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.
Quotes to Explore
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I'm not afraid of death, but I resent it. I think it's unfair and irritating.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Hungary has a moral debt to the Jews that it helped send to death camps thirty years after the First World War.
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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.
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I didn't get into comedy to talk about violent death all the time.
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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.
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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.
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As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
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Death was kind of a boisterous egomaniac that needed no encouragement.
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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.
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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 -
I thought that we all were afraid of death, but I've talked to my wife and other people, and they're not afraid of death the way I am. I find that really confusing. I don't like the idea of nothingness - that's terrifying to me.
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Almost every time I am in a lectureship on a college campus, young people will say, If there is a God and if he is a loving and merciful God, how do you explain the problems of suffering and death and all the tragedies that happen to people?
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I believe in the immortality of the soul because I have within me immortal longings.
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To some people, I may seem calm. But if you could peer beneath the surface, you would see that I'm like a duck--paddling, paddling, paddling.
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When we stand up for America, we stand up for what America stands for, which is a safety net for our seniors and really helping our families be able to help themselves.
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I'm not the Queen. I'm not a huge superstar; I don't get paparazzi around me.
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In the pulpit, we're supposed to present the teaching with all of its unvarnished clarity, but when you step out of the pulpit, you have to meet people where they are and try to walk with them.
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I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.
