967 private quotes tagged death

“I am deeply saddened by the death of my dear friend, Dudley Moore.” — Liza Minnelli

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“The sole equality on earth is death.” — Philip James Bailey

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“If I ever completely lost my nervousness I would be frightened half to death.” — Paul Lynde

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“A lot of people fear death because they think that so overwhelming an experience has to be painful, but I've seen quite a few deaths, and, with one exception, I've never known anyone to undergo anything like agony. That's amazing when you think about it. I mean, how complicated the mechanism is that's being taken apart.” — Lewis Thomas

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“I think the amazing thing about gospel music is that not only does it lift up the death and resurrection of our Lord, which is consistent with the Gospel, but it is uniquely communicated depending upon the generation.” — T. D. Jakes

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“At the New York Athletic Club they serve amazing food. People go there, get healthy, and then eat themselves to death - which is, I suppose, the right way to do it.” — Oliver Reed

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“She goes through the vale of death alone, each time a babe is born. As it is the right neither of man nor the state to coerce her into this ordeal, so it is her right to decide whether she will endure it.” — Margaret Sanger

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“Grumbling is the death of love.” — Marlene Dietrich

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“Virtue alone has majesty in death.” — Edward Young

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“Death is the mother of Beauty hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.” — Wallace Stevens

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“No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one can spare us from life's slings and arrows, and when death comes, we meet it alone.” — Martha Beck

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“Crucial to understanding federalism in modern day America is the concept of mobility, or 'the ability to vote with your feet.' If you don't support the death penalty and citizens packing a pistol - don't come to Texas. If you don't like medicinal marijuana and gay marriage, don't move to California.” — Rick Perry

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“The great fear that hung over the business community in the 1970s was death by regulation, and the great goal of the conservative movement, as it rose to triumph in the 1980s, was to remove that threat - to keep OSHA, the EPA, and the FTC from choking off entrepreneurship with their infernal meddling in the marketplace.” — Thomas Frank

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“I don't want to get into the 'who's a hostage-taker' discussion here, but what is the estate tax? It's a double tax on death. Economists will tell you that it's really not a tax that soaks the rich, but it's a tax on capital that deprives business investment and therefore job creation.” — Paul Ryan

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“There's stuff I don't like to rehearse, really emotional things, I don't like to rehearse. You just beat it to death.” — Kat Dennings

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“Dependency is death to initiative, to risk-taking and opportunity. It's time to stop the spread of government dependency and fight it like the poison it is.” — Mitt Romney

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“I've been looking at some video clips on YouTube of President Obama - then candidate Obama - going through Iowa making promises. The gap between his promises and his performance is the largest I've seen, well, since the Kardashian wedding and the promise of 'til death do we part.” — Mitt Romney

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