Top 84 Our Demise Quotes
#1. Should we Knights, in years to come, dwindle into memory, perhaps the world will recall that in the days of our demise we stood, hewing at the fetters of captive men.
A.S. Peterson
#2. 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.
Allen Klein
#3. Tim Conway was a little different from the rest. He was always in the back of the studio building something with the prop man, rewriting his lines, or plotting our demise.
Vicki Lawrence
#4. Helping save other children of humanity ... should always weigh greater than all the world politics, religions and business endeavors. We either help save each other or watch our demise. It won't get better by itself!
Timothy Pina
#5. A forced silence is a dangerous imposter, painting a canvas of safety while plotting our demise.
Jo Ann Fore
#6. Reports of our demise have been greatly exaggerated," Sheppard said. He'd always wanted to use that line.
Jo Graham
#7. Our demise may instead result from the habitat destruction that ensues when the AI begins massive global construction projects using nanotech factories and assemblers - construction
Nick Bostrom
#8. We realise our existence is confined to our being. Our demise makes not a whit difference to the world around us, nor to the scheme of things.
We come to our senses; we understand our utter insignificance.
Umera Ahmed
#9. We have an opponent who wants nothing more than to bring about our demise.
Clinton E. Arnold
#11. The digital revolution has deepened the crisis within representative democracy. But as it forces its demise, it might also dictate its future. Traditional representative democracy within nations is no longer enough. People want more participation and collaboration with their government.
Eduardo Paes
#12. 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
#13. My fear is dying badly, through illness or injury. But what a glorious demise it would be to burn up in space.
William Shatner
#14. witness the sad demise of fundamental Western values. Pride. Order. Personal responsibility.
Richard Russo
#15. Leaders in business and government, who fail to see the holistic interdependence of our planet, are destined to cause its demise.
Said Elias Dawlabani
#16. His interest, after all, was not in the origin of species but in their demise.
Elizabeth Kolbert
#17. We are the wreck of what we have been, and the place of our own future demise.
Jesse Ball
#18. You are not an "author," you are a writer. If your books are still selling like hotcakes ten years after your demise, THEN you're an author.
H.P. Oliver
#19. We are perhaps the only species on Earth to be conscious of the inevitability of our individual mortality. I fear that soon we shall also have to become the only species that will knowingly watch the coming of its own collective demise, or at least the demise of its civilization.
Carlo Rovelli
#20. It seemed that I could tell the whole story pretty powerfully in those 18 months between October of '62 and the spring of '64 when they were all at their peak. And yet you could see some of the shadows of Detroit's demise coming.
David Maraniss
#21. Social Security has been effective for 70 years; prior predictions of its demise have been totally overstated.
Grace Napolitano
#22. With Zia's controversial demise in 1988, Jinnah was finally spared the false beard Zia kept pinning on the founder's otherwise clean-shaven face.
Nadeem Farooq Paracha
#23. Keep going on hikes, keep having your friends in your life, keep that downtime sacred as well because as hard as you work in any job, it's really nice to have the relaxing de-stressors. Stress is the worst thing. That's the ultimate demise of any good thing.
Dianna Agron
#24. Rumors of coal's demise may have been greatly exaggerated.
Alan Johnson
#25. The very possibility of death focuses the mind wonderfully.
Jasper Fforde
#26. There's no one place a virus goes to die - but that doesn't make its demise any less a public health victory. Throughout human history, viral diseases have had their way with us, and for just as long, we have hunted them down and done our best to wipe them out.
Jeffrey Kluger
#27. Witnessing the Vette's demise, the way Rick felt, there wasn't a king on Earth who he would bow to. No religious figure whose hand he'd kiss. No icon of history he'd worship. No one whose autograph he'd seek. He was becoming a legend, and he was alive to feel it happen.
Rich Hoffman
#28. Why did I break up with Elvis? It was difficult to watch his slow demise.
Linda Thompson
#29. We are our own wicked gods with little 'g's' and big dicks, sadistic and constantly inflicting a slow demise.
