Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edmond Halley

Nearer the gods no mortal may approach.

Beatrice Webb

If a weakly mortal is to do anything in the world besides eat the bread thereof, there must be a determined subordination of the whole nature to the one aim no trifling with time, which is passing, with strength which is only too limited.

Kenneth Fisher

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.

George Orwell once blamed the demise of the English language on politics. It's quite possible he never read a prospectus.

To paraphrase Mark Twain, our demise is greatly exaggerated.

It could be the demise of this squad.

Bill Bradley

Mark Twain put it best when he said, 'Reports of my demise are greatly exaggerated,.

Michael Dell

People have been predicting the demise of the PC for years and have been wrong for years,

Pat Riley

We are all so quick to judge around here, but the demise of Shaquille O'Neal has been greatly exaggerated. I guarantee you that.

With the surprise jump in new home sales and the outsized rise in existing home sales, we now see that widespread talk of the demise of our moderate economic recovery has been somewhat exaggerated.

Madonna Ciccone

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.

Thaksin Shinawatra

I would like to express our profound sorrow to Your Excellency and ... the people of Nepal on the demise of Their Majesties,

Wintel has a huge installed base, and if there's any demise coming, it's a long time coming.

Jonathan Sacks

Since the 18th century, many Western intellectuals have predicted religion's imminent demise.

A process that dooms an otherwise normal embryo to later demise

Rumors of our demise were obviously grossly exaggerated.

Christiane Amanpour

Sadly, marriage and motherhood have coincided with the demise of journalism as I knew it and I dreamt that it would always be.

John Taylor

In the past, the perception that something has a premium price point has led to the demise of the platform. You can look at Sega as an example of that. You can look at 3DO as an example. Microsoft is going to be incredibly sensitive to that.

Frank Herbert

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.

Elon Musk

The rumours of the demise of the U.S. manufacturing industry are greatly exaggerated.

Paracelsus

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.

Peter Morgan

As we go through life our relationship with our own mortality and our inevitable demise increases.

Lady Gaga

I feel that if I can show my demise artistically to the public, I can somehow cure my own legend.

Pythagoras

Reason is immortal, all else mortal.

Mort Sahl

Reagan won because he ran against Jimmy Carter. If he ran unopposed he would have lost.

Clearly, reports of the housing market's demise have been greatly exaggerated.

Robert Smith

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.

Rufus Wainwright

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.

Vladimir Putin

The demise of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century.