Evelyn Beatrice Hall Quotes

I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.

Evelyn Beatrice Hall

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• With the death of bin Laden, it's finally time for Congress to bring back the pre-9-11 legal norm, before we decided it was okay to toss out our civil liberties if the 'bad guys' were scary enough.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • Time
  • Bad
  • Death

• I also love Disney, and will defend doing so, because there's so much in those films and I don't care if it's stereotyped.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Care
  • Films
  • Defend

• 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

• Among the many signs of a lively faith and hope we have in eternal life, one of the surest is not being overly sad at the death of those whom we dearly love in our Lord.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Hope
  • Death
  • Faith

• I'm not afraid of death, but I resent it. I think it's unfair and irritating.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Think
  • Death
  • Afraid

• 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

• Seeing death is not as difficult as you might think. What's harder is to see people suffer. It's the people the dead left behind that get to you.

  

  Lara Logan
  • People
  • Think
  • Death

• 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
  • May
  • Death
  • Know

• Hungary has a moral debt to the Jews that it helped send to death camps thirty years after the First World War.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • World
  • War
  • Death

• Death does not exist.

  

  Edith Piaf
  • Death
  • Exist
  • Does

• 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

• If efforts to do social work are couched in selfish motives, then they will die a premature death. Why would my efforts get politicised? I have values I inherited from my father. He helped many. Anyone, even a postman knocking on our door would get a glass of water and some sweets.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Work
  • Why
  • Father

• I watch news programs and I love Comedy Central. I love The Daily Show-it's smarter than anything else. I also like The Critic and Celebrity Death Match and South Park. I love all of that.

  

  Bea Arthur
  • Death
  • Comedy
  • Daily

• As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Death

• Death was kind of a boisterous egomaniac that needed no encouragement.

  

  Edward St Aubyn
  • Death

• What I always liked about country music was the stories, the ability to talk about very real things like divorce and drinking and death and jail.

  

  Margo Price
  • Music
  • Country
  • Real

• I had written two or three books before my husband noticed that in every one of them a family member was missing. He suggested that it was because my father's death, when I was five, utterly changed my world. I can only suppose he is right and that this is the reason I am drawn to a narrative where someone's life is changed by loss.

  Jenny Nimmo
  • Life
  • World
  • Family

• Tis true among fields and woods I sing, Aloof from cities--that my poor strains Were born, like the simple flowers you bring, In English meadows and English lanes.

  

  Alfred Austin
  • True
  • Simple
  • English

• The worst disgrace that can befall a producer is an unkind notice from a New York reviewer. When this happens, the producer becomes a pariah in Hollywood. He is shunned by his friends, thrown into bankruptcy, and like a Japanese electing hara-kiri, he commits suttee.

  

  S. J. Perelman
  • Friends
  • Japanese

• I enjoy editing when I'm directing, but when someone else is directing, that's their film to cut.

  

  Jason Bateman

• I was stuck with looking like a girl. As soon as I got out of music it was straight off to the hairdressers.

  

  Adam Rickitt
  • Music
  • Girl

• I do not believe you have to be an elected official to help 'change the world.' In fact, maybe it is easier from the outside.

  

  Chris Gabrieli
  • World
  • Believe
  • Help

• I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.

  

  Evelyn Beatrice Hall
  • Death
  • Agree
  • Defend