Marilyn Manson
#30. We all seem to stumble, planning our own demise,
Getting the big picture, and making it wallet-sized.
Kendrick Lamar
#31. However, while we should certainly celebrate the demise of overt official racism, we must also critically examine where we are at this historical moment, recognize the many challenges ahead and reaffirm our commitment to making Brown v. Board a reality.
Ed Markey
#32. The demise of our community and culture is the fault of sissified men who have been overly influenced by women.
Tony Evans
#33. Granted, the Scott Paper story is one of the more dramatic in our study, but it's not an isolated case. In over two thirds of the comparison cases, we noted the presence of a gargantuan personal ego that contributed to the demise or continued mediocrity of the company.33
James C. Collins
#34. When we replace a sense of service and gratitude with a sense of entitlement and expectation, we quickly see the demise of our relationships, society, and economy.
Steve Maraboli
#35. You actually abolish slavery by accompanying the slave. We don't strategize our way out of slavery, we solidarize, if you will, our way toward its demise. We stand in solidarity with the slave, and by doing so, we diminish slavery's ability to stand.
Gregory Boyle
#36. You can only be this high-powered mojo rock band for so long, then you just can't look people in the eye. So, we've projected our own demise.
Billy Corgan
#38. Life is about change, it never stops, it's moving and it's moving this human body inexorably towards its demise.
Elizabeth Lesser
#39. The most terrifying aspect of human health is our refusal to take steps to help ourselves and the fact that we are so often responsible for our own demise through lack of positive action. It makes me want to take a nap.
Lena Dunham
#40. We have been careless with our pie repertoire. The demise of apple-pear pie with figs and saffron and orengeado pies are tragic losses.
Janet Clarkson
#41. As we go through life our relationship with our own mortality and our inevitable demise increases.
Peter Morgan
#42. Is the prey complicit in its own demise? Are we not seduced in some small way by the beauty, the grace, even the dangerous soul of the predator?
Lisa Unger
#43. The truth is that the demise of healing came as a result of disobedience to the instructions of Jesus and nothing more.
Praying Medic
#44. Death, to me, has always just been a word. A mention of a king I never knew, a villain whose demise led to a happy ending. Never have I seen it; never have I felt it; never have I held it in my hands.
Never has it been forever
Jodi Picoult
#45. 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.
Sydney Schanberg
#46. at least some paleontologists believe that the demise
of the dinosaurs was accelerated by nocturnal predation on reptilian eggs by the early mammals. Two chicken eggs for breakfast may be all-at least on the surface-that is left of this ancient mammalian cuisine.
Carl Sagan
#47. For today ... Be kind to those in despair.
Your words, thoughts and prayers can be the difference between one's life or demise
Timothy Pina
#48. Borders had lousy management and made bad corporate decisions, so its fate is less like a terrible accident than a slow-motion slide into a ditch, but it's hard to be happy about a bookseller's demise.
Susan Orlean
#49. I pray you weep no more my love, let no tears fall for my demise, lift your face to the sky above, and let the sun dry your eyes...
Anthony Ryan
#50. Never allow anyone or anything to demise or dull your truest identity. Hurtful words and harsh judgments have no impact when your north star, your guiding light, shines from the center of your chest and beats from your own truest heart.
Toni Sorenson
#51. Some of us will experience some form of mental illness in their lifetime... I rather have depression that can be treated with a pill and my free will to conquer it; than have a physical illness that results in my demise because no matter what I did I could not conquer it.
Brian Michael Good
#52. Restlessness is a fickle catalyst; it can drive you to achieve or it can coax your demise, and sometimes the choice isn't yours
Slash
#53. But I regret to inform you that you are probably not dying'
'As you will.' I take a swig from the bottle of brandy, my teeth chattering against it. I don't have the energy to argue; I must save my strength for my imminent demise.
Janet Mullany
#54. In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.
Anthony Trollope
#55. Since the 18th century, many Western intellectuals have predicted religion's imminent demise.
Jonathan Sacks
#56. Boasting of wealth and virtue brings your demise.
Lao-Tzu
#57. The freedom-lovers of the world mourn the sad demise of Imam Khomeini.
