Top 1200 Preparing For Death Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

In Porto, when we were preparing, the players guessed the team that was going to play.

I do a pretty good job preparing myself. That's something I take pride in.

The biblical lifestyle is always a witness of resistance to the status quo in politics, economics, and all society. It is a witness of resurrection from death. Paradoxically, those who embark on the biblical witness constantly risk death - through execution, exile, imprisonment, persecution, defamation, or harassment - at the behest of the rulers of this age. Yet those who do not resist the rulers of the present darkness are consigned to a moral death, the death of their humanness. That, of all the ways of dying, is the most ignominious.

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

Preparing mentally takes more out of you than the physical aspect of it.

It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.

Failure seems to be nature's plan for preparing us for great responsibilities.

What do you mean I have a predetermined death?” – Nick “Did I stutter?” – Death “No.” – Nick “Do I look like Webster’s?” – Death “No.” – Nick “Then you should understand what I said, since I didn’t speak in code. Every mortal creature is born with an expiration date. Some immortals, too. Set by the big clockmaker. But excessive stupidity and moronic tendencies can shorten it. Pissing me off is one really good way to cut yours down to three seconds from now.” – Death

I'm preparing to be a mother one day and I really wanted to get inside the mind of a mom.

In all actuality, we got to do better about preparing our men for their interactions with women.

There's nothing to mourn about death any more than there is to mourn about the growing of a flower. What is terrible is not death but the lives people live or don't live up until their death.

In Spain, however, people have found a way of cheating death. They summon it to appear in the afternoon in the bull ring, and they make it face a man. Death - a fighting bull with horns as weapons - is killed by a bullfighter. And the people are there watching death being cheated of its right.

But, who is Death? A figure that harrows and wastes wherever and however it pleases. This is also a possible description of the Countess Bathory. Never did anyone wish so hard not to grow old; I mean, to die. That is why, perhaps, she acted and played the role of Death. Because, how can Death possibly die?

With science fiction I think we are preparing ourselves for contact with them, whoever they may be.

My process of preparing for any type of psychic work is to meditate and pray the rosary.

The one true freedom in life is to come to terms with death, and as early as possible, for death is an event that embraces all our lives. And the only way to have a good death is to lead a good life. The more we do God's will, the less unfinished business we leave behind when we die.

I think when you think of death as being part of the life cycle and recognize that death is an inevitability for our species because the world has to be renewed with each death, then the hope becomes when it is renewed it will be renewed by people on whom I have had some influence for good.

What I've realised is that I'm happiest when I'm at work, as I am always preparing myself for when the opportunity arises.

Tom Cotton voted against preparing America for pandemics like Ebola.

Ageing destroys youth, sickness destroys health, degeneration of life destroys all excellent qualities and death destroys life. Even if you are a great runner, you cannot run away from death. you cannot stop death with your wealth, through your magic performances or recitation of mantras or even medicines. Therefore, it is wise to prepare for your death.

AFFLICTION, n. An acclimatizing process preparing the soul for another and bitter world.

It took me a while to realize that's just your body preparing you to do something.

Death during adolescence feels unfair. We're young. We're invincible. Death is supposed to come with old age. When death breaks into our lives and steals our innocence, its finality leaves us unnaturally older. There are too many elderly young people.

It was autumn, the springtime of death. Rain spattered the rotting leaves, and a wild wind wailed. Death was singing in the shower. Death was happy to be alive. The fetus bailed out without a parachute. It landed in the sideline Astroturf, so upsetting the cheerleaders that for the remained of the afternoon their rahs were more like squeaks.

Death is more certain than the morrow, than night following day, than winter following summer. Why is it then that we prepare for the night and for the winter time, but do not prepare for death. We must prepare for death. But there is only one way to prepare for death - and that is to live well.

The absolute bottom line in coaching is organization and preparing for practice.

Change only favours minds that are diligently looking and preparing for discovery.

If you die to everything you know,including your family,yourmemory,everything you have felt,then death is a purification,a rejuvenating process;then death brings innocence and it is only the innocent who are passionate, not the people who believe or who want to find out what happens after death.

