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This is David expressing a personal view that many people will agree with but it isn't party policy [on David Davis' pro death-penalty stance]
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Fourteen heart attacks and he had to die in my week. In MY week.
( on the death of President Eisenhower preventing her photo appearing on the cover of 'Newsweek' )
View quotes by Janis Joplin

Congratulations on your appointment. I have watched the careers of all your
predecessors and I am certain you will die a lonely death and be buried in a traitor's grave [the first email he is said to have received upon his appointment]
View quotes by Jim Murphy

Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.
View quotes by William Hazlitt

The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between the great and the insignificant, is energy - invincible determination - a purpose once fixed, and then death or victory.
View quotes by Sir Thomas Bowell Buxton

Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one's death.
View quotes by Rollo May

Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.
View quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer

Whenever I prepare for a journey I prepare as though for death. Should I never return, all is in order
View quotes by Katherine Mansfield

Every parting is a foretaste of death,
and every reunion a foretaste of resurrection.
View quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer

All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life
View quotes by Thomas Mann

All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
View quotes by Thomas Mann

The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.
View quotes by Isaac Singer

A humane and generous concern for every individual, his health and his fulfillment, will do more to soothe the savage heart than the fear of state-inflicted death, which chiefly serves to remind us how close we remain to the jungle.
View quotes by Ramsey Clark

I admired and valued Robin as a colleague and friend and as one of the greatest parliamentarians of our time. His wife Gaynor and his two sons are in our thoughts and prayers. [on the death of Robin Cook]
View quotes by Gordon Brown

'I guess that's why we're not shipping Windows 98 yet.'
- After a 'new and improved' Windows 98-running PC crashed leaving a 'Blue Screen Of Death' during a demonstration in front of about a thousand reporters and live on CNN
View quotes by Bill Gates

Men, I'm getting out of Rome. Anyone who wants to carry on the war against the outsiders, come with me. I can offer you neither honours nor wages; I offer you hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Anyone who loves his country, follow me
View quotes by Giuseppe Garibaldi

I had led a private life and wanted to die a private death.
View quotes by Jean Harris

Athletes have other athletes as competitors. My competitor is death.
View quotes by Robbie Knievel

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
View quotes by Marcus Aurelius

It's the end of an era for a kind of comedy, a convention of comedy that seems to have moved on to an alternative form of comedy, and I would be much more of his generation. [on the death of Dave Allen]
View quotes by Frank Kelly

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