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Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent. -- D. H. Lawrence
Personal disintegration remains always an imminent danger. -- Christopher Lasch
Theatre is a series of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster. -- Tom Stoppard
There's something imminent in the work, but the circle is only completed by the viewer. -- Anish Kapoor
There's nothing so improves the mood of the Party as the imminent execution of a senior colleague. -- Alan Clark
The ability to diagnose an imminent heart attack has long been considered the holy grail of cardiovascular medicine. -- Eric Topol
The imminent demise of the large record companies as gatekeepers of the world's popular music is a good thing, for the most part. -- David Byrne
Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release. -- Germaine Greer
I'm familiar with that feeling of silence that comes with a very imminent catastrophe, when you know you have absolutely no control over a situation. -- Dave Matthews
To act is to anchor in an imminent future, so imminent it becomes almost tangible; to act is to feel you are consubstantial with that future. -- Emile M. Cioran
I want to tell you what it was really like to think death is imminent, but I can't. It's a taste in your mouth. And an emptiness. -- Aaron Huey
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall. -- Frank Lloyd Wright
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. -- Marcia Angell
Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade and laissez faire. -- Ludwig von Mises
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. -- J. G. Ballard
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. -- Edward Kennedy
Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life. -- Dag Hammarskjold
Obama sounded like Al Gore on global warming. The more the case for man-made warming falls apart, the more hysterical Gore gets about an imminent catastrophe. The more public support his stimulus bill loses, the more Obama embraces fear-mongering. -- Fred Barnes
The target of preventive war must have several characteristics. It must be virtually defenceless; it must be important enough to be worth the trouble; it must be possible to portray it as the ultimate evil and an imminent threat to our survival. -- Noam Chomsky
The imminent demise of the church has been predicted since the middle of the 18th century. This is the regular secular mantra if churchgoing declines. I could take you to plenty of churches that are full to bursting and new churches being built. -- N. T. Wright
We still live with this unbelievable threat over our heads of nuclear war. I mean, are we stupid? Do we think that the nuclear threat has gone, that the nuclear destruction of the planet is not imminent? It's a delusion to think it's gone away. -- Kevin Costner
Climate change is not a discrete issue; it's a symptom of larger problems. Fundamentally, our society as currently designed has no future. We're chewing up the planet so fast, in so many different ways, that we could solve the climate problem tomorrow and still find that environmental collapse is imminent. -- Alex Steffen
I don't think people would climb mountains or jump off bridges with parachutes or kayak Class V rapids if those things didn't offer the brief and horrible illusion of imminent death. They would just be complicated, time-consuming endeavors that we'd steer well clear of because they got in the way of real life. -- Sebastian Junger
Overhead will eat you alive if not constantly viewed as a parasite to be exterminated. Never mind the bleating of those you employ. Hold out until mutiny is imminent before employing even a single additional member of staff. More startups are wrecked by overstaffing than by any other cause, bar failure to monitor cash flow. -- Felix Dennis
The actions that we take on the counterterrorism front, again, are to take actions against individuals where we believe that the intelligence base is so strong and the nature of the threat is so grave and serious, as well as imminent, that we have no recourse except to take this action that may involve a lethal strike. -- John O. Brennan
Unlike some, I don't claim to hold the mystic key to the future. But judging from past events, it seems to me that those who want to prophesy the imminent end of America's unique global role have a harder case to make than those who think we will limp on for a while, making a mess of things as usual. -- Walter Russell Mead
Thank God for imminent doomsday. -- Jim Butcher
The future though imminent is obscure. -- Winston Churchill
Savor the imminent weirdness of the day. -- Charles Baxter
When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee. -- Pliny the Elder
To act is to anchor in the imminent future. -- Emile M. Cioran
You can see the clouds rolling in and thunder is imminent. -- Don King
Since the 18th century, many Western intellectuals have predicted religion's imminent demise. -- Jonathan Sacks
... mutual lack of understanding carries the threat of imminent and violent destruction. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
People don't tend to lie about themselves when they're in imminent danger. -- Hark-Joon Lee
I happen to believe that health care is an imminent crisis. It is. -- Eric Massa
If I can't joke about imminent death, then I might as well just resign. -- James A. Owen
Stupid dire warnings of imminent doom.They always put me in a bad mood. -- Clinton Boomer
The fixation of the theater in one language--written words, music, lights, noises--betokens its imminent ruin. -- Antonin Artaud
And so the afternoon stretched on, and Ezbon toasted their imminent defeat to the dregs. -- C.N. Faust
Nothing is more imminent than the impossible . . . what we must always foresee is the unforeseen. -- Victor Hugo
The funny thing about facing imminent death is that it really snaps everything else into perspective. -- James Patterson
If we sip the wine, we find dreams coming upon us out of the imminent night -- D. H. Lawrence
There being an imminent danger for the faith, prelates must be questioned, even publicly, by their subjects. -- Thomas Aquinas
Iraq does not pose an imminent threat to the United States of any of its neighboring nations. -- Dennis Kucinich
Quite possibly, what I call happiness may coincide with what others call the moment of imminent danger -- Yukio Mishima
Even when our death is imminent, we carry the image of ourselves moving forward, alive, into the future. -- Dan Chaon
President Bush is manufacturing a crisis by suggesting that Social Security is in imminent danger. It is not. -- Richard Neal
Embrace the probability of your imminent death....and know there is nothing i can do to save you. -- Suzanne Collins
The world is ruled by violence, or at least the imminent threat of violence. It always has been. -- John Malkovich
