Sometimes I have to compromise my views, but I never compromise on issues like the death penalty and the arm trade laws, despite what the readers or letters may say.
McVeigh's lawyer got him the death penalty, which, quite frankly, I could have done.
Once it gets to a point where it becomes a matter of life and death to occupy a position of leadership or not, with an eye on future opportunities, therein lies the danger.
Becoming a parent gives you access to a whole world of feeling. It gives you a much stronger sense of life and death: becoming a father made me realise my own mortality.
But I was very, very lucky, and it was a wake up call as far as motorbikes are concerned. I never flirted with death on the bike, but now I'm totally convinced they're death machines.
If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive.
Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world.
The 'Course in Miracles' says one day you will realize that death is not the punishment but the reward. And it says that birth is not the beginning of life but a continuation. And physical death is not the end of life but a continuation.
Life and death matters, yes. And the question of how to behave in this world, how to go in the face of everything. Time is short and the water is rising.
A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind.
A text of Tibetan Buddhism describes the time of death as a unique opportunity for spiritual liberation from the cycles of death and rebirth and a period that determines our next incarnation.
Research challenges the materialistic understanding of death, according to which biological death represents the final end of existence and of all conscious activity.
Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.
Our law is a Jordanian law that we inherited, which applies to both the West Bank and Gaza, and sets the death penalty for those who sell land to Israelis.
I think one year I was responsible for 163 screen deaths. That was a pretty good year for me, although it seems better than it actually was at a glance; 72 of those deaths were accounted for in one show.
Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to "die before you die" --- and find that there is no death.
The rancid odor mixed with the dust, death, and confusion as they awaited those who could clean up the mess and make death official.
adulthood is depressing. for me at least. i cried at the death of every illusion harder than i cried at the death of friends.
The only true borders lie between day and night, between life and death, between hope and loss.
A free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation not on death but on life.
This spirit or intelligence-energy in spirituality transmigrates to restart its journey, into yet another cycle of what we call life and death.
