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Quotes About Premature

The power of population is so superior to the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man, that premature death must in some shape or other visit the human race.
~ Dan Brown
To a friend, in an unguarded moment, he [Maxim Gorky, 1932] declared his ambition: simply to portray the world and man as they were, without the myth of love, 'repudiating nothing, praising nothing'; repudiation was unjust, while praise was premature—'for we live in chaos and ourselves are fragments of chaos.' He compared his desire with Einstein, 'trying to alter radically our representation of the universe.
~ Dan Levin
It occurs to me that the Grendel tale is premature. The players have not been brought upon the stage. Dislinear plotting and noncontiguous prose have their adherents, not the least of which am I, but in the end, my friends, it is character which wins or loses immortality upon the vellum.
~ Dan Simmons
Taking pre-natal vitamins can minimise birth defects and can lower the chances both of morning sickness and premature delivery.
~ Heidi Murkoff
Don't you make fun of me or my children! Some babies are premature. Mine were all postmature. That's why they're so smart. Their brains had longer to develop.
~ Jeannette Walls
There is no premature death for a man utterly dedicated to conquest, solitude and vain flight: he is always at an age to die
~ Colette
how short the step, from dreaming to desiring to encompassing. . . the thought is father to the deed, and the deed is born raw, ugly, premature.
~ Hilary Mantel
There's great disparity between who goes to college and who goes to jail. Who lives long and who dies prematurely, is the defining issue of our time. And I submit to you, there's a significant race dimension, it is basically class-driven.
~ Jesse Jackson
Two decisions have damaged the stability both of the euro and of Europe: the premature admission of Greece to the euro area and the breach and subsequent weakening of the stability and growth pact.
~ Helmut Kohl
Rebus remembered that the premature withdrawal of the penis during intercourse for contraceptive reasons was often referred to as 'getting off at Haymarket.
~ Ian Rankin
While I do not believe Ford was wrong to pardon Nixon, the timing of the pardon was premature and may have cost Ford the margin of victory in the 1976 election.
~ Richard Ben-Veniste
The social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
~ Peter Ustinov
We loved each other with a premature love, marked by a fierceness that so often destroys adult lives.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Around 20 million premature and low-birth weight babies are born every year and are at high risk of death or disability because of hypothermia.
~ Jane Chen
Racism, specifically, is the state-sanctioned or extralegal production and exploitation of group-differentiated vulnerability to premature death.
~ Ruth Wilson
beyond that image conjured by Poe's famous story, "The Premature Burial
~ Dean Koontz
Their baby girl had been born premature while Ian was at sea, and it became immediately apparent that she had a defective heart. By the time Ian returned home, Allison Marie had already been laid to rest.
~ Debbie Macomber
No one can rationally believe doing God's will guarantees one will, for example, never develop cancer or die in an earthquake. If that were the case, we would have to draw the irrational and cruel conclusion that anyone who dies prematurely was being punished by God—or the equally irrational conclusion that all those who live long and healthy lives have lived God-centered lives.
~ Dennis Prager
Aggravation or stress kills—as do many other things in life, such as cigarettes. But stress is worse than cigarettes. Cigarettes at least give some pleasure before they cause the premature death of about one out of every three smokers. Aggravation, on the other hand, only provides pain and probably kills more people than cigarettes.
~ Dennis Prager
There are many aspects of the universe that still cannot be explained satisfactorily by science; but ignorance only implies ignorance that may someday be conquered. To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
~ Isaac Asimov
To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
~ Isaac Asimov
I think people were a little premature in writing off violent movies. They're going to continue being made, and audiences will continue going to see them.
~ Rod Lurie
Things always seem to end before they start
~ Lou Reed
I came into the world two months too soon, I was in such a hurry.
~ Georg Brandes