Catullus (Gaius Valerius Catullus) Quotes
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Homeland or death! Socialism or death! We shall overcome!
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I'm not sure how to describe my style. A lot of my work is dark and looks a bit sad, which is strange because I'm such a smiley, over-the-top positive guy who wears gold shoes most days.
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There's some real dark days where you just feel like the story is falling apart in every one. Just keep moving forward, even when you are bluffing, even when you don't quite know what is going to happen next.
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God, who preferred the correction rather than the death of a sinner, did not desire that a homicide be punished by the exaction of another act of homicide.
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When death comes, it is not enough to have been charitable; and it is not right to touch the body or lay it out for a couple of hours; for the soul should be given time to fight for itself, and to go up to judgment.
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My mother's belief in spiritual healers grew stronger after our family went through a rough patch following my father's death. Sufi saint Karimullah Shah Kadri changed our lives, and all of us converted to Sufism. But it wasn't an instantaneous decision - it took us 10 years to convert. The change in religion was like washing away the past.
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The American people are not just being taxed to death; they're being taxed after death. But, no one should have to sell the life's work of a parent or a loved one just to pay the federal government.
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If all were equalized by death, as the medieval idea constantly emphasized, was it not possible that inequalities on earth were contrary to the will of God?
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In every unbeliever's heart there is an uneasy feeling that, after all, he may awake after death and find himself immortal. This is his punishment for his unbelief. This is the agnostic's Hell.
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I have always - at least, ever since I can remember - had a kind of longing for death.'
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Madness rides the star-wind... claws and teeth sharpened on centuries of corpses... dripping death astride a bacchanale of bats from nigh-black ruins of buried temples of Belial...
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I think Prince was heads, hands and feet about all the rest of them, I thought he left (Michael) Jackson in the dust. Prince was way beyond that. But how pathetic that he killed himself. Don't kid yourself, that's what he did. Slowly, I'll grant you … but that's what drugs and alcohol is: a slow death.
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There is no such thing as death; life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves.
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L. Ram Saran Das was sentenced to death in 1915, and the sentence was later commuted to life transportation. Today myself, sitting in the condemned cell, I can let the readers know as authoritatively that the life-imprisonment is comparatively a far harder lot than that of death.
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An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.
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I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that there is no death the way we understood it. The body dies, but not the soul.
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The closest thing to hell on earth is prison. It's the worst experience I've ever had in my life. Besides death.
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There are still parts of the country where it's hard: when you realize you're gay, it's like a death sentence.
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The civilized world needs to think about a decision when single politicians are not allowed to stay in power.
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They make a humongous profit, but the people that work on the shows don't get paid a lot because they're working on the Oscars show. It's the biggest show in the world.
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'What are you - some kind of addict? Is this where you come to...'
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It is amazing what one ray of sunshine can do for a man!
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Our perception of songs that we've written... the meaning changes from day to day... to whatever stage we're at in our life and careers.
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Who now travels that dark path from whose bourne they say no one returns.
