Jerry Weller Quotes

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Jerry Weller

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• The good news is that even though we walk through this valley of death, we don't have to fear, at least not for ourselves! Unfortunately, there is no way to skip over the valley altogether, we must face death and the evidence of evil all around us. But there will come a day... And what a day that will be!

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Good
  • Death
  • Fear

• Homeland or death! Socialism or death! We shall overcome!

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Death
  • Socialism
  • Overcome

• 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
  • People
  • Death
  • Own

• Death in its natural state can be very beautiful. When you think about a body that's died of natural causes - family taking care of it - all of that is very beautiful.

  

  Caitlin Doughty
  • Family
  • Death
  • Beautiful

• The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Death
  • Man
  • Words

• The stance I took was there is no room for racial bias anywhere in sports. I believe that was basically all I said about it. Certainly I was cast as an abolitionist. Death threats came. Hate mail came.

  

  Barry Larkin
  • Believe
  • Death
  • Hate

• Death and I are head to head in a total collision, pure and mutual distaste.

  

  Harold Brodkey
  • Death
  • Head
  • Pure

• In fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses - from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put to death without judge or jury; so that, although the political excuse was no longer necessary, the wholesale murder of human beings went on just the same.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • Men
  • Women
  • Death

• Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ultimately all fear is the ego's fear of death, of annihilation. To the ego, death is always just around the corner. In this mind-identified state, fear of death affects every aspect of your life.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Death

• No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Real
  • Soul
  • Death

• In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Life
  • Art
  • Death

• The No. 1 cause of preventable death for young black men is not auto accidents or accidental drowning, but homicide.

  

  Larry Elder
  • Men
  • Death
  • Black

• I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Death
  • Admit
  • Plato

• Am I a trance medium? No. Have I got a gift psychically? Absolutely not. But I believe in the survival of consciousness after death.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Believe
  • Death
  • Survival

• Mankind progresses not smoothly, as by a sliding carpet ascent, but by rugged steps broken by gaps. He halts long on one stage before taking the next. Often he remains stationary, unable to form resolution to step forward - sometimes even has turned round and retrograded.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Long
  • Sometimes
  • Broken

• Drown in a cold vat of whiskey? Death, where is thy sting?

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Death
  • Cold
  • Whiskey

• Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.

  

  Edna Ferber
  • Death
  • Struggle
  • Old

• If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Death
  • Need
  • Deepest

• In six short years, small business owners and family farmers will once again be assessed a tax on the value of their property at the time of their death, despite having paid taxes throughout their lifetime.

  

  Doc Hastings
  • Time
  • Family
  • Business

• How many people, when you watched the LA riots on the news, were like me, watching the people getting hauled out of their cars and beaten half to death? How many people were like me seeing this and thinking 'Step on the fucking gas, man. They're on foot, you're in a truck … I think I see a way outta this.'

  

  Bill Hicks
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Death

• We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Death
  • Connection
  • Imagine

• We begin to die from the moment we are born, for birth is the cause of death. The nature of decay is inherent in youth, the nature of sickness is inherent in health, in the midst of life we are verily in death.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Life
  • Death
  • Birth

• Who knows if to live is to be dead, and to be dead, to live? And we really, it may be, are dead; in fact I once heard sages say that we are now dead, and the body is our tomb.

  

  Socrates
  • Live
  • Body
  • Knows

• More prisons, more enforcement, effective death penalty.

  

  Jerry Weller
  • Death