Quotes with mother-death

Quotes 461 till 480 of 1059.

  • George Bernard Shaw In the arts of life man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence, and famine.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Henry Miller In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Barbara Olson In the mind of Bill Clinton, political considerations outweigh even life-and-death matters of great concern to his own law-enforcement officials, not to mention the nation.
    The Final Days: The Last, Desperate Abuses of Power by the Clinton White House
    Barbara Olson
    American lawyer (1955 - 2001)
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  • Raoul Vaneigem In the twentieth century, death terrifies men less than the absence of real life. All these dead, mechanized, specialized actions, stealing a little bit of life a thousand times a day until the mind and body are exhausted, until that death which is not the
    Raoul Vaneigem
    Belgian philosopher (1934 - )
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  • Joseph De Maistre In the whole vast dome of living nature there reigns an open violence, a kind of prescriptive fury which arms all the creatures to their common doom: as soon as you leave the inanimate kingdom you find the decree of violent death inscribed on the very frontiers of life.
    Joseph De Maistre
    French diplomat and philosopher (1753 - 1821)
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  • Bao Dai In this decisive hour of our national history, union means life and division means death.
    Bao Dai
    Vietnamese emperor
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  • Mother Teresa In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love
    Mother Teresa
    Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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  • Benjamin Franklin In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Benjamin Franklin In this world, nothing is certain but death and taxes.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Robert Hewison Individually, museums are fine institutions, dedicated to the high values of preservation, education and truth; collectively, their growth in numbers points to the imaginative death of this country.
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  • Albert Einstein Intellectual growth should commence at birth and ends only with death.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Investigations during the last few decades have brought hydrogen instead of carbon, and instead of CO2 water, the mother of all life, into the foreground.
    Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
    Hungarian physician and Nobel Prize winner in Medicine (1893 - 1986)
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  • Bill Flores Iran continues to explicitly threaten to destroy the state of Israel, America's most important ally in the region. Its leaders continue to shout, 'Death to America.' If Iran wants to be a part of the world community, it should renounce such statements.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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  • Ella Wheeler Wilcox It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood - no more - to man, and love to a woman is life or death.
    Ella Wheeler Wilcox
    American Poet, Journalist (1850 - 1919)
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  • Henry Fielding It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.
    Henry Fielding
    English writer (1707 - 1754)
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  • Eric Hoffer It is a sign of a creeping inner death when we no longer can praise the living.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Mark Twain It is a time when one's spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Norman Tebbit It is certainly safe, in view of the movement to the right of intellectuals and political thinkers, to pronounce the brain death of socialism.
    Norman Tebbit
    British politician (1931 - )
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  • Elisabeth Kübler-Ross It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.
    Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
    Swiss-American psychiatrist (1926 - 2004)
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  • James Baldwin It is hard for anyone under twenty to realise that death has already assigned them a number, which is going to come up one day.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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