Die Quotes
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The most effective leaders of companies in transition are the quiet, unassuming people whose inner wiring is such that the worst circumstances bring out their best. They're unflappable, they're ready to die if they have to. But you can trust that, when bad things are happening, they will become clearheaded and focused.
James C. Collins
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One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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And it's a disquieting thought that not even the past is done with, even that continues to change, as if in reality there is only one time, for everything, one time for every purpose under heaven. One single second, one single landscape, in which what happens activates and deactivates what has already happened in endless chain reactions, like the processes that take place in the brain, perhaps, where cells suddenly bloom and die away, all according to the way the winds of consciousness are blowing.
Karl Ove Knausgard
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Watch thou and fear; to-morrow thou shalt die.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American.
Daniel Webster
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'It is not right to want to die,' the Summoner said....'For the very old, the very ill, it may be. But life is given us. Surely it’s wrong not to hold and treasure that great gift!''Death also is given us,' said the king.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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If you have had no tension in your life, never been screwed up by problems, your mortality well within your own grasp, and someone tells you that God so loved you that He gave His Son to die for you, nothing but good manners will keep you from being amused.
Oswald Chambers
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You can easily die racing to cover a bank robbery as you can in a war zone.
Jessica Savitch
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The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.
Lee Iacocca
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They are born, put in a box; they go home to live in a box; they study by ticking boxes; they go to what is called 'work' in a box, where they sit in their cubicle box; they drive to the grocery store in a box to buy food in a box; they talk about thinking 'outside the box'; and when they die they are put in a box.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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It is nearly 50 years since I was assured by a conclave of doctors that if I did not eat meat I should die of starvation.
George Bernard Shaw
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I had the feeling every time I was on a plane everyone was going to die. It was a horrible phobia. A stupid one.
Christine McVie Fleetwood Mac
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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.
Joan Baez
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There has been enough suffering in our country, there has been enough of children whose dreams die before they have a chance to grow and there has been enough of our elders who, having served their nation, are forced into indignity in their old age.
John Agyekum Kufuor
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Life is for the living. I was a little scared before surgery 'cause of the release you sign that says there's always a very small percent chance that you'll die during the operation.
Billy West
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Love is my religion - I could die for it.
John Keats
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When good men die their goodness does not perish.
Euripides
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The Notorious B.I.G.'s album 'Ready to Die' is an incredible chart of a man's life - it begins with his birth, you hear his mother giving birth, and it goes through the decades.
Chris Ofili
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Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye; That's all we shall know for truth Before we grow old and die.
William Butler Yeats
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Only thoughts that are randomly born die. The other thoughts we carry with us without knowing them. They have abandoned themselves to forgetfulness so that they can be with us all the time.
Emil Cioran
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I've realised that nobody's going to die if I don't get it right and that there are a number of things out there, beyond acting, that are very interesting and fulfilling.
Matthew Rhys
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There's no doubt I expect to die in prison.
Jack Kevorkian
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A middle finger is more New York than a corporate ambush. I bleed for my hometown, and I'd die for my fans.
Lady Gaga
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Harry Dresden/Waldo Butters: Polka will never die!
Jim Butcher