Top 1200 Death Note Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

If an offender has committed murder, he must die. In this case, no possible substitute can satisfy justice. For there is no parallel between death and even the most miserable life, so that there is no equality of crime and retribution unless the perpetrator is judicially put to death.

Holding a note is a very difficult thing - you have to use your whole body to achieve a perfect pitch.

And then there stole into my fancy, like a rich musical note, the thought of what sweet rest there must be in the grave.

When you get back from a trip, make a note of what you didn't wear. This will avoid packing it unnecessarily next time.

I have had a fantastic career with United, and I owe it to the club, players, and fans to do everything I can to finish on a successful note.

Woody is so musical in his filmmaking. I've never worked with anyone I've trusted so completely. He won't let you hit a false note.

We need to care enough to connect, to put ourselves at emotional risk and play one note worth hearing.

Strictly cop and go's until we laid in the Galapagos Eating tacos, higher than an opera note

I had never seen a woman in such despair before. It was worse than death, it was a constant longing for death and a constant rejection of life. She lived like darkness in her own day.

How does he do it? Live. With the fear of death every day. I don't fear death as much as I fear the thought of living.

I am almost sure to be blotted out by death, but sometimes I think it is not impossible that I may continue to live in some other manner after my physical death . Or, as Hamlet wonders, what dreams will come when we leave this body?

I note the obvious differences between each sort and type, but we are more alike, my friends, than we are unalike.

The emotions triggered by fiction are very real. When Charles Dickens wrote about the death of Little Nell in the 1840s, people wept - and I'm sure that the death of characters in J.K. Rowling's 'Harry Potter' series led to similar tears.

How surely are the dead beyond death. Death is what the living carry with them. A state of dread, like some uncanny foretaste of a bitter memory. But the dead do not remember and nothingness is not a curse. Far from it.

I could have clasped the red walls to my bosom as a garment of eternal peace. "Death," I said, "any death but that of the pit!" Fool! might I have not known that into the pit it was the object of the burning iron to urge me?

When you arrive in China nowadays, one of the first things you note is the emphasis placed on you, a non-Chinese person, being an outsider.

But this is not difficult, O Athenians! to escape death; but it is much more difficult to avoid depravity, for it runs swifter than death. And now I, being slow and aged, am overtaken by the slower of the two; but my accusers, being strong and active, have been overtaken by the swifter, wickedness. And now I depart, condemned by you to death; but they condemned by truth, as guilty of iniquity and injustice: and I abide my sentence, and so do they. These things, perhaps, ought so to be, and I think that they are for the best.

What if it is for life's sake that we must die? In truth we are not individuals; and it is because we think ourselves such that death seems unforgivable. We are temporary organs of the race, cells in the body of life; we die and drop away that life may remain young and strong. If we were to live forever, growth would be stifled, and youth would find no room on earth. Death, like style, is the removal of rubbish, the circumcision of the superfluous. In the midst of death life renews itself immortally.

Expansion is life, contraction is death. Love is life, hatred is death.

It is somewhat remarkable that Cornwall has produced no musical genius of any note, and yet the Cornishman is akin to the Welshman and the Irishman.

If you start parsing the cause-and-effect chain backward through time, eventually you land in cosmology - does the story begin with the Big Bang or the out-of-nothing creation of the world by the word of a Southern Baptist god? And that question is even more fraught than any of the others. The stakes couldn't be any higher, because not it's not just a question of life and death, but also a question of life after death or eternal torture after death.

Nobody's death is impending." ..."Well technically everyone's death is impending.

My first letter of acceptance, to UMass - Amherst, came with an offer of a fellowship and a note from John Edgar Wideman.

On a personal note, reaching the World Cup would be something that no one could ever take away from me.

To play sweep arpeggios correctly, you have to mute each note with the left hand immediately after picking it.

We all more or less consciously note this. We cannot help observing that all serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy.

The cycle of life is death, decomposition and regeneration, and a person who wants to stop killing animals is actually anti-life because it's only in death that life can be regenerated.

Take a note: it usually works better if you wait until I do something stupid before getting mad at me.

