Eve Ensler Quotes

Real security is contemplating death, not pretending it doesn't exist.

Eve Ensler

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

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Death
  • Socialism
  • Overcome

• Instead of personal security, citizens are afraid to walk down the street in Jerusalem.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Security
  • Down
  • Walk

• After I was assaulted in Egypt, I learned fear. I've just never been so scared in my life. I've never been so close to death.

  

  Lara Logan
  • Life
  • Death
  • Fear

• Motivated more by partisan politics than by national security, today's Democratic leaders see America as an occupier, not a liberator. And nothing makes this Marine madder than someone calling American troops occupiers rather than liberators.

  

  Zell Miller
  • American
  • America
  • Today

• The Bee Gees no longer exist.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Exist
  • Bee
  • Longer

• If national safety - the ability to respond to hurricanes, terrorist attacks, earthquakes - depends on the execution of explicit plans, on soldierly obedience, and on showy security drills, then a decentralized security scheme is useless.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Safety
  • Security
  • Execution

• Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Life
  • Death
  • Peaceful

• I'm German in my mind, but from a Germany that doesn't exist any more.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Mind
  • More
  • German

• You exist only in what you do.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • You
  • Exist
  • Brainy

• 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
  • Life
  • Men
  • Father

• Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Mind
  • Fear
  • Exist

• An evil life is a kind of death.

  

  Ovid
  • Life
  • Death
  • Evil

• I've worked very hard to become comfortable with how death works and why it happens. I now know that death isn't out to get me.

  

  Caitlin Doughty
  • Death
  • Know
  • Hard

• We hear tears loudly on this side of Heaven. What we don't take time to contemplate are the even louder cheers on the other side of death's valley.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Time
  • Death
  • Heaven

• The early years of my life were very, very traumatic. It was scary, because any child knew that death was sort of lurking around Europe as far as Jews were concerned.

  

  Felix Rohatyn
  • Life
  • Death
  • Child

• 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

• From what I know about alcoholism, I'd say there's nothing romantic, nothing grand, nothing heroic, nothing brave - nothing like that about drinking. It's a real coward's death.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Real
  • Death
  • Romantic

• Well, life was tough, but at least I was able to live it out and I was able to face death and not be afraid. Well, now I'm ready to go to Heaven and be with Jesus, and...hey? Hey, what's this? Oh, God it feels like a man's DICK IN MY ASS! Oh, GOD!!! I'M DEAD!!! Oh, you mean life keeps on fucking you even after you're dead? Oh, it never ends! OH! OHHH!!!

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Life
  • God
  • Live

• He who lives to God rests in his Redeemer's love, and is trying to get rid of his old nature - to him every sorrow, every bereavement, every pain, will come charged with blessings, and death itself will be no longer the ' king of terrors,' but the messenger of grace.

  

  Frederick William Robertson
  • God
  • Trying
  • Nature

• If they prescribe pain killers that may increase the possibility of death so long as their specific intention was not to end life." "Doctors should do everything they can to reduce pain, but not to administer drugs to end life, I think we go over a line then.

  

  Joe Lieberman
  • Life
  • Long
  • May

• I read a bit of the Icelandic sagas. They're fascinating in that they are completely ordinary. The farmer will go off into the hills and fight a troll, and then go back and do ordinary things. It's an odd mix of fantasy and reality.

  

  Jonathan Stroud
  • Reality
  • Farmer

• If I were not a king, I would be a university man; and if it were so that I must be a prisoner, if I might have my wish, I would desire to have no other prison than that library [the Bodleian].

  

  King James I
  • Desire
  • Wish
  • King

• The vision of Christ that thou dost see is my vision's greatest enemy . Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read'st black where I read white. His seventy disciples sent against religion and government.

  

  William Blake
  • Government
  • Religion
  • Enemy

• Real security is contemplating death, not pretending it doesn't exist.

  

  Eve Ensler
  • Death
  • Security
  • Exist