Words matter. These are the best Perish Quotes from famous people such as James Salter, Robert Green Ingersoll, Ben Okri, Martin Luther King, Jr., Pooja Bhatt, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
In 1957, I decided: write or perish.
Perish the infamous doctrine that man can have property in man. Let us resent with indignation every effort to put a chain upon our minds.
Don’t despair too much if you see beautiful things destroyed, if you see them perish. Because the best things are always growing in secret.
We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
Now, with a click of a button, one has access to amazing content across a wide plethora to choose from; hence, traditional filmmakers will have to evolve in order to cater to the palate of the newly empowered end consumer or perish.
I do wonder why modern society has made monogamy the one and only option. In England, it’s always, ‘Are you with him, or him?’ Perish the thought it might be both.
The latest revelation – from no Mount Sinai, Sermon on the Mount or Bo tree – is the outcry of mute things themselves that we must heed by curbing our powers over creation, lest we perish together on a wasteland of what that creation once was.
I have many deep thoughts in God, but I take my own measure, lest I perish by boasting… For I myself, though I am in chains and can comprehend heavenly things, the ranks of the angels and the hierarchy of principalities, things visible and invisible, for all this I am not yet a disciple.
If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.
Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.
My friends were dropping like flies, and the government wasn’t doing anything. You don’t watch an entire generation take water hoses and dogs on the front line during the ’60s or watch another generation perish from AIDS and then get to drive around in big cars and do nothing.
What I’m trying to do is fulfill what my father said, which is, ‘We have to find a way to live together as brothers and sisters, or together we’re going to perish as fools.’
I pray that all polar opposites learn to agape love, live, and work together as brothers and sisters – or perish as fools.
You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
If the State cannot survive the anti-slavery agitation, then let the State perish. If the Church must be cast down by the strugglings of Humanity to be free, then let the Church fall and its fragments be scattered to the four winds of Heaven, never more to curse the earth.
Remove idleness from the world and soon the arts of Cupid would perish.
I dare not stay home while Quichuas perish. What if the well-filled church in the homeland needs stirring? They have the Scriptures, Moses, and the prophets, and a whole lot more. Their condemnation is written on their bank books and in the dust on their Bible covers.
Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish.
Mr. Darwin refers to the multitude of the individual of every species, which, from one cause or another, perish either before, or soon after attaining maturity.
Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks, there is no reason why our minds should be overwhelmed with fear and overcome with weariness.
Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
People think I’m a very serious actor, which I am. But you know, if you don’t have a sense of humor doing what I do, you perish.
I took up arms for the freedom of my color. It is our own – we will defend it or perish.
We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain – that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom – and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
At a certain stage in his evolution, man himself had been able to lay hold upon a higher order of things, which raised him above the level of the beasts that perish, and enabled him to see, at least in the distance, the shining towers of the City of God.
The peoples of this world must unite or they will perish.
When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.
The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish.
For we are born in other’s pain, and perish in our own.
As we were all growing up, there used to be a very big mantra in India which was called ‘export or perish.’ There was a long period when we used to focus on import substitution.
Everything will pass, and the world will perish but the Ninth Symphony will remain.
In fighting nature, man can win every battle except the last. If he should win that too, he will perish, like an embryo cutting its own umbilical cord.
He would be a very absurd legislator who should pretend to set bounds to his country’s welfare, lest it should perish by knowing no bounds.
Thousands of people perish in the Straits of Florida every year. We understand it within the context of the Cuban reality.
