Sentences with phrase «own epitaph»

Someone asked me one time, «What would be your epitaph?»

«Because we don't get to spend as much time as the founders and devolve our conversations into hour - long epitaphs about cream cheese and whatever.»

The music - sharing startup's epitaph might read, «A compelling product is not enough.»

I'm not going to have an epitaph.

It is also possibly, whatever good or bad may come, Mr. Flaherty's political epitaph.

Yet, those with the lack of vision failed to realize that power and now I think we have gone to a level of overconfidence in writing the epitaph on global oil demand.

Likewise, the positive public and private reception of imperial moral discourse is also confirmed by, for example, the distinctive changes in group portraiture and the style of epitaphs that are a distinguishing feature of the early empire.

Kurt vonnegut, the renowned writer and self - avowed humanist, once said that his epitaph should read, «The only proof he ever needed of the existence of God was music.»

With his knife he etched a date on the canyon wall to complete an epitaph he had been writing over the past few days:

Somewhere in England a tombstone bears this epitaph: «Here lies Estella, who transported a large fortune to Heaven in acts of charity, and has gone hither to enjoy it.»

Jensen quotes a marvellous fourth - century inscription from southern France, the Epitaph of Pectorius:

Lincoln offers words that are, at the same time, benediction, his own epitaph, and a continuing inspiration to a more worthy politics.

It actually is Plan Your Epitaph Day, no doubt brought to you by whack Christians trying to terrorize you into obedience or greedy morticians out to get your death money early.

Even some of the brightest students see suicide as a fitting epitaph for a hopeless life.

Does the epitaph about «Barabbas» come to mind when considering the arms of Muslim theological philosophies in this days» eras?

King Lear's words provide the appropriate epitaph for modernism: «Nothing will come of nothing.»

In «Candid Headstone,» a poem intended to serve as his grim epitaph, he does offer a clue — but so delicately that only those who already knew of the connection between Juster and Astrue could get the pun:

No need to resort to racist stupidity... There seems to be quite enough of that in this country at the moment.What sort of epitaph would you be using if Hillary was chosen in 2009?

But if he's laid to rest, he rests in the company of some of the world's finest human beings, whose epitaph reads, unselfish love.

He gets closest to tying down the «richness» of vision to which he frequently appeals by using Lewis» famous epitaph: «I believe in Christianity as I believe the sun has risen, not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else» (p. 65).

When he died, the epitaph on his tombstone read, «Here lies the brother of David Livingstone.»

That could have been the Republican Party's epitaph in 2012.

In his prepared epitaph he admitted that during his life he had been «relentless towards thieves, murderers and heretics.»

As, for instance, the lovely «Epitaph» by Walter de la Mare:

The masculine name Junias does not occur in a single inscription, letterhead, work of literature, or epitaph in the Greco - Roman world, while the feminine name Junia is everywhere.

I know many people of faith who support gay rights and consider using the word «sodomite» to be on par with using racial epitaphs.

But confusion is the epitaph Of a world split in two Because words are used in lieu of true Each side sticks to its own view.

That should be a worthy epitaph to be carved on our gravestones.

A phrase on his epitaph, consul Dei («God's consul»), is both terse and apt.

In a village near Gersik, northwest of Surabaya on the island of Java, a loose headstone from a grave has been found which bears an Arabic epitaph in Kufic script saying that the grave held the remains of a woman who died in 475 or 495 (A.D. 1082 or 1102)-- the uncertainty is due to the difficulty in deciphering one word which may be either seventy or ninety.

The epitaph says that the man buried in the mausoleum, who died in 810 (A.D. 1407), was the great - grandson of one of the princes who managed to escape the slaughter when the Mongols under Hulagu destroyed Baghdad in 656 (A.D. 1258).

It is perhaps best summed up by the epitaph (also chosen by Dumbledore) that Harry finds engraved on his parents» tombstone: «The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death» (1 Cor.

Other than the epitaphs mentioned above, and the brief report by Ma Huan, there is no existing information about earlier Islamic settlements on the island of Java.

There is, however, in Gersik the grave of one Malik Ibrahim who probably hailed from Iran — the epitaph does not make this clear — and who died in 822 (A.D. 1419).

The fact that Harry does not understand the meaning of the epitaph, not to mention its provenance, is an entirely legitimate fictional device on the part of an author who understands the need of young people not to be spoon - fed the truth, but rather to puzzle it out for themselves.

A marble mausoleum found in a graveyard near Pasé is, according to the complete genealogy given in the epitaph, the resting place of a descendant of the Abbasid Caliph al - Mustansir, who was Caliph from 623 to 640 (A.D. 1226 - 42).

Let that Letter be a fitting epitaph for the apostle to the Gentiles, in whose tradition we stand and who has inspired Pope Benedict to declare this special Pauline Year for the upbuilding and good of all the faithful:

Our epitaphs are just very ordinary things.»

I know they are his ego because, well, that is what he named one of them, a put - upon German shepherd who, when he finally gave up his ghost, earned his master's most dismissive epitaph: «Poor Ego never learned to stand up for hisself.»

Long before stalled labor talks brought NHL commissioner Gary Bettman to the brink of canceling the 2004 — 05 season, NHL Players» Association senior director Ted Saskin had penciled in an epitaph for the Invisible League.

Still, if Soldado's Spurs career finds itself in need of an epitaph.

Maybe we can see how this current group pushes back at home and things come to an end before an epitaph is written.

«I didn't kill him,» he explained afterward, «he committed suicide — came within 50 yards of me,» a fitting if unintended epitaph for the General's wartime opponents.

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Epitaphs of the Great War The Somme (Unicorn) is a small, beautiful and very moving tribute to the families of dead soldiers.

So let this ad stand as Peterson's political epitaph, his own personal statue of Ozymandias.

In three weeks» time he, and we, shall know whether his epitaph will be that of a two - term prime minister, or the man who snatched defeat from the jaws of victory.

Any time a word becomes an epitaph, even in a limited sense, people create alternate labels that mean the same thing.

There may never be a more appropriate epitaph for Chris Grayling's time as justice secretary than that offered when he addressed the Joint Committee on Human Rights last year.

It suggests also that John Humphreys» proposed epitaph for Mr Farage: Nigel Farage: he led a great protest party, may well be on the money.