I love pushing my boundaries and seeing how far I can go without, you know, dying or injuring myself too badly.
When I'm dying, I want to think I did what I felt was best for the words I was writing. This may mean, at any time, that I won't be publishable anymore.
I wrote 'A Boy and His Soul' that talks about how my mother had lupus and my dad dying of a heart condition.
A surgeon is surrounded by people who are sick, discouraged, afraid, embittered, dying - but also courageous, loving, wise, compassionate and alive.
Some of the best jokes are about funerals or people dying or whatever. Laughter and tears are two sides of the same coin.
I spent much of my life dying for somebody to help me even file for a patent or make a prototype. I understand that.
Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.
I was raised with the idea that I was born dying. That with every breath you take, you get closer to your last. It's something I've always known.
Severn - I - lift me up - I am dying - I shall die easy; don't be frightened - be firm, and thank God it has come.
There are 38,000 people dying of hunger each day and most are children. And, being a celebrity, I communicate about it as much as I can.
I work out. I'm getting toned, too. The Wii Fit really works your body. When I get off, I'm dying.
Whoever it was who said that to philosophize is an exercise in dying was right in more ways than one, for by writing a book, nobody gets younger.
I started getting afraid of dying. I don't have any religion and I wanted to understand something about these greater powers without anthropomorphizing it.
I really connect with those moments of doing missionary work down there and just seeing the people that are dying from disease and hunger and malnutrition.
No one has been barred on account of his race from fighting or dying for America, there are no white or colored signs on the foxholes or graveyards of battle.
Our problem is that when you lose the touchstone, which is humanity, then when you have something like humans dying, it needs to feel profound.
It is a poor observance of our first century as a nation if we run up a flag of surrender with three dying maple leaves on it.
The question of whether it's God's green earth is not at center stage, except in the sense that if so, one is reminded with some regularity that He may be dying.
The misery of keeping a dog is his dying so soon. But, to be sure, if he lived for fifty years and then died, what would become of me?
When I was 13 or 14, my mother used to gift me books that I was dying to read. Those are my most memorable birthday gifts.
It's all a farce, - these tales they tell About the breezes sighing, And moans astir o'er field and dell, Because the year is dying.
Far more frightening than the thought of dying was the experience of erasure already occurring in my life. My fear of becoming someone who did not count.
The definition of what it means to be dying has changed radically. We are able to extend people's lives considerably, including sometimes, good days.
If the truth be known, we are on the verge of losing an entire generation of our young people, killing and dying in the streets of America.
It's you people dying from nothing that are screwed. I got all sorts of neat gadgets waiting for me...oxygen tent, iron lung.
Ephemerality is the little magazine's generic fate; by promptly dying it gives proof that it remained loyal to its first program.
That is perhaps what we seek throughout life, that and nothing more, the greatest possible sorrow so as to become fully ourselves before dying.
Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.
We must work to reshape the need for our children to want to live so fast even if it means dying too young.
Dying man couldn't make up his mind which place to go to-both have their advantages, heaven for the climate, hell for the company!
We taste and suckle each other, and I'm so thirsty he could feed me his kiss all night and I'd still be dying in the desert.
If you have never felt or known the sheer power and strength of God's love, take another look at Jesus dying on the cross.
I think about dying a lot, every time I fall asleep on a train or a plane I expect to wake up to a crash!
Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?
If one cannot accept failure and scorn, how is he to make his art? It's like wanting to go to heaven without dying.
I've accompanied several dying people on their travels, and the desert seems to be a favored destination. It is very hot and dry and lyrical in its own way.
Well . . . sure good to be together again. Arguing. Almost dying. Abject terror. Oh, look. It's our floor.
The problem, gentlemen, is that Obama is right: The promise of upward mobility is dying in America, and no amount of political demagoguery will fix it.
Vitally, the human race is dying. It is like a great uprooted tree, with its roots in the air. We must plant ourselves again in the universe.
I longed to be a flame of fire continually glowing in the divine service and building up of Christ's kingdom to my last and dying breath.
The sick do not ask if the hand that smoothes their pillow is pure, nor the dying care if the lips that touch their brow have known the kiss of sin.
I could see myself in a white nurse's uniform, working unnoticed for many years and at last dying, unknown, unmarried and unsung.
A number of cases have been reported in which a dying individual has a vision of a person about whose death he or she did not know.
I go back to when my youngest daughter was dying. I never asked my Friend Upstairs, 'Why me?' And He's the only one who has the answers.
I think the seventies caught the last red rays of the dying sun of this innocence, but were already a little cold and drab.
The unique essence of being an artist is dying. Eveything looks the same. Now there’s a formula. And it works. - But it takes away from the reason we do it.
When Jen Aniston and Brad Pitt broke up, I was dying to see something that said they were getting back together.
Both individual fulfillment and the ecological balance of life on this planet are best served by dying when our inherent biology decrees that we do.
It's a strange thing now how people will know they're dying themselves when no one else could suspect anything wrong at all with them.
People come. They go. Dying is the same as rehab or moving back to Missouri. It just means I won't be seeing them again.
Originality is the most deadly mirage in all of art. You can chase it from now until doomsday, and you'll only find yourself lost and dying of thirst.
You could say heading is a dying art in football because a lot of games are now played tiki-taka on the grass.
If I spend 10 days at home, I'll be dying to get back to the set. I love the thrill of a good dialogue, the buzz of shooting.
A society will be judged on the basis of how it treats its weakest members; and among the most vulnerable are surely the unborn and the dying.
A flow'ret crushed in the bud,
A nameless piece of Babyhood,
Was in her cradle-coffin lying;
Extinct, with scarce the sense of dying
I feel sorry for people who don't drink or do drugs. Because someday they're going to be in a hospital bed, dying, and they won't know why.
I don't run around feeling infused with positivity, but I'll have to be taking my last breath before I'll admit I'm dying. So I'm either optimistic or in denial.
A lot of the qualities in 'Killing and Dying' is sort of a response to work I'd done previously. I wanted to push myself in some different directions.
If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying.
There are always those who would put on armour and go into battle. but the real genius is in finding a way to get what you desire without dying for it.
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