Since the time of Plato and Aristotle philosophers have had an interest in taking note of common fallacies in reasoning.

If you let the world roll on the way it's rolling, you're voting for death. I'm not voting for death.

Keep a note pad and pencil on your bedside table. Million-dollar ideas sometimes strike at 3 A.M.

I admit that Post-it note sheets that adhere to virtually any surface are now my substitute of choice for retention.

My father never feared death. He never saw it as an ending. I don't know why Alzheimer's was allowed to steal so much of my father before releasing him into the arms of death. But I know that at his last moment, when he opened his eyes - - eyes that had not opened for many, many days - - and looked at my mother, he showed us that neither disease nor death can conquer love.

We tune down a full step when we play but I never miss a note. I've learned how to keep my voice.

Outcomes rarely turn on grand gestures or the art of the deal, but on whether you've sent someone a thank-you note.

The manner of your death is not your choosing. But how you prepare for death is

Death, my son, is a good thing for all men; it is the night for this worried day that we call life. It is in the sleep of death that finds rest for eternity the sickness, pain, desperation, and the fears that agitate, without end, we unhappy living souls.

Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with its touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes its noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

The death penalty has been one of many examples where racial discrimination has played out. You can see it in the simple fact that someone convicted of the same crime is more likely to face the death penalty if they are black.

I like to joke that you usually write more books before death than after death, so that's why I'm doing it. But really, I remain engaged with ideas. There are so many things happening that turn me on and I just want to examine them.

Life and death lived inside each other. That's what occured to me. Death was inside all of us, waiting for warmer nights, a compromised system, a beetle, as in the now dying black timber on the mountains.

Idealism is the death of the body and the imagination. All but freedom, utter freedom, is death

This country is being managed to death, being public related to death.

Also note that invariably when we design something that can be used by those with disabilities, we often make it better for everyone

I keep trying to write happy endings, but my books always end on more of a bittersweet note of ambiguity.

It is a note Of upstart greatness to observe and watch For these poor trifles, which the noble mind Neglects and scorns.

'Man v. Food' was the biggest career-defining opportunity. I went from anonymity to someone of note with access to amazing eateries.

Whatever thought grips the mind at the time of death is the one which will propel it and decide for it the nature of its future birth. Thus if one wants to attain god after death, one has to think of him steadfastly... This is not as simple as it sounds, for at the time of death the mind automatically flies to the thought of an object (i.e. money, love) which has possessed it during its sojourn in the world. Thus one must think of god constantly.

The reason for such an “unreasonable” attitude with me is that I am not at all sure what will happen to me after death. I have good reasons to assume that things are not finished with death. Life seems to be an interlude in a long story.

I learn a great deal by merely observing you, and letting you talk as long as you please, and taking note of what you do not say.

I dont fear death so much as I fear its prologues: loneliness, decrepitude, pain, debilitation, depression, senility. After a few years of those, I imagine death presents like a holiday at the beach.

Society may protect itself without putting a human to death as it would a wild animal. Since we believe each person has a soul, and is capable of achieving salvation, life in prison is now an alternative to the death penalty.

Our first gig was a battle of the bands. We did 45 minutes of comedy and never played a note - and we won!

'Othello' is the most domestic of Shakespeare's tragedies and the one that's likely to strike a personal note with a lot of people watching it.

To ignore death and to be afraid of it is dumb because everyone is going to face it at some point. If you look at death and the reality of it, you realise that we're all going to die, so let's use this time on Earth to be positive and do good things.

Sleep undisturbed within this peaceful shrine, Till angels wake thee with a note like thine.

I can't hold a note. I tried a singing lesson, but my vocal coach kept giving me the stink eye.

The death tax causes one-third of all family-owned small businesses to liquidate after the death of the owner. It is also an unfair tax because the assets have already been taxed once at their income level.

I note that the Python folks still think they like JPython. I wonder how long that will last?

I find the violence in PG13 movies unbearable. This kid will never run home, never have another birthday. His death is slow, nightmarish. And you have to explore the consequences - the people who live on with this death.