Dolly Parton Quotes

We're afraid to live, because we're afraid of dying.

Dolly Parton

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• I think that's a weak excuse, to say because a rapper's getting older that he ain't got it no more. Nah. Don't go by that philosophy. Let's just recognize that talent is within.

  

  Raekwon
  • Philosophy
  • Getting Older

• Do our children now have to choose between getting an education and dying? Some of us cannot move on and accept that kind of society.

  

  Obiageli Ezekwesili
  • Children
  • Society
  • Education

• My biggest nightmare is I'm driving home and get sick and go to hospital. I say: 'Please help me.' And the people say: 'Hey, you look like...' And I'm dying while they're wondering whether I'm Barbra Streisand.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • People
  • Home
  • Help

• Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating, disgraceful, helpless death.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Death
  • Success
  • Man

• As a matter of personal philosophy, I have generally said, 'Why not?' far more often than either 'Why?' or 'Not.'

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Why
  • Philosophy
  • Said

• I studied philosophy, religious studies, and English. My training was writing four full-length novels and hiring an editor to tear them apart. I had enough money to do that, and then rewriting and rewriting and rewriting.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Writing
  • Money
  • Religious

• I came to N.Y.C. in 1988 and got very involved with Act Up. I also started making movies, including two very gay shorts, 'Vaudeville' and 'Lady.' It was the height of the AIDS epidemic, and New York City was both dying and very alive at the same time.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Up
  • Time
  • City

• We have the tools, but we have to learn how to use them. That is my political philosophy.

  

  Harri Holkeri
  • Political
  • Philosophy
  • Tools

• I should be married and have 19 kids. And now I'm thinking my eggs are dying on the shelf. They're going to go past their expiration date. But it's what I chose, so I'm fine with that decision.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Thinking
  • Kids
  • Past

• One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Poetry
  • Philosophy
  • Morality

• Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • History
  • Philosophy
  • Virtue

• Since philosophy now criticizes everything it comes across, a critique of philosophy would be nothing less than a just reprisal.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Philosophy
  • Nothing
  • Now

• To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Die
  • Dying
  • Leave

• Kant introduced the concept of the negative into philosophy. Would it not also be worthwhile to try to introduce the concept of the positive into philosophy?

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Positive
  • Philosophy
  • Try

• As a people we have become obsessed with Health. There is something fundamentally, radically unhealthy about all this. We do not seem to be seeking more exuberance in living as much as staving off failure, putting off dying. We have lost all confidence in the human body.

  

  Lewis Thomas
  • People
  • Lost
  • Health

• I bet the worst part about dying is the part where your whole life passes before you.

  

  Lily Tomlin
  • Life
  • Dying

• Foreign revenues are tremendously important, but foreign audiences are dying for American movies, not for films they could make themselves.

  

  Dawn Steel
  • Important
  • American
  • Dying

• It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment, independence now and independence forever.

  

  Daniel Webster
  • God
  • Forever
  • Dying

• It's passing strange that Obama, carried to a second term by women, blacks and Latinos, chooses to give away the plumiest Cabinet and White House jobs to white dudes.

  

  Maureen Dowd
  • Women
  • House

• The several sorts of religion in the world are little more than so many spiritual monopolies.

  

  E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
  • World
  • Spiritual

• I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Music
  • Soul
  • Crazy

• Out of the chill and the shadow, into the thrill and the shine. Out of the dearth and the famine, into the fulness divine.

  

  Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
  • Shadow
  • Shine
  • Divine

• The Internet search engines are becoming a crucial way for dealers to connect with in-market car buyers. That's why we felt it was important to sponsor this market research. We're delighted to share these results with the auto industry, to help promote greater awareness of an exciting new Internet advertising medium.

  

  John Holt
  • Car
  • Awareness
  • Advertising

• We're afraid to live, because we're afraid of dying.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Philosophy
  • Dying