The last few years have been my happiest. I'm happy in the years that most people are blue and sad and waiting to die. I don't feel that a bit. Smiling has a lot to do with it. You can just lift your spirits by smiling a little bit.
Your life isn't about doing one perfect 'thing' and then falling down dead. It's more like going to church or writing a book. You do it over and over, always trying to be a little bit better. Then you die.
Of those who die from avoidable, poverty-related causes, nearly 10 million, according to UNICEF, are children under five. They die from diseases such as measles, diarrhea, and malaria that are easy and inexpensive to treat or prevent.
We die as often as we lose a friend.
I'd like to see Paris before I die... Philadelphia will do.
The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.
Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not.
Ireland is a great country to die or be married in.
I have an existential crisis every time I walk into a bookshop, knowing that I'm not going to read all the books before I die.
You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.
When history looks back, it will prove what I'll die knowing.
Never die easy. Why run out of bounds and die easy? Make that linebacker pay. It carries into all facets of your life. It's okay to lose, to die, but don't die without trying, without giving it your best.
I'm doing a music video for a group called 'Die Antwoord.' That's fun, but yeah, I'm trying to get a live-action film off the ground, and that could take anywhere from a few months to the rest of my life.
It is always dangerous to generalize, but the American people, while infinitely generous, are a hard and strong race and, but for the few cemeteries I have seen, I am inclined to think they never die.
Do I believe in the supernatural? Oh yes, certainly. I can't believe, I can't accept that you die and that's the end. Physically maybe it is a fact. But there's something about the mind that's more than that.
Great entrepreneurs focus intensely on an opportunity where others see nothing. This focus and intensity helps to eliminate wasted effort and distractions. Most companies die from indigestion rather than starvation, i.e., companies suffer from doing too many things at the same time rather than doing too few things very well.
Paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people and sending them off to distant lands to die of foreign fevers and foreign shot and shell.
Gags die, humor doesn't.
If our women are willing to die with us, who is there to say no?
So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization will die.
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.
Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others.
There's no doubt I expect to die in prison.
People die from typewriters falling on their heads.
Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.
You die, but most of what you have accumulated will not be lost; you are leaving a message in a bottle.
I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more - I could be martyred for my religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that.
Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.
Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.
Those men who, in war, seek to preserve their lives at any rate commonly die with shame and ignominy, while those who look upon death as common to all, and unavoidable, and are only solicitous to die with honour, oftener arrive at old age and, while they live, live happier.
Philanthropy without scale and sustainability is like any other bad business that will simply wither and die on the vine.
Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.
When a government goes to war, particularly a democracy, it is the most solemn and awesome responsibility of our leaders - to decide to send our kids to go off and kill and die for us.
Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.
Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die.
Mind and spirit together make up that which separates us from the rest of the animal world, that which enables a man to know the truth and that which enables him to die for the truth.
