Quotes About Demise

I've watched the demise of the Hollywood orchestra, the house orchestras of the big studios.

Beloved friends and comrades... the national Libertarian Party is dead.

St. John of the Cross taught that God has to work in the soul in secret and in darkness, because if we fully knew what was happening, and what Mystery/transformation/God/grace will eventually ask of us, we would either try to take charge or stop the whole process.8 No one oversees his or her own demise willingly, even when it is the false self that is dying.

God has to work on the soul in secret and in darkness because if we fully knew what was happening and what Mystery-Transformation-God-Grace will eventually ask of us we would either try to take charge or stop the whole process. No one oversees his or her own demise willingly even when it is the false self that is dying.

But the timing of his demise only added to the sensationalist stories, and rumors began to circulate of a curse placed upon the expedition by the restless spirit of the disturbed princess.

The fabric is rent. Whatever stories at whatever degree of belief these people use to shield themselves from reality have just been structurally destabilized. The stories may survive for weeks or months or years, but their demise is now assured and the time will come when each of these people gets what they came here for; a direct confrontation with reality.

What a nutzo way to die, huh? Not that it's a competition, but my demise is going to be far more spectacular than my wife's.

crime is to cut short the experiment of one's own life before its natural end. To do so is a weakness and a pity—for the experiment of life will cut itself off soon enough, in all our cases, and one may just as well have the courage and the curiosity to stay in the battle until one's eventual and inevitable demise. Anything less than a fight for endurance is cowardly. Anything less than a fight for endurance is a refusal of the great covenant of life.

the proliferation of schemas of racial classification was one reason for the demise of 'scientific racism'.

We are all failing, masterfully, because we desire it. Want to see civilizations ruined, want to see our species' death, our psychic embroidery unraveled. We want to find out who's left, the impossible perceiver of our demise.

There is a moment in every relationship when one of the parties senses its imminent demise. There's a moment of incredible clarity when your stomach drops with a heavy sense of dread, and you feel like control is slipping through your fingertips even as you try to hold on.

What we know for sure is that rulers did not appreciate having astrologers forecast the time and manner of their demise. As

All fled—all done, so lift me on the pyre— The Feast is over, and the lamps expire.

The freedom-lovers of the world mourn the sad demise of Imam Khomeini.

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.

And last of all comes death.

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

I think a lot of people have predicted the demise of cash, and they've frequently been wrong. But there's no question that the smartphone is leading to the digitization of money. You really now have all the power of a bank branch in the palm of your hand.

President Obama deserves our unalloyed praise for hastening Osama bin Laden's demise.

The only exception to the demise/struggles of the European centre-left is Macron, in French presidential and parliamentary elections 2017.

Money, ego and drugs - that's what caused the demise of our band.

Often, when I became a consultant to a federal agency, that precipitated its demise.

The general rule is that entrepreneurs need the fear of their brand's demise to make it magic. It is too safe to do it as a corporate subsidiary.

slavery's demise had been hastened by large slave revolts in the British West Indies, brutally and with increasing difficulty suppressed by British troops.