Dies Quotes - Page 13

• You talk of our having an idea; we do not have an idea. The idea has us, and martyrs us, and scourges us, and drives us into the arena to fight and die for it, whether we want to or not.

  Heinrich Heine

  Writing, Fighting, Ideas

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• The best argument for Christianity is Christians: their joy, their certainty, their completeness. But the strongest argument against Christianity is also Christians-when they are somber and joyless, when they are self-righteous and smug in complacent consecration, when they are narrow and repressive, then Christianity dies a thousand deaths.

  Joseph C. Aldrich

  Christian, Self, Joy

  Joseph C. Aldrich, Joe Aldrich (1993). “Lifestyle Evangelism: Learning to Open Your Life to Those Around You”, Multnomah

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• We may never be martyrs but we can die to self, to sin, to the world, to our plans and ambitions. That is the significance of baptism; we died with Christ and rose to new life.

  Vance Havner

  Ambition, Self, Rose

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• The caterpillar dies so the butterfly could be born. And, yet, the caterpillar lives in the butterfly and they are but one. So, when I die, it will be that I have been transformed from the caterpillar of earth to the butterfly of the universe.

  John Harricharan

  Grief, Butterfly, Grieving

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• To be heroic is to be courageous enough to die for something.

  Criss Jami

  Memorial Day, Courageous, Heroic

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.108, Criss Jami

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• A men whose every word is nothing but the truth is not a human being but a god! Gods do not die, whereas Aristotle is lying in a grave now.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  God, Lying, Science

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• Be avid. Create apart from perfection. Risk failure. Cover your words with sweat. Run a little Touch excruciatingly. Laugh until you cry. Dance with your eyes closed. Care. Understand you die a little in every moment. Be Enlivened

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Love, Running, Failure

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• One hand was behind his back, and he held it out, presenting a bouquet of white and smoky purple lilies. "They're straight from the underworld, by the way. They are everlasting. They won't die."

  Jess C Scott

  Hands, Purple, White

  Jess C. Scott (2010). “Business Plan: Building Brand Identity: An Indie Author's Advertising Plan”, p.49, jessINK

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• It makes sense for people who are good at fighting to go out and do it-because if they're good at it, that means the fewest number of other people die.

  Mercedes Lackey

  Mean, Fighting, Numbers

  Mercedes Lackey (1991). “By the Sword”, p.158, Penguin

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• If you have music you want to play that no one asks you to play, you have to go out and find where you can play it. It's called do or die.

  Steve Lacy

  Play, Want, Asks

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• I'm attracted to how fraught the parent-child relationship is, swerving so easily between love and hostility, with almost no plausible way to end, unless someone dies.

  Ben Marcus

  Children, Parent, Way

  "This week in fiction:Ben Marcus" by Deborah Treisman, www.newyorker.com. May 11, 2013.

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• I'd like to make as much art as I possibly can before I die, so I'm working on a few things.

  Ezra Miller

  Art, Before I Die

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• For me, it always comes back to the blogger, the author, the designer, the developer. You build software for that core individual person, and then smart organisations adopt it and dumb organisations die.

  Matt Mullenweg

  Smart, Dumb, Designer

  "Matt Mullenweg on how open source is democratising the web". Interview with Mich Atagana, memeburn.com. May 24, 2013.

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• I say eat fast and die young.

  Cory Monteith

  Young, Die Young

  Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. December 1, 2011.

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• 'What do you really think happens after you die?' That's the question that everyone, everyone, everyone asks. And I'm so sick of it. But my true answer is, I don't know. And there's no way I'm going to find out 'til it happens.

  Ellen Muth

  Thinking, Sick, Answers

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• "Comic book" has come to mean a specific genre, not a story form, in people's minds. So someone will call Die Hard "a comic-book movie," when it has nothing to do with comic books. I'd rather have comics be the vehicle by which stories are told.

  Frank Miller

  Book, Mean, People

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. December 5, 2001.

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• Religions die slowly.

  Franz Marc

  "The 'Savages' of Germany". Der Blaue Reiter (Blue Rider) Almanak, Munich, 1912.

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• One is always enthralled, I think, when a young writer you're just beginning to read and comprehend dies.

  Joy Williams

  Thinking, Young Writers, Young

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• The Bible is the book of my life. It's the book I live with, the book I live by, the book I want to die by.

  N. T. Wright

  Book, Want, Live By

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• A good story never dies.

  Roberta Williams

  Stories, Good Story

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• Retiring is getting ready to die.

  Rodger Ward

  Retiring, Ready To Die, Ready

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• When you are about to die, a wombat is better than no company at all.

  Roger Zelazny

  Wombats, Company

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• In the New Testament, myth stands over against the truth of the history of Jesus Christ ... the decisive die has ... been already cast in the New Testament opposition to myth.

  G. C. Berkouwer

  Jesus, Christ, New Testament

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• I just believe that sometimes in life you're like a shark - you have to keep moving through water; otherwise, you'll die.

  Michelle Ryan

  Moving, Believe, Sharks

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• Love isn’t putting chain on someone who wants to struggle and is ready to die for it, love is letting him die in the way he’s chosen.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Struggle, Love Is, Want

  Oriana Fallaci (1980). “A man”, Simon & Schuster

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