Obviously, the death of Usama Bin Laden marked a strategic milestone in our effort to defeat al-Qa'ida. Unfortunately, Bin Laden's death, and… — John O. Brennan Copy Share Image
If you're smart enough you realise that your possessions possess you in their turn. Collecting has a neurotic aspect. I find it… — Thomas Koerfer Copy Share Image
If I had the opportunity, I would make the proposal that no man should be killed except by somebody who knows him… — Alexei Panshin Copy Share Image
Human life is fragile: we live in the space between one breath and the next. We often try to maintain an illusion… — Victoria Finlay Copy Share Image
“Death was terribly durable. It was the sturdiest idea around. A body was dead, and before long it wasn't even a body… — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
The eighteen years he has lived seem but a moment, a breathing space in the long march of humanity. Already he hears… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
“Athenaeum, or Jonathan Edwards at thirteen entering Yale College, and while yet of a tender age shining in the horizon of American… — Charles Stewart Given Copy Share Image
They are the ones who need to get over it so maybe you will give it all but they gave nothing to… — TheShadowOfhell Copy Share Image
Everything I give, pretty much, is public. Not every donor wants to - or is willing to get the kind of abuse… — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
“I've decided it's not about me at all. It's a protective mechanism for them, a way of buffering themselves against my future… — Sara Gruen Copy Share Image
“Your father was no longer a young man. he was already in his fifties.' Fifty-six,' Eddie said blankly. Fifty-six,' the old woman… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
“Go figure, that happened to be his same style of flirtation as well—annoy her half to death until, before she could stop… — Katherine McIntyre Copy Share Image
“It is one of the most remarkable things that in all of the biological sciences there is no clue as to the… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
“She leaves my side and heads deeper into the apartment singing, “—if the spirit tries to hide, its temple far away… a… — Nathan Reese Maher Copy Share Image
“I recognized my work for what it was--as unimportant a drug as cigarettes to get one through the weeks and years. If… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“You know that feeling when you tip your chair too far and begin to fall backward? The sensation was something like that,… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“The life of the body is sustained by the breath which inhaled the dry vapors kindred fire. At night, when the sun… — G.T.W. Patrick Copy Share Image
Can you see the deaths, divorces, job losses or changes, disappointments, surprises, and successes on people's faces? Have they been happy, sad,… — Tina Barney Copy Share Image
for my grief's so great That no supporter but the huge firm earth Can hold it up: here I and sorrows sit;… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
One has children in the expectation of dying before them. In fact, you want to make damn sure you die before them,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Having lost his mother, father, brother, an grandfather, the friends and foes of his youth, his beloved teacher Bernard Kornblum, his city,… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
Calculating people are contemptable. The reason for this is that calculation deals with loss and gain, and the loss and gain mind… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo Copy Share Image
“There are a few who envy me. They want to know what they have to do to get my job, to be… — Joseph Scott Morgan Copy Share Image
“If I had my life to live over again, I would form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death.… — Muriel Spark Copy Share Image
I think on death as the apparent end of the illusions that encompass us. They all have a sudden and unexpected end,… — Vachel Lindsay Copy Share Image
“(Logically–for what had a more gloomy prognosis than life?–every morning one should say to one's friends: 'I grieve for your irrevocable death,'… — J.G. Ballard Copy Share Image
“Holy shadows of the dead, I am not to blame for your cruel and bitter fate, but the accursed rivalry which brought… — Alexander the Great Copy Share Image
“Believing in the possibility of resurrection and eternal life, Christians seek ‘redemption’ through moral behaviour. But moral behaviour does not, in itself,… — Daniel Waterman Copy Share Image
In peace prepare for war, in war prepare for peace. The art of war is of vital importance to the state. It… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
Keep me rather in this cage, and feed me sparingly, if you dare. Anything that brings me closer to illness and the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If I died If I died tonight would you notice? Would you even care? If I died tonight would you find it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Your death and my death are mainly of importance to ourselves. The black plumes will be stripped off our hearses within the… — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
I watched my life as if it were happening to someone else. My son died. And I was hurt, but I watched… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Government” itself does no harm, because it is a fictional entity. But the belief in “government” – the notion that some people… — Larken Rose Copy Share Image
I suppose some studio executive would say it's death for a comedy if people aren't all laughing in the same places, but… — Noah Baumbach Copy Share Image
“Anxiety kills relatively few people, but many more would welcome death as an alternative to the paralysis and suffering resulting from anxiety… — David Barlow Copy Share Image
“The nature of nature is simple,” said Victor looking Death in the eye. “Survive. That's it. Just survive. This is neither good… — Allan Hatt Copy Share Image
“He'll have to do without me, Jamie thought, not looking back. And then clearly, as if he'd been told, he knew Grenville… — S.E. Hinton Copy Share Image
You cannot hide from the world. It will find you. It always does. And now it has found me. My split second… — Drew Magary Copy Share Image
“Who has not in his great grief felt a longing to look upon the outward features of the universal Mother; to lie… — H. Rider Haggard Copy Share Image
