Top 194 Imminent Quotes & Sayings

The fixation of the theater in one language--written words, music, lights, noises--betokens its imminent ruin.

I was adrift in a sea of questions and if answers were lifeboats, I was in imminent danger of drowning.

Personal disintegration remains always an imminent danger.

Since the 18th century, many Western intellectuals have predicted religion's imminent demise.

And in the morn and liquid dew of youth, Contagious blastments are are most imminent.

Acting requires focus, too, but acting doesn't, you might say, demand focus. When you're in the ring you don't even have to think about focus because the danger is so imminent. Imminent. You train and you prepare and then the adrenaline kicks in and drives you into focusing intensely. You'd better focus, right? Or else you'll make your exit on a stretcher.

A just fear of an imminent danger, though be no blow given, is a lawful cause of war.

When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.

the natural condition is one of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster. strangely enough it all works out in the end... it's a mystery.

As I think about the future, I'm back where most people live their lives. Which is, death is not imminent, and that's different.

The currency of this world will be worthless at our death or at Christ's return, both of which are imminent.

You can see the clouds rolling in and thunder is imminent.

Why should one U.S. airman give up his life when our national security is not in imminent danger?

The world is ruled by violence, or at least the imminent threat of violence. It always has been.

The imminent demise of the large record companies as gatekeepers of the world's popular music is a good thing, for the most part.

There's nothing so improves the mood of the Party as the imminent execution of a senior colleague.

Epileptics know by signs when attacks are imminent and take precautions accordingly; we must do the same in regard to anger

The ability to diagnose an imminent heart attack has long been considered the holy grail of cardiovascular medicine.

Fang looked at me, hope in his eyes, and I smirked at him. I save the huge emotional kissy-face for imminent death scenes. This probably didn't qualify.

Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent.

I happen to belong to that group opinion which holds the break-up of the United Kingdom to be imminent.

I think massage is a very important part of life, which is present from centuries as an imminent part of India's tradition.

Thank God for imminent doomsday.

When dreaded outcomes are actually imminent we don't worry about themwe take action. Seeing lava from the local volcano make its way down the street toward our house does not cause worry it causes running. Also we don't usually choose imminent events as subjects for our worrying and thus emerges an ironic truth: Often the very fact that you are worrying about something means that it isn't likely to happen.

To act is to anchor in the imminent future.

To act is to anchor in an imminent future, so imminent it becomes almost tangible; to act is to feel you are consubstantial with that future.

I want to tell you what it was really like to think death is imminent, but I can't. It's a taste in your mouth. And an emptiness.

Theatre is a series of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster.

There's something imminent in the work, but the circle is only completed by the viewer.

Most believers aren't in imminent danger of ruining their lives. They're facing a danger that's far greater: wasting them.

... mutual lack of understanding carries the threat of imminent and violent destruction.

If I can't joke about imminent death, then I might as well just resign.

Hey, if it's a good philosophy, it works. Death is imminent. Live every day like it's your last.

President Bush is manufacturing a crisis by suggesting that Social Security is in imminent danger. It is not.

Nothing is more imminent than the impossible . . . what we must always foresee is the unforeseen.

One can know everything and still be unable to accept the fact that sex and murder are fused in the male consciousness, so that the one without the imminent possibly of the other is unthinkable and impossible.

Even when our death is imminent, we carry the image of ourselves moving forward, alive, into the future.

The funny thing about facing imminent death is that it really snaps everything else into perspective.

Turkey's regime is fast degenerating into outright dictatorship, emboldened by the imminent ascent of Donald Trump to the most powerful position on Earth.

I'm familiar with that feeling of silence that comes with a very imminent catastrophe, when you know you have absolutely no control over a situation.

Quite possibly, what I call happiness may coincide with what others call the moment of imminent danger

I would say the next imminent hot writers are often the writers from the decade before you were born.

You frighten me, when you say there isn't time." "I don't see why. Christians have been expecting the imminent end of the world for millennia." "But it keeps not ending." "So far, so good.

But you know the difference between sex and love. And sex can be part of love, but what moves your heart, what's really intimate, that's the real spirit. And that's very personal, it's also transpersonal. It's not impersonal, it's beyond any of us, it's transcendent of any of us, yet imminent in dwelling, imminent to each of us.

One of the signs of the imminent Apocalypse is the "bitterness of all waters," and anyone traveling through eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union and its satellites-everywhere that the command economy operated, with its callous disregard for anything but narrow-focused abstract principle-could be forgiven for thinking that the Apocalypse was no longer imminent but in full cry. There's hardly a river, stream, or brook that isn't contaminated with the runoff from human misuse, whether industrial effluents, agricultural pesticides and herbicides, or worse.

Savor the imminent weirdness of the day.

Iraq does not pose an imminent threat to the United States of any of its neighboring nations.

It was nice standing out in the darkness, in the damp grass, with spring coming on and a feeling in my heart of imminent disaster.

My impression is the Trump administration is in imminent danger of violating the gunfighter's credo, which is 'Do not pick seven fights if you are carrying a six shooter.'

People don't tend to lie about themselves when they're in imminent danger.

In the zone of perdition where my youth went as if to complete its education, one would have said that the portents of an imminent collapse of the whole edifice of civilization had made an appointment.

A few. . . critics are the only people I ever heard use the phrase 'imminent threat.' I didn't, the president didn't.

There being an imminent danger for the faith, prelates must be questioned, even publicly, by their subjects.

If we sip the wine, we find dreams coming upon us out of the imminent night

I watched 'Apollo 13,' and it, like, absolutely freaked me out. I was terrified. I didn't want to go to space because I thought it was imminent death.

The only thing we're interested in as Greens is making sure that we are protecting Canada from an imminent threat and that imminent threat is the climate crisis.

I happen to believe that health care is an imminent crisis. It is.

With the new weapons like the atom bomb, Russia would have it, too, and use it first. It is a very difficult world. But that trouble is imminent is obvious.

Embrace the probability of your imminent death....and know there is nothing i can do to save you.

Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.