Quotes with life-and-death

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  • John Cage Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
    John Cage
    American composer and music (1912 - 1992)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • H.G. Wells Fools make researches and wise men exploit them.
    H.G. Wells
    British-born American author (1866 - 1946)
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  • George F. Will Football combines the two worst features of American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings.
    George F. Will
    American columnist (1941 - )
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  • Bobby Bowden Football has always been a big part of my life. Almost from the day I was born, playing and coaching football were all I really ever wanted to do.
    Bobby Bowden
    American football coach (1929 - )
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  • Bill Shankly Football is a simple game based on the giving and taking of passes, of controlling the ball and of making yourself available to receive a pass. It is terribly simple.
    Bill Shankly
    Scottish football player and manager (1913 - )
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  • Vince Lombardi Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.
    Vince Lombardi
    American football player (1913 - 1970)
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  • Cate Blanchett For 'Blue Jasmine,' I made a decision not to wear any make up in the last shot of the film, as I felt like she had such a mask on - I thought it would be a good idea to leave her with nothing and become completely transparent.
    Cate Blanchett
    Australian actress and theatre (1969 - )
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  • Bonnie Jo Campbell For 'King Cole's American Salvage,' I rode around in the wrecker with a local driver and watched him deal with customers and hook up the cars. I watched the guy who tore apart the cars in the junkyard. I also wrote poems about those guys. I loved hanging around the yard.
    Bonnie Jo Campbell
    American writer
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  • Ben Gibbard For 'Narrow Stairs', the majority of the songs I brought in were guitar songs - songs we could sit in a room and just play. I can honestly say I had more fun and felt more inspired on this record than anything that we had done in a long time.
    Ben Gibbard
    American singer, songwriter and guitarist (1976 - )
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  • Ben Gibbard For 'Narrow Stairs,' the majority of the songs I brought in were guitar songs - songs we could sit in a room and just play. I can honestly say I had more fun and felt more inspired on this record than anything that we had done in a long time.
    Ben Gibbard
    American singer, songwriter and guitarist (1976 - )
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  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    English poet (1806 - 1861)
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  • Francis Bacon For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Bill Bradley For a long time, I operated under the Chinese proverb that there are four kinds of leaders: those who you laugh at, those who you hate, those who you love and those who you don't even know that they're leaders.
    Bill Bradley
    American former professional basketball player and politician (1943 - )
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  • Robert Briffault For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely unnatural condition.
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  • Albert Ellis For a man there are three certainties in life: death, taxes, and women. It is often difficult to say which is the worst.
    Albert Ellis
    American psychologist (1913 - 2007)
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  • Miguel de Cervantes For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Queen Victoria For a man to strike any women is most brutal, and I, as well as everyone else, think this far worse than any attempt to shoot, which, wicked as it is, is at least more comprehensible and more courageous.
    Queen Victoria
    Queen of Great Britain (1819 - 1901)
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  • Bjork For a person as obsessed with music as I am, I always hear a song in the back of my head, all the time, and that usually is my own tune. I've done that all my life.
    Bjork
    Icelandic singer, songwriter and actress (1965 - )
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  • Andrew Morton For a time during the 1980s the Royal Family were not just the most influential family in Britain but probably in Europe and Prince Charles specifically was very much like a defacto Cabinet member and what he said actually had impact on public policy.
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