Edgar Friedenberg Quotes
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Five to six thousand people die every year waiting for organs, but nobody cares.
Jack Kevorkian -
To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.
Walt Whitman -
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.
Ignatius of Antioch -
To retire is to begin to die.
Pablo Casals -
Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I've been doing extremely dangerous activities for a long time, but I've been lucky enough to have survived so far. However, sooner or later we all die... and, if that's the case, I want to die doing what I love to do the most. That's how I view death.
Yuichiro Miura
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When I was very young I was sort of floored by the fact that my mother and my father and everyone I knew was going to die one day, and myself too. I had a sort of a philosophical crisis. I couldn't believe that we were mortal.
Lana Del Rey -
Only in America can someone start with nothing and achieve the American Dream. That's the greatness of this country.
Rafael Cruz -
We like lists because we don't want to die.
Umberto Eco -
The origin of all revolutions and corruption, and the spur and source of all base morals are just two sayings: The First Saying: 'So long as I'm full, what is it to me if others die of hunger?' The Second Saying: 'You suffer hardship so that I can live in ease; you work so that I can eat.'
Said Nursi -
Die Verehrung mächtiger unsichtbarer Wesen, welche dem hülflosen Menschen durch die natürliche, auf dem Bewusstsein seines Unvermögens gegründete Furcht abgenöthigt wurde, …
Immanuel Kant -
Perhaps it is fortunate that most heroes who die for their people cannot come back to see what the people do with that hard-bought life and freedom.
Tad Williams
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'Poor humans; they will all die.''Poor us; we will not.'
Vernor Vinge -
Because I grew up playing for Roma and I want to die playing for Roma, because I have always been a Roma's fan!
Francesco Totti -
I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.
Lawrence Durrell -
Suppose atomic bombs had reduced the population of the world to one brother and one sister, should they let the human race die out? I do not know the answer, but I do not think it can be in the affirmative merely on the ground that incest is wicked.
Bertrand Russell -
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 -
‘Tis time, my friend, ‘tis time!For rest the heart is aching;Days follow days in flight, and every day is takingFragments of being, while together you and IMake plans to live. Look, all is dust, and we shall die.
Alexander Pushkin
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I hope I'll die on stage at the age at 105, playing Peter Pan.
Joan Fontaine -
Listen," he said. "If you was a fish, Mother Nature'd take care of you, wouldn't she? Right? You don't think them fish just die when it gets to be winter, do ya?" No, but--" You're goddam right they don't
J. D. Salinger -
And all the woods are alive with the murmur and sound of Spring, And the rose-bud breaks into pink on the climbing briar, And the crocus-bed is a quivering moon of fire Girdled round with the belt of an amethyst ring.
Oscar Wilde -
A mighty fortress is our God, a bulwark never failing; Our helper He, amid the flood of mortal ills prevailing: For still our ancient foe doth seek to work us woe; His craft and power are great, and, armed with cruel hate, On earth is not his equal.
Martin Luther -
Part of the American dream is to live long and die young.
Edgar Friedenberg