Petering Out Quotes

#1. I keep following this sort of hidden river of my life, you know, whatever the topic or impulse which comes, I follow it along trustingly. And I don't have any sense of its coming to a kind of crescendo, or of its petering out either. It is just going steadily along.

William Stafford

#2. A terrible depression yesterday. Visions of my life petering out into a kind of soft-brained stupor from lack of use.

Sylvia Plath

#3. Like someone excitedly relating a story, only to find the words petering out, the path gets narrower the further I go, the undergrowth taking over.

Haruki Murakami

#4. Two guys jumped us on the way to get food," Cameron answered. "Ty is like ... a ninja on crack. He beat them up pretty spectacularly. Then we stole with their car.

Abigail Roux

#5. He had a Cro-Magnon forehead, a weak jaw, sagging jowls. Chunks of his cheeks looked like they had been bitten away by rodents. He could have been smiling and looked like a gargoyle.

S.M. Reine

#6. The first step to success is knowing that you failed to do something because many people don't even realise. Second step is to take a first step towards making your dreams true.

Vikrmn

#7. Last time I looked at a [pay]check, I said to myself, 'Who the hell is FICA? And when I meet him, I'm going to punch him in the face. Oh my God, FICA is killing me.'

Shaquille O'Neal

#8. Lyonesse stared wide-eyed at Lynet's hand and swallowed hard. Lynet realized that she was still holding the carving knife and had been pointing it at Lyonesse's breast. She laid the knife down slowly and gathered a few plates of food. "I'll take the rest of my dinner in my room, I think," she said.

Gerald Morris

#9. Selfish or not, I came first, and his brush off was far too easy.
I would let love rule in my heart and take a piece of my soul, but I would never let its loss destroy all of me.

Kate Stewart

#10. It is startling to see how the oppressed almost invariably shape themselves in the image of their hated oppressors.

Eric Hoffer

#11. It always seemed to me that white people were judged as individuals. But if a Negro did something stupid or wrong, it was held against all of us.

Annie Elizabeth Delany

#12. The sentence, having fumbled to a petering end, she too left.

Iain McKinnon