Quotes of: Death-and-taxes Keyword

The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.

Samuel Butler

To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.

Sammy Davis, Jr.

Coming to terms with the fear of death is conducive to healing, positive personality transformation, and consciousness evolution.

Stanislav Grof

I've had various people close to me die, and I don't necessarily find the idea of death purely depressing.

Simon McBurney

If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death.

Sam Snead

The older I get, the more I want to do. It beats death, decay or golf in unfortunate trousers. Peace and quiet depress me.

Simon Schama

In death, you get upgraded into a saint no matter how much people hated you in life.

Sarah Vowell

But there is a difference here: When Jewish children are murdered, Arabs celebrate the deed. The death of an Arab child is no cause for celebration in Israel.

Theodore Bikel

Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Thomas Browne

People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite.

Taylor Caldwell

Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.

Tryon Edwards

I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.

T. S. Eliot

I think the mythology of death really ran away with me when I was very young.

Tea Obreht

Death is the operative device that sets us free in Christ - when we die, we truly live.

Tullian Tchividjian

I think death is just a transition to another state of consciousness.

Val Kilmer

I'm not afraid of death, but I resent it. I think it's unfair and irritating.

Viggo Mortensen

No one owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death.

William S. Burroughs

If you think about it, Washington's overwhelming power in the world is founded on death, the awesome arsenal for killing people.

William Greider

He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius.

William Gilmore Simms

The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired.

William Shakespeare

I've done about four deaths in films now, and I think it's quite good because then it's sort of a memorable moment in the film.

Gemma Arterton