Die Quotes

I expected to die. At no time before the trial did I expect to escape with my life. Yet being executed in the gas chamber did not necessarily mean defeat. It could be one more step to bring the community to a higher level of consciousness.

Everybody that's living in this earth is living in a situation. It's not narrow-minded to the point where everybody is serious and nobody has a personality. I think people die telling jokes.

Nonfiction is never going to die.

Live and die in Aristotle's works.

I don't believe in happy endings, but I do believe in happy travels, because ultimately, you die at a very young age, or you live long enough to watch your friends die. It's a mean thing, life.

The offers I get are for grandfathers, uncles - and they often die very quickly in the script.

I will say that Rick will probably die before the end of the book. I'll go ahead and put that in print. Nobody's safe. I've almost killed him three times already.

Why did we go to war? Why did we pick people from South Carolina, California, and all the places in between to go to a foreign land and risk their lives and have some die? To make sure that Saddam Hussein could do no more damage to the region or us than he has already done.

The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool.

It's like obituaries, when you die they finally give you good reviews.

The Christian faith can never be separated from the soil of sacred events, from the choice made by God, who wanted to speak to us, to become man, to die and rise again, in a particular place and at a particular time.

I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.

They sin who tell us Love can die: with Life all other passions fly, all others are but vanity.

I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American.

I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.

Men are mad most of their lives; few live sane, fewer die so. The acts of people are baffling unless we realize that their wits are disordered. Man is driven to justice by his lunacy.

I submit to you that if a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: What does happen is that the opponents gradually die out.

Yet would we die as some have done, beating a way for the rising sun.

Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

I can die when I wish to: that is my elixir of life.

The best of men cannot suspend their fate: The good die early, and the bad die late.

I support exemptions from the estate tax to ensure that when Maine farm owners die, their families will be able to continue to farm the land that they have protected and lived on, often for generations.

The English approach to ideas is not to kill them, but to let them die of neglect.

I think you're working and learning until you die.

It seems sensible to me that we should look to the medical profession, that over the centuries has helped us to live longer and healthier lives, to help us die peacefully among our loved ones in our own home without a long stay in God's waiting room.

People can tell you what to do, but ultimately, we're all going to die, so how do you want to live?

I'm the one that has to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to.

Retiring is getting ready to die.

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.