Definition of Imminent

	Add the "Quote of the Day" to Your Site or Blog Now!
Home - Quote Topics - Quotes of the Day - Quote Keywords - Author Types - Quotation Trivia Authors: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Definition of Imminent
	Imminent Threatening to occur immediately; near at hand; impending; -- said especially of misfortune or peril. Full of danger; threatening; menacing; perilous. (With upon) Bent upon; attentive to. Related Definitions: At, Attentive, Bent, Danger, Especially, Full, Hand, Immediately, Impending, Menacing, Misfortune, Near, Occur, Of, Or, Peril, Perilous, Said, Threatening, To, Upon, With

Imminent Quotations

There was no imminent threat. This was made up in Texas, announced in January to the Republican leadership that war was going to take place and was going to be good politically. This whole thing was a fraud.
Edward Kennedy

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.
Dag Hammarskjold

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

Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade and laissez faire.
Ludwig von Mises

To act is to anchor in the imminent future.
Emile M. Cioran

Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent.
David Herbert Lawrence

We still live with this unbelievable threat over our heads of nuclear war. I mean, are we stupid? Do we think that the nuclear threat has gone, that the nuclear destruction of the planet is not imminent? It's a delusion to think it's gone away.
Kevin Costner

George W. Bush and Tony Blair had to convince the world that Saddam Hussein represented an imminent threat. Tony Blair lied when he claimed that Iraq could launch a chemical or biological attack within 45 minutes.
Bianca Jagger

Imminent Translations

imminent in German is bevorstehend, drohende
imminent in Latin is praestans prestans

Quotes