Quotes with death-like

Quotes 4101 till 4120 of 4355.

  • Dorothy Parker Where's the man could ease a heart, like a satin gown?
    Dorothy Parker
    American humoristic writer (1893 - 1967)
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  • John Ruskin Whether for life or death, do your own work well.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Benjamin Graham Whether we like it or not, government intervention in the face of surplus is here to stay.
    Storage and Stability Part I, Ch. II, Government and Surplus Stocks, p.
    Benjamin Graham
    British-born American economist, professor and investor (1894 - 1976)
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  • Ben Brantley Whether you like it or not, a performance's triumphs and belly flops come to seem excruciatingly intimate, as if you were somehow partly responsible for them.
    Ben Brantley
    American theater critic and journalist (1954 - )
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  • Julius Caesar Which death is preferably to every other? ''The unexpected''.
    Julius Caesar
    Roman emperor (101 - 44)
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  • Ronald Reagan While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • Barack Obama While the evidence tells me that the death penalty does little to deter crime, I believe there are some crimes- mass murder, the rape and murder of a child- so heinous, so beyond the pale, that the community is justified in expressing the full measure of its outrage by meting out the ultimate punishment.
    The Audacity of Hope (2006)
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Emile Durkheim While the State becomes inflated and hypertrophied in order to obtain a firm enough grip upon individuals, but without succeeding, the latter, without mutual relationships, tumble over one another like so many liquid molecules, encountering no central energy to retain, fix and organize them.
    Emile Durkheim
    French sociologist (1858 - 1917)
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  • Harriet Beecher Stowe Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    American Novelist (1811 - 1896)
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  • Logan Pearsall Smith Whiskey has killed more men than bullets, but most men would rather be full of whiskey than bullets. What I like in a good author is not what he says, but what he whispers.
    Logan Pearsall Smith
    English writer (1865 - 1946)
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  • Bill Engvall Who applies for that job? Who says I want to work in lost luggage? You don't have a good day. That's like having a job emptying port-a-potties. You're just going to catch crap all day long.
    Blue Collar Comedy Tour
    Bill Engvall
    American comedian and actor (1957 - )
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  • Brigitte Nielsen Who says I'm gonna marry another guy? In Europe it's not like in America, where you set a date.
    Brigitte Nielsen
    Danish actress, model and singer (1963 - )
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  • Alexander Pope Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Anna Akhmatova Who will grieve for this woman? Does she not seem too insignificant for our concern? Yet in my heart I never will deny her, Who suffered death because she chose to turn.
    Anna Akhmatova
    Russian poet (1889 - 1966)
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  • Mark Twain Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Luigi Pirandello Whoever has the luck to be born a character can laugh even at death. Because a character will never die! A man will die, a writer, the instrument of creation: but what he has created will never die!
    Luigi Pirandello
    Italian poet, playwright and Nobel laureate in literature (1934) (1867 - 1936)
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  • Ann Coulter Why couldn't Obama have picked somebody respectable as his running mate, you know, like John Kerry did?
    Ann Coulter
    American far-right media pundit and author (1961 - )
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  • James Thurber Why do you have to a nonconformist like everybody else?
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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  • Natalie Clifford Barney Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?
    Natalie Clifford Barney
    American-born French author (1876 - 1972)
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  • Ben Folds Why would I want to sound like Joni Mitchell? I've got Joni Mitchell records, and they're great, and I couldn't possibly be that good.
    Ben Folds
    American singer-songwriter, musician and composer (1966 - )
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