First of all, it does not deter crime, the death penalty.
I think I want to talk about life from the point of view of death.
Have an earnestness for death and you will have life.
If war occurs, that positive adult contact in every shape is needed more than ever. It will be a matter of emotional life and death. There's not a handy one-minute way of talking to your kid about war.
See, I have set before you this day life and good, death and evil... I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse; therefore choose life.
You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.
There are certain people that are marked for death. I have my little list of those that treated me unfairly.
Because the Illinois death penalty system is arbitrary and capricious - and therefore immoral - I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death.
Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.
In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
The European wars of religion were more deadly than the First World War, proportionally speaking, and in the range of the Second World War in Europe. The Inquisition, the persecution of heretics and infidels and witches, they racked up pretty high death tolls.
They fail to recognize the broad biological principle that organic material is constantly being recycled. Everything has a time of being - a birth, a life span, and a death.
Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.
Many people have played themselves to death. Many people have eaten and drunk themselves to death. Nobody ever thought himself to death.
I think there is, in our society, there is a growing fear of death, a fear of the circumstances in which I might die, a fear I might be over-treated or under-treated. But fear is always a bad guide. Death is part of life.
The U.S. couldn't even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that the EU is just a passing fad. They'll be killing each other again in less than a year. I'm sick to death of all these fascist lawsuits.
Life is here only to be lived so that we can, through life, earn the right to death, which to me is paradise. Whatever it is that will bring me the reward of paradise, I'll do the best I can.
What are you gonna do, talk the alien to death?
A revolution resembles the death of a fading star, an exhilarating Technicolor explosion that gives way not to an ordered new galaxy but to a nebula, a formless cloud of shifting energy.
Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death.
The illness, and the untimely death of my brothers, has made me conscious of the fact that - rather than just think about it - it's crucial that you do today what you want to do.
In Christ we see a maturity of love that flowers in self-sacrifice and forgiveness; a maturity of power that never swerves from the ideal of service; a maturity of goodness that overcomes every temptation, and, of course, we see the ultimate victory of life over death itself.
Organ donation is very personal to me. My mother, before her death, was on kidney dialysis for several years.
I have sworn to only live free. Even if I find bitter the taste of death, I don't want to die humiliated or deceived.
I'm shy and can't for the life of me barge around and slap people on the back. I sit in a corner by myself and am tickled to death when someone comes over to talk to me.
My younger brother's death in Vietnam was both sobering and cause for reflection. In 'Fallen Angels' I wanted to dispel the notion of war as either romantic or simplistically heroic.
Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.
No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.
World-building is my favorite pastime, so with me, I'm always about reining myself in. I don't want to lose too much of the mystery by hammering every detail to death. I did fiddle with lots of maps for 'Glass Sword,' as the second installment sees Mare, Cal and company traveling throughout their country, and that's always fun for me.
Man, as long as he lives, is immortal. One minute before his death he shall be immortal. But one minute later, God wins.
How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.
Either the soul survives death or it does not, and there is no scientific evidence that it does.
Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire.
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
I would like to say how much I resent people who say of the Islamic Republic that this is our culture - as if women like to be stoned to death, or as if they like to be married at the age of nine.
