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When men talk about war, the stories and terminology vary - it's this battle, these weapons, this terrain. But no matter where you go in the world, women use the same language to speak of war. They speak of fire,...

Quotes by Abigail Disney

Even if you've been a coward all your life, death is a heroic act.

Quotes by Abi Morgan

The political, social, and spiritual impact of the life example set by Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela might be measured in part by the profound and unique gestures made by people in different countries to honor his life upon learning of his...

Quotes by Aberjhani

When lab safety procedures aren't followed, people can get hurt or worse. Lab equipment and chemicals that are improperly handled can result in personal injury and even death.

Quotes by Abdul Qadeer Khan

Deadliest Quotes

When I say, 'I stand for equal rights,' I mean equal rights for all persons... from the moment of conception until natural death. I mean that I believe in the equal human dignity of all persons, no matter the 'contribution'...

Quotes by Abby Johnson

While I am a pro-life woman, I am also a woman who is concerned about rights for the disabled, maternity leave, the death penalty, health care, domestic violence, breastfeeding rights, etc.

Quotes by Abby Johnson

Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them.

Quotes by Abbie Hoffman

With the death of bin Laden, it's finally time for Congress to bring back the pre-9-11 legal norm, before we decided it was okay to toss out our civil liberties if the 'bad guys' were scary enough.

Quotes by Aaron Swartz

Writing never comes easy. The difference between Page 2 and Page Nothing is the difference between life and death.

Quotes by Aaron Sorkin

Death And Taxes Quotes

War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.

Quotes by Aaron Huey

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.

Quotes by Aaron Huey

I have been connected with the Niels Bohr Institute since the completion of my university studies, first as a research fellow and, from 1956, as a professor of physics at the University of Copenhagen. After the death of my father...

Quotes by Aage Bohr

Why do we take pleasure in gruesome death, neatly packaged as a puzzle to which we may find a satisfactory solution through clues - or if we are not clever enough, have it revealed by the all-powerful tale-teller at the...

Quotes by A. S. Byatt

In our world of sleek flesh and collagen, Botox and liposuction, what we most fear is the dissolution of the body-mind, the death of the brain.

Quotes by A. S. Byatt

Death Penalty Quotes

My mother's belief in spiritual healers grew stronger after our family went through a rough patch following my father's death. Sufi saint Karimullah Shah Kadri changed our lives, and all of us converted to Sufism. But it wasn't an instantaneous...

Quotes by A. R. Rahman

In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.

Quotes by A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

The death of any man aged 56 is very sad for his widow and family. And no one would deny that Steve Jobs was a brilliant and highly innovative technician, with great business flair and marketing ability.

Quotes by A. N. Wilson

The approach of death certainly concentrates the mind.

Quotes by A. N. Wilson

Fear of death has never played a large part in my consciousness - perhaps unimaginative of me.

Quotes by A. N. Wilson

Deaths Quotes

I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.

Quotes by A. N. Wilson

Attempts to tame the wayward and domesticate the riotous, to make the unknowable predictable and enchain the free-roaming - all such things sound the death knell to love.

Quotes by Zygmunt Bauman

My father's death from prostate cancer in 1993 was tragic. He never complained about pain. He was a fighter. By the time he was ready to die he wasn't able to die in the way that he wanted to, which...

Quotes by Zoe Wanamaker

There is something about poverty that smells like death.

Quotes by Zora Neale Hurston

If it wasn't for 'Kill Bill' I probably would have been back in New Zealand three months after I left, and if it wasn't for 'Death Proof' I don't think I would be pursuing an acting career right now.

Quotes by Zoe Bell

Grief Quotes

If success attends my steps, honor and glory await my name-if defeat, still shall it be said we died like brave men, and conferred honor, even in death, on the American Name.

Quotes by Zebulon Pike

What makes life worth living? Better surely, to yield to the stain of suicide blood in me and seek forgetfulness in the embrace of cold dark death.

Quotes by Zane Grey

India made a big mistake by signing up to TRIPS. With a population of 1.3 billion, India can't afford a monopoly in healthcare. Monopolies lead to higher prices and we can't allow them in a country like India with so...

Quotes by Yusuf Hamied

AIDS today is not a death sentence. It can be treated as a chronic illness, or a chronic disease.

Quotes by Yusuf Hamied

When one is young, aspiring to play for the country, doing well, any hindrance, like injury or being out of form, can be frustrating and a cause of annoyance or even anger. But once you have a close encounter with...

