Top 1200 Preparing For Death Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

You have to do a show as honestly as you can. But you also can't afford skepticism, because it's preparing for failure, which is useless.

It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.

"Gospel preachers nowadays preach the gospel of the Crucifixion, the Apostles preached the gospel of the Resurrection as well. The Crucifixion loses its meaning without the Resurrection. Without the Resurrection the death of Christ was only the heroic death of a noble martyr; with the Resurrection it is the atoning death the Son of God. It shows that death to be of sufficient value to cover our sins, for it was the sacrifice of the Son of God."

Right now I am preparing for another art exhibit in November in Palm Desert.

For years, I have been stalked by a bad reputation. Actually, I have been pursued by people who have regarded me as the 'Death and Dying' Lady. They believe that having spent more than three decades in research into death and life after death qualifies me as an expert on the subject. I think they miss the point.

There is always the risk of being over-confident when you are preparing to face a weaker player.

What was God doing before the divine creation? Was he preparing hell for people who asked such questions?

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

I liken myself to someone who built the house he will live in one day and is preparing to furnish it.

People are living a lot longer these days and not preparing for it. I'm in the gym and, you know, using my voice.

The Englishman is too apt to neglect the present good in preparing against the possible evil.

The dignity to be sought in death is the appreciation by others of what one has been in life,... that proceeds from a life well lived and from the acceptance of one's own death as a necessary process of nature.... It is also the recognition that the real event taking place at the end of our life is our death, not the attempts to prevent it.

Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy.

I think I write mostly about death and so it is interesting to hear how often people think I'm writing about pregnancy and birth. Though of course they are two sides of the same coin. Both when I was pregnant and now as a mother, I am consumed with thoughts of death. This is a strange role in parenting. The death guardian.

For a single woman, preparing for company means wiping the lipstick off the milk carton.

In western culture, we have ignored death. We're running the other way - everything is about life and youth. So, there's something resonant about walking around with our own death masks. Zombies are the visible embodiment of death staring at us with our own faces.

I'm an expert cook when it comes to preparing the quail, ducks, geese and wild turkeys that I hunt on the farm.

Every single thing that has ever happened in your life is preparing you for a moment that is yet to come.

The task of evangelism often involves preparing an open road so offenders can find their refuge in Christ.

And just as love has two sides, so too does Death. While Ismae will serve as His mercy, I will not, for that is not how He fashioned me. Every death I have witnessed, every horror I have endured, has forged me to be who I am -- Death's justice.

Sometimes when you lose you win, son. Failure is just life's way of preparing you for success.

Landale's language burns away the mists of the past, preparing a place of welcome for our ghosts.

Payable On Death is actually a banking term, when someone passes on, what someone leaves behind. We related that to Jesus on the cross, and by his death, our sins are paid, the debt is paid. We have salvation if we want it. We got tired of saying Payable On Death, so we went to P.O.D.

Our schools are not geared toward building, preparing kids for the modern economy.

My perspective on life is now to try to play music that reflects that life and death are part of the same coin. And to know about life, we must really examine the function - like death. Life tells you a lot about what death is, not what people say it is.

You are responsible for your own career, if you ain't preparing right, you are not going to get picked.

When I was in Class XI, I started preparing for medical college, and after that, the Miss India pageant.

Human stories are practically always about one thing, really, aren't they? Death. The inevitability of death. . . . . . (quoting an obituary) 'There is no such thing as a natural death. Nothing that ever happens to man is natural, since his presence calls the whole world into question. All men must die, but for every man his death is an accident, and even if he knows it he would sense to it an unjustifiable violation.' Well, you may agree with the words or not, but those are the key spring of The Lord Of The Rings

Death is a large form of entertainment, probably the largest. Watching death in different ways is entertaining for us, whether it's a high-speed chase and a guy grabs a helicopter and flies away. We know the reality of it is that he wouldn't be physically able to hold onto that helicopter and fall to his death. But it's entertaining to watch.

When you watch chess, you don't see the four hours that the player spends preparing for a match ahead of time.

I think we live in slavery to fear. Most people don't have an answer to the death question and really don't even have a philosophy. That is a puzzle to me. I think even if I was not a Christian, I would want to at least have a personal solution to the death question. Otherwise, death is just a frightening thing.

