Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
if i could be assured of your destruction, i would in the interest of the public, cheerfully accept my death.Arthur Conan Doyle
Quotes to Explore
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Homeland or death! Socialism or death! We shall overcome!
Fidel Castro -
With the death of bin Laden, it's finally time for Congress to bring back the pre-9-11 legal norm, before we decided it was okay to toss out our civil liberties if the 'bad guys' were scary enough.
Aaron Swartz -
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 -
When I became governor, I vowed to restore the public's trust.
Kate Brown -
Movies like that aren't about the visual effects and explosions. They're human stories about family, about life, about death.
Orlando Bloom -
When it comes to jump-starting the intricate machinery of recollection, there's nothing more effective than the scent of approaching death.
Gary Krist
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The amount of death terror experienced is closely related to the amount of life unlived.
Irvin D. Yalom -
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 -
Once a disease has entered the body, all parts which are healthy must fight it: not one alone, but all. Because a disease might mean their common death. Nature knows this; and Nature attacks the disease with whatever help she can muster.
Paracelsus -
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 -
If I had high-ticker 10 percent financing, which would probably be the market rate, I would have to dump stuff. The interest payments would be killing me.
Barry Sternlicht -
Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn.
B. R. Hayden
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Not one has shown an iota of fear of death. They want to end this agony.
Jack Kevorkian -
I think we should look forward to death more than we do. Of course everybody hates to go to bed or miss anything, but dying is really the only chance we'll get to rest.
Florynce Kennedy -
I am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.
Samuel Johnson -
I didn't really get London until I read Dickens. Then I was charmed to death by it.
Feist -
God is an immensity, while this disease, this death, which is in me, this small, tightly defined pedestrian event, is merely and perfectly real, without miracle - or instruction.
Harold Brodkey -
Brother, sister, only words; but this, a reality, a destroyer at the gate. What could it have mattered, after all, to celebrate her hungry youth, and his, before the sword fell on her? All the plots and schemes, the moralities and codes of men, seemed dust in the face of death.
Tanith Lee
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Man makes a death which Nature never made.
Edward Young -
I have just come back from the internment camps of Europe where I looked on the survivors of the Nazi charnel houses. I was in Dachau and Belsen. I saw chambers where hundreds of Jews were throttled every day. They were brought naked, as if to bathe, and the Nazis would peer through peepholes and watch them writhing in their death agonies.
David Ben-Gurion -
We are now in the 21st century: all books, including the Koran, should be fair game for flushing down the toilet without fear of violent reprisal.
Sam Harris -
One of the worst things that can happen to an artist is to perceive himself as the owner of his art, and art as his tool. A product of the marketplace sensibility, this attitude barely differs on a psychological plane from the patron's view of the artist as a paid employee.
Joseph Brodsky -
The leafy blossoming present time springs from the whole past, remembered and unrememberable.
Thomas Carlyle -
if i could be assured of your destruction, i would in the interest of the public, cheerfully accept my death.
Arthur Conan Doyle