Quotes of: Death-penalty Keyword

As he lay expiring in the agony of death, the standers-by could hear him say softly 'I have seen the glories of the world.

Brief Lives

Well, it all started when I figured out that the janitor at my high school was the Angel of Death…

Bad Monkeys

No room in my world for drama, and the last thing I needed was more death. This beautiful woman would bring me both.

Blood Moon

For he who lives more lives than one more deaths than one must die.

The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Poems

Death is part of who we are. It guides us. It shapes us. It drives us to madness. Can you still be human if you have no mortal end

Brisingr

This was one of the casualties of war, that trust itself seemed to die a thousand deaths.

Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy

We are not meant to know the time or the nature of our deaths (for all of us secretly hope that we may be immortal).

The Book of Lost Things

Let the enemy fall by their swords. Words not worth reading die their own death. But our Words will be Told!

The Book of Told: Mere Words

New York was a city where you could be frozen to death in the midst of a busy street and nobody would notice.

Chronicles, Vol. 1

When the soul has left the body, it belongs to death. And it cannot be taken back without a price.

City of Fallen Angels

My attitude about Hollywood is that I wouldn't walk across the street to pull one of those executives out of the snow if he was bleeding to death. Not unless I was paid for it. None of them ever did me any favors.

James Woods

Let us embrace Science and the new technologies unfettered, for it is these which will liberate mankind from the myth of god, and free us from our age old fears, from disease, death and the sweat of labor.

Claude Vorilhon

Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.

Edith Wharton

When you are raised Catholic, there is one thing that you are confronted with at a young age, and that's death. You're confronted with all the big issues - and that sparks deep questions, like what the hell are we doing here, anyway?

Martin Donovan

As a child, I spent a lot of time alone. I used to sit in my closet with one cracker. I'd pretend that I was on the North Pole freezing to death, and I had to somehow survive on this one tiny cracker.

Teri Hatcher

Captain Hale, alone, without sympathy or support, save that from above, on the near approach of death asked for a clergyman to attend him. It was refused. He then requested a Bible; that too was refused by his inhuman jailer.

William Hull

I think the amazing thing about gospel music is that not only does it lift up the death and resurrection of our Lord, which is consistent with the Gospel, but it is uniquely communicated depending upon the generation.

T. D. Jakes

Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St John.

Boris Pasternak

Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art.

Paul Theroux

You know, I just don't believe that art is supposed to make sense. I really don't think it's supposed to be analyzed to death. It's left to the listener or looker to get what they can get from it.

Shelby Lynne

Good style happens in one of two ways: the writer either has an inborn talent or is willing to work herself to death to get it.

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