Whimper Quotes

41 quotes by 33 authors

Drama is very important in life: You have to come on with a bang. You never want to go out with a whimper. Everything can… — Julia Child
There's something wonderfully exciting about the quiet sing song of an aeroplane overhead with all the guns in creation lighting out at it, and searchlights… — John Dos Passos
You mean to say that when an imbecile walks into a church, office, day care center, or school, stumbling about, almost zombie-like, with gun-filled hands… — Ted Nugent
The more congenial page of some tenth-rate poeticule worn out with failure after failure and now squat in his hole like the tailless fox, he… — Algernon Charles Swinburne
The Constitution has been eviscerated while Democrats have stood by with nary a whimper. It is a gutless, unprincipled party, bought and paid for by… — Rocky Anderson
The poems are all wrong. It's a bang, a really big bang. Not a whimper. And sometimes gold can stay. — Kami Garcia
Whatever you do, don't whimper, but take the consequences. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
I, for one, will be convinced that the Canada we know and love will be gone forever. But, then, Thucydides wrote that Themistocles' greatness lay… — Pierre Trudeau
This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Am I tough? Am I strong? Am I hard-core? Absolutely. Did I whimper with pathetic delight when I sank my teeth into my hot fried-chicken… — James Patterson
Together we understood what terror was: you're not human anymore. You're a shadow. You slip out of your own skin, like molting, shedding your own… — Tim O'Brien
People everywhere brag and whimper about the woes of their early years, but nothing can compare with the Irish version: the poverty; the shiftless loquacious… — Frank McCourt
I remember hearing myself start to whimper, a five-year-old, crouched by the side of the road, staring into my father's eyes, whimpering because it was… — Kelley Armstrong
Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road. Healthy, free, the world before me. The long brown path before me leading me wherever I… — Walt Whitman
Every period of human development has had its own particular type of human conflict---its own variety of problem that, apparently, could be settled only by… — Isaac Asimov
What's prayer? It's shooting shafts into the dark. What mark they strike, if any, who's to say? It's reaching for a hand you cannot touch.… — Frederick Buechner
Many men would take the death-sentence without a whimper, to escape the life-sentence which fate carries in her other hand. — T.E. Lawrence
Unwinds didn't go out with a bang-they didn't even go out with a whimper. they went out with the silence of a candle flame pinched… — Neal Shusterman
The sudden silence is horrifying, and it seems to catch my mother off guard. A tiny whimper escapes her, the sound amplified in the stillness.… — Margaret Haddix
This is the way the world ends; not with a bang or a whimper, but with zombies breaking down the back door. — Amanda Hocking

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