Quotes by Yuvraj Singh

I've been doing extremely dangerous activities for a long time, but I've been lucky enough to have survived so far. However, sooner or later we all die... and, if that's the case, I want to die doing what I love...

Quotes by Yuichiro Miura

When I planned to ski Everest, the first thing I faced was, 'How can I return alive?' All the preparation and training was based on this question. But the more I prepared, I knew the chance of survival was very...

Quotes by Yuichiro Miura

I became a very simple person. The simple things are the most precious to me. I don't ascribe much significance to the things I have now. That feeling of touching death has never left me.

Quotes by Yossi Ghinsberg

Did I pray for death? I did one time. I wanted to die so badly. And I didn't want to die. I wanted to rest, you know. And I knew the only rest I would find is in death.

Quotes by Yossi Ghinsberg

Looking good and feeling like death is a difficult combination for people to understand.

Quotes by Yolanda Hadid

Our law is a Jordanian law that we inherited, which applies to both the West Bank and Gaza, and sets the death penalty for those who sell land to Israelis.

Quotes by Yasser Arafat

When I was a child, I used to paint intently. The older I become, and the closer death approaches, the brighter my life gets day by day.

Quotes by Yayoi Kusama

My son Andrew was an extraordinary young man, loved and admired by all who knew him. His accidental death is a terrible tragedy.

Quotes by Yasmin Aga Khan

My brother's death picked up my life and put it down somewhere else. I had an image of myself in my mind as a working artist, and when he died, all of that changed.

Quotes by Yance Ford

When I was making 'Strong Island,' it was very clear to me that my brother's death was a point on a line that stretched back into the 1940s and beyond in my family - and in the nation.

Quotes by Yance Ford

You can't quantify human pain the way you can measure out sugar. Death comes one individual at a time.

Quotes by Yann Martel

When confronted with two alternatives, life and death, one is to choose death without hesitation.

Quotes by Yamamoto Tsunetomo

Those men who, in war, seek to preserve their lives at any rate commonly die with shame and ignominy, while those who look upon death as common to all, and unavoidable, and are only solicitous to die with honour, oftener...

Quotes by Xenophon

Quarreling over food and drink, having neither scruples nor shame, not knowing right from wrong, not trying to avoid death or injury, not fearful of greater strength or of greater numbers, greedily aware only of food and drink - such...

Quotes by Xun Kuang

My dad was a loyal congressman until his death. The Congress didn't respect him after his death and filed cases against me.

Quotes by Y. S. Jaganmohan Reddy

It's very real, the narrow line between a night danced away and the potential of death around the corner.

Quotes by Wolfgang Tillmans

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down .

Quotes by Woody Allen

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Quotes by Woody Allen

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Quotes by Woody Allen

I am not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Quotes by Woody Allen

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Quotes by Woody Allen

Marriage is the death of hope.

Quotes by Woody Allen

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.

Quotes by Woody Allen

I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Quotes by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

I know nothing new except that Herr Gellert, the Leipzig poet, is dead, and has written no more poetry since his death.

Quotes by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Winston Churchill

Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up.

Quotes by Wilson Mizner

These are they whose youth was violently severed by war and death; a word on the telephone, a scribbled line on paper, and their future ceased. They have built up their lives again, but their safety is not absolute, their...

Quotes by Winifred Holtby

I get scared to death when I see people who say they've found Jesus Christ, and they're out there, and I wonder, who's teaching them? Who's mentoring them?

Quotes by Willie Aames

Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close.

Quotes by William Wycherley

Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death has no dominion over them; they live, and their influence lives forever.

Quotes by William Styron

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

William Shakespeare

We live in grief for having left the womb, for having left the teat, then school, then home. In my case, it was leaving marriages, and the death of my wife.

Quotes by William Shatner

Death is an absolute marvel.

Quotes by William Shatner

My first western was 'Death Hunt' with Charles Bronson and Lee Marvin; that was where I learned to ride. The movie was based on a true story about a guy that eluded the Mounties in Canada. We were in Canada...

Quotes by William Sanderson

That the God-man died for his people, and that His death is their life, is an idea which was in some degree foreshadowed by the older mystical sacrifices.

Quotes by William Robertson Smith

For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.

Quotes by William Penn

Death is not more certainly a separation of our souls from our bodies than the Christian life is a separation of our souls from worldly tempers, vain indulgences, and unnecessary cares.

Quotes by William Law

I do not care so much for the death of my gunner, as for other passages of my voyage, for I have good friends in England that will bring me off for that.

