Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion. From LearnThat.org. [Mark Twain (1835-1910), American writer, pen name for Samuel Langhorne Clemens.]
He sought the great oblivion of sleep. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
The real interesting story in oblivion is the one the player tells to himself using the tools at offered by the game's designers. From Wordnik.com. [A post for Xenia: Simulation and an apologetic explanation of Super Columbine Massacre RPG] Reference
Either they shall not be preserved at all, but buried in oblivion. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)] Reference
After all, seeing Constituents blown to oblivion is bad for business. From Wordnik.com. [A Commercial for Christmas] Reference
This whole cycle of redistricting either party into oblivion is petty and foolish. From Wordnik.com. [Waldo Jaquith - House Republicans to oppose nonpartisan redistricting?] Reference
Why you want to maintain the same rhetoric that brought your party to oblivion is beyond me. From Wordnik.com. [Before the White House, the Clubhouse - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference
The GOP is racing to meet the Whigs in oblivion at full speed, so let them blow themselves up. From Wordnik.com. [Obama assails 'scare tactics' by health care opponents] Reference
The name of Hermanric is almost buried in oblivion; his exploits are imperfectly known; and the. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire] Reference
And in oblivion you can see the mountains far far out from your view, and apears small. ufdigga. From Wordnik.com. [EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Today’s Comic: 6-9-2006] Reference
Nor their names from being buried in oblivion; for they were forgotten, as if they had never been. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)] Reference
The result of unjustified faith: service + solace + finite callousness + zero Heaven + zero callousness in oblivion. From Wordnik.com. [THE HALLS OF PENTHEUS -- PART TWO] Reference
Those sins which seemed to be buried in oblivion will be called to mind, and called over again, when the day of reckoning comes. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)] Reference
All the third rate Schoenberg and Stockhausen imitations are resting in oblivion, along with most of the other music ever written. From Wordnik.com. [My Prerogative] Reference
It sounds like the end of a teenage infatuation or defeat in a fickle popularity contest, not the one way ticket into record label oblivion that it might actually represent. From Wordnik.com. [NME Features] Reference
So we agreed to bury our respective pasts in oblivion. From Wordnik.com. [Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land] Reference
Now comes a scene of horror I would willingly bury in oblivion. From Wordnik.com. [The Autobiography of Liuetenant-General Sir Harry Smith, Baronet of Aliwal on the Sutlej, G. C. B.] Reference
Previous historic accounts are erased, destroyed or buried in oblivion. From Wordnik.com. [Leanne Goebel: Colorado Councilman May Want to Explore Why Art "Turned Him On?"] Reference
I am looking for something sweet and these look like just the ticket to Midterm oblivion!. From Wordnik.com. [A sweet escape | Homesick Texan] Reference
It’s an inverted world in which drinking to oblivion is the way to feel connected and alive. From Wordnik.com. [National Wimp Crisis | Impact Lab] Reference
But she did not want to die, she thought, even though the idea of oblivion was sometimes enticing. From Wordnik.com. [Irresistible]
Spell on "Word Problems", and stomping brusquely towards interstellar dub oblivion on "Call to Arms". From Wordnik.com. [Pitchfork: Latest News] Reference
I don't think SecState is anything but a stepping stone to political oblivion, which is just what Obama would like. From Wordnik.com. [Corrente] Reference
Elsewhere the last eight minutes of this planet had already passed, and the audience was already submerged in oblivion. From Wordnik.com. [365 tomorrows » 2009 » October : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day] Reference
This spell was called oblivion in Gothic 2 but I guess they thought it wouldn't be such a good idea to use the name now. From Wordnik.com. [rpgcodex.net] Reference
Now it appears the matter will be allowed to simply fade into oblivion, which is how it should have been handled in the first place. From Wordnik.com. [Peace, order and good government, eh?: January 2004 Archives] Reference
Rocks had mouldered away -- young trees and bushes had grown up, and come to maturity, and perished, while I was wrapped in oblivion. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Man] Reference
The only way for Republicans to escape this rush to oblivion is to reject the elements that are disintegrating their ideological core. From Wordnik.com. [Sahil Kapur: Dear GOP: Evolve or Perish] Reference
David Bellion is playing in League Un. So, kind of oblivion then. From Wordnik.com. [Bursaspor v Manchester United - as it happened] Reference
COSTELLO: Let's talk about another kind of oblivion, iPod oblivion. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 27, 2005] Reference
They have fallen into a kind of chaos and oblivion which is highly typical of our time. From Wordnik.com. [G.K. Speaks - The Family and The Feud] Reference
However, only a poet published by a Mainstream, large press, has any chance of avoiding "oblivion". From Wordnik.com. [Poetry] Reference
I was going to use the seig heil pic myself, but I kinda like riding the nuke to oblivion which is the clintons 'campaign in a nutshell. From Wordnik.com. [Report: Girl "Safe And Asleep" In Hillary's 3 A.M. Ad Is Supporting...Obama!] Reference
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