Quotes by Demise No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests. Sallust passiondemisemen As an organization grows and succeeds, it sows the seeds of its own demise by getting boring. Seth demiseorganizationbusiness The only demise of Shaquille O'Neal will be his age. Shaquille O'Neal demisebasketballage Avarice starves its possessor to fatten those who come after, and who are eagerly awaiting the demise of the accumulator. Sir Fulke Greville avaricedemise I've watched the demise of the Hollywood orchestra, the house orchestras of the big studios. Skitch Henderson orchestrademisehouse Restlessness is a fickle catalyst; it can drive you to achieve or it can coax your demise, and sometimes the choice isn't yours Slash fickledemisechoices Stereotyping and generating brands around musicians I think contributes to their eventual demise. Squarepusher musiciandemisethinking Fortune raises up and fortune brings low both the man who fares well and the one who fares badly; and there is no prophet of the future for mortal men. Sophocles demisehe-manmen Fate is never too generous even to its favorites. Rarely do the gods grant a mortal more than one immortal deed. Stefan Zweig fatedemisedeeds My own reaction from a distance is that Pol Pot's demise as the leader of the Khmer Rouge was inevitable, and that his own paranoia did him in as much as anything else. Sydney Schanberg distancedemiseleader If ye despise the human race, and mortal arms, yet remember that there is a God who is mindful of right and wrong. Virgil armsdemiserace The demise of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century. Vladimir Putin provocativeunionsdemise No hero is mortal till he dies. W. H. Auden diesdemisehero Should I be the happy mortal destined to turn the scale of war, will you not rejoice, O my father? Zebulon Pike demisewarfather We have found ourselves in the period of "interregnum": the old works no more, the new is not yet born. But the awareness that without it being born we are all marked for demise, is already much alive, as is the awareness that the hard nut we must urgently crack is not the presence of "too many poor", but "too many rich". Zygmunt Bauman cracksdemisenuts I don't take pleasure in anyone's demise, really. Larry Wilmore reallytakepleasuredemise«1234
