At the time when I was in college, Oscar Grant had just lost his life in Oakland, Calif. He was an unarmed… — Angie Thomas Copy Share Image
When there's an emergency weather situation, the local broadcaster is the source of information that often makes the difference between life and… — Gordon Smith Copy Share Image
“Always too eager for the future, we Pick up bad habits of expectancy. Something is always approaching; every day Till then we… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
Sometimes societies die and putrefy long before they are pronounced dead, and sometimes men die of corruption long before they have taken… — Robert Payne Copy Share Image
The biblical lifestyle is always a witness of resistance to the status quo in politics, economics, and all society. It is a… — William Stringfellow Copy Share Image
There's a fine edge to new grief, it severs nerves, disconnects reality--there's mercy in a sharp blade. Only with time, as the… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
“It was a year for the ages, like 79, like 1346, to name just a few. Forget the scythe, Goddamn it, I… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
“First, Lord: No tattoos. May neither Chinese symbol for truth nor Winnie-the-Pooh holding the FSU logo stain her tender haunches. May she… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
What the US does is the kind of thing I described in Italy in 1948. Case after case like that, not hacking… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“You don't even have a cross," he said. His beloved was silent. "You don't even have any candles, no face of Christ,… — John Hawkes Copy Share Image
It is not without reason that fame is awarded only after death. The cloud-dust of notoriety which follows and envelops the men… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
She wasn't even a year old yet, and she died. she died right in my arms. imagine that, your whole world just… — Patience Copy Share Image
“For a moment they still lived and I experienced their deaths as a fresh loss with each waking, so that I was… — John Connolly Copy Share Image
“But you've never wanted that. You wanted a mirror. People want nothing but mirrors around them. To reflect them while they're reflecting… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Surgeons are a singular brotherhood, Adam. To us, people aren't sacred beings crafted in the Almighty's image, no, people are joints of… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Most High, all powerful, good Lord, Yours are the praises, the glory, the honor, and all blessing. To You alone, Most High,… — Saint Francis of Assisi Copy Share Image
If you will not have death unto sin, you shall have sin unto death. There is no alternative. If you do not… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“I do believe in hell as a state of being or consciousness, and I believe that people can dwell in hell and… — Carlton D. Pearson Copy Share Image
Philosophy has often attempted to repress insolence by asserting that all conditions are leveled by death; a position which, however it may… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I would like to live. . . open to time and death painlessly, noticing everything, remembering nothing, choosing the given with a… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“When you realize you've evolved from the mentored to the Mentor it gives much more to the meaning and lessons learned in… — Donavan Nelson Butler, Master Sergeant US Army Copy Share Image
“Where there is life, George, there is hope. Death is so terribly final. It will come soon enough to us all. I… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Even one day lost in misery is a great loss, for the day will never come back again. You lose 24 hours… — RVM Copy Share Image
To most mortals there is a stupidity which is unendurable and a stupidity which is altogether acceptable - else, indeed, what would… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
If Under fell, if Over leaped, If death was life and Death life reaped, Something rises from the gloom, To make the… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Bushido is realized in the presence of death. This means choosing death whenever there is a choice between life and death. There… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo Copy Share Image
“He who mocks the infant's faith Shall be mock'd in age and death. He who shall teach the child to doubt The… — William Blake Copy Share Image
“To kill for murder is an immeasurably greater evil than the crime itself. Murder by legal process is immeasurably more dreadful than… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“All men fear death. It’s a natural fear that consumes us all. We fear death because we feel that we haven’t loved… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
“Like the old knights, always in warfare, not always on their steeds dashing forward with their lances in rest to unhorse an… — John F. MacArthur Jr Copy Share Image
We've enshrined the purity, sanctity, value, and importance of bringing children into the world, yet we don't discuss death. There used to… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
“. I need a battlefield Jesus at my side down here in the dangerous, often messy trenches of daily life. I need… — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share Image
“As Amycus spun around, Harry shouted, “ Crucio! ” The Death Eater was lifted off his feet. He writhed through the air… — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image
“You are my world, my everything You stupid girl, you're gonna be the death of me So let me go, just let… — Framing Hanley Copy Share Image
I have a very hard time with this word 'non-violence,' because I don't believe that I am non-violent. ... Right now, I… — Betty Williams Copy Share Image
“It's not the victim who wakes up to a half-empty bed, a half-empty house.He isn't the one who dreams that he's stiilla… — John Verdon Copy Share Image
Sibling relationships - and 80 percent of Americans have at least one - outlast marriages, survive the death of parents, resurface after… — Erica E Goode Copy Share Image
Here is The Boy with the Thorn in His Side, dying in your world. A man made monster with every human emotion,… — Pete Wentz Copy Share Image
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