Dead Quotes
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We followed the Honorable Elijah Mohammed, who is the boss. And we don't waste a lot of time arguin' about a dead black man, Malcolm X, when the whites are our common enemies.
Muhammad Ali
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I wanted to be with the men I admired rather than the Scottish Arts Council crowd, so I spent a lot of time in graveyards. You get less trouble from the dead.
Alexander Stoddart
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Call no man happy until he is dead.
Solon
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Seven hundred thousand men are said to have perished in the first two expeditions, which had been thus commenced and carried on by the pious zeal of the Christian church, and in the total amount, several million were found numbered with the dead: the awful effects of religious fanaticism presuming upon the aid of heaven.
Elihu Palmer
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Over my dead body, I thought. Yes, even immortals use that phrase. It has extra oomph for us.
Cate Tiernan
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We're all dead the moment we're born. Just, some of us get there faster than others.
Alex Scarrow
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We go to the grave of a friend saying,
"A man is dead,"
but angels throng about him saying,
"A man is born."
Henry Ward Beecher
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Suddenly, there will be literally hundreds of thousands, if not millions of tonnes of carp that will be dead in the River Murray.
Christopher Pyne
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There is so little that one can do for the dead!
Selma Lagerlof
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For me, it's all about The Dubliners by James Joyce. I love The Dead.
Evan Dando
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The dead know how to savor as the living never can.
Catherynne M. Valente
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Her great dead friends did not seem worth reading that night. They always said the same things now—over and over again they said the same things, and nothing new was to be got out of them any more for ever. No doubt they were greater than any one was now, but they had this immense disadvantage, that they were dead. Nothing further was to be expected of them; while of the living, what might one not still expect?
Elizabeth von Arnim