Hey, if it's a good philosophy, it works. Death is imminent. Live every day like it's your last. -- Justina Chen
A just fear of an imminent danger, though be no blow given, is a lawful cause of war. -- Francis Bacon
I would say the next imminent hot writers are often the writers from the decade before you were born. -- Fiona Shaw
Why should one U.S. airman give up his life when our national security is not in imminent danger? -- Sean Hannity
Most believers aren't in imminent danger of ruining their lives. They're facing a danger that's far greater: wasting them. -- Steven Furtick
I was adrift in a sea of questions and if answers were lifeboats, I was in imminent danger of drowning. -- Karen Marie Moning
There is small danger of being starved in our land of plenty; but the danger of being stuffed is imminent. -- Sarah Josepha Hale
The currency of this world will be worthless at our death or at Christ's return, both of which are imminent. -- Randy Alcorn
A few. . . critics are the only people I ever heard use the phrase 'imminent threat.' I didn't, the president didn't. -- Donald Rumsfeld
Epileptics know by signs when attacks are imminent and take precautions accordingly; we must do the same in regard to anger -- Seneca the Younger
But sometimes the future is latent in us without our knowing it, and our supposedly lying words foreshadow an imminent reality. -- Marcel Proust
When one begins the transformative process, death and birth are imminent: the death of custom as authority, the birth of the self. -- Marilyn Ferguson
Global warming is not a threat. It's not a real threat. It's not a credible threat. It's not an imminent threat. ISIS is. -- Eric Bolling
As I think about the future, I'm back where most people live their lives. Which is, death is not imminent, and that's different. -- Dick Cheney
Planet Earth, creation, the world in which civilization developed, the world with climate patterns that we know and stable shorelines, is in imminent peril. -- James Hansen
It was nice standing out in the darkness, in the damp grass, with spring coming on and a feeling in my heart of imminent disaster. -- Michael Chabon
the natural condition is one of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster. strangely enough it all works out in the end... it's a mystery. -- Tom Stoppard
One dumb-bell, Watson! Consider an athlete with one dumb-bell. Picture to yourself the unilateral development - the imminent danger of a spinal curvature. Shocking, Watson, shocking! -- Arthur Conan Doyle
Osama's dead. Why is the terror alert elevated or imminent? Why not chill? Can't I just fly, keep my shoes on and avoid X-ray-fueled testicular cancer? -- Christopher Titus
Then came a bigger fear. Not the threat of imminent injury, but the fear that if I didn't go back up, I would be a chickenshit forever. -- John Sherman
Fang looked at me, hope in his eyes, and I smirked at him. I save the huge emotional kissy-face for imminent death scenes. This probably didn't qualify. -- James Patterson
Death means that a form of life dissolves or that the imminent possibility of dissolution exists, whether through our own death or through illness or old age. -- Eckhart Tolle
He (Aneurin Bevan) enjoys prophesying the imminent fall of the capitalist system, and is prepared to play a part, any part, in its burial, except that of mute. -- Harold MacMillan
Some have said we must not act until the threat is imminent. Since when have terrorists and tyrants announced their intentions, politely putting us on notice before they strike? -- George W. Bush
With the new weapons like the atom bomb, Russia would have it, too, and use it first. It is a very difficult world. But that trouble is imminent is obvious. -- Karl Donitz
The President does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation. -- Barack Obama
The death of every art form seems imminent at least once in every century; but while the very funeral arrangements go forward, some child is born who is Michelangelo, Picasso, Yeats. -- Reynolds Price
I think Matt Yglesias is wrong to declare that the world of 'This Town' is dying, unless he thinks publicly financed elections, strict lobbying bans and Scandinavian-style wealth distribution are imminent. -- Alex Pareene
Would not the sight of a single enemy airplane be enough to induce a formidable panic? Normal life would be unable to continue under the constant threat of death and imminent destruction. -- Giulio Douhet
Within the last fifty years, the extraordinary growth of every department of physical science has spread among us mental food of so nutritious and stimulating a character that a new ecdysis seems imminent. -- Thomas Huxley
Only now are increasing numbers of political and social scientists beginning to realize that Kelso's theories provide a private-property-based alternative to the imminent passage of a government-distributed "guaranteed income" or "negative income tax." -- Hazel Henderson
I know a parson who frightened his congregation terribly by telling them the second coming was very imminent indeed, but they were much consoled when they found he was planting trees in his garden. -- Bertrand Russell
You frighten me, when you say there isn't time." "I don't see why. Christians have been expecting the imminent end of the world for millennia." "But it keeps not ending." "So far, so good. -- Orson Scott Card
I just think that for a lot of people - not to take the focus off of myself - that feeling of imminent dread, like a cloak of black dust, was always around me. -- Matthew Shultz
Genius is mainly an affair of energy, and poetry is mainly an affair of genius; therefore a nation whose spirit is characterized by energy may well be imminent in poetry - and we have Shakespeare. -- Matthew Arnold
George W. Bush and Tony Blair had to convince the world that Saddam Hussein represented an imminent threat. Tony Blair lied when he claimed that Iraq could launch a chemical or biological attack within 45 minutes. -- Bianca Jagger
The average politician goes through a sentence like a man exploring a disused mine shaft-blind, groping, timorous and in imminent danger of cracking his shins on a subordinate clause or a nasty bit of subjunctive. -- Robertson Davies
In the urgent aftermath of Sept. 11, 2001, with more attacks thought to be imminent, analysts wanted to use 'contact chaining' techniques to build what the NSA describes as network graphs of people who represented potential threats. -- Barton Gellman
The Democrats current crudeness is a function of their desperation, and the imminent ratification of Howard Dean, the least charming presidential candidate in recent memory, as their party chairman only serves to punctuate the problem. -- Joe Klein
But choosing to lovingly care for her was like steering a plane into a mountain as gently as possible. The crash is imminent; it's how you spend your time on the way down that counts. -- Jamie Ford

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