Quotes of: Death-penalty Keyword

I suddenly realized at the CIA that I had to make life-and-death decisions about people.

Leon Panetta

I learned it was better to tiptoe through life and arrive at death's door safely.

Marquita Burke-DeJesus

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Michael Chabon

Death is God when love is mine. Prayer preys when we’re divine

Munia Khan

A culture of unaccountability is a culture without incentive, and a culture without incentive is the death of critical and creative thinking.

Michael R. LeGault

Perfection is death,' Anastasia said. 'The world is imperfect, but if it weren't, who would love it?

Michael Swanwick

For a life oriented to leisure is in the end a life oriented to death – the greatest leisure of all.

Anne Lamott

The courage of the Syrian protesters is remarkable, for they face prison, torture, or death every time they lift a banner.

Elliott Abrams

We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death.

Robert Green Ingersoll

If Shaw and Einstein couldn't beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.

Mel Brooks

It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. After death they take on a firmer outline and then cease to change.

Colley Cibber

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Albert Camus

War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.

Aaron Huey

I want to tell you what it was really like to think death is imminent, but I can't. It's a taste in your mouth. And an emptiness.

Aaron Huey

I am not a depressive person at all, but I reflect a lot on my life, and life in general, from the perspective of death.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I think that when we wrestle with death... we start fearing life, because then we come to terms with something that is inevitable.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

There is a strong demand for Michael Jackson's music and merchandise, and that will only increase as more material surfaces in the years following his death.

Adam Kluger

When we are dealing with death we are constantly being dragged down by the event: Humor diverts our attention and lifts our sagging spirits.

Allen Klein

In man, the mechanical breathing is essential to life, and it is one of the old tests for death to see whether these movements have ceased completely.

August Krogh

Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.

Aeschylus

People who are sick, or who have been sick, or have come close to death have a lot to say - and they want you to hear it.

Anna Deavere Smith