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What god would be hanging around Terminal Two of Heathrow Airport trying to catch the 15:37 flight to Oslo? -- Douglas Adams
They called it the Terminal Bar but they had no idea that like twenty years later the place'd be filling up with terminal cases. -- Tom Waits
Love is the worst earthquake there is. Can crush you to the thickness of your bones. Love can be like cancer sometimes. Terminal. It can make you vomit. It can make you want to cut it out. It can take you over against your will. -- Francesca Lia Block
Today I arrived by train in New York City, which I'd never seen before, walked through the grandeur of Grand Central Terminal, stepped outside, got my first look at the city and instantly fell in love with it. Silently, inside myself, I yelled: I should have been born here! -- Edward Robb Ellis
Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
PTSD has a terminal side to it that calls for more urgency. -- Romeo Dallaire
All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation. -- W. H. Auden
I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself. -- Dennis Potter
Depression can seem worse than terminal cancer, because most cancer patients feel loved and they have hope and self-esteem. -- David D. Burns
Even if you have a terminal disease, you don't have to sit down and mope. Enjoy life and challenge the illness that you have. -- Nelson Mandela
In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued - they may be essential to survival. -- Noam Chomsky
Life is a terminal condition. Were all going to die. Cancer patients just have more information, but we all, in some ways, wait for permission to live. -- Kris Carr
There's probably no experience more alienating than fame, other than a terminal illness, where you actually find yourself in a situation that nobody around you can relate to. -- Diablo Cody
Like the experience of warfare, the endurance of grave or terminal illness involves long periods of tedium and anxiety, punctuated by briefer interludes of stark terror and pain. -- Christopher Hitchens
I think everyone's experience with a terminal disease is so deeply personal and unique to the person, the context in which they're living and the relationships that they have. -- Laura Linney
Sometime in the future, I am a hundred percent certain scientists will sit down at a computer terminal, design what they want the organism to do, and build it. -- Craig Venter
Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
While this has been a private part of my family's life, it is now clear a media story will soon emerge. My father tragically ended his life while battling terminal cancer in 1979. -- Bill de Blasio
A terminal diagnosis can really mess with your head. Honestly, it makes you want to run away to the moon. Many ALS patients want to fade away quietly. This was not for me. -- Steve Gleason
My mother, father, stepmother and surrogate mother have all died of cancer; my best friend has got terminal cancer and at least five of my other friends have had cancer but survived it. -- Arabella Weir
I think those who have a terminal illness and are in great pain should have the right to choose to end their own life, and those that help them should be free from prosecution. -- Stephen Hawking
There is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happiness to those with no resources, those who are poor, illiterate, and ridden with terminal disease. -- Nelson Mandela
God, our genes, our environment, or some stupid programmer keying in code at an ancient terminal - there's no way free will can ever exist if we as individuals are the result of some external cause. -- Orson Scott Card
If I had terminal cancer, I had a few weeks to live, I was in tremendous amount of pain - if they just effectively wanted to turn off the switch and legalise that by legalising euthanasia, I'd want that. -- John Key
The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity - love. And the story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity. -- Helen Hayes
I tell my kids and I tell proteges, always have humility when you create and grace when you succeed, because it's not about you. You are a terminal for a higher power. As soon as you accept that, you can do it forever. -- Quincy Jones
The post-presidency, as Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton have proved, is a win-win. Money, Nobels, the ability to leverage your global celebrity for any cause or hobbyhorse you wish, plus freedom to grab the mike whenever the urge takes you without any terminal repercussions. -- Tina Brown
Sometimes the media gives us the impression that we are terminal patients, because of problems of global warmth or the ozone layer. And the people, they don't understand that they can could change this situation for the better if they could act locally in a city. -- Jaime Lerner
Write as if you were dying. At the same time, assume you write for an audience consisting solely of terminal patients. That is, after all, the case. What would you begin writing if you knew you would die soon? What could you say to a dying person that would not enrage by its triviality? -- Annie Dillard
I have been diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). It's a terminal disease with an average lifespan of two to five years post-diagnosis, and scientists don't know what causes it. ALS prevents your brain from talking to your muscles. As a result, muscles die. As a result, every 90 minutes people die. I am a person. -- Steve Gleason
