Top 32 Moribund Quotes

#1. As soon as we confront concrete marriages with other foreign images-such as well-being, happiness, a home for children-marriage appears to be senseless, withered, moribund, and kept alive largely by a great apparatus of psychologists and marriage counselors. Marriage is dead. Long live marriage!

Adolf Guggenbhuhl-Craig

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#2. Wherever you go at SXSW, there you are standing in line. Or watching other people stand in line.

Kara Swisher

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#3. Ah! that Senate is a world of ice and darkness! It votes the destruction of peoples as the simplest and wisest thing; for its members themselves are moribund.

George Sand

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#4. 33,3% of the mice used in this experiment were cured by the test drug; 33,3% of the population were unaffected by the drug and remained in a moribund condition; the third mouse got away.

Erwin Neter

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#5. Forty years ago my mother died," he said. "She captured by Comanches, nine years old. Love Indian and wild life so well, no want to go back to white folks. All same people anyway, God say. I love my mother.

S.C. Gwynne

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#6. To the elitist hedonist, life is the avoidance of boredom and routine.

Timothy Leary

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#7. Of the twenty or so civilizations known to modern Western historians, all except our own appear to be dead or moribund, and, when we diagnose each case ... we invariably find that the cause of death has been either War or Class or some combination of the two.

Arnold J. Toynbee

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#8. Taking my hands in his, Vaughn leaned down to whisper across my lips. "I'll give you anything, Bailey Hartwell, anything you want.

Samantha Young

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#9. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith.

Winston Churchill

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#10. No amount of artificial protection can permanently maintain an obsolete product, an inferior process or a moribund organization against competitors which are based on scientifically improved products or methods.

Karl Taylor Compton

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#11. Its evolutionary adaptability is largely gone. Ecologically, it has become moribund. Sheer chance, among other factors, is working against it. The toilet of its destiny has been flushed.

David Quammen

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#12. At least I can say I once worked a day on a tea plantation in Far North Queensland.

S.A. Tawks

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#13. Geometry is moribund. I want a lilt and joy to art.

Ellsworth Kelly

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#14. The heating system was a farce, depending as it did on registers in the floor wherefrom the tepid exhalations of a throbbing and groaning basement furnace were transmitted to the rooms with the faintness of a moribund's last breath.

Vladimir Nabokov

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#15. That without experimentation, a willingness to ask questions and try new things, we shall surely become static, repetitive, moribund.

Anthony Bourdain

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#16. When Limbaugh entered the world of talk radio, the AM dial was essentially moribund. He turned it into a weapon for conservatism, and in the process, led the revolution that has ended in the disintegration of the old media monopoly.

Ben Shapiro

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#17. From Freedom of the Body comes Freedom of the Mind and then Ultimate Freedom!

B.K.S. Iyengar

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#18. In an era when most bands were about nothing, the Manics were about everything: an eloquent scream, a j'accuse to the entire moribund millennium.

Simon Price

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#19. When I went to get my master's in creative writing at San Francisco State after Grinnell, I joined the moribund remnants of the Actor's Workshop, until I saw Kay Hayward and Sandy Archer in the San Francisco Mime Troupe and drove down that day to audition. The rest is history.

Peter Coyote

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#20. While the official church was moribund, the house churches kept alight the flame of Christian witness. The church survived as a lay movement, often led by poorly educated Bible women who memorized Scripture and passed on the faith to family members and (if they dared) to neighbors and friends.

Kim-Kwong Chan

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#21. It seems to me that nothing would be more foolish than to re-establish the worship of Wotan. Our old mythology ceased to be viable when Christianity implanted itself. Nothing dies unless it is moribund.

Adolf Hitler

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#22. In the first eight or so years at Microsoft, we were always chained to our terminals, and after I got sick the first time, I decided that I was going to be more adventurous and explore more of the world.

Paul Allen

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#23. Better a good venereal disease than a moribund peace and quiet.

Henry Miller

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#24. There must be no final truths; only burning questions.

John Marmysz

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#25. Sometimes when the year grinds to its end and the new term begins I feel I'm living the life of a fruit fly - the endless ephemeral cycle, each new semester a "fresh start" that leads to the same moribund conclusions.

Julie Schumacher

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#26. Any religion that professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them and the social conditions that cripple them is a spiritually moribund religion awaiting burial.

Martin Luther King Jr.

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#27. Hinduism is a relentless pursuit of Truth. "Truth is God" and if today it has become moribund, inactive, irresponsive to growth, it is because we are fatigued; and as soon as the fatigue is over, Hinduism will burst upon the world with a brilliance perhaps unknown before.

Mahatma Gandhi

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#28. ...the work of his favourite painter at the time, brett whitely, seemed to offer some focus for his rebellious attitude towards moribund suburban melbourne. cave was intrigued by the intensity and diversity of the themes that the sydney-based painter included in his landscapes

Ian Johnston

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#29. in a postmodern world, even gods and sacred objects must travel or lose their vitality; any deity that remained stuck in its place and original purpose would soon become moribund.

Okey Ndibe

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#30. 'Blue Valentine,' Derek Cianfrance's emotional gunslinger of a film, tears into the topic of moribund marriages with an honesty that's hard to come by in Hollywood these days.

Katie Hafner

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#31. How can the moribund old man reason back to himself the romance, the mystery, the imminence of great things with which our old earth tingled for him in the days when he was young and well?

William James

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#32. Look, some people talk about their personal lives a lot; I try not to, unless it's more of a generality.

Kate Bosworth

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