Quotes with death-like

Quotes 3941 till 3960 of 4355.

  • Branford Marsalis What is jazz? It, It's almost like asking, What is French? Jazz is a musical language. It's a musical dialect that actually embodies the spirit of America.
    Branford Marsalis
    American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (1960 - )
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  • Alfred N. Whitehead What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike.
    Alfred N. Whitehead
    English philosopher and mathematician (1861 - 1947)
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  • Caroline Knapp What is this drive to be thinner, prettier, better dressed, other? Who exactly is this other and what does she look like beyond the jacket she's wearing or the food she's not eating? What might we be doing, thinking, feeling about if we didn't think about body image, ever?
    Caroline Knapp
    American writer and columnist
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  • Seneca What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Diana Spencer - Princess of Wales What must it be like for a little boy to read that daddy never loved mummy?
    Diana Spencer - Princess of Wales
    Member of the British royal family, first wife of Prince Charles (1961 - 1997)
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  • Diana Spencer Princess of Wales What must it be like for a little boy to read that daddy never loved mummy?
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  • Bill Delahunt What passes for real debate in Washington often seems more like an echo chamber, with politicians talking at politicians.
    Bill Delahunt
    American lawyer and politician (1941 - )
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  • Susan Sontag What pornography is really about, ultimately, isn't sex but death.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • William Blake What seems to be, is, to those to whom it seems to be, and is productive of the most dreadful consequences to those to whom it seems to be, even of torments, despair, eternal death.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Friedrich von Schiller What shall he fear that does not fear death.
    Friedrich von Schiller
    German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Mario Puzo What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in a poor dumb beast. We suffer for nothing. Our own death wish is our only real tragedy.
    Mario Puzo
    American author, screenwriter and journalist (1920 - 1999)
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  • Henry van Dyke What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.
    Henry van Dyke
    American Protestant Clergyman and Writer (1852 - 1933)
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  • Alexander Pope What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Bobby Rahal What's really hit me over the years is that you go to every race and see all the well-wishers, and you really feel like you are connected with people after all these years.
    Bobby Rahal
    American auto racing driver (1953 - )
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  • Doris Lessing What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.
    Doris Lessing
    British novelist (1919 - 2013)
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  • Burning Spear Whatever I do, I do for the universal. It's not like an individual thing; it's not like something from me. What I present to the people is for all of us, you know. I present music for the people.
    Burning Spear
    Jamaican reggae singer-songwriter, vocalist and musician (1945 - )
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  • Luigi Pirandello Whatever is a reality today, whatever you touch and believe in and that seems real for you today, is going to be - like the reality of yesterday - an illusion tomorrow.
    Luigi Pirandello
    Italian poet, playwright and Nobel laureate in literature (1934) (1867 - 1936)
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  • Phyllis Diller Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age - as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.
    Phyllis Diller
    American actress and stand-up (1917 - 2012)
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