Once you have an opponent in your mind that you're preparing for, you're working on specifics, and you get guys in to mimic what they do.

We can help the work of justice by preparing for a marathon, not a sprint. A long obedience in the same direction

To be a consistent winner means preparing not just one day, one month or even one year - but for a lifetime.

By the time a meal I'm preparing rolls around, I'm usually so full from tasting that I'm not hungry any more.

Our responsibility is not simply shielding those we care for from adversity but preparing them to meet it well.

Some honorable men spend their whole life preparing for a supreme act of treachery

There are plenty of politically motivated pretenders out there preparing to punk you, and you better be on your toes.

Death is not the end Death can never be the end. Death is the road. Life is the traveller. The Soul is the Guide ... Our mind thinks of death. Our heart thinks of life Our soul thinks of Immortality

You do not play then at whist, sir? Alas, what a sad old age you are preparing for yourself!

Suicide is not to fear death, but yet to be afraid of life. It is a brave act of valour to contemn death; but when life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valour to dare to live; and herein religion hath taught us a noble example, for all the valiant acts of Curtius, Scarvola, or Codrus, do not parallel or match that one of Job.

I actually haven't even found a curriculum in America that is really preparing people for this 21st century world.

Every man at time of Death, Would fain set forth some saying that may live After his death and better humankind; For death gives life's last word a power to live, And, lie the stone-cut epitaph, remain After the vanished voice, and speak to men.

Machismo makes no provision for preparing lunch, doing the laundry, or minding the baby.

I think I grew up with the idea that there was something comforting about preparing food.

I will keep faith with death in my heart... For the sake of goodness, for the sake of love, Let no man's heart be ruled by death... The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life; to regard it, with the understanding and the .emotions, as the inviolable condition of life.

You spend more of the game preparing to win in the final seconds. And that is what separates winners from losers.

In the midst of an ordinary training day, I try to remind myself that I am preparing for the extraordinary.

Many people have played themselves to death. Many people have eaten and drunk themselves to death. Nobody ever thought himself to death.

In the face of death, especially violent death, things don't make sense anymore. So death is the dissolution of either physical form or psychological form. And when a form dissolves, always something shines through that had been obscured by the form. This is the formless One Life, the formless One Consciousness.

Many a life has been injured by the constant expectation of death. It is life we have to do with, not death. The best preparation for the night is to work diligently while the day lasts. The best preparation for death is life.

When you're preparing for a game, you prepare like you're starting. But if you're not, if you're coming off the bench, everybody has a role.

Parents who press their children to succeed do so in hopes of preparing them for an adulthood of high achievement.

I am recording my first CD in Spanish and preparing myself for the next stage of my career.

I love Death because he breaks the human pattern and frees us from pleasures too prolonged as well as from the pains of this world. It is pleasant, too, to remember that Death lies in our hands; he must come if we call him. ... I think if there were no death, life would be more than flesh and blood could bear.

Our education system is not preparing young people for the world they will face.

Although the time of death is approaching me, I am not afraid of dying and going to Hell or (what would be considerably worse) going to the popularized version of Heaven. I expect death to be nothingness and, for removing me from all possible fears of death, I am thankful to atheism.

A man who thinks that death is against life can never be non-violent. It is impossible. A man who thinks that death is the enemy can never be at ease, at home. That is impossible. How can you be at ease when the enemy is waiting for you any moment? It will jump on you and destroy you. How can you be non-tense when death is waiting just around the corner and the shadow of death is always falling on you? It can happen any moment. How can you rest when death is there? How can you relax? The enemy won't allow you to relax.

Doras II was a somewhat absentminded king, It is said, when Death came to summon him, Doras granted Death the usual formal audience and then dismissed him from his presence. Death was too embarrassed to return until many years later- Ka'a Orto'o, Gnomic Utterances

Many people use the words 'death defying' or 'death wishing' when they talk about wire-walking. Many people have asked me: 'So do you have a death wish?' After doing a beautiful walk, I feel like punching them in the nose. It's indecent. I have a life wish.