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There's nothing like impending death to rouse you from existential boredom. -- Roger Ebert
After 9/11 and the impending actors' strike of a few years ago, roles dried up for everyone. -- Alfre Woodard
The impending teacher shortage is the most critical education issue we will face in the next decade. -- David Price
I believe, however, that impending events will call us and we must respond but where, with whom, and how? -- John Burns
One of the many, many salutary aspects of Barack Obama's impending presidential nomination is the sea change his victory marks in the battle for the mind-set of the American foreign policy establishment. -- Eric Alterman
John the Baptist, who we are told was related by blood to Jesus, was preaching the impending judgement of God, urging repentance and moral reform, and baptizing in the Jordan River those who responded. -- Kenneth Scott Latourette
If slavery, limited as it yet is, now threatens to subvert the Constitution, how can we as wise and prudent statesmen, enlarge its boundaries and increase its influence, and thus increase already impending dangers? -- William H. Seward
There can be no stronger claim to a physician's assistance than at the time when death is imminent, a moral judgment implied by the state's own recognition of the legitimacy of medical procedures necessarily hastening the moment of impending death. -- David Souter
I can't ever seem to shake the feeling that when things are really good it essentially means that things are going to go really bad. When I feel calm and settled, there is always an underlying feeling of impending doom... I don't think that it's healthy. -- Florence Welch
Even leaving aside government policy, whole industries are already making expensive changes around the perceived need to 'go green.' Al Gore and countless other prophets of global catastrophe are making megamillions pushing these expensive solutions. Schoolchildren around the globe are being frightened by tales of impending calamity. -- Bradley A. Smith
There is a measure needing courage to adopt and enforce it, which I believe to be of virtue sufficient to redeem the nation in this its darkest hour: one only; I know of no other to which we may rationally trust for relief from impending dangers without and within. -- Robert Dale Owen
When I came to the last line of 'Car Crash While Hitchhiking,' I read it as a pitiless statement of indifference: a refusal to warn the family of their impending collision, a refusal to help when miraculously spared, a refusal to act on the empathy hiding behind the story's language. -- Anthony Marra
I live a half mile from the San Andreas fault - a fact that bubbles up into my consciousness every time some other part of the world experiences an earthquake. I sometimes wonder whether this subterranean sense of impending disaster is at least partly responsible for Silicon Valley's feverish, get-it-done-yesterday work norms. -- Gary Hamel
In 2004, Kucinich was the only presidential candidate who warned that a war in Iraq would be completely disastrous. I remember how mocked he was when he predicted hand-to-hand combat in Baghdad. I remember Candy Crowley, and other reporters as well, treating his views on the impending war as ridiculous, out there, almost insane. -- Marianne Williamson
When it comes to impending, unavoidable extinction, ignorance is bliss. -- Darren Shan
Nobody's death is impending." ..."Well technically everyone's death is impending. -- Eoin Colfer
We live as if we were unaware of our impending destruction -- Soren Kierkegaard
The sense of impending disaster hung over the garden like a chandelier. -- Antal Szerb
Ignorance of impending evil is far better than a knowledge of its approach. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
We eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner to the soundtrack of our own impending death. -- Courtney Summers
Absorption in ease is one of the most reliable signs of present or impending decay. -- Richard M. Weaver
Autumn can be glorious but menacing too - the long shadows, brisk winds, scurrying leaves, impending frost. -- A.S.A. Harrison
Troubles impending always seem worse than troubles surmounted, but this does not prove that they really are. -- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
Nothing quite brings out the zest for life in a person like the thought of their impending death -- Jhonen Vasquez
We also need to be willing to make room in our lives for the impending birth of our dreams. -- Christine Caine
Crackdown, the video, interpreted and reflected a sense of authority and austerity and a sense of slight, impending doom. -- Stephen Mallinder
History is replete with examples of empires mounting impressive military campaigns on the cusp of their impending economic collapse. -- Eric Alterman
When one has too great a dread of what is impending, one feels some relief when the trouble has come. -- Joseph Joubert
Oh, good. You're starting to talk about yourself in the third person. That's not a sign of impending megalomania or anything. -- Cassandra Clare
The natural hostility of beasts is laid aside when flying from pursuers; so also when danger is impending the enmity of rivals is ended. -- J. K. Bharavi
The nature of impending fatherhood is that you are doing something that you're unqualified to do, and then you become qualified while doing it. -- John Green
In California, 50 women protested the impending war with Iraq by lying on the ground naked and spelling out the word peace. Right idea, wrong president. -- Jay Leno
I am still not taking my "career" in music for granted. It is constantly surprising that it works. Generally my thinking about the future has this assumption of an impending apocalypse. -- Phil Elvrum
There is an air of last things, a brooding sense of impending annihilation, about so much deconstructive activity, in so many of its guises; it is not merely postmodernist but preapocalyptic. -- David Lehman
One need not be a prophet to be aware of impending dangers. An accidental combination of experience and interest will often reveal events to one man under aspects which few yet see. -- Friedrich August von Hayek
Only now that I loved a grenade did I understand the foolishness of trying to save others from my own impending fragmentation: I couldn't unlove Augustus Waters. And I didn't want to. -- John Green
Birds ... are sensitive indicators of the environment, a sort of "ecological litmus paper," ... The observation and recording of bird populations over time lead inevitably to environmental awareness and can signal impending changes. -- Roger Tory Peterson
Peace talk when war is impending is hazardous for the talker, and in war time it is criminal. War talk in peace time, which is infinitely more wicked, runs no risk at all. -- Charles Clayton Morrison
Indeed there are many competent people who are plagued by a sense of inefficacy, and many less competent ones who remain unperturbed by impending threats because they are self-assured of their coping capabilities -- Albert Bandura
There is an old saying, "How did you go bankrupt?" And the answer is, "Gradually, and then suddenly." The impending fiscal crisis in the United States will make its appearance in the same way. -- Seth Klarman
Our imagination and reasoning powers facilitate anxiety; the anxious feeling is precipitated not by an absolute impending threat-such as the worry about an examination, a speech, travel-but rather by the symbolic and often unconscious representations. -- Willard Gaylin

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