Quotes 561 till 580 of 811.
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Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.
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Sleeping in a bed - it is, apparently, of immense importance. Against those who sleep, from choice or necessity, elsewhere society feels righteously hostile. It is not done. It is disorderly, anarchical.
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So for twelve miles I rode with Sherman, and we became fast friends. He asked me all manner of questions on the way, and I found that he knew my father well, and remembered his tragic death in Salt Creek Valley.
Source: An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill (2009 edition) -
So when you're dealing with an existential threat like death or like climate change, if you see it as 'we are all toast anyway,' then denial is a pretty good way of coping.
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Some people believe that football is a matter of life and death. I'm very disappointed with that attitude. I can assure you it is much more important than that.
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Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I don't like that attitude. I can assure them it is much more serious than that.
Source: In Sunday Times (UK) Oct. 4 1981 -
Sophistication might be described as the ability to cope gracefully with a situation involving the presence of a formidable menace to one's poise and prestige (such as the butler, or the man under the bed - but never the husband).
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Start going to bed earlier! It is a tough adjustment when you have had a summer of staying up late and waking up late.
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Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.
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Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to death's perfect punctuation mark is a smile.
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Terri's death brings to a close a very tragic, human and personal event that has left everyone with a feeling of emptiness, regardless of what side of the issue you may have been on.
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Thank God I have the seeing eye, that is to say, as I lie in bed I can walk step by step on the fells and rough land seeing every stone and flower and patch of bog and cotton pass where my old legs will never take me again.
Source: Beatrix Potters Letters -
Thank God we're living in a country where the sky's the limit, the stores are open late and you can shop in bed thanks to television.
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That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths, it is to the domestic joys and tragedies of life.
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That which is so universal as death must be a benefit.
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That's the thing about L.A.- you can freeze to death under a rosebush, Richard says.
Source: This Book Will Save Your Life (2006) -
That's what I like about [smoking]... taking a drag off of death, Mmm! Gives me a sense of controlling my own destiny. What power! What exhilaration! Want a drag?
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That's why people take vacations. Not to relax or find excitement or see new places. To escape the death that exists in routine things.
Source: White Noise (2011) 276 -
The ''kingdom of Heaven'' is a condition of the heart -not something that comes ''upon the earth'' or ''after death.''
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