- Change theme
- The great fear that hung over the business community in the 1970s was death by regulation, and the great goal of the conservative movement, as it rose to triumph in the 1980s, was to remove that threat - to keep OSHA, the EPA, and the FTC from choking off entrepreneurship with their infernal meddling in the marketplace.
- Thomas Frank on Death
- The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death' to which I would add, 'Let no one, till his death, be called unhappy.'
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning on Death
- The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.
- Samuel Butler on Death
- The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death.
- David Herbert Lawrence on Death
- The idea is to die young as late as possible.
- Ashley Montagu on Death
- The ideal death, I think, is what was the ideal Victorian death, you know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.
- Terry Pratchett on Death
- The illness, and the untimely death of my brothers, has made me conscious of the fact that - rather than just think about it - it's crucial that you do today what you want to do.
- Robin Gibb on Death
- The kids out there want something they can relate to, something that's real most of that whiny stuff isn't real. The cheesy pop songs just bore me to death.
- Jonathan Davis on Death
- The knowledge of the realm of death makes it possible for the shaman to move freely back and forth and mediate these journeys for other people.
- Stanislav Grof on Death
- The leading cause of death among fashion models is falling through street grates.
- Dave Barry on Death
- The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero on Death
- The line between life or death is determined by what we are willing to do.
- Bear Grylls on Death
- The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
- E. M. Forster on Death
- The materialistic paradigm of Western science has been a major obstacle for any objective evaluation of the data describing the events occurring at the time of death.
- Stanislav Grof on Death
- The meaning of life is not to be discovered only after death in some hidden, mysterious realm on the contrary, it can be found by eating the succulent fruit of the Tree of Life and by living in the here and now as fully and creatively as we can.
- Paul Kurtz on Death
- The message that President Obama delivered in his speech at Notre Dame was: morality is immoral. Pro-life is the extremist position, not a moral position. Yet we should compromise and work to reduce abortions. Where's the compromise between life and death - and why work to reduce the number of them occurring if there's nothing wrong with them?
- Rush Limbaugh on Death
- The miser, starving his brother's body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice, poor and naked and miserable.
- Theodore Parker on Death
- The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.
- George Meredith on Death
- The motif of death plays an important role the human psyche in connection with archetypal and karmic material.
- Stanislav Grof on Death
- The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.
- Desiderius Erasmus on Death
- The need to understand prescription information can literally be a matter of life and death.
- Andrew Cuomo on Death
- The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.
- Will Rogers on Death
- The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.
- Thomas Mann on Death
- The passion of hatred is so long lived and so obstinate a malady that the surest sign of death in a sick person is their desire for reconciliation.
- Jean De La Bruyere on Death
- The police came to me to say I had death threats and that I had to be careful!
- Heather Mills on Death
- The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.
- Mark Twain on Death
- The rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated.
- Paul McCartney on Death
- The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.
- The situation in the United States is becoming more dire for average ordinary Americans and the last thing we need to do is to spend money on death, destruction and war.
- Cynthia McKinney on Death
- The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.
- Bertrand Russell on Death
- The sole equality on earth is death.
- Philip James Bailey on Death
- The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired.
- William Shakespeare on Death
- The study of consciousness that can extend beyond the body is extremely important for the issue of survival, since it is this part of human personality that would be likely to survive death.
- Stanislav Grof on Death
- The Supreme Court of the United States... has validated the Nazi method of execution in... concentration camps, starving them to death.
- Jack Kevorkian on Death
- The symbolic language of the crucifixion is the death of the old paradigm resurrection is a leap into a whole new way of thinking.
- Deepak Chopra on Death
- The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death.
- Henry Miller on Death
- The thing about death is that it's honest.
- Laura Linney on Death
- The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.
- Mary Catherine Bateson on Death
- The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.
- Norman Cousins on Death
- The true face of smoking is disease, death and horror - not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry try to portray.
- David Byrne on Death
- The U.S. couldn't even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that the EU is just a passing fad. They'll be killing each other again in less than a year. I'm sick to death of all these fascist lawsuits.
- Bill Gates on Death
- The valiant never taste of death but once.
- William Shakespeare on Death
- The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.
- Isaac Bashevis Singer on Death
- The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
- Paula Poundstone on Death
- The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.
- W. H. Auden on Death
- The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.
- Florence Nightingale on Death
- The writer crafts their ideal world. In my world, everyone has really long conversations or just picks apart pop culture to death and everyone talks in monologue.
- Kevin Smith on Death
- There are certain people that are marked for death. I have my little list of those that treated me unfairly.
- Jennifer Lopez on Death
- There are hundreds of Frank Lloyd Wright buildings around the United States and in other countries, too. Wright lived into his 90s, and one of his most famous buildings, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, was completed just before his death. Wright buildings look like Wright buildings - that is their paradox.
- Jane Smiley on Death
- There are only three events in a man's life birth, life, and death he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live.
- Jean De La Bruyere on Death
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