W. L. George Quotes
It is not age which killed Boston, for no cities die of age; it is the youth of other cities.
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It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.
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To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.
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In politics, you never know who's going to die, retire, or - in Illinois - get indicted.
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Anyone can die. Rule number one is don't get too attached to a character, anyone can go.
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I am writing to all the churches to let it be known that I will gladly die for God if only you do not stand in my way... Let me be food for the wild beasts, for they are my way to God.
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To retire is to begin to die.
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I've had a lot of voices tell me what I should be making. Personally, I would much rather live and die by my own hand. If my stuff sucks, then at least I made it suck. I didn't allow some person, some old dude in a suit, to make it suck for me.
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Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.
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If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.
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Already old, the question Who shall die? Becomes unspoken Who is innocent?
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Today's youth are told to get rich or die trying and they really shouldn't take that attitude forward with them.
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I don't want to die thinking I've only done one thing in my life.
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I'm not driven to get back into politics. It's not on my top five things to do before I die, but saying that, I may be in politics in the next year or the next ten years. I've been on the front line for 12 years, four in state government, eight on the national level.
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I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel were equally distributed to the whole human family, there would not be one cheerful face on the earth. Whether I shall ever be better I can not tell; I awfully forebode I shall not. To remain as I am is impossible; I must die or be better, it appears to me.
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'Poor humans; they will all die.''Poor us; we will not.'
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Besteht das Original nicht um dessentwillen, wie ließe sich dann die Übersetzung aus dieser Beziehung verstehen?
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My trainer was a great guy … who made me want to die for an hour. My character was spending most of his life in a state of hunger, and I wanted to get a sense of that, physically and mentally.
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To be forgotten. The French say that to part is to die a little. To be forgotten too is to die a little. It is to lose some of the links that anchor us to the rest of humanity.
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I think a lot of people feel that they are just not listened to, and that the politicians in Washington are just playing games with each other and forgetting about their constituents.
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Many Christians do not believe God sends tornadoes. But they do believe that God walks with His children through the storms, that He sends His people to help after the storms, and that with and through God, there is always hope.
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Mo: Uh... sorry. I was just wondering why you're... you know... using that if normally you just use crutches.Thea: Well, the chair is so much more dramatic, don't you think? I use it when I want people to feel extra sorry for me.
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..we will continue to despise people until we have recognized, loved, and accepted what is despicable in ourselves. So that, then we go down, what is it that is despicable in ourselves? And there are some elements despicable in ourselves, which we don't want to look at, but which are part of our natures, that we are mortal.
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Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
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It is not age which killed Boston, for no cities die of age; it is the youth of other cities.