Short-term can be terminal. -- Mark McCormack
Life is a terminal illness. -- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Death is very, very terminal. -- David Lange
Drug-use is a terminal disease. -- Virgil Miller Newton
Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition. -- Rainer Maria Rilke
Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease. -- Lewis Grizzard
There is only one terminal dignity - love. -- Helen Hayes
We've all got a terminal illness. It's called life. -- Benedict Groeschel
Beware the short terminal guy with nothing to lose. -- Chris Crutcher
Life is a terminal disease, and it is sexually transmitted. -- John Cleese
The first word you see at the airport is 'terminal'. -- Beano Cook
A kiss isn't terminal." "It is the way you do it. -- Nora Roberts
It must be understood that, as adults, we are all terminal. -- Jacob K. Javits
In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases -- John Irving
Oh, I've seen copies [of Linux Journal] around the terminal room at The Labs. -- Dennis Ritchie
Bach is thus a terminal point. Nothing comes from him; everything merely leads to him. -- Albert Schweitzer
Our searches for numerical order lead as often to terminal nuttiness as to profound insight. -- Stephen Jay Gould
A smart terminal is not a smartass terminal, but rather a terminal you can educate. -- Rob Pike
Ability to type on a computer terminal is no guarantee of sanity, intelligence, or common sense. -- Gene Spafford
Actually, I have my own charity that I started that helps supplement families with terminal children. -- Brad Garrett
Mostly I use the O2 as an X terminal, however, running my apps on Linux and displaying remotely. -- Jamie Zawinski
Having a go at kids with a terminal illness is really beyond the pale, absolutely beyond the pale. -- Kevin Rudd
Any combination of a 250-pound Mexican and LSD-25 is a potentially terminal menace for anything it can reach -- Hunter S. Thompson
People usually survive their illnesses, but the paper work eventually does them in. Filing a claim for insurance is terminal. -- Erma Bombeck
To refrain and desist from interfering with terminal cancer patients, in their use of Laetrile acquired through the 'Affidavit System. -- Luther L. Bohanon
We have bigger things to brood on and enormous reasons for wallowing in terminal craziness until we finally hit bottom. -- Hunter S. Thompson
Patients rarely die of the disease from which they suffer. Secondary or terminal infections are the real cause of death. -- William Osler
Something is very, very wrong with American culture. The signs are everywhere. I think the country is in almost terminal descent. -- Randall Robinson
Our meeting was inevitable. Our love was terminal. But God and Goddess damn it, our daughter was no mistake at all. -- Edward Morris
Those suffering from terminal falsehood seek out each other, like a drunk seeks out a wall so that he doesn't fall down. -- Stefan Molyneux
Now we have two choices in life: have sex with the same person forever or risk a terminal disease. Either way, your life is over. -- Andy Kindler
I thought about the cameras following me in the terminal and pictured my family watching my entrance on TV. I hoped theyâ??d be proud. -- Kiera Cass
But we have gone so far in the direction of over treating terminal patients that we've failed to recognize when we're doing more harm than good. -- Sheri Fink
It's not gray," Clary felt compelled to point out. "It's green." "If there was such a thing as terminal literalism, you'd have died in childhood," said Jace. -- Cassandra Clare
So I got off the plane and I forget to take off my seat-belt and I'm dragging the plane through the terminal... The wings are knocking people over... -- Steven Wright
...to say...that Laetrile should not be continued to be used by those who are suffering from terminal cancer, I would have to hang my head in shame. -- Luther L. Bohanon
I feel joy when I do a great show. I get fun out of making other people happy. I'm a terminal people-pleaser. I suppose that's why I'm a frontman. -- Ozzy Osbourne
...And nostalgia is a cancer. Nostalgia will fill your heart up with tumors. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's what you are. You're just an old fart dying of terminal nostalgia. -- Sherman Alexie
No man is infinitely strong; for every creature that runs, flies, hops or crawls there is a terminal nemesis which he will not circumvent, which will finally do him in. -- Philip K. Dick
My father, Simon Hoggart, was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in June 2010. By this point, it had spread to his spleen and metastasised in his lungs and so was pronounced terminal. -- Amy Hoggart
The terminal path may, to distinguish it from internuncial common paths, be called the final common path. The motor nerve to a muscle is a collection of such final common paths. -- Charles Scott Sherrington
Connecting with the kids is a great joy for me. I love meeting them backstage or at a signing event. I am overwhelmed when I meet kids who struggle with terminal illnesses. -- Jodi Benson
Time remorselessly rambles down the corridors and streets of our lives. but it is not until autumn that most of us become aware that our tickets are stamped with a terminal destination. -- Joe L. Wheeler
For such people the consummate act of moral clarity was a lynching or a suicide bombing, a fatwa or a pogrom. And they were ascendant now, rising like dark stars over a terminal landscape . -- Robert Charles Wilson

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