Dies Quotes - Page 22

• The most important thing to do before you die is live.

  Simon Sinek

  Important, Things To Do, Important Things

  Twitter post from Jan 27, 2010

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• I'd rather die on my feet making a speech than die of Alzheimer's - and that's what I'm planning to do.

  Tony Benn

  Alzheimer's, Feet, Speech

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• That amid our highest civilization men faint and die with want is not due to the niggardliness of nature, but to the injustice of man.

  Henry George

  Men, Civilization, Want

  Henry George (1886). “Progress and Poverty: An Inquiry Into the Cause of Industrial Depressions, and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth [and] the Remedy”

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• If America can go to the moon, then in the decades to come we should not ever have to have young Americans sent to any part of the world to defend and die for America`s gluttony on fossil fuel.

  John F. Kerry

  Moon, America, Fossils

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• I wish to die painting.

  Paul Cezanne

  Life, Wish To Die, Painting

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• Stern fate and time Will have their victims; and the best die first, Leaving the bad still strong, though past their prime, To curse the hopeless world they ever curs'd Vaunting vile deeds, and vainest of the worst.

  Ebenezer Elliott

  Strong, Fate, Past

  Ebenezer Elliott, Mark Storey (2008). “Selected Poetry of Ebenezer Elliott”, p.61, Associated University Presse

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• I think there is no work of art which represents the spirit of a nation more surely than "Die Meister Singer" of Richard Wagner. Here is no plaything with local colour, but the raising to its highest power all that is best in the national consciousness of his country.

  Ralph Vaughan Williams

  Country, Art, Thinking

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• One day, a new ideal will arise, and there will be an end to all wars. I die convinced of this. It will need much hard work, but it will be achieved… The important thing, until that happens, is to hold one's banner high and to struggle… Without struggle there is no life.

  Kathe Kollwitz

  Peace, War, Struggle

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• Curiosity needs food as much as any of us, and dies soon if denied it.

  Stella Benson

  Curiosity, Needs, Denied

  Stella Benson (1916). “I Pose”

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• The English approach to ideas is not to kill them, but to let them die of neglect.

  Jeremy Paxman

  Ideas, Neglect, Approach

  Jeremy Paxman (2001). “The English: A Portrait of a People”, p.128, The Overlook Press

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• The poets are the standard bearers of language. Their work lives or dies word by word. When I write and can hear a clunky sentence, I try to write up to the poetry that I have recited beforehand.

  Janet Fitch

  Writing, Poetry, Trying

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• Tremble, ye tyrants, for ye can not die.

  Jacques Delille

  Tyrants, Tyranny, Can Not

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 825, L'Immortalité de l'Âme, 1922.

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• There is "a mental fatigue which is a spurious kind of remorse, and has all the anguish of the nobler feeling. It is an utter weariness and prostration of spirit, a sickness of heart and mind, a bitter longing to lie down and die.

  Mary Elizabeth Braddon

  Lying, Heart, Feelings

  Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1872). “Charlotte's Inheritance: A Novel”, p.68

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• It is often the case with finer natures, that when the fire of the spirit dies out with increasing age, the power of the intellect is unaltered or increased.

  Margaret Gatty

  Self Confidence, Fire, Age

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• What have we done to our images? What have we done to our embarrassed landscapes? I have said this before and will repeat it again as long as I am able to talk: if we do not develop adequate images we will die out like dinosaurs.

  Werner Herzog

  Long, Done, Adequate

  "Herzog on Herzog". Book by Werner Herzog, 2002.

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• I'll only live 'til I die

  Kris Kristofferson

  Song: The Silver Tongued Devil and I

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• It is not a choice of life, it is a choice of death. If this is life, I'd rather die.

  Ferdinand Marcos

  Choices, Ifs

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• They never die, who have the future in them.

  Meridel Le Sueur

  Motivation

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• I do not care to die, but I pray to God I may never leave this field.

  Winfield Scott Hancock

  Care, May, Fields

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• No other technology company other than Apple has successfully transitioned their platform. It's almost never done, and it's way harder than you realise. This transition is where tech companies go to die.

  Jim Balsillie

  Technology, Apples, Transition

  "RIM chiefs Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie's best quotes" by Charles Arthur, www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2012.

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• If they can fight and die on Okinawa, Guadalcanal (and) in the South Pacific, they can play ball in America.

  Happy Chandler

  Fighting, America, Play

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• Your silent thoughts are like the roots of a plant. They remain hidden in the dark recesses of the earth, but from them stems the whole plant--its life and form, its strength and beauty. From them and through them the plant lives and dies. So, too, your thoughts, although hidden, are your real, vital force.

  Lawrence G. Lovasik

  Real, Dark, Thinking

  Lawrence G. Lovasik (1999). “The Hidden Power of Kindness: A Practical Handbook for Souls who Dare to Transform the World, One Deed at a Time”, p.97, Sophia Institute Press

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• I have to go on writing because I wouldn't be able to go on without writing. It is the only function that works for me, and without that function, I would die.

  Farley Mowat

  Writing, Goes On, Able

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• If an appointed daughter by accident dies without ,leaving a son, the husband of the appointed daughter may, without hesitation, take that estate.

  Guru Nanak

  Daughter, Husband, Son

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• We might die from medication but we sure killed all the pain

  Conor Oberst

  Pain, Might, Killing

  Song: Lua

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