Top 1200 Facing Death Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

The number one job facing the middle class. And it happens to be, as Barack says, a three-letter word: Jobs. J-O-B-S.

The Bible says he was raised not just after the blood-shedding, but by it. This means that what the death of Christ accomplished was so full and so prefect that the resurrection was the reward and vindication of Christ's achievement in death.

The woe of mortality makes humans God-like. It is because we know that we must die that we are so busy making life. It is because we are aware of mortality that we preserve the past and create the future. Mortality is ours without asking--but immortality is something we must build ourselves. Immortality is not a mere absence of death; it is defiance and denial of death. It is 'meaningful' only because there is death, that implacable reality which is to be defied.

One of the biggest challenges facing the globe is the gap that exists in the wealth and standards of living enjoyed by the world's nations.

Don't be afraid to take a chance, to jump. Because death will always swallow you up anyway. Death is a friend; it encourages us to become aware, to become free.

My faith teaches that life is sacred. That's why I personally oppose the death penalty. But I take my oath of office seriously, and I'll enforce the death penalty... because it's the law.

The only problem facing you in life is the belief in separation from your Source. Solve that one and all the other ones will vanish.

Look out, Death: I am coming.-Art thou not glad? what talks we'll have.-What memories of old battles.-Come, bring the bowl, Death; I am thirsty.

Any government in the world, when facing an armed rebellion, has a constitutional, legal, and moral obligation to resist these militants.

When people are hungry, when a mother or father is facing a child that they can't feed, you can't ask that family to lay down their arms.

A lot of problems we are facing, essentially, man made problem. Own creation. Not due to lack of intelligence.

We are not spared death, but the power of death has been defeated. The grip of sin has been loosed. We are invited to share the victory, to follow the path of God back to life.

Hindi films are so deceptive. I thought Mumbai was this big, grand, beautiful city with sea-facing flats.

There is total unanimity that the most serious threat facing the United States and Israel is a nuclear-armed Iran.

People waited for my debut. But at the same time, the biggest disadvantage of a star child is facing criticism of nepotism.

When we have done our best, we can, as a united people, take whatever may befall with calm courage and confidence that this old nation will survive and if death should come to many of us, death is not the end.

When facing terrorism, especially in the wake of awful events, there is a tendency to despair, to see in the battle a problem without a solution.

We've lost control of this planet somewhere. There's an echo in that kind of tornado situation, where you're powerless facing those phenomena.

Often, the greatest challenge facing an organization is recognizing and acting on opportunity rather than solving a problem.

Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

When we address the disparities facing black people, we get a lot closer to a true democracy where all lives matter.

I may not agree with what you have to say but I will fight you to the death for the right to fight you to the death.

There is a lot of talk in the academy about the death of the humanities. Based on my readers' response and their interest in history and literature and art, the death of the humanities has been grossly overstated.

Even when I wrote death metal songs for a death metal record, I was always trying to do my best to make it as catchy as possible because that's how I like music.

Michael could never remember his father ever having uttered a word about death, as if the Don respected death too much to philosophize about it.

Elijah Snow: 'Who have you pissed off this time, John?' John Stone: 'Sumatran robot death sluts -- Dammit, ONE of these buttons fires the atomic death biter --

If we had kept the vision of interconnectedness, we would not have created the kind of environmental crisis facing the world today.

The soul-stirring image of death is no bugbear to the sage, and is looked on without despair by the pious. It teaches the former to live, and it strengthens the hopes of the latter in salvation in the midst of distress. Death is new life to both.

How some dare scorn (as if a fabulous lie) that they should rise whom death to dust doth bind -- and like to beasts, a beastly life they lead, who naught attend save death when they are dead.

Facing a great server makes a match so much more difficult, even for the best players in the world.

Be of good hope in the face of death. Believe in this one truth for certain, that no evil can befall a good man either in life or death, and that his fate is not a matter of indifference to the gods.

It is not all of life to live, nor yet all of death to die. For life and death are one, and only those who will consider the experience as one may come to understand or comprehend what peace indeed means.

Global climate change has a profound impact on the survival and development of mankind. It is a major challenge facing all countries.

Live in the present tense, facing the duty at hand without regret for the past or worry over the future.

I thought I had a clear picture of death, but now I know it's a mystery and it will always be a mystery, although it is something we all have in common: everybody knows that life ends with death.

The sense that materialism has gotten out of hand is magnified by the pressures facing middle-class American families.

When you are facing the wilderness on your own, you have a totally different attitude to someone who works in government or who has a monthly cheque.

Access to basic quality health care is one of the most important domestic issues facing our nation.

Deficits. Most people of knowledge say it's the biggest single problem facing the economic free world.

I have the experience and ability to step in on day one in Washington and start working on the challenging problems facing our country.

It's not just about learning the dialogue and facing the camera, you must somewhat live the role and not always be acting it.

The quantum death of Philip Seymour Hoffman. 24 hours before he was "officially" declared dead it was announced on the internet that he had already died. Many people were shocked to hear of his "official" death, especially those who had believed he was already dead. Philip Seymour Hoffman was both dead and alive in the minds of millions simultaneously. A rare death for a rare actor.

I am no faint-heart when it comes to the unpleasant truth. Indeed I have always taken a bracing sort of pleasure in facing it.

Death threatens our speech with futility because death is not just a biological event - it is a reality we fear may rob our living of any significance.

The poet does not fear death, not because he believes in the fantasy of heroes, but because death constantly visits his thoughts and is thus an image of a serene dialogue.

Death means that a form of life dissolves or that the imminent possibility of dissolution exists, whether through our own death or through illness or old age.

The world is facing a new networked, digital lifestyle, and we will ensure that Canon remains ahead of the game.

Refugees, imperialism, all the things that we are facing right now. What are we going to do with that? What's the moral imperative? Where do we sit with all that, as a worldwide community?

The eradication of anti-personnel mines around the world is one of the most important tasks facing the international community.

There are some? - ?called 'death fatigue'? - ?people who just grow so tired of death, so they don't want to keep perpetuating death and creating more victims and more anger and more pain. They want to heal from that, and I think that's exactly what God wants to do. And, interestingly enough, that's part of what God's original law was doing with the 'eye for an eye' thing. It was actually to limit the patterns of retaliation and then to begin to heal from that.

We could easily be facing starvation in the U.K. if the weather effect continues as it is. We need to be building resilience in our communities.

We do not know how we'd behave. But a lot of people facing fascism didn't become fascists. I don't happen to believe that we are all monsters.

Diversity, I think, has become a real business imperative at the very top with CEOs who are facing massive disruption.

Capital punishment? It makes no sense as a policy: It's not a deterrent, and economically it's a disaster. It's very clear that there are innocent people on death row. And if I put an innocent person to death, that's murder.

As long as each individual is facing the television tube alone, formal freedom poses no threat to privilege

It's not the normal way to look at things but I experienced death at a really young age and because of that it's been part of my mental landscape that death is really very possible.

Water, earth, air, fire, and the other parts of this structure of mine are no more instruments of your life than instruments of your death. Why do you fear your last day? It contributes no more to your death than each of the others. The last step does not cause the fatigue, but reveals it. All days travel toward death, the last one reaches it.

I'm used to really struggling and facing a hard time to get things going, until I'm comfortable at all with them.

Celebrate my death for the good times I've had, For the work that I've done and the friends that I've made. Celebrate my death, of whom it could be said, "She was a working class woman, and a red."

To me, when you have people trying to put their best foot forward but facing conflict, that's when stories are the most interesting.