Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Paul Evans

Some so fear the future that they suffocate the present. It's like committing suicide to avoid being murdered.

Woodrow Wilson

Never murder a man when he's busy committing suicide.

Robert Nozick

Examples one finds in the philosophical literature are somebody who's seen the trial of a child of theirs, where they're being proved guilty of some crime that would drive the parent into a depression, maybe a suicidal depression.

Robert Quine

I saw Suicide in '74 and it was pretty horrifying.

Sara Teasdale

When I am dead, and over me bright April Shakes out her rain drenched hair, Tho you should lean above me broken hearted, I shall not care. For I shall have peace. As leafey trees are peaceful When rain bends down the bough. And I shall be more silent and cold hearted Than you are now

Sara Teasdale

I shall have peace, as leafy trees are peaceful when rain bends down the bough; And I shall be more silent and cold hearted than you are now.

Wallace Stevens

Freedom is like a man who kills himself Each night, an incessant butcher, whose knife Grows sharp in blood.

Vincent Van Gogh

It's better to have a gay life of it than to commit suicide.

Vladimir Lenin

The bourgeoisie is many times stronger than we. To give it the weapon of freedom of the press is to ease the enemy's cause, to help the class enemy. We do not desire to end in suicide, so we will not do this.

Jack Ferraro

I think the players that we have right now are very good. But one thing we don't have is that big-time scorer. We're going to be missing Piazza, but somebody's going to have to pick up his slack.

Kami Hebert

I want to win state. I'm mostly satisfied with what I've done individually, but all I'm missing is a state title.

Jeff Tedford

He was suspended for the first quarter for missing the meeting,

Richard Petty

I didn't miss out on a family life because of racing. I had one because of it.

Richelle Mead

You know, I might miss some of your witticisms when you’re gone, but one thing I won’t miss? Your overwhelming sense of melodrama and despair. It’s too much even for me.

Richelle Mead

There was a look of woe on his face that was almost comical. Raids, bullets, criminals...no problem. A missing duster? Crisis.

Rose Macaulay

miss my daily Mass, and have a superstitious feeling that anything may happen on the days I don't go. However, nothing in particular has.

Rick Riordan

Lord Bacchus, do you remember me? I helped you with that missing leopard in Sonoma." Bacchus scratched his stubbly chin. "Ah... yes. John Green." "Jason Grace." "Whatever," the god said.

Sarah Rees Brennan

Hey, Jamie,' said Seb. 'Want a lift?' 'Hey, Seb,' Jamie responded without missing a beat 'Drop dead.

Richelle Mead

But I didn't know about the other story." "What other story?” "About how you and Adrian Ivashkov are—" "No, whatever you heard it’s not true." "But it was really romantic" "Then it’s definitely not true.

Rex Stout

Every Sherlock Holmes story has at least one marvelous scene.

Salman Rushdie

Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another's, were no longer our own, individual, discrete.

Salman Rushdie

An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings.

Roddy Doyle

No matter how close to personal experience a story might be, inevitably you are going to get to a part that isn't yours and, actually, whether it happened or not becomes irrelevant. It is all about choosing the right words.

Robert Penn Warren

You don’t choose a story, it chooses you.

Wally Lamb

I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.

Walt Disney

You'll be a poorer person all your life if you don't know some of the great stories and great poems.

Rohinton Mistry

So we tell the same story, over and over. Just the details are different