Quotes by William Kidd

A dislike of death is no proof of the want of religion. The instincts of nature shrink from it, for no creature can like its own dissolution. But though death is not desired, the result of it may be, for...

Quotes by William Jay

Captain Hale, alone, without sympathy or support, save that from above, on the near approach of death asked for a clergyman to attend him. It was refused. He then requested a Bible; that too was refused by his inhuman jailer.

Quotes by William Hull

Love remembered and consecrated by grief belongs, more clearly than the happy intercourse of friends, to the eternal world; it has proved itself stronger than death.

Quotes by William Inge

Death is not only an unusually severe punishment, unusual in its pain, in its finality and in its enormity, but is serves no penal purpose more effectively than a less severe punishment.

Quotes by William J. Brennan, Jr.

If you think about it, Washington's overwhelming power in the world is founded on death, the awesome arsenal for killing people.

Quotes by William Greider

Let your hope of heaven master your fear of death.

Quotes by William Gurnall

He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius.

Quotes by William Gilmore Simms

The dread of criticism is the death of genius.

Quotes by William Gilmore Simms

Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

Quotes by William Goldman

And suns grow meek, and the meek suns grow brief, and the year smiles as it draws near its death.

Quotes by William Cullen Bryant

Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.

Quotes by William Cowper

I balanced all, brought all to mind, the years to come seemed waste of breath, a waste of breath the years behind, in balance with this life, this death.

Quotes by William Butler Yeats

At Camp One we were met by Director of Public Works Warwick Greene, grim and grimy. He has been working himself to death to make this transportation plan a success.

Quotes by William Cameron Forbes

Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.

Quotes by William Blake

Give us detailed, testable, mechanistic accounts for the origin of life, the origin of the genetic code, the origin of ubiquitous bio macromolecules and assemblages like the ribosome, and the origin of molecular machines like the bacterial flagellum, and intelligent...

Quotes by William A. Dembski

Believe me, if a man doesn't know death, he doesn't know life.

Quotes by William A. Drake

If our countries had war the one with the other, that was no cause that he should put us to death; with which they were out of heart that their cruel pretense failed them. For which God be forever-more praised.

Quotes by William Adams

The white sail of his soul has rounded the promontory - death.

Quotes by William Alexander

I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.

Quotes by Willa Cather

Death, the real simile for disease - for when we are ill, do we not always feel like we are dying, even if it's only a little? - remains, despite our secularism, the most metaphoricised phenomenon of all.

Quotes by Will Self

We were marooned in a frozen desert. There was not a sign of life on the horizon and a thousand signs of death... The marvel is we did not all die of cold.

Quotes by Wilfred Owen

Tragedy occurs when a human soul awakes and seeks, in suffering and pain, to free itself from crime, violence, infamy, even at the cost of life. The struggle is the tragedy - not defeat or death.

Quotes by Whittaker Chambers

I go around the country, and I speak to colleges, conferences and thousands of people at a time, and I'm like, 'Great. Fine. Whatever.' Coming to speak to about 60 kids, I am scared to death.

Quotes by Wil Wheaton

People meet in bars after work all over the world and talk about the great problems of life and death and the world and politics and they don't take themselves seriously. They can do nothing else except chat about these...

Quotes by Whitfield Diffie

I think the death knell for any musician is getting a job that you like and pays enough that you just stay there forever.

Quotes by Wesley Schultz

Sometimes I want to clean up my desk and go out and say, respect me, I'm a respectable grown-up, and other times I just want to jump into a paper bag and shake and bake myself to death.

Quotes by Wendy Wasserstein

Culture is the intersection of people and life itself. It's how we deal with life, love, death, birth, disappointment... all of that is expressed in culture.

Quotes by Wendell Pierce

My perspective on life is now to try to play music that reflects that life and death are part of the same coin. And to know about life, we must really examine the function - like death. Life tells you...

Quotes by Wayne Shorter

I'll sleep when I'm dead.

Quotes by Warren Zevon

I'm a Ninja. I'm not scared of death.

Quotes by Watkin Tudor Jones

Death Row had a lot of artists. They had Snoop, the Dogg Pound, the Lady of Rage, and there was other artists that was also on the label, so it was a big list and a long wait. I didn't...

Quotes by Warren G

It's a matter of life and death for this country. The Kenyan forests are facing extinction and it is a man-made problem.

Quotes by Wangari Maathai

If U.S. foreign policy results in massive death and destruction abroad, we cannot feign innocence when some of that destruction is returned.

Quotes by Ward Churchill

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