Dead Quotes
6667 Dead quotes by 3504 unique authors
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A veterinarian who naively gave PETA some of the animals, thinking they would find them homes, and examined the dead bodies of others, testified that…
— Nathan Winograd
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You don't accomplish much by swimming with the mainstream. Hell, a dead fish can do that.
— Kinky Friedman
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Life on a lifeboat isn't much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with a few pieces. The elements…
— Yann Martel
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There is One great society alone on earth: The noble living and the noble dead.
— William Wordsworth
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The dead they sleep a long, long sleep; The dead they rest, and their rest is deep; The dead have peace, but the living weep.
— Samuel Hoffenstein
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In Colma, a suburb of San Francisco, California there's a proposal pending to tax . . . the dead. If proponents get their way, grave…
— Rush Limbaugh
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Our Creator has put in us hungers that this earth can- not satisfy. We cannot be completely self-contained on earth. Physical sense cannot give us…
— Ralph Washington Sockman
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Man and the animals are merely a passage and channel for food, a tomb for other animals, a haven for the dead, giving life by…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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Sycamore trees were held to be sacred in ancient Egypt and are the first trees represented in ancient art. The sycamore, also, was sacred. Peasants…
— Larry Gates
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Safe from temptation, safe from sin's pollution, She lives whom we call dead.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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I trade both with the living and the dead, for the enrichment of our native language.
— John Dryden
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You can walk as carefully as you want through a mine field; it is still a mine field. But it's also true that if you…
— Dave Sim
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He who anticipates his century is generally persecuted when living, and always pilfered when dead.
— Benjamin Disraeli
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It is better to fall among crows than flatterers; for those devour only the dead - these the living.
— Antisthenes
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PHONOGRAPH, n. An irritating toy that restores life to dead noises.
— Ambrose Bierce
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My days among the dead are passed; Around me I behold, Where'er these casual eyes are cast, The mighty minds of old; My never-failing friends…
— Robert Southey
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The important point is that the cost of adding a feature isn't just the time it takes to code it. The cost also includes the…
— John Carmack
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The day nothing turns you on - you're dead. No matter how many more years you go on breathing.
— Malcolm Forbes
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But the tender grace of a day that is dead Will never come back to me.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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There was a man that hated his footprints and his shadow, so one day he thought that if he ran fast enough, his footprints and…
— Benjamin Hoff
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These, in the day when heaven was falling, The hour when earth's foundations fled, Followed their mercenary calling And took their wages and are dead.…
— A. E. Housman
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We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate…
— Socrates
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But then you become closed. Then you start dying as far as your intelligence is concerned because intelligence needs the open sky, the wind, the…
— Rajneesh
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An inflated consciousness is always egocentric and conscious of nothing but its own existence. It is incapable of learning from the past, incapable of understanding…
— Carl Jung
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The woods of Arcady are dead, And over is their antique joy; Of old the world on dreaming fed Gray Truth is now her painted…
— William Butler Yeats
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