Quotes About Imminent

The future is a split second away.

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

Don't feel bad, I'm usually about to die.

Psychedelics show you what's in and on your mind, those subconscious thoughts and feelings that are are hidden, covered up, forgotten, out of sight, maybe even completely unexpected, but nevertheless imminently present.

All this rapture," managed Letty, wriggling out of her mother's grasp, "is decidedly premature.

Num mundo em que a morte vai à caça, não há tempo para remorso ou hesitação. O tempo é suficiente apenas para tomar decisões. Não importa quantas decisões serão tomadas, nenhuma é menos ou mais importante do que as outras. No mundo em que a morte vai à caça, não existem decisões importantes ou pouco importantes. Há apenas decisões tomadas pelo guerreiro perante um iminente extermínio.

The Warrior traditions all affirm that, in addition to training, what enables a Warrior to reach clarity of thought is living with the awareness of his own imminent death.

So when a dragon is directly over you, well, even if you're me and you're kind of used to it, your medulla oblongata is still telling you 'the sky is falling, you're about to die, run like hell.

She'd be frantic. Realize that she was about to die in

It has been noticed that, in the face of imminent danger, a man rarely remains at his normal level; he either rises well above himself or dips well below. The same happens to nations. Extreme dangers, instead of lifting a nation, sometimes end by bringing it low; they arouse its passions without giving them direction and confuse its perceptions without clarification.

It was like waiting to speak in front of the class... You have to pretend to be listening, but all you can really think abou tis when it's going to be your turn.

as if the imminent could not wait to become the past, or the present lunged at the future, eager for what would be.

All summer it feels as if it will rain soon. All summer the strange feeling, 'something will break.

There was no imminent threat. This was made up in Texas, announced in January to the Republican leadership that war was going to take place and was going to be good politically. This whole thing was a fraud.

Looking back, it puzzles me that my parents decided to stay in Shanghai when they must have known that war was imminent. But the cotton works were my father's responsibility, and duty then counted for something.

When death is imminent and dying patients find their suffering unbearable, then the physician's role should shift from healing to relieving suffering in accord with the patient's wishes.

I have learnt by actual stress of imminent danger, in the first place, that self-control is more indispensable than gunpowder, and, in the second place, that persistent self-control under the provocation of African travel is impossible without real, heartfelt sympathy for the natives with whom one has to deal.

He wants to see, he wants to know, only to see and know. I'm aware that it is this mentality, this curiosity, which is responsible for the hydrogen bomb and the imminent demise of civilization and that we would all be better off if we were still at the stone-worshipping stage. Though surely it is not this affable inquisitiveness that should be blamed.

I was frozen like in a dream when your feet weigh fifty pounds each and the danger is almost upon you.

Your initial mistake, my dear F'lar," and the Harper's voice was at its drollest, "was in providing salvation from the last imminent disaster in a scant three days by bringing up the Five Lost Weyrs. The Lord Holders really expect you to provide a second miracle in similar short order.

The murder of Pakistan's first prime minister heralded the imminent derailment of the political process and the onset of a brutal political culture of assassinations, sustained by the state's direct or indirect complicity.

The sense of security more frequently springs from habit than from conviction, and for this reason it often subsists after such a change in the conditions as might have been expected to suggest alarm. The lapse of time during which a given event has not happened, is, in this logic of habit, constantly alleged as a reason why the event should never happen, even when the lapse of time is precisely the added condition which makes the event imminent.

But with regard to critical occasions, it often happens that all moments seem comfortably remote until the last.

Growing up during the Cold War, I remember the seemingly imminent threat of nuclear war. In primary school we were taught to 'duck-and-cover' for protection. But even as children hiding under wooden desks, we recognized the inadequacies of this strategy.