Quotes of: Impending Keyword

The superior doctor prevents sickness;/ The mediocre doctor attends to impending sickness;/ The inferior doctor treats actual sickness.

Traditional

Suddenly, however, the dastardly department of my personality presented two plans, one of which involved dynamite, mustache wax, some rope, and train tracks . . . which I rejected due to financial investment.

It Looked Different on the Model: Epic Tales of Impending Shame and Infamy

I could croak with no warning, and the only tragedy anyone would experience would be showing up on the last day of my estate sale simply to discover that all remaining items had copious amounts of dog hair on them.

It Looked Different on the Model: Epic Tales of Impending Shame and Infamy

There's nothing like impending death to rouse you from existential boredom.

Roger Ebert

...I love the thrill of impending, weightless doom...

All the Bright Places

The impending teacher shortage is the most critical education issue we will face in the next decade.

David Price

After 9/11 and the impending actors' strike of a few years ago, roles dried up for everyone.

Alfre Woodard

A chap’s impending death has a way of focusing the mind.


British Bulldog

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

I believe, however, that impending events will call us and we must respond but where, with whom, and how?

John Burns

Awoke to find three vultures sitting on the fence. Realizing they were a portent of impending death I shot them.

Maid for Mayhem

Impending doom, it was a familiar sweater, we all wore it and as scratchy as it felt against our skin, we kept it on.

Prison of Paradise

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

Tommy DeVito: What the fuck are you doing? You're hanging around my fuckin' neck like a vulture, like impending danger.

Goodfellas

We’re all just people making decisions and accepting consequences as we march toward an impending and inevitable death.

Agnostic Zetetic

Oh, good. You're starting to talk about yourself in the third person. That's not a sign of impending megalomania or anything.

City of Fallen Angels

Nothing quite brings out the zest for life in a person like the thought of their impending death

Johnny the Homicidal Maniac: Director's Cut

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 heal...

Florence Welch

Here, falling in love can be an event, a proclamation without acknowledging that everyone you love could die an awful death, that loving someone is an acceptance of impending loss.

Burn

Individuals reacted in any number of ways to extreme stress and, relatedly, to impending death. A non-negligible percentage of people reacted in a manner which could be summed up by, ‘Screw it, I’m going out in style!

Vertigo

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