Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

In any man who dies there dies with him his first snow and kiss and fight... Not people die but worlds die in them.

William Butler Yeats

Others because you did not keepThat deep-sworn vow have been friends of mine;Yet always when I look death in the face,When I clamber to the heights of sleep,Or when I grow excited with wine,Suddenly I meet your face.

Oscar Wilde

Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die

Richard Preston

If you want to survive Ebola, you need to be young. If you're in your late 30s, the death rate is about 80 percent, and if you're over 45, then the death rate goes up to about 90 percent.

If you want to see what your friends and family think of you, die broke, and see who comes to your funeral

If you want to rape kids, you want to kill them? Death it's an eye for an eye for children.

If you get three people like (Greene), the death penalty's gone.

If you die homeless, your death goes unnoticed, just like your life. This is a way for us to notice.

Phil Klay

If you're going to write about war, the ugly side is inevitable. Suffering and death are obviously part of war.

Shawn Amos

In the world of celebrity, there is one universal law: if there's a scandal or death, Al Sharpton will be there.

Rabindranath Tagore

In the dualism of death and life there is a harmony. We know that the life of a soul, which is finite in its expression and infinite in its principle, must go through the portals of death in its journey to realize the infinite. It is death which is m

I just thank the Lord because death did not come, ... The living things were spared.

Manolo Blahnik

I just don't get death at all. Yes, it's there. But I don't get it.

Clearly, our police officers deserve a solid death penalty law because they place their lives at risk every day.

Thomas Hood

His death which happened in his berth, / At forty-odd befell: / They went and told the sexton, and / The sexton toll'd the bell.

Craig Thompson

His death said to the world that no matter how much privilege you have or how good your doctors are, there is no cure. At that time, many people in the entertainment industry knew people who expected to die, so Hollywood was very personally touched.

Nikki Giovanni

His headstone said "Free at last, Free at last" - But death is a slave's freedom - We seek the freedom of free men - And the construction of a world - Where Martin Luther King could have lived - and preached non-violence

Marianne Faithfull

I'm not sure yet what my higher mission is, but I have a feeling it might be great. Before, I thought my mission was death, but now my mission is life.

I'll defend to the death your right to say that, but I never said I'd listen to it!

Anthony Mann

I had always thought, for 'Roman Empire,' I would love to do the death of Marcus Aurelius in the snow. One morning I woke up, and it was really snowing.

I love my wife to death. I mean my ex-wife.

In this district, we have a history of seeking the death penalty in appropriate cases, ... It's not something we shy away from, but we're still a ways away from that decision.

Ted Kulongoski

I hope I never have to use it. But if I do, it may make the difference between life and death for me and my family.

I have to be his voice. Knowing the whys, the details of his last minutes won't make his death any easier, but I will have an answer. I keep on because I have to keep speaking for him.

Colleen Atwood

I really don't over-theorize about design. I'd rather feel it than talk it to death. A lot happens as you unroll the design.

Mike Nichols

I'm in the theater because of two plays: 'A Streetcar Named Desire' and 'Death of a Salesman.'

Elijah Wood

I'm scared to death of doing it, because I love him (Iggy Pop) so much and I respect the music so much. I don't want to be the person responsible for screwing that up.

If not this case, then when is a death sentence appropriate? How many people have to die?

If lawmakers propose lifetime imprisonment as an alternative to the death penalty, the Japanese public is not likely to reject it.

Jorja Fox

Im sure now that grieving and healing are the same thing sometimes, and magic and death are the same thing sometimes, and trusting and failing are the same thing sometimes.

I'm tickled to death that we are able to make a living off of horses.

In Guatemala, there is a large indigent community, ... That's why you see higher death rates.

J. R. R. Tolkien

In life there can be no victor, for death comes to all and smites them.