Quotes with death-like

Quotes 3641 till 3660 of 4355.

  • Ben Affleck To answer the question, though: I didn't always want to direct. I just liked the idea of it. If a friend was making a short and needed someone who knew screen direction, I would jump in. It would be horrible, but it led to a short, then another, and another. It was like student films.
    Ben Affleck
    American actor and filmmaker. (1972 - )
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  • Jim Crace To ask a novelist to talk about his novels is like asking somebody to cook about their dancing.
    Jim Crace
    English writer and novelist (1946 - )
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  • Doug Horton To awake from death is to die in peace.
    Doug Horton
    American Protestant clergyman
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  • George Bernard Shaw To be a champion you must live like one.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Ernest Renan To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.
    Ernest Renan
    French writer and critic (1823 - 1892)
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  • Butch Trucks To be honest, I don't listen to much music! I've been so engrossed in it my whole life that when I drive around in my car, I'll listen to college lectures on philosophy and literature and world history, things like that, to kind of catch up on the college experience I missed.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • Buddha To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • William Penn To be like Christ is to be a Christian.
    William Penn
    English religious leader, founder of Pennsylvania (1644 - 1718)
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  • Bill Hader To be totally honest? I don't know if I'll keep doing more impressions. People told me I had a facility for it, and I was like, 'Okay, I'm the impression guy.' So you imagine the cast at 'SNL' is an A-Team, and you've got the explosives guy, and I'm the impression guy.
    Bill Hader
    American actor, comedian, writer, producer, and director (1978 - )
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  • Henry Drummond To become Christ-like is the only thing in the whole world worth caring for, the thing before which every ambition of man is folly and all lower achievement vain.
    Henry Drummond
    Scottish evangelist, biologist, writer and lecturer (1786 - 1860)
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  • Andrew Cohen To campaign against colonialism is like barking up a tree that has already been cut down.
    Andrew Cohen
    American spiritual teacher (1955 - )
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  • Al Goldstein To date or not to date that is the question. It's almost as important as Shakespeare's to be or not to be which deals with death.
    Al Goldstein
    American pornographer (1936 - 2013)
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  • Paul Klee To emphasize only the beautiful seems to me to be like a mathematical system that only concerns itself with positive numbers.
    Paul Klee
    Swiss artist (1879 - 1940)
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  • Alexander Pope To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Alexander Pope To endeavour to work upon the vulgar with fine sense, is like attempting to hew blocks with a rasor.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Bertrand Russell To expect a personality to survive the disintegration of the brain is like expecting a cricket club to survive when all of its members are dead.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Barry Marshall To gastroenterologists, the concept of a germ causing ulcers was like saying that the Earth is flat.
    Barry Marshall
    Australian physician, Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology (1951 - )
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  • Abraham Kaplan To get at the meaning of a statement the logical positivist asks, What would the world be like if it were true? The operationist asks, What would we have to do to come to believe it? For the pragmatist the question is, What would we do if did believe it?
    The Conduct of Inquiry
    Abraham Kaplan
    American philosopher
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  • Elvis Presley To judge a man by his weakest link or deed is like judging the power of the ocean by one wave.
    Aantekening op zijn bijbel
    Elvis Presley
    American singer, musician, and actor (1935 - 1977)
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  • Sallust To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.
    Sallust
    Roman historian (86 - 34)
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