When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
You can cry about death and very properly so, your own as well as anybody else's. But it's inevitable, so you'd better grapple with it and cope and be aware that not only is it inevitable, but it has always been inevitable, if you see what I mean.
Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive - the risk to be alive and express what we really are.
Death is better than slavery.
It was at Inver Slane, to the north of Leinster, the sons of Gaedhal of the Shining Armour, the Very Gentle, that were called afterwards the Sons of the Gael, made their first attempt to land in Ireland to avenge Ith, one of their race that had come there one time and had met with his death.
Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
I've diced with death the most cycling around London. Black cabs are far more dangerous than polar bears.
Obviously, the death of Usama Bin Laden marked a strategic milestone in our effort to defeat al-Qa'ida. Unfortunately, Bin Laden's death, and the death and capture of many other al-Qa'ida leaders and operatives, does not mark the end of that terrorist organization or its efforts to attack the United States and other countries.
I'm an optimist, so I believe in some sort of life after death; I don't know what kind.
If U.S. foreign policy results in massive death and destruction abroad, we cannot feign innocence when some of that destruction is returned.
Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.
Death is the most blessed dream.
Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising.
These movies are like my kids. I just love them to death. Some of them go to Harvard and some of them can barely graduate high school.
For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.
For some odd reason, the expression 'death of a poet' always sounds somewhat more concrete than 'life of a poet.'
If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.
I got well by talking. Death could not get a word in edgewise, grew discouraged, and traveled on.
NC-17 means that you get it in like 3 theaters. They won't run the spots on MTV, won't run the advertising. It's the kiss of death so there was really no other choice.
Of all the artists on Death Row, none of them went bankrupt.
I was in two episodes playing Christopher Reeve's character's emissary. They wanted to have my character announce Dr Swan's death, which I thought was exploitative.
The first requisite for immortality is death.
The church also does not condone a broken immigration system in the U.S., one that too easily can lead to the exploitation, abuse and even death of immigrants.
I had led a private life and wanted to die a private death.
Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.
Whenever I prepare for a journey I prepare as though for death. Should I never return, all is in order.
Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
I support Democrats and Republicans. And I'm telling you that the business community in this company is frightened to death of the weird political philosophy of the President of the United States. And until he's gone, everybody's going to be sitting on their thumbs.
The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.
Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Failure too is a form of death.
Here's a thing about the death of your mother, or anyone else you love: You can't anticipate how you'll feel afterward. People will tell you; a few may be close to right, none exactly right.
Proof' is going to be, in many ways, a mystery. It's not a procedural in any way. It's not a medical drama. It really is about trying to investigate whether or not there's life after death.
Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.
You've gotta be very careful that grace and politeness do not merge into a banality of behavior, where we're just nice, sort of 'death by cupcake.'
It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.