Of death, my father has always said that the best conditions are the ones in which you have plenty of time to prepare - to say what you need to say; to arrange your estate - and the ones in which you get to choose, or at least have some knowledge of, how and when it might happen. One can't elude death, but one can have a good death.

In Winter the bare boughs that seem to sleep Work covertly, preparing for their Spring.

We should think more about it, and accustom ourselves to the thought of death. We can't allow the fear of death to creep up on us unexpectedly. We have to make the fear familiar, and one way is to write about it. I don't think writing and thinking about death is characteristic only of old men. I think that if people began thinking about death sooner, they'd make fewer foolish mistakes.

. . . planning a brilliant menu and preparing it beautifully doesn't guarantee a recipe for success.

The world somehow is always the same. The only thing that can improve is the individual life. One can live a good life. One can give life a meaning. Either by drinking oneself to death or by painting oneself to death or by loving oneself to death.

You're better off not preparing, because what you prepare will always be wrong.

When I'm not preparing for a fight, I like to chill, go to the cinema and socialise with my mates.

To work for delight and authentic festivity is barely distinguishable from preparing for a general insurrection

That's why I'm a big supporter of the death penalty. I want to be the hangman. I would put many more people to death like the kids who want to kill other people, I'd put 'em to death.

It is hard to have patience with people who say 'There is no death' or 'Death doesn't matter.' There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

It's difficult to just let go of a character. Especially after you've been preparing and researching for weeks.

A man is born gentle and weak. At death, he is hard and stiff. Green plants are tender and filled with sap. At death, they are withered and dry. Therefore, the stiff and unbending is the disciple of death, and the gentle and yielding is the disciple of life.

The events and prophecies of our time are preparing us for the Savior's Second Coming.

Glorious is the tumult of the waves that crash against a vessel, preparing it for the seas of life.

GRAPESHOT, n. An argument which the future is preparing in answer to the demands of American Socialism.

If I'm not working, I'm either sleeping or preparing for the next day of work.

I don't feel anything right now. I am just preparing, that's it.

The presence of death annihilates all superstitions. We are the children of death, and it is death that rescues us from the deceptions of life. In the midst of life he calls us and summons us to him.

Fashion is like a party. Getting dressed is preparing to play a role.

Animals learn death first at the moment of death;...man approaches death with the knowledge it is closer every hour, and this creates a feeling of uncertainty over his life, even for him who forgets in the business of life that annihilation is awaiting him. It is for this reason chiefly that we have philosophy and religion.

I don't want to bother them and ruin the party they are preparing so carefully at La Scala.

The Bible identifies 15 crimes against the family worthy of the death penalty. Abortion is treason against the family and deserves the death penalty. Adultery is treason to the family; adulterers should be put to death. Homosexuality is treason to the family, and it too, is worthy of death.

Slowly and steadily I'm preparing myself for Bollywood and I can't wait till I get an opportunity.

But we are not interested in death at all: rather, we escape the facts, we are continuously escaping the facts. Death is there, and every moment we are dying. Death is not something far away, it is here and now: we are dying. But while we are dying we go on being concerned about life. This concern with life, this over concern with life, is just an escape, just a fear. Death is there, deep inside - growing.

Front squats have really helped my quad development, especially when I was preparing for the Ironman.

Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!

Preparing our city to achieve its destiny will require strong leadership.

I don't have a set way of preparing for something. You just have to take it seriously.

I think we've misinterpreted some of the scriptures to justify the death penalty. So whereas a lot of folks in America feel like we can do far better justice? - ?it's more expensive to do the death penalty than the alternatives? - ?there's so many reasons that people come to the conclusion to abolish the death penalty.

At 2, I start preparing fish or chicken for dinner. I don't drive. I don't have hobbies. I have no desire to travel.

I shouldn't have to be preparing my children that the world is going to be unfair to them for the rest of their lives.

We've done a miserable job of preparing people for today's world, let alone tomorrow's.