Dying Quotes - Page 17

• If the rich could hire others to die for them we, the poor, would all make a nice living.

  Shimen Ruskin

  Death, Nice, Rich

  "Fictional character: Mordcha". "Fiddler on the Roof", www.imdb.com. 1971.

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• I hope this series is good work, but it is in the half-hour medium, which is limited to a kind of mediocrity that sponsors are just dying to have right now, and the public, for some reason, is unconsciously demanding.

  Jackie Cooper

  Half, Mediocrity, Kind

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• If there is a purpose in life at all, there must be a purpose in suffering and in dying. But no man can tell another what this purpose is. Each must find out for himself, and must accept the responsibility that his answer prescribes. If he succeeds he will continue to grow in spite of all indignities.

  Gordon Allport

  Adversity, Responsibility, Men

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• Non-Christians seem to think that the Incarnation implies some particular merit or excellence in humanity. But of course it implies just the reverse: a particular demerit and depravity. No creature that deserved Redemption would need to be redeemed. They that are whole need not the physician. Christ died for men precisely because men are not worth dying for; to make them worth it.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Men, Thinking

  C. S. Lewis (2002). “The World's Last Night: And Other Essays”, p.94, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A Christian is one who recognizes Jesus as the Christ, the Son of the living God, as God manifested in the flesh, loving us and dying for our redemption; and who is so affected by a sense of the love of this incarnate God as to be constrained to make the will of Christ the rule of his