There is nothing worse than a politician that gets defensive and starts attacking the media - and it always looks bad for the politician, because you sign up for this. You live by the sword, you die by the sword.
Let me die because I do not want to see the sun again.
Normally, if someone's legacy will outlast their life, it's apparent when they die. On the day when Alexander the Great, or Caesar Augustus, or Napoleon, or Socrates, or Muhammad died, their reputations were immense. When Jesus died, his tiny, failed movement appeared clearly at an end.
A great lie is like a great fish on dry land; it may fret and fling and make a frightful bother, but it cannot hurt you. You have only to keep still, and it will die of itself.
I don't die in anything!
Every time you win, you're reborn; when you lose, you die a little.
Men die but an idea does not.
My mama always used to tell me: 'If you can't find somethin' to live for, you best find somethin' to die for.'
You must realize that one day you will die. Until then you are worthless.
Until the day I die, or until the day I can't think anymore, I want to be involved in the issues that I care about.
Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.
All of us are trying to achieve 100 percent in our work. That's all we struggle to do. We never do, but we never stop trying until the day we die. It's that struggle to achieve 100 percent, that's where our performance lies, that's what the audience gets. They get the struggle.
Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death has no dominion over them; they live, and their influence lives forever.
The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death.
I'm in this for the long haul, I want to be doing this until I die. I am a standup comedian. I know a lot of people say I'm not, but I am.
There's a thing I think children realise at a certain age, which is that if their parents say, 'Don't do it', and they go ahead and do it, they're still not going to die. And I think that's what it is: that no matter what you do, you're not going to die.
Films are not the sole area in my life. Films are a passion. But it's not like I'll die if I don't get another movie. I'll grow, I'll flourish, I'll learn something new, but I'll always do something that I like. If I get the right film, I'll do it. I will not compromise for anything else.
As a child, I didn't know what they mean by 'to die.' So I grew up in a place where people used to die all the time, but a child is not allowed to see a dead body. When you ask, 'Where is so-and so?' you're told, 'He's gone to another world where we all go to live in the future.'
Study as if you were going to live forever; live as if you were going to die tomorrow.
If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?
There's something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now.
When I eat cilantro, it's like someone sprayed perfume down my throat. It closes up my throat, even if there's only a little piece. I like Mexican food, and I'll go out to a Mexican restaurant and tell them, 'Look, I will die if you get cilantro in my food.' Then there's always that one little piece that falls in, and I gag.
Write as if you were dying. At the same time, assume you write for an audience consisting solely of terminal patients. That is, after all, the case. What would you begin writing if you knew you would die soon? What could you say to a dying person that would not enrage by its triviality?
I don't want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go.
A dinner invitation, once accepted, is a sacred obligation. If you die before the dinner takes place, your executor must attend.
I'm going to die one day. I know it's coming for me, too. I'll be a mountain, I'll be a stone on the beach. I'll be nourishment.
Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
Only the young die good.
Colonel, I do not care to die, but I pray to God I may never leave this field.
I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.
As young West Point cadets, our motto was 'duty, honor, country.' But it was in the field, from the rice paddies of Southeast Asia to the sands of the Middle East, that I learned that motto's fullest meaning. There I saw gallant young Americans of every race, creed and background fight, and sometimes die, for 'duty, honor, and their country.'
Romeo Must Die was the first film that I did where I was able to just be free as an actor.
We only have so much life left. Before I do die, I want to do something good for people.
If you don't have liberty and self-determination, you've got nothing, that's what this is what this country is built on. And this is the ultimate self-determination, when you determine how and when you're going to die when you're suffering.
You either create something and you keep it a secret and you die with it, or you can benefit the craft.
Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
