Deaths Quotes
343 Deaths quotes by 289 unique authors
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Fossey, Fossey, you cranky difficult strong-arming self-destructive misanthrope, mediocre scientist, deceiver of earnest college students, probable cause of more deaths of the gorillas than if…
— Robert M. Sapolsky
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I don't think Republicans will be fooled into taking this necessary spending and using it to oppose pro-growth tax cuts, using this tragedy and those…
— Grover Norquist
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The contours of the coming disaster expanded to include the deaths of all present.
— George Saunders
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But man is a Noble Animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing Nativities and Deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting Ceremonies of…
— Thomas Browne
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Deaths have benefits. They can fertilise the ground.
— Mao Zedong
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The following twenty years would be the nadir of American Indian history, as the total Indian population between 1890 and 1910 fell to fewer than…
— Kenneth C. Davis
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After so many deaths I live and write;
— George Herbert
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Remind me: who was the greater mass murderer, Stalin or Hitler? Well, Stalin is thought to have been responsible for about 50 million deaths, and…
— Boris Johnson
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I have a confession to make. Yesterday, I was responsible for the deaths of millions of Britons. What happened is that MI5 asked me to…
— Mark Lawson
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And as to you Death, and you bitter hug of mortality, it is idle to try to alarm me.... And as to you corpse, I…
— Walt Whitman
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The data from the 1990 Harvard Medical Practice Study suggest that 150,000 Americans die every year from doctors' negligence - compared with 38,000 gun deaths…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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Karl Marx was the foremost hater and most incessant whiner in the history of Western Civilization. He was a spoiled, overeducated brat who never grew…
— Gary North
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There could have been more planning in New Orleans, but you look at all the devastation that happened there - have we gotten to 3,000…
— John Hickenlooper
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We soon cease to feel the grief at the deaths of our friends, yet we continue to the end of our lives to miss them.…
— Gerald Brenan
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We know the cause of SIDS. We can and have prevented them. It's all done with a compound called ascorbate. Not to use it means…
— Archie Kalokerinos
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We do not die wholly at our deaths: we have mouldered away gradually long before. Faculty after faculty, interest after interest, attachment after attachment disappear:…
— William Hazlitt
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Children drown, beautiful women are mangled in automobile accidents, cruise ships founder, and men die lingering deaths in mines and submarines, but you will find…
— John Cheever
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There is nothing left for me to do but to go and see General Grant and I would rather die a thousand deaths.
— Robert E. Lee
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The right to kill: supposing the life of X ... were linked with our own so that the two deaths had to be simultaneous, should…
— Simone Weil
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We should all live as if we were never going to die, for it is the deaths of our friends that hurt us, not our…
— Gerald Brenan
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There are few men who know how to go to their deaths with dignity, and often they are not those whom one would expect.
— Primo Levi
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To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is…
— Wendell Berry
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These births and deaths are changes in nature which we are mistaking for changes in us.
— Swami Vivekananda
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Even the rich aren't often happy. Their wealth is at best only a temporary distraction. It doesn't make them immune to emotional and mental suffering,…
— Frederick Lenz
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I think a lot of people think that my parents' deaths is why I write such sad songs, but that's not true. Those songs may…
— Shelby Lynne
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