The national debt is totally unlike a family budget for about a gazillion reasons, not the least of which being that families cannot raise money by fiat or deflate the size of their debt unilaterally and that family members die instead of existing infinitely.
When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.
If I were to die today, I would be nervous about what people would say at my funeral. I would be happy if they said things like, 'He was a nice guy' or, 'He was occasionally decent' or, 'Mike wasn't as bad as a lot of people.'
We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared.
Most of my friends are dead. I watched friends die in my arms at 5, 6, 8. When I grew up, the rest of my friends died of AIDS.
This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.
Half a million women die each year around the world in pregnancy. It's not biology that kills them so much as neglect.
It is better to live rich than to die rich.
I think I will die laughing.
Religions die slowly.
'What do you really think happens after you die?' That's the question that everyone, everyone, everyone asks. And I'm so sick of it. But my true answer is, I don't know. And there's no way I'm going to find out 'til it happens.
We are always doing something to cover up our basic existential anxiety. Some people live that way until the day they die.
Everything born has to die, in order to make room for the future.
Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one.
Bullfights are hugely popular because you can sit comfortably with a hot dog and possibly watch a man die. It won't be me, but I can sit comfortably and watch it.
When I watch movies or TV, I am like, 'Wow that guy is really cute, I really like him,' but I don't really have one person that I would die to go to something with. There are so many hot guys.
If current technological processes continue without change, the environment will change, and we, the human species, will either have to mutate or even die, to disappear, as many species have disappeared.
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
I die pretty much every year. I find it amusing.
Everything's plastic, we're all gonna die.
Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.
What seems to be clear to me is that after the primary infection most of the cells die indirectly, but at the later stage, when the viral load is very high, the virus kills a lot of cells directly.
You can't tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die.
Come to think of it, Pasadena's as good a place to die as any.
Things change all the time, and they'll probably never be the same again. It's just the natural evolution of the human condition. Things change, and whatever it is is what it is. I mean, you try to start second guessing that, you either get rich or die broke.
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.
I'll be writing songs till I die. There's just no question.
I had led a private life and wanted to die a private death.
If these men decided that they have to go in there and fight, I want them to send their own children and grandchildren. I want them to not send a bunch of strangers' kids in there to fight and die.
Now more than ever, I have learned that, when people die, they truly do live throughout those who love them.
Four hundred million in India, and millions everywhere, have told you, precisely, that the colored people are not going to die for anybody: they are going to die for their independence.
The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.
Time's fatal wings do ever forward fly; to every day we live, a day we die.
Tomorrow let us do or die!
You can die of the cure before you die of the illness.
Better to die in the pursuit of civilized values, we believed, than in a flight underground. We were offering a value system couched in the language of science.
