Quotes of: Deaths Keyword

What, do I look like an alien? I don’t think aliens wear sexy dresses that make their boyfriends want to hide them from other men.” Wendy in Dancing with Death

Dancing with Death

Accountability makes no sense when it undermines the larger goals of education.

The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education

It was as if someone had taken a tiny bead of pure life and decking it as lightly as possible with down and feathers, had set it dancing and zigzagging to show us the true nature of life.

The Death of the Moth and Other Essays

If (or rather when) you move to death, you’ll learn its language through the educational process known as total immersion. (7)

Death's Door: Modern Dying and the Ways We Grieve

Take solace in that, regardless of the fact that the love you had in your mind was lost, it was fairer than any, and you can take that with you forever.

The Death of Edwin Hubble

A romantic man often feels more uplifted with two women than with one: his love seems to hit the ideal mark somewhere between two different faces.

The Death of the Heart

Death is inevitable. But the meaning people attach to death, its causes and aftermath, is culturally given. Without meaning, without culture making sense of things, life would be impossible.

The Dobe Ju/'Hoansi

Our essence is change. We are movement. Being out of balance is life. Perfect balance. Stasis. That is death. Life yearns for perfection. Death is perfection.

Doctor Who: Last Man Running

You fear them because you fear death, and rightly: for death is terrible and must be feared,' the mage said...'And life is also a terrible thing,' Ged said, 'and must be feared and praised.

The Farthest Shore

What is love for, if not to intensify our affections—both in life and death? But, O, do not be bitter. It is tragically self-destructive to be bitter.

Good News of Great Joy: Daily Readings for Advent

We do not have control over many things in life and death but we do have control over the meaning we give it.

Grieving Parents: Surviving Loss as a Couple

There's a thin line between life and death. It's God's Grace that shows us how fragile we all are.

Hearts for Haiti: Book of Poetry & Inspiration

Welcome," Vassily said, and smiled. He showed teeth. "To Immortal Battles. We don't fight to the death -- we fight beyond death, in the world's most dangerous sport.

Bite Club

[...] death follows us around for a reason. It's because death is our best adviser. There is nothing more powerful than a person who is prepared to live right now, in this instant, fully accepting that this may be their last moment on earth.

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It’s a . . . transcendental act. Making life. . . . ‘By this act, I bring one death into the world.’ One birth, one death, and all the pain and acts of will between. . . . Our children change us . . . whether they live or not.

Barrayar

Life and death- what paltry words, what tarnished bookends,what unjust summation for drawing breath one moment and failing to release it the next.

The Bird Sisters

.. becoming attached to a country involves pressing, uncomfortable questions about justice and opportunity for its least powerful citizens.

Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity

The forces of justice had finally come to Annawadi. That the beneficiaries were horses was a source of bemusement to Sunil and the road boys.

Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

John Donne

Option 1: Attempt to back out. Probable result: Death after painful torture. Option 2: Do the job and hope. Probable result: Death but probably no torture (good)

Angels' Blood

It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological diversions.

Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business