Socrates Quotes
It is not difficult to avoid death. It is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.Socrates
Quotes to Explore
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The approach of death certainly concentrates the mind.
A. N. Wilson -
People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.
E. M. Forster -
My death is incidental, and I worry very much about my loved ones and, you know, would like to make it as easy as possible for them. Or wish I could will away whatever, you know, the sadness they will feel when I die. But for me, nothing. The world goes on.
Barbara Ehrenreich -
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
Isaac Asimov -
I have to tell you, TV is an incredibly difficult medium. The most challenging show to do is the hour long dramedy. It's a very tricky format.
Candace Bushnell -
When it comes to jump-starting the intricate machinery of recollection, there's nothing more effective than the scent of approaching death.
Gary Krist
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It is very difficult to be taken seriously when you're introduced at a party to somebody as the fourth Mrs. Rex Harrison.
Rachel Roberts -
Once a disease has entered the body, all parts which are healthy must fight it: not one alone, but all. Because a disease might mean their common death. Nature knows this; and Nature attacks the disease with whatever help she can muster.
Paracelsus -
I've never done well when I've been appreciated. I've done best when I'm targeted for death.
Dan Harmon -
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.
Samuel Butler -
I blame feminism and Facebook for the death of the American automobile. I'm a Republican, so I blame everything on feminism - or commies.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
E. M. Forster
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Drown in a cold vat of whiskey? Death, where is thy sting?
W. C. Fields -
Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.
Carl Sagan -
Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn.
B. R. Hayden -
In the primitive church, it was customary for the Holy Eucharist to be celebrated on the anniversary of the death of a martyr - if possible, on his tomb.
Sabine Baring-Gould -
As an Egyptian, I was always frustrated, just like many young Egyptians, of the situation in the country. And to a large extent, we didn't know what could we do. And looking at Khaled's photo after his death; basically I just felt that we are all Khaled Said.
Wael Ghonim -
I didn't get into comedy to talk about violent death all the time.
Larry Wilmore
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I certainly wanted to write a book that was honest about New Orleans without explaining it to death, so much so that the first draft contained references absolutely incomprehensible to anyone who hasn't lived here for several years.
Poppy Z. Brite -
I think a lot about our globalized world, our global interconnectedness, and it really saddens me when I see people 'othering,' when I see people who are willing to live narrowly.
Maya Soetoro-Ng -
To bare our souls is all we ask, to give all we have to life and the beings surrounding us. Here the nature spirits are intense and we appreciate them, make offerings to them - these nature spirits who call us here - sealing our fate with each other, celebrating our love.
Alex Grey -
Crime is a product of social excess.
Vladimir Lenin -
Creative brains became more attractive during centuries of sexual selection because they could solve a wider range of unanticipatable problems. ...Humans who just happened to find creativity attractive may have hitched their reproductive wagons to musicians and artists, and... conferred a survival advantage on their offspring.
Daniel Levitin -
It is not difficult to avoid death. It is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.
Socrates