A Quote by Ralph Ellison

In those days it was either live with music or die with noise, and we chose rather desperately to live.

Ralph Ellison

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Chose Days Desperately Die Either Live Music Noise Rather Those

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Ralph Ellison
American - Author
March 1, 1914 - April 16, 1994

I had a choice whether to live or die, and I chose to live.

Jason Robards

I'd rather die on my own terms than live on theirs. I'd rather die loving Alex than live without him.

Lauren Oliver

Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.

Douglas MacArthur

Ski. Sled. Play basketball. Jog. Run. Run. Run. Run home. Run home and enjoy. Enjoy. Take these verbs and enjoy them. They're yours, Craig. You deserve them because you chose them. You could have left them all behind but you chose to stay here. So now live for real, Craig. Live. Live. Live. Live. Live.

Ned Vizzini

We surrounded ourselves with smoke and loud noise. That's the way we chose to live. I'm prepared to defend it.

Don DeLillo

Be dead in life, and you will not live in death. Let your soul die strenuously, and not live in weakness. Not only those who suffer death for the sake of faith in Christ are martyrs; but also those who die because of their observance of His commandments.

Isaac of Nineveh

When a plane crashes and some die while others live, a skeptic calls into question God's moral character, saying that he has chosen some to live and others to die on a whim; yet you say it is your moral right to choose whether the child within you should live or die. Does that not sound odd to you? When God decides who should live or die, he is immoral. When you decide who should live or die, it's your moral right.

Ravi Zacharias

Those men who, in war, seek to preserve their lives at any rate commonly die with shame and ignominy, while those who look upon death as common to all, and unavoidable, and are only solicitous to die with honour, oftener arrive at old age and, while they live, live happier.

Xenophon

This world has a secret rule: Those who have to die live, and those who have to live die!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

We either live or die based on how we live in cities, and our society is either going to be great or not based on how we perform as creatures of the city.

David Simon

May you live as long as you are fit to live, but no longer, or, may you rather die before you cease to be fit to live than after!

Lord Chesterfield

I suggest you to do war but never love because in war either you live or you die. But in love neither you live nor you die.

Adolf Hitler

Supposing I live, I have got a work to do; and if I die, I shall still be engaged in the cause of Zion . . . If we live, we live to God; and if we die, we die to God; and we are God's, any way.

John Taylor

Either you live by the barometer of the music critics, or you live by your own. I choose the latter.

Daniel Barenboim

When it's time to die, go ahead and die, and when it's time to live, live. Don't sort-of-maybe live, but live like you're going all out, like you're not afraid.