967 private quotes tagged death

“The American people are not just being taxed to death they're being taxed after death. But, no one should have to sell the life's work of a parent or a loved one just to pay the federal government.” — J. D. Hayworth

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“My death will be caused by morphine, which I have deliberately taken with suicidal intent.” — Alex Campbell

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“Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death.” — Michel Aoun

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“The miser, starving his brother's body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice, poor and naked and miserable.” — Theodore Parker

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“I'm not supposed to be able to speak clearly, and decipher what's going on in the media. I'm supposed to be the typical amateur who's 22 and scared to death and can't believe he won the Olympics.” — Carl Lewis

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“And, in a funny way, each death is different and you mourn each death differently and each death brings back the death you mourned earlier and you get into a bit of a pile-up.” — Nigella Lawson

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“We worry about the seemingly ever-increasing number of natural catastrophes. Yet this is mainly a consequence of CNN - we see many more, but the number is roughly constant, and we manage to deal much better with them over time. Globally, the death rate from catastrophes has dropped about fifty-fold over the past century.” — Bjorn Lomborg

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“He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.” — Elias Canetti

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“Nature creates while destroying, and doesn't care whether it creates or destroys as long as life isn't extinguished, as long as death doesn't lose its rights.” — Ivan Turgenev

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“They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide...?” — Adrienne Rich

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“A Shakespearean tragedy as so far considered may be called a story of exceptional calamity leading to the death of a man in high estate. But it is clearly much more than this, and we have now to regard it from another side.” — Andrew Coyle Bradley

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“People need jobs, people need happy and successful lives there should be marriage between one man and one woman, there should the value of person from conception until natural death.” — Alveda King

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“When the courts decide that murderers, rapists, and others who maliciously break our social contract deserve health care that most working Americans can't afford, they are condemning good people to death.” — Tammy Bruce

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“It comes with faith, for with complete faith there is no fear of what faces you in life or death.” — Jacqueline Cochran

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“When I was younger, I wasn't concentrating on good days. I was managing a career and trying to have a good year. It would always 'lead' to something, which never leads to anything except death, where everything leads to. And then as I got older, and then I had my kids and everything, I began to appreciate a great Wednesday.” — Albert Brooks

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“I've accentuated the look over the years. As a comic, you try something and if it works you go with it and grind it to death.” — Alexei Sayle

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“Instead of joyfully looking forward to my birth, my mother began systematically preparing for her own death. She was fatalistic.” — Lorna Luft

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“The writer crafts their ideal world. In my world, everyone has really long conversations or just picks apart pop culture to death and everyone talks in monologue.” — Kevin Smith

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“Cause at the end of the day, honestly, at the end of the day when you're in your death bed and that's it, I think it's the relationships you've had and the people that you've touched and the people that have touched you that matter.” — Julie Benz

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“I think to have the skill set and the ability to physically help others in matters of life and death must be incredibly empowering.” — Karlie Kloss

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“When we play 'Angel of Death', it's actually a 2 and half minutes sing 'til our party starts. That song is pretty much been played traditionally in the end.” — Kerry King

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“There are some people who walk into a room and they oxygenate it, by their very being there's fresh air. Then there are those who come in with the smell of death and they suck the life out.” — Peter Mullan

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“Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death.” — Angela Carter

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“Washington, not Jefferson, freed his slaves upon his death.” — Stephen Ambrose

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“You should celebrate the end of a love affair as they celebrate death in New Orleans, with songs, laughter, dancing and a lot of wine.” — Francoise Sagan

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