Quotes of: Death-and-taxes Keyword

Josephus is the first historian to make note of Jesus having even existed – and that happened six full decades after his death.

The Illusion of "Truth": The Real Jesus Behind the Grand Myth

Is that what death would feel like? The nicest, warmest, heaviest never-ending nap? If that’s what it’s like, I wouldn’t mind.

If I Stay

In my opinion, anyone who says they have no anxiety at all over experiencing their own physical death is not in touch with their humanity". ~R. Alan Woods [2012]

The Journey Is The Destination: A Photo Journal

His life spells living. Your life or my life, apart from Him, spells death.

Jesus Among Other Gods: The Absolute Claims of the Christian Message

Death wins nothing here, gnawing wings that amputate–– then spread, lift up, fly.

Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

You know, sex at seventy-six is getting very dangerous for my health ... since I live at seventy-nine!

Kensington Gore's Diary: Another Year Closer To Death

You couldn't be romantic if your life depended on it." "You know what's lucky? Most bad guys don't ask you to be romantic on command, so that probably won't matter.

Kiss of Death

I will not stand by and let any man believe his death is an act of one of the gods. They don't deserve the credit. This is just nature, a side effect of mortality - H

KIYA: Rise of a New Dynasty

Unfortunately, my army consists of one unreliable criminal, one girl with a disability, and one incredibly foolish young vampire with a tanning issue. I am not confident.

Kiss of Death

Alternately in our lives come black and white. Nothing is visible through the silent dark hole: no light, no life, no meandering respite in the tunnel of death, journeys the eternal soul.

Rhythmic Hues

Eyes, look your last! Arms, take your last embrace! And, lips, oh you the doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss a dateless bargain to engrossing death!

Romeo and Juliet

The inception of human consciousness, the genesis of awareness, must have entailed prolonged 'condensations' around intractable nodes of wonder and terror, at the discriminations to be made between the self and the other, between being and non-being ...

Real Presences

When you erode the fear of death with the knowledge that you already died [in Christ], you will find yourself moving toward a simple, bold obedience.

Running Scared: Fear, Worry, and the God of Rest

After all, what is every man? A horde of ghosts – like a Chinese nest of boxes – oaks that were acorns that were oaks. Death lies behind us, not in front – in our ancestors, back and back until...

The Return

The mare on which the traitor had been seated at the time of his death was, obviously, no longer considered the best horse in Parthia. It was amazing that she had not been served as stew at one of the banquets.

Rome: The Eagle of the Twelfth

Balm of the summer night, balm of the ordinary, imperial joy and sorrow of human existence, the dreamed as well as the lived— what could be dearer than this, given the closeness of death?

The Seven Ages

Drunkenness - that fierce rage for the slow, sure poison, that oversteps every other consideration; that casts aside wife, children, friends, happiness, and station; and hurries its victims madly on to degradation and death.

Sketches by Boz

It is said that men condemned to death are subject to sudden moments of elation; as if, like moths in the fire, their destruction were coincidental with attainment.

The Spy Who Came In from the Cold

She’s too sexy to be a killer—but not a murderer. A woman this beautiful gets a patsy to dole out death, and that makes her a lead murder suspect.

Seven Sisters Sinister Murder Mystery Dinner

Quit lying to yourself and accept your power and beauty. Liberate yourself from the slow-death you call life.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

So here I was expecting at the very best a cordial welcome from the girls who were prepared to fight me to the death for someone I didn’t want. Instead I was embraced.

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