Gene Wolfe Quotes

The most trivial skirmish is not trivial to those who die in it, and so should not be trivial in any ultimate sense to us.

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• Many incredible artists die before they were famous.

  

  Yoko Ono
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• I will keep painting until I die.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
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• People die because they find living too painful.

  

  Malcolm Fraser
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• Personal records are not what football is all about, but as goalscorers, we live and die by figures and numbers because, ultimately, that's how people will judge you.

  

  Gary Lineker
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• See, I believe that it is not true that different races and nations are alike. I'm profoundly convinced that that's a total lie. I think people are different. Sardinians, for example, have stubby little fingers. Bosnians have short necks.

  

  Orson Welles
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• There are some die-hard 'Chelsea Lately' fans, and that's where the majority of my fans come from. Chelsea is really helping make comedy audiences hipper and edgier.

  

  Natasha Leggero
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• When the faith dies, the culture it produced begins to die, then the civilization goes, and, then, the population.

  

  Pat Buchanan
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• I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
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• To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.

  

  Samuel Butler
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• When I need to cry, I think of very sad things, mostly about animals.

  

  Quvenzhane Wallis
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• You sit up there, and you see the whole gamut of human nature. Even if the case being argued involves only a little fellow and $50, it involves justice. That's what is important.

  

  Earl Warren
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• To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?

  

  W. H. Auden
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• Only the young die good.

  

  Oliver Herford
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• Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die, but long after we are gone be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistence.

  

  Daniel Burnham
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• Flowers die and wine gets consumed. Both are lovely. I appreciate both. Wine and roses. I actually had someone bring me a lobe of foie gras once.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
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• I suppose, if helping a patient die is killing, I suppose I'm a killer.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
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• An arts education helps build academic skills and increase academic performance, while also providing alternative opportunities to reward the skills of children who learn differently.

  

  Gavin Newsom
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• We like lists because we don't want to die.

  

  Umberto Eco
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• There is only one way to survive in war, and that is by being willing to die. You will find soon that swordsmen can be downed by untutored savages who would slice their fingers if asked to carve meat. And why? because the savage is willing. Worse, he may be a baresark.

  

  David Gemmell
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• But if we never acted except when we were certain our motives were pure, we would never act at all.

  

  C.J. Sansom
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• I don't really get star-struck, but I do get talent struck. If I meet somebody that I think is just wildly talented and brilliant, that's when I start getting nervous.

  

  Kate Bosworth
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• Cowards live for the sake of living, but for heroes, life is a weapon, a thing to be spent, a gift to be given to the weak and the lost and the weary, even to the foolish and the cowardly.

  

  N.D. Wilson
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• We can have peace, but if we continue to hold out, we can obtain more.

  

  Haim Bar-Lev
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• The most trivial skirmish is not trivial to those who die in it, and so should not be trivial in any ultimate sense to us.

  

  Gene Wolfe
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