Top 1200 Those Who Have Died Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

On the plains of hesitation bleach the bones of countless millions who, at the dawn of decision, sat down to wait, and waiting died.

I used to not care if I died, but once I married and had children and became part of a big surfing community, that changed.

He makes those just who are unjust, forgives those who deserve to be punished, and favors those who deserve no favor.

It's a good thing [James] Dean died when he did. If he'd lived, he'd never have been able to live up to the publicity.

If all it took was someone proclaiming I believe Jesus Christ and that he died for my sins, and that was all there was to it, people wouldn't have to keep coming to church, would they.

My tombstone would someday read I died keeled over at my computer writing a screenplay or a business plan.

Electoral politics was always an objective of the Black Panther party, so Barack Obama is a part of what we dreamed and struggled and died for.

Watchfulness is the path of immortality: Unwatchfulness is the path of death. Those who are watchful never die: Those who do not watch are already as dead. Those who with a clear mind have seen this truth, Those who are wise and ever watchful, They feel the joy of watchfulness, The joy of the path of the great. And those who in high thought and in deep contemplation With ever living power advance on the path, They in the end reach NIRVANA, The peace supreme and infinite joy. ~ Buddha

Everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses.

Strange when you come to think of it, that of all countless folk who have lived on this planet, not one is known in history or in legend as having died of laughter.

In 1990 I had a nasty car accident and in 1994 my husband Ron Edgeworth died of motor neurone disease.

I admire vegetarians who refuse to eat nothing but vegetables in their homes, but I also admire those who put aside those principles or those preferences when they travel. Just to be a good guest.

Odd how clear it suddenly became, once a person had died, that the body was the very least of him.

I thought of all that worked dark pits Of war, and died Digging the rock where Death reputes Peace lies indeed.

For all the failures of naval, air and army defense, the men who died at Pearl Harbor and in the Philippines would not die in vain.

Whose is it, do you think?" I say finally. "No telling," says Finnick. "Why don't we let Peeta claim it, since he died today?

Most people are not updated. 50 years ago 1 in 5 children died before age 5, now only 1 in 20!

I really believe that God spared me, and I'm thankful for that. Imagine if I would've died when I was seven, 12 years old.

If citizens followed their leaders' example throughout history, the human race would have died out centuries ago.

To write about the hijab is to step into a minefield. Even among those who share my cultural and faith background, opinions veer from those who despise it as a symbol of backwardness to those for whom religion begins and ends with that piece of cloth.

Unbelievable, George Michael has died at the age of 53. RIP.This dreadful year goes on and on.So sad, a real talent.

There is a green hill far away, Without a city wall, Where the dear Lord was crucified, Who died to save us all.

What a young musician's dream, to say, "Look at those chrome drums. Look at that 22-inch ride cymbal. I'll have those." It was one of those unparalleled exciting days of your life.

Society is indeed a contract. It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.

If those civil rights groups are going into those orphanages and offering to look after those children, then they have every right to make a stink about it. But they're not. They're not offering a solution.

Right after my mother died, my dad and I went into the studio and he recorded a song called 'I Found You Among the Roses.'

Beyonce is very special. I think the super-pop thing that supposedly died with Michael Jackson is still there with her.

Whenever the powers of government are placed in any hands other than those of the community, whether those of one man, of a few, or of several, those principles of human nature which imply that government is at all necessary, imply that those persons will make use of them to defeat the very end for which government exists.

Real novelists, those we admire, those we consider timeless in their language and character and scene, those who receive accolades for inventive language and form, have writing lives we imagine in specific ways.

Young people, for whom I should have been a role model and an uncle, duplicated my worst habits and died as a result.

I was very good friends with Ian Curtis from Joy Division. In fact, I was the last person he spoke with before he died.

Kids are dying from causes of sexual activity. You're not going to find a tombstone stating that Frankie died because he was a virgin.

Most of my relatives are police marksmen, apart from my grandad who was a bank robber. He died recently, surrounded by his family.

Obviously there was Keith Haring and Robert Mapplethorpe, but Howard was on the brink of becoming a famous director - it didn't happen because he died.

God is indeed dead. He died of self-horror when He saw the creature He had made in His own image.

I have to be someone; maybe I'm just doing it for my father. When I made a movie, it had to be a hit because when he died, he was a flop director.

What was Aristotle’s life?’ Well, the answer lay in a single sentence: ‘He was born, he thought, he died.’ And all the rest is pure anecdote.

Never use abstract nouns when concrete ones will do. If you mean “More people died” don’t say “Mortality rose.

It's a good thing we have gravity or else when birds died they'd just stay right up there. Hunters would be all confused.

What should a man do but be merry? For look you how cheerfully my mother looks, and my father died within's two hours.

I believe that cinema died on the 31 September 1983 when the zapper, or the remote control, was introduced into the living rooms of the world.

I don't want some mom whose son may have recently died to see the commander in chief playing golf.

In the '70s, everybody was doing drugs, so long as you showed up and did your work, they'd use you until you died.

As Churchill said about the Great War, and he said this in about 1924, that it was the first war in which man realized that he could obliterate himself completely. If you consider the way the whole world was impacted, 18 million people worldwide died, and that is taking into account military and civilian deaths: 18 million people. And it was the whole world, if you will. You know, many of those trenches were dug by Chinese. There are photographs of Chinese looking like they just came from China, with their hats and so on, digging the trenches, right from the beginning.

It does say something about a society when those who sue physicians and hospitals make as much or more money than those who heal disease. It says something about a society when it glorifies and rewards those who litigate while it demonizes and punishes those who produce the drugs and devices that keep it citizens alive and well.

There are only four kinds of people in the world - those who have been caregivers, those who are caregivers, those who will be caregivers and those who will need caregivers.

Freddie Prinze was my idol, and he died, and there is not much of his stuff to look at. But now, your comedy can live on forever.

Dad was joyful until the day he died, and I think that joy was deeply rooted in his love affair with God.

Too many people struggled, suffered, and died to make it possible for every American to exercise their right to vote.

For those who have made the ultimate sacrifice, we are grateful that such men and women were among us. For those who continue to serve, we honor their commitment. For those who return to civilian life, we honor their service.

I don't have a warm personal enemy left. They've all died off. I miss them terribly because they helped define me.

When I was six years old, my mother died; and then, for the first time, I learned, by the talk around me, that I was a slave.

What's wrong with musicals now is all the gifted men who've died of AIDS-who would otherwise be here today creating great theater.

Bowling really was a big American sport in the '50s, '60s, and '70s, and then it kind of died off in the '80s.

My dad died from pancreatic cancer at 54... I'm making sure I'm eating my vegetables and staying away from the red meat.

When I was a kid, I never went to Disneyland. My ol' man told me Mickey Mouse died in a cancer experiment.

Those who get the most out of life and those who give the most are those who make the choice to act.

When I was doing interviews at the FBI, my tape recorder battery died. They gave me a new one, and I said, 'Of course, this is bugged?'

Peter Van Houten was the only person I’d ever come across who seemed to (a) understand what it’s like to be dying, and (b) not have died.

In them days I just as soon died -- except for my harmonica. It was like a friend who didn't give a damn if I could see or not.