Dying Quotes
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There's nothing glorious in dying. Anyone can do it.
John Joseph Lydon
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When I was 17 years old, I put out an album while my mother was dying of cancer. That right there alone is a struggle. That's hard. That's tough for anybody.
Niatia Jessica Kirkland
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I think it's weird that they're trying to make us be negative about 'Sex and the City'... Not HBO, but the press. Really, they're dying for us to say something negative about 'Sex and the City.'
Jennifer Konner
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I like pop music. I also like the sound of a dying refrigerator. I can listen to that for an hour and a half if I'm in the mood.
Kyp Malone
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People come. They go. Dying is the same as rehab or moving back to Missouri. It just means I won't be seeing them again.
James St. James
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The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.
Jean Paul
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Of course, it's no fun getting old and getting sick and dying; we all know that's coming, and it's a bore.
Jerry Hall
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If we could muster the same determination and sense of responsibility that saves a country like Japan - or a company like Xerox - then investing to save women and children who are dying in the developing world would be very good business.
Anne M. Mulcahy
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People are always dying in the Times who don't seem to die in other papers, and they die at greater length and maybe even with a little more grace.
James Reston
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You've got audiences cheering at the prospect of somebody dying because they don't have health care and booing a service member in Iraq because they're gay. That's not reflective of who we are.
Barack Obama
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Dying's not so bad. At least I won't have to answer the telephone.
Rita Mae Brown
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We have picked up people full of worms from the streets, cared for them and let them die in peace and love. When they are brought to our home, they feel they are in their own homes, with their own families. Now, I am trying to open a house for AIDS victims here (in Delhi). The people are dying because of it.
Mother Teresa
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How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me.
William Gaddis
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I believe ghost story writing is a dying art.
H. Russell Wakefield
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...hacking at the dying and decapitating those who knelt for mercy.
Cormac McCarthy
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I think the seventies caught the last red rays of the dying sun of this innocence, but were already a little cold and drab.
Quentin S. Crisp
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Four experts had an appointment with an ordinary man. They needed him to ratify their findings, or anything they achieved would be meaningless. As they drove to meet him, they knocked down a man on the road. He was dying. If they tried to save him, they might miss their appointment. They decided that their appointment, which concerned all of us, was more important than the life of one man. They drove on to keep their appointment. They did not know that the man they were to meet was the man they had left to die.
William McIlvanney
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I wouldn't have launched 'Sharp Daily' without smartphones. Frankly, there's no reason for me to start another newspaper - it's a dying industry. But the smartphone is changing everything.
Jimmy Lai
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Living is the same thing as dying. Living well is the same thing as dying for others.
N.D. Wilson
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Democracy is not dying. We know it because we have seen it revive - and grow. We know it cannot die - because it is built on the unhampered initiative of individual men and women joined together in a common enterprise - an enterprise undertaken and carried through by the free expression of a free majority.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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How sweet on the breeze of the evening swellsThe vesper call of those soothing bells,Borne softly and dying in echoes away,Like a requiem sung to the parting day.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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Why, in our 'free' country, do Americans meekly stand aside and let the state limit our choices, even when we are dying?
John Stossel
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We must work to reshape the need for our children to want to live so fast even if it means dying too young.
T.I.
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To be a poet, it's a challenge to do it in poverty, to do it in wealth. To do it in the academy, to do it in a relationship where you're happy. Everything changes the game. To do it in the awkward state of love, despair, dying. You just have to work it.
Eileen Myles