Talk to people in their own language. If you do it well, they'll say, 'God, he said exactly what I was thinking.' And when they begin to respect you, they'll follow you to the death.
I am able to follow my own death step by step. Now I move softly towards the end.
A writer's definitive death is when no one reads his books anymore. That's the final death.
Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure in life.
Art is man's distinctly human way of fighting death.
If your best friend has stolen your girlfriend, it does become life and death.
Nature creates while destroying, and doesn't care whether it creates or destroys as long as life isn't extinguished, as long as death doesn't lose its rights.
I'm sick to death of people saying we've made 11 albums that sounds exactly the same, Infact, we've made 12 albums that sound exactly the same.
The very first thing you learn if you're a gentleman is that you never compare one woman to another. That's the way of all death.
All those vitamins aren't to keep death at bay, they're to keep deterioration at bay.
We ourselves can die with comfort and even with joy if we know that death is but a passport to blessedness, that this intellect, freed from all material chains, shall rise and shine.
The sudden death at 51 of James Gandolfini is intolerable.
Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.
For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.
Washington, not Jefferson, freed his slaves upon his death.
Old age is the supreme evil, for it deprives man of all pleasures while allowing his appetites to remain, and it brings with it every possible sorrow. Yet men fear death and desire old age.
Death is feared as birth is forgotten.
Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.
The sole equality on earth is death.
There is no fundamental difference between the preparation for death and the practice of dying, and spiritual practice leading to enlightenment.
We increasingly live in societies based on the vocabulary of 'choice' and a denial of reality - a denial of massive inequality, social disparities, the irresponsible concentration of power in relatively few hands, and a growing machinery of social and civil death.
I believe all life has value, from conception to natural death. And I believe the intentional taking of human life, except to save lives, should be a capital offense, as it is in most states in America today.
Homicide through gun violence is the leading cause of death among young African American males in the United States. If people look a certain way, they have a higher tendency of dying, of having their lives taken away.
To know that one has never really tried - that is the only death.
Movies like that aren't about the visual effects and explosions. They're human stories about family, about life, about death.
People need jobs, people need happy and successful lives; there should be marriage between one man and one woman, there should the value of person from conception until natural death.
In soaps, people come back from the dead all the time, to the point where death is just a bus stop.
My decision on this matter is as certain and final as death and the staggering New Deal taxes.
It's weird to think I have fans now, so I appreciate all of the people that follow and support me - and I love them to death. But yeah, when I start looking on Twitter, and I see, 'I want to name my kid after you,' I'm like, 'Whoa!' I'm a little surprised.
No, the people standing before Christ and Pilate during the judgment scene do not condemn an entire race for the death of Christ anymore than the actions of Mussolini condemn all Italians, or the heinous crimes of Stalin condemn all Russians.
No evil is honorable: but death is honorable; therefore death is not evil.
I don't sit in the corner waiting for death: death has to pursue me. I'm going strong. I hope to reach 100 and ask for an extension, just like my grandmother did.
I'm pro-death penalty, but what I have not seen is anybody that would mock someone on death row.
Should those whose actions lead to the death or injury of a child get a free pass?
Our law is a Jordanian law that we inherited, which applies to both the West Bank and Gaza, and sets the death penalty for those who sell land to Israelis.
Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.
