Quotes with dead-letter

Quotes 81 till 100 of 426.

  • Bill Hybels Creating planets didn't seem to be much of a problem for God. Neither was raising the dead. Nothing is too difficult for God to handle, but we won't see much proof of this until we actually ask him to handle it.
    Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Berkeley Breathed Dear Lord, I've been asked, nay commanded, to thank Thee for the Christmas turkey before us... a turkey which was no doubt a lively, intelligent bird... a social being... capable of actual affection... nuzzling its young with almost human-like compassion. Anyway, it's dead and we're gonna eat it. Please give our respects to its family.
    Berkeley Breathed
    American cartoonist, director and screenwriter (1957 - )
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  • William Somerset Maugham Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Bhagavad Gita Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • Blake Farenthold Do I have a reasonable expectation of privacy in any information that I share with a company? My Google searches? The emails I send? Do I have a reasonable expectation of privacy in anything but maybe a letter I hand deliver to my wife?
    Blake Farenthold
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • Richard Dawkins Don't kid yourself that you're going to live again after you're dead; you're not. Make the most of the one life you've got. Live it to the full.
    Richard Dawkins
    English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author (1941 - )
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  • Tennessee Williams Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.
    Tennessee Williams
    American playwright (1911 - 1983)
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  • James Thurber Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy and wealthy and dead.
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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  • Barry Cornwall Enter upon thy paths, O year! Thy paths, which all who breathe must tread, Which lead the Living to the Dead, I enter; for it is my doom To tread thy labyrinthine gloom; To note who round me watch and wait; To love a few; perhaps to hate; And do all duties of my fate.
    Barry Cornwall
    English poet (pen name of Bryan Procter) (1787 - 1874)
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  • Brent Scowcroft Europeans are familiar with terrorism and violence. We have not experienced a true conflict on our soil in a hundred years, and especially not one that involved 3,000 dead.
    Brent Scowcroft
    American US Air Force officer (1925 - 2020)
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  • Mignon McLaughlin Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.
    Mignon McLaughlin
    American writer, editor (1913 - 1983)
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  • Sir James Matthew Barrie Every time a child says 'I don't believe in fairies' there is a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead.
    Peter Pan (1904)
    Sir James Matthew Barrie
    British playwright (1860 - 1937)
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  • Zig Ziglar Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
    Zig Ziglar
    American author, salesman, and motivational speaker. (1926 - 2012)
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  • Denis Waitley Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
    Denis Waitley
    American motivational speaker, writer and consultant (1933 - )
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  • Herman Melville Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
    Herman Melville
    American author (1819 - 1891)
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  • William Hazlitt Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Alfred Lord Tennyson Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null, dead perfection; no more.
    Alfred Lord Tennyson
    English poet (1809 - 1892)
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  • James Baldwin Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Lord Chesterfield For my own part, I would rather be in company with a dead man than with an absent one; for if the dead man gives me no pleasure, at least he shows me no contempt; whereas the absent one, silently indeed, but very plainly, tells me that he does not think me worth his attention.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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