Dead Quotes

6667 Dead quotes by 3504 unique authors

With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children, England mourns for her dead across the sea. — Laurence Binyon
With me, it's so eclectic and all over the map that no one knows what to expect, ... It may not be a great career… — Joan Osborne
Patriotism! It is used to define so many diversities, to justify so many wrongs, to compass so many ends, that its life is killed out;… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin
The weekend break had begun with the usual resentment and had continued with half-repressed ill humour. It was, of course, his fault. He had been… — P.D. James
The worst enslaving trait of all is greed. I rail against the substitution of money for worth. The idea that the endless accumulation of dead… — Gerry Spence
When a people, having become free, establish wise laws, their revolution is complete... Peace and prosperity, public virtue, victory, everything is in the vigor of… — Louis Antoine de Saint-Just
I am anxious to give away information, for it is only by giving it away that you can keep it. When you have told it,… — Robert Green Ingersoll
There are two victims in every abortion: a dead baby and a dead conscience. — Mother Teresa
Our job is to bring the dead facts to life. — William Bernbach
There's a wonderful saying that's dead wrong. 'Why did you climb the mountain?' 'I climbed the mountain because it was there.' That's utter nonsense...You climbed… — Larry Ellison
Privacy is dead, and social media holds the smoking gun. — Pete Cashmore
Lord Tyrawley and I have been dead these two years, but we don't choose to have it known. — Lord Chesterfield
Were it not for music, we might in these days say, the Beautiful is dead. — Benjamin Disraeli
The decision to rely heavily on high-altitude air power, target urban infrastructure and repeatedly attack heavily populated towns and villages has reflected a deliberate trade-off… — Unknown Author
Neither privacy nor publicity is dead, but technology will continue to make a mess of both. — danah boyd
To expect a personality to survive the disintegration of the brain is like expecting a cricket club to survive when all of its members are… — Bertrand Russell
The face of the angel of history is turned toward the past. Where we perceived a chain of events, he sees a single catastrophe which… — Walter Benjamin
History not used is nothing, for all intellectual life is action, like practical life, and if you don't use the stuff - well, it might… — Arnold J. Toynbee
To put it crudely but graphically, the monkey who did not have a realistic perception of the tree branch he jumped for was soon a… — George Gaylord Simpson
Being alive is about playing to win. Being brain dead is when you play not to loose. — Richard Saunders
No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or… — Van Wyck Brooks
I'm dead annoyed that I'm finding it so difficult to stop. But I am getting there [on kicking smoking habit] — Kerry Katona
If you fall from here, if you're not dead you're gonna wish you were. — Joe Teti
Growing up, I thought my grandfather was dead. Later, I learned he was alive, but my family pretended he didn't exist because of the terrible… — Deborah Pryce
When we renounce our dreams, we find peace and enjoy a brief period of tranquillity, but the dead dreams begin to rot inside us and… — Paulo Coelho

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