Top 100 Quotes About Demise
#1. I fear that CAFTA will accelerate the demise of these domestic textile jobs.
Howard Coble
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. Boasting of wealth and virtue brings your demise.
Lao-Tzu
#10. Since the 18th century, many Western intellectuals have predicted religion's imminent demise.
Jonathan Sacks
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. The freedom-lovers of the world mourn the sad demise of Imam Khomeini.
Ruhollah Khomeini
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. 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
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. 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
#30. Mark Twain put it best when he said, 'Reports of my demise are greatly exaggerated,.
Bill Bradley
#31. 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
#32. 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.
John C. Maxwell
#33. 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
#34. My future in-laws are out shopping and plotting my demise, I suppose.
Chelsea Ballinger
#35. 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
#36. 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
#37. The single most important lesson I learned is that black people are the cause of black people's demise.
KRS-One
#38. 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
#39. 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
#40. 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
#41. 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
#42. 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
#43. 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
#44. Rumors of coal's demise may have been greatly exaggerated.
Alan Johnson
#45. 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
#46. 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
#47. Social Security has been effective for 70 years; prior predictions of its demise have been totally overstated.
Grace Napolitano
#48. 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
#49. 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
#50. We have an opponent who wants nothing more than to bring about our demise.
Clinton E. Arnold
#51. 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
#52. We are the wreck of what we have been, and the place of our own future demise.
Jesse Ball
#53. His interest, after all, was not in the origin of species but in their demise.
Elizabeth Kolbert
#54. Leaders in business and government, who fail to see the holistic interdependence of our planet, are destined to cause its demise.
Said Elias Dawlabani
#55. 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
#56. witness the sad demise of fundamental Western values. Pride. Order. Personal responsibility.
Richard Russo
#57. My fear is dying badly, through illness or injury. But what a glorious demise it would be to burn up in space.
William Shatner
#58. 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
#59. Life is about change, it never stops, it's moving and it's moving this human body inexorably towards its demise.
Elizabeth Lesser
#60. 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
#61. 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
#62. 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
#63. The truth is that the demise of healing came as a result of disobedience to the instructions of Jesus and nothing more.
Praying Medic
#64. 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
#65. I've never been one to take glee in anyone's demise, and when I saw Jerry Sandusky walk out in handcuffs, I did kind of feel a bit sorry for him, even though the jury found him to do some horrific things; I was like, 'His life is over.'
Don Lemon
#66. Instead of plotting the demise of the traditional family, as some politicians and religious leaders would have you believe, gay people mow their lawns and watch 'American Idol' and video their children's concerts and have the same hopes and dreams that their straight counterparts do.
Jodi Picoult
#67. Lust is a dangerous thing. It can make you believe things that are not real. It can seduce your mind and lead it blindfolded to the cliff that will be its demise.
Alessandra Torre
#68. How the soldiers had lain, slain and forgotten, no marker for their demise, no songs to their name, not even mourners who knew them. That is the end of battle, and once a man has tasted it, how hesitant he is to lift another spoonful to his lips.
R.W. Schmidt
#69. And the biggest joke was that I fell in love with her - the most beautiful lie of all. Her kisses were deceit that tasted like the sweetest venom, her laugh a lure to my demise, and her body the damn devil's playground.
Mia Asher
#70. To my own demise, I rarely ask why I'm hungry because I'm focusing all of my energies on getting fed. And if I persist in such a diminishing cycle, in all probability I will eventually starve to death because I have chosen to gorge myself on the very things that will keep me empty.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#71. I've read that if an avalanche buries you and you're lying there underneath all that snow, you can't tell which way is up or down. You want to dig yourself out but pick the wrong way, and you dig yourself to your own demise.
Khaled Hosseini
#72. It is only when you understand the extent to which you have been traumatized - even if outside of your awareness - that you can effectively
prepare for and, yes, welcome the demise of empire and its ghastly assaults on your soul and the earth community.
Carolyn Baker
#73. Mankind's obsession with money and greed has them going down a one way street to their demise.
Steven Magee
#74. As we go through life our relationship with our own mortality and our inevitable demise increases.
Peter Morgan
#75. Familiar words for dead black boys portrayed as complicit in their own demise. Michael Donald's body had been hanged on a Mobile street, and the police were doing the same thing to his name.
Ravi Howard
#76. Every art form changes, often at rates and in ways that cause discomfort to its devotees. But the arts also have a remarkable ability to withstand and absorb those changes, and to prove wrong the prophecies of their demise.
A.O. Scott
#77. I'd heard stories about business managers who lost their client's money. My feeling was that if I made any money, I wanted to lose it myself, to be the author of my own demise.
Wayne Rogers
#78. The rumors of the White Sox demise are greatly exaggerated.
Mark Twain
#79. 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.
Ieyasu Tokugawa
#80. By the time of the GDR's demise, two in every 13 citizens were informers.
Luke Harding
#81. I feel that if I can show my demise artistically to the public, I can somehow cure my own legend.
Lady Gaga
#82. I think human arrogance will be the demise of civilization.
Adam Ferrara
#83. Hello, Satan. I know you've been waiting patiently for me since the demise of the good and noble Uncle Tor. I have a feeling I'll be staying here a while.
Carian Cole
#84. When you are expending much energy on someone else's demise, it's like you weaken your psychic immune system.
Heidi Julavits
#85. Adversity is what illuminates quagmires, but all that really matters is destiny.We cannot be blinded by present circumstances which roar like Goliath and sent shivers down the spine. That's not what destiny holds, remember; mercy spurned is demise embraced.
Trinity Tinashe Masunungure
#86. The demise of Google Reader, if logical, is a reminder of how far we've come from the cuddly old 'I'm Feeling Lucky' Google days, in which there was a foreseeably-astonishing delight in the way Google's evolving design tricks anticipated what users would like.
James Fallows
#87. 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
#88. Happy marriages are alive and well. The cries of their demise have been highly overrated, and couples happily married do indeed exist.
Fawn Weaver
#89. 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.
Judy Collins
#90. 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.
John Lahr
#91. Technology is going to revolutionize almost every sector, leading to the demise of many traditional professions. Economic and political power will be determined less by a country's size than by its technological superiority.
Klaus Schwab
#92. Maybe he would ruin her like the waves crashes the shore, but nothing was more beautiful for her than wanting to be wrecked into his demise. In his ruins she breathed to exist.
Prachi Prangya Agasti
#93. Men have been growing more stupid for several thousand years; I myself shall waste no tears at his demise'- old British man in Earth Abides
George R. Stewart
#94. I've watched the demise of the Hollywood orchestra, the house orchestras of the big studios.
Skitch Henderson
#95. I've paid the price; I definitely have a reputation that precedes me, and there is a camp that plots my demise. But then again ... it's funner that way.
Rufus Wainwright
#96. The instant of a great disaster, it is often said, is an elongated one. As if in witnessing its own demise the human mind is want to wind the moment out long and long still.
Tiffany Baker
#97. Men and women who sell their birthright for a mess of pottage will tell you that their demise began with something small, with some seemingly insignificant breach of integrity that escalated. The little things do matter. It is not possible to profess righteousness while flirting with sin.
Sheri L. Dew
#98. Dying before dying has two important consequences: It liberates the individual from the fear of death and influences the actual experience of dying at the time of biological demise.
Stanislav Grof
#99. The demise of Constellation is not the death of a dream. It's just the end of an illusion.
Henry Spencer
#100. All she could see was her demise and it called out a tempting ruse, offering a suffering less potent than what sickened the living.
B.B. Wynter
