"Not very good with death? Father was a……" — Alan Bradley
"Not very good with death? Father was a military man, and military men lived with death; lived for death; lived on death. To a professional soldier, oddly enough, death was life."
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28 Quotes by Alan Bradley
Alan Bradley has 28 quotes on this site.
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Although it is pleasant to think about poison at any season, there is something special about Christmas, and I found…
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I'm at that age where I watch such things with two minds, one that cackles at these capers and another…
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Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.
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It is not unknown for fathers with a brace of daughters to reel off their names in order of birth…
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I am often thought of as being remarkably bright, and yet my brains, more often than not, are busily devising…
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If you remember nothing else, remember this: Inspiration from outside one's self is like the heat in an oven. It…
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Whenever I'm out-of-doors and find myself wanting to have a first-rate think, I fling myself down on my back, throw…
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To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.
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Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.
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What intrigued me more than anything else was finding out the way in which everything, all of creation - all…
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I was learning that among friends, a smile can be better than a belly laugh.
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If poisons were ponies, I'd put my money on cyanide.
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More Death Quotes
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In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
— Hannah Arendt
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As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we…
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
— Aristotle
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To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death,…
— Aristotle
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I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating…
— Giorgio Armani
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I think when you're 10 years old, it's too much to see something with the threat of death in every…
— J. J. Abrams
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Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a…
— Karen Armstrong
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Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom -…
— Matthew Arnold
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
— Matthew Arnold
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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
— Isaac Asimov
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Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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