Part of the oncoming demise (of New York during its terrible fiscal crisis) is that none of us can simply believe it. We were always the best and the strongest of cities, and our people were vital to the teeth. Knock them down eight times and they would get up with that look in the eye which suggests the fight has barely begun.
Nearer the gods no mortal may approach.
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.
I'd always felt like I was going to take part in adventures in my life. That's what led me to diving in the shipwreck to begin with. But when you're faced with your own demise, you have to accept that you are vulnerable and that you are only here for a set period of time.
The imminent demise of the large record companies as gatekeepers of the world's popular music is a good thing, for the most part.
So many of the things we are doing right now as a country are things that lead to loss of a country. I leave you with this thought and challenge any historian, no mater who you are where you are. You show me a country that ever met its demise while as a nation it was honoring the one true God. You won't find it. Let's keep this country alive.
Stereotyping and generating brands around musicians I think contributes to their eventual demise.
Reason is immortal, all else mortal.
Stress is the worst thing. That's the ultimate demise of any good thing.
Restlessness is a fickle catalyst; it can drive you to achieve or it can coax your demise, and sometimes the choice isn't yours
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.
Since the 18th century, many Western intellectuals have predicted religion's imminent demise.
The freedom-lovers of the world mourn the sad demise of Imam Khomeini.
Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?
No mortal man, moreover is wise at all moments.
Fate is never too generous even to its favorites. Rarely do the gods grant a mortal more than one immortal deed.
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.
It is quite normal to fear what one most desires. We desire to transcend the Story of the World that has come to enslave us, that indeed is killing the planet. We fear what the end of that story will bring: the demise of much that is familiar. Fear it or not, it is happening already.
The only demise of Shaquille O'Neal will be his age.
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.