Quotes of: Death-penalty Keyword

Ignorance is not bliss; it is a sure path to annihilation.

From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"

Priorities are simple to establish; what is desire and what is necessity?

From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"

Diet corresponding to blood type, not food hype.

From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"

Upon examination of a people’s history, beware the story teller’s motives.

From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"

In silence you shall face self...and have respect.

From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"

A live body and a dead body contain the same number of particles. Structurally, there's no discernible difference. Life and death are unquantifiable abstracts. Why should I be concerned?

Watchmen

A medical man likes to make psychological observations, and sometimes in the pursuit of such studies is too easily tempted into momentous prophecy which life and death easily set at nought.

Middlemarch

Writing keeps death at bay. Every book I write is a triumph over death. ... If we did not know we’d die, we’d wander around and sleep like cats.

Ray Bradbury

Our deaths become a part of our lives in the sense that with our deaths we give something to those who are left behind, as we have given our lives to them.

Sherwin B. Nuland

... as we travel again between life and death, Waking and dream, blinking, while layers within layers, None better, none worse, unravel and knit up before us . . .

Jay Woodman

What is the death of a soldier even off duty of an occupying army walking in an occupied territory against the death of a little boy screaming in terror in his father's arms Where is the equivalence

Linda Grant

People differ to such a degree they agree on nothing, Except death that is, and even on that they disagree. Some say the soul goes on after the death of the body While others claim the soul, with the body, dies too.

Mutannabi

Social conditions that spur large numbers of people into action are ignored in favor of a Hollywood version of history focusing on one conquering hero. Since a movement for social change is embodied in its leader, death of the leader means death of t...

Patricia Hill Collins

It's hard for me to get interested in stories that ignore death, which is what American marketing culture would like to do: pretend that death doesn't exist, that you can buy immortality; just buy these products, and you'll be forever young and happy...

Alan Ball

Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions.

Andre Breton

When the Internet really first started to hit, people felt this would be the death blow: after suburbs and long commutes and television and the death of the family dinner, this would be the last straw that would totally break society.

Alex Steffen

I'd be interested in finding out if there is a light you walk into, and if you do meet people from your life and walk hand in hand with Jesus. I would hate for my death to be tragic: I'd like to be old when it happens. But hopefully a young death is ...

Brian Molko

We've enshrined the purity, sanctity, value, and importance of bringing children into the world, yet we don't discuss death. There used to be an enshrined period where mourning was a necessary part of going through the process of grieving; death wasn...

Cate Blanchett

As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?

Chanakya

The fact that 'A Dirty Job' has comedy and supernatural horror in it, that both are woven in and out of it with a whimsical tone, despite the fact that it's about death, makes it hard to characterize with standard genre labels - but I have no problem...

Christopher Moore

My mother's death put me in touch with my most savage self. As I've grown up and come to terms with her death and accepted it, the pieces of her that I keep don't exist materially.

Cheryl Strayed