Corinne Roosevelt Robinson Quotes
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Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
H. L. Mencken -
Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.
Walter Benjamin -
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 -
There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.
H. G. Wells -
We can't really digest food unless there's hunger. So we can't really assimilate spiritual wisdom unless we feel the need for it.
Radhanath Swami -
Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.
Edna Ferber
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I hate to say this, but I'll repeat it: After death, all we know that you do is stink.
Jack Kevorkian -
People think that by living on some mountainside in a tent and being frozen to death by freezing rain, they're somehow discovering reality, but of course that's just another fiction dreamed up by a TV producer.
J. G. Ballard -
Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Our law is a Jordanian law that we inherited, which applies to both the West Bank and Gaza, and sets the death penalty for those who sell land to Israelis.
Yasser Arafat -
And lastly there is the oldest and deepest desire, the Great Escape: the Escape from Death. Fairy-stories provide many examples and modes of this … Fairy-stories are made by men not by fairies. The Human-stories of the elves are doubtless full of the Escape from Deathlessness.
J. R. R. Tolkien -
Prudent people are very happy; 'tis an exceeding fine thing, that's certain, but I was born without it, and shall retain to my day of Death the Humour of saying what I think.
Mary Wortley Montagu
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Everyone has the same kind of fears; everyone has the same big problems in the world, which is, like, fear of death and 'I hope horrible things don't happen to my family,' but they do. And I think people laugh at them as this great release.
Anthony Jeselnik -
Hitchcock had to fight to the death to make his movies.
Alex Winter -
Thinking about death makes you analyse what life is. Anxiety makes you curious, and curiosity leads to understanding. I wouldn't be a writer without depression.
Matt Haig -
I am shocked and deeply saddened by McQueen's death. He was a genius, and his talent was second to none. Like many others, I always cited him as a hugely inspirational leader of world fashion. He will be greatly missed.
Matthew Williamson -
People always say that pregnant women have a glow. And I say it's because you're sweating to death.
Jessica Simpson -
The blowback against a bailout of Lehman would have been fierce. It is often forgotten, but the prevailing wisdom the day after Lehman fell was that its collapse was a good thing.
Andrew Ross Sorkin
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My own faith was nurtured by my grandmother and her clinging deeply to her faith when she was dying a painful and slow death from cancer.
Geoffrey Canada -
Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.
Seneca the Younger -
Rama, Allah and God are to me convertible terms.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I'm sure I passed on some things that will probably be successful.
Matt Cohler -
We are thinking, willing, knowing, conscious centers of Life. We are surrounded by, immersed in, and there is flowing through us, a creative Something ... call It what you will.
Ernest Holmes -
There is no wisdom but in death
Corinne Roosevelt Robinson