Bart Kosko Quotes

Death is an engineering problem.

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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.

  

  Caitlin Doughty
  • Family
  • Death
  • Beautiful

• Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Life
  • Death
  • Peace

• I think this is really a defining moment for the Arab world. The problem is, it is all going to be about blood, sweat and tears. In certain countries it may be just sweat, and in some countries sweat and tears, and in some countries, as you can see, a lot of blood. I think initial instability is something that we are all extremely nervous of.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • World
  • May
  • Problem

• The problem with certainty is that sometimes it can sound cold and heartless, although it is the most compassionate and supportive answer.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Problem
  • Cold
  • Sound

• At the New York Athletic Club they serve amazing food. People go there, get healthy, and then eat themselves to death - which is, I suppose, the right way to do it.

  

  Oliver Reed
  • People
  • Death
  • Food

• I think the mythology of death really ran away with me when I was very young.

  

  Tea Obreht
  • Think
  • Death
  • Me

• Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Life
  • World
  • History

• The problem with too beautiful a view is that it's alright for the mulling stage. But for the writing stage, you want to be somewhere without a view, especially if it is very different from what you're writing.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Beautiful

• The biggest problem was the politicians knew nothing about fighting a war.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • War
  • Problem
  • Fighting

• If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Death
  • Need
  • Deepest

• I think it is a universal problem that we are so often cruel to the people we love.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Love
  • Problem
  • For Her

• The problem with public school is not overcrowding in the classroom. The problem is not teacher unions. The problem is not underfunding or lack of computer equipment. The problem is your damn kids.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • School
  • Kids
  • Problem

• I say the word death a lot … think of it as … primal relations, opposite, so if I say death a lot, it means I'm concerned with life. It's true.

  

  Edie Sedgwick
  • Life
  • True
  • Death

• It is proper that we acknowledge the overwhelming weight of international opinion against the juvenile death penalty.

  

  Anthony Kennedy
  • Death
  • Opinion

• The die is set, and Malcolm shall not escape, especially after such evil foolish talk about his benefactor, Elijah Muhammad. Such a man as Malcolm is worthy of death.

  

  Louis Farrakhan
  • Death
  • Die
  • Evil

• What do I haveto help me, without spell or prayer,endure this hour, endless, heartless, anonymous,the death of love?

  

  Carol Ann Duffy
  • Help
  • Death
  • Prayer

• When people tell you you're on the brink of death, you've got to dig pretty deep to get it together.

  

  Nile Rodgers Chic
  • People
  • Together
  • Pretty

• How one deals with the death of a loved one is a highly personalized affair. Some people weep for days; others take a hike in the woods or count rosary beads.

  

  Douglas Brinkley
  • People
  • Death

• Some years later, long after he and Megadeth parted company, Jay Jones was stabbed to death with a butter knife during-rumor has it-a fight over a bolonga sandwich. That's not funny, of course. But, if you knew Jay, neither is it particularly suprising.

  

  Dave Mustaine Metallica
  • Death
  • Company
  • Surprising

• The past is like the hair on our head. I moved to New York when I was twelve, but you always have this feeling that wherever you come from, you physically leave it, but it doesn't leave you.

  

  Edwidge Danticat
  • Past
  • Feeling
  • Hair

• In chess, knowledge is a very transient thing. It changes so fast that even a single mouse-slip sometimes changes the evaluation.

  

  Viswanathan Anand
  • Sometimes
  • Chess
  • Mice

• While people out there on the spot certainly have to be held accountable for what they've done personally, the chain of command responsibility for this strikes me as just as important and should be dealt with.

  

  William Odom
  • People
  • Important
  • Done

• Death is an engineering problem.

  

  Bart Kosko
  • Death
  • Problem