Polo: Feather Face! If you do not charm that girl pigeon with the power of dance, the world... could be DESTROYED!
City Face: Oh nooo! Not the world! That would be just super awful for EVERYBODY!

"God has left heaven and it is time to destroy the world."

"There's never gonna be an end of the world. There's gonna be an end of you, you personally; but the world won't even flinch. You'll be lucky to get an obituary, a half inch next to the weather report on the back page of Section B. The world is never gonna end. That's what's depressing."

Giles: It's the end of the world. Everyone dies. It's rather important, really.
Willow: So what do we do?
Buffy: I stop it.

Master Fung: It has begun, 1,000 years of darkness.
Kimiko: Why 1,000?
Master Fung: Well it is really 962 years, but 1,000 sounds more ominious.