Ruhollah Khomeini
#58. You don't want to be on a show that no one wants to see, and then think your phone is going to be ringing off the hook to do other jobs. I'm not tethered to the fact that my demise may be reached this season or next season, or whatever.
Isaiah Washington
#59. And the Middle East, well, I think we can all see what we've made there. What a hand we've had in the making of our own demise. How masterful. And the world will continue to be melted by a sun we've crossed terribly with our progress.
Lidia Yuknavitch
#60. I kept a picture of me kissing my dad's corpse on the forehead in my wallet for years. I'd break it out any time someone showed me a baby picture, just so they would know how it ends.
Doug Stanhope
#61. To our enemies all over the world who plan America's demise, please take my advice. Give up now. No matter what, you will lose. You will lose it all.
Henry Rollins
#62. His first - and worst - mistake was blindly doing what he was told to do. Without questioning their methods or their motives, he allowed politicians to make the decisions that led to his early demise.
Tom Robbins
#63. I've always said that I favour an elected second chamber and I think it's important that there are members of the House of Lords who are willing to vote for their own demise.
Jim Knight
#64. The imminent demise of the church has been predicted since the middle of the 18th century. This is the regular secular mantra if churchgoing declines. I could take you to plenty of churches that are full to bursting and new churches being built.
N. T. Wright
#65. I fear that CAFTA will accelerate the demise of these domestic textile jobs.
Howard Coble
#66. Psychopathy is like sunlight. Overexposure can hasten one's demise in grotesque, carcinogenic fashion. But regulated exposure at controlled and optimal levels can have a significant positive impact on well-being and quality of life.
Kevin Dutton
#67. I'm plotting my own demise," she teased, keeping her eyes closed. "Because I know that falling for you will be the death of me.
Chanda Hahn
#68. An evil person will have evil friends;
a righteous person will have righteous friends.
The company you keep is hidden treasure or masked demise.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#69. The single most important lesson I learned is that black people are the cause of black people's demise.
KRS-One
#70. Long before folks fretted the demise of 'quantitative easing,' I fretted its existence. It proved the reverse of its image, an antistimulus, and we've done okay not because of it, but despite it.
Kenneth Fisher
#71. They never saw a thing they liked, they never had a kind word to say and I never stopped listening to them; hence my demise.
Gary O. Thompson
#72. My future in-laws are out shopping and plotting my demise, I suppose.
Chelsea Ballinger
#73. Don't you ever wonder if this life has just gotten old and stale? When suddenly faced with my possible demise, I can't think of one thing I would miss, except you.
- Vampire, Michel Baptiste
Denise K. Rago
#74. 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
#75. Mark Twain put it best when he said, 'Reports of my demise are greatly exaggerated,.
Bill Bradley
#76. Ronald Reagan will be remembered for leading the United States during a time of tremendous international transition - the demise of the Soviet Union, the Berlin Wall coming down, and the end of the Cold War.
Mary Landrieu
#77. People like it when others are gossiping. When you hear a story about someone's demise or some big faux-pas they made, everyone wants to tune into it, because it's nice to know that someone else made a mistake. It makes you feel elevated for a moment.
Madonna Ciccone
#78. The season of my life has changed and the cold chill of winter blows the warning winds of my soon to be demise.
Suzanne Steele
#79. When I die, I don't want my demise to be used as a political rally, and that's what happened yesterday.
Bill O'Reilly
#80. 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.
Mike Tyson
#81. If 'Party of Five' hadn't done well, it would have been a bunch of names involved in the demise. But if 'Time of Your Life' doesn't do well, it will be my name. You have to prepare for the worst. This is a very fickle business.
Jennifer Love Hewitt
#83. Hope is the bait a fish takes which leads to its demise. We hunger for it and do not see what lurks behind.
L.K. Evans
#84. Now how many people in their heart of hearts in that community want to see the demise of this country? How many would cheer, not out loud maybe, but in their heart when things like 9/11 occur and I'll tell you; it's a majority among them.
Tom Tancredo
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