable thought that ever entered into the head of mortal man.
The demise of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century.
It will not be humans who watch the sun's demise, six billion years from now. Any creatures that then exist will be as different from us as we are from bacteria or amoebae.
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.
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.
We are our own wicked gods with little 'g's' and big dicks, sadistic and constantly inflicting a slow demise.
Everything I do has the tinge of the finite, of my own demise. At some point you either accept death or you just keep pushing it back as you get older and older. I've accepted it.
The single most important lesson I learned is that black people are the cause of black people's demise.
I'm a good friend, but I'm a hell of an enemy. As your enemy, I want your demise. When I feel that in my heart it burns till I die.
Avarice starves its possessor to fatten those who come after, and who are eagerly awaiting the demise of the accumulator.
A mortal lives not through that breath that flows in and that flows out. The source of his life is another and this causes the breath to flow.
The rise of the Internet has caused the demise of the record labels, and has destroyed the music business of old, but it's also created new opportunities for young artists.
Fate is never too generous even to its favorites. Rarely do the gods grant a mortal more than one immortal deed.
My mortal foe can no ways wish me a greater harm than England's hate; neither should death be less welcome unto me than such a mishap betide me.
Should I be the happy mortal destined to turn the scale of war, will you not rejoice, O my father?
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
I always say that as church falls into demise, we still have the inclination to congregate whether by a night of music or a festival, or just sitting down to listen to some vinyl.
Although the 'New York Times' annually declares that Broadway is on its deathbed, news of its demise is greatly exaggerated. There's a lot of life yet in the old tart.
I think it is that parents just don't kick their kids out the door as much as they used to. I think the demise of sandlot sports has had a lot to do with it.
Social Security has been effective for 70 years; prior predictions of its demise have been totally overstated.
I've watched the demise of the Hollywood orchestra, the house orchestras of the big studios.
I feel that if I can show my demise artistically to the public, I can somehow cure my own legend.
Zen teaches that once we can open up to the inevitability of our demise, we can begin to transform that situation and lighten up about it.
The demise of the American empire will be no more regretted than the demise of the Soviet empire.
For years everyone looked toward the demise of radio when television came along. Before that, they thought talking movies might eliminate radio as well. But radio just keeps getting stronger.
When I die, I don't want my demise to be used as a political rally, and that's what happened yesterday.
Tuvalu's future at current levels of global warming is already bleak. Any further temperature increase will spell its total demise.
