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Memory is a strange Bellâ??Jubilee, and Knell. -- Emily Dickinson
Comparison is a death knell to sibling harmony. -- Elizabeth Fishel
By fairy hands their knell is rung; By forms unseen their dirge is sung. -- William Collins
I think the death knell for any musician is getting a job that you like and pays enough that you just stay there forever. -- Wesley Schultz
I think self-doubt, as grim as it can be, makes me a better writer. Stasis and hubris would probably be the death knell for my career. -- Kristan Higgins
Humor has to surprise us; otherwise, it isn't funny. It's a death knell for a writer to be labeled a humorist because then it's not a surprise anymore. -- Garrison Keillor
Attempts to tame the wayward and domesticate the riotous, to make the unknowable predictable and enchain the free-roaming - all such things sound the death knell to love. -- Zygmunt Bauman
Cable's on fire. Traditional broadcast TV's hearing a death knell. I sample as much television as possible. I like 'Homeland,' 'Game of Thrones,' 'Veep.' Now reinvention's important. -- Darren Star
To be clear, climate change is a true 800 pound gorilla in the room. The effects of global warming threaten global environmental upheaval over the coming century. But for South Florida and the Everglades, it could be our death knell if urgent action is not taken. -- Debbie Wasserman Schultz
When movies work or a TV series, when they really work, it's because of the collaborative effort. Competition is the death knell for anything, in my opinion. Especially in Hollywood. When actors are competing against each other, or when directors are competing against actors, it's usually the beginning of the end. -- Rocky Carroll
A moment's thought is passion's passing knell. -- John Keats
In 2015, Vladimir Putin may witness his empire's death knell -- Strobe Talbott
Encourage innovation. Change is our lifeblood, stagnation our death knell. -- David Ogilvy
The birth of science rang the death-knell of an arbitrary and constantly interposing Supreme Power. -- Annie Besant
The death knell for any enterprise is to glorify the past -- no matter how good it was. -- Jeff Bezos
The death knell for any enterprise is to glorify the past -- no matter how good it was." -- Jeff Bezos
Sorrow, like a heavy ringing bell, once set on ringing, with its own weight goes; then little strength rings out the doleful knell. -- William Shakespeare
And thou art terrible--the tear, The groan, the knell, the pall, the bier; And all we know, or dream, or fear Of agony, are thine. -- Fitz-Greene Halleck
What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh! -- Agnes Repplier
Dark accurate plunger down the successive knell Of arch on arch, where ogives burst a red Reverberance of hail upon the dead Thunder like an exploding crucible! -- Allen Tate
My feeling is that if any Republican was elected it would be almost a death knell for the species literally, just because of their attitude on climate change. -- Noam Chomsky
Satisfaction with results will be the [death] knell of progress. No man is good who thinks that he cannot be better. He has no holiness who thinks that he is holy enough. -- Charles Spurgeon
The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. -- Thomas Gray
Would a harsh word ever fall from lips which now breathed only love? Would the step whose lightest footfall now made her heart leap, ever sound in her ear like a death knell? -- Fanny Fern
A thousand times over, the death knell of the Bible has been sounded, the funeral procession formed, the inscription cut on the tombstone, and committal read. But somehow the corpse never stays put. -- Bernard Ramm
They do not want to know that centralization is not only the death-knell of liberty, but also of health and beauty, of art and science, all these being impossible in a clock-like, mechanical atmosphere. -- Emma Goldman

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