Michael Collins Quotes

Think what have I got for Ireland … Something which she has wanted these past 700 years, will anyone be satisfied with this bargain, will anyone? I tell you this, early this morning I have signed my death warrant.

Michael Collins

• Death
• Ireland
• Bargain
• Signed
• Warrant

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• I have already seen death, and I know that death is supporting me in my cause of education. Death does not want to kill me.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Death
  • Want
  • Education

• My deceased patients have taught me over the years to believe in the glass half full, to make good use of the time we have, to be generous - that was their lesson for the Uber-mind, and it was free. 'Do that,' they said, 'and then perhaps death shall have no dominion.'

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Time
  • Good
  • Believe

• 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
  • Death
  • You
  • Emotional

• When the courts decide that murderers, rapists, and others who maliciously break our social contract deserve health care that most working Americans can't afford, they are condemning good people to death.

  

  Tammy Bruce
  • People
  • Good
  • Death

• 'Six Feet Under' was so much about life. Sure, it had a lot to do with death, but that's the fun - that now I became a dead person.

  

  Frances Conroy
  • Life
  • Fun
  • Death

• I've never done well when I've been appreciated. I've done best when I'm targeted for death.

  

  Dan Harmon
  • Done
  • Death
  • Best

• Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Love
  • Death
  • For Him

• I think we should look forward to death more than we do. Of course everybody hates to go to bed or miss anything, but dying is really the only chance we'll get to rest.

  

  Florynce Kennedy
  • Think
  • Death
  • Rest

• It is death that goes down to the center of the earth, the great burial church the earth is, and then to the curved ends of the universe, as light is said to do.

  

  Harold Brodkey
  • Great
  • Death
  • Earth

• I didn't get into comedy to talk about violent death all the time.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Time
  • Death
  • Comedy

• I lived for nearly seven years with the awareness that death was my everyday companion.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Death
  • Years
  • Everyday

• There were no wrestling schools in Ireland. It was completely unheard of.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • Wrestling
  • Schools
  • Ireland

• People think that by living on some mountainside in a tent and being frozen to death by freezing rain, they're somehow discovering reality, but of course that's just another fiction dreamed up by a TV producer.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • People
  • Up
  • Death

• A pig resembles a saint in that he is more honored after death than during his lifetime.

  

  Irma S. Rombauer
  • Death
  • Honored
  • Pig

• The American people are not just being taxed to death; they're being taxed after death. But, no one should have to sell the life's work of a parent or a loved one just to pay the federal government.

  

  J. D. Hayworth
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• A sort of anteneurosis of what I will be when I will not longer be freezes my body and soul. A kind of remembrance of my future death makes me shudder from the inside.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Soul
  • Future
  • Death

• The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Love
  • Death
  • For Her

• All your thoughts are in another head. Your dreams are sleepin' in a different bed. The force that moves you is a circular breath of life and death going round and round and round.

  

  Edie Brickell
  • Life
  • Different
  • Death

• 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

• If I go to a restaurant, other people stare. The meal is ruined.

  

  Brigitte Bardot
  • People

• Unfortunately, most of the songs that I write I don't write them with guitar in mind. I just write it as a song and that was probably one of the ones that left an opening for it. The song's all right, I wouldn't choose to sing it now.

  

  Roy Wood Electric Light Orchestra
  • Mind
  • Songs
  • Guitar

• Disgrace should be represented upside down, because all her deeds are contrary to God and tend to hell.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • God

• Think what have I got for Ireland … Something which she has wanted these past 700 years, will anyone be satisfied with this bargain, will anyone? I tell you this, early this morning I have signed my death warrant.

  

  Michael Collins
  • Death
  • Ireland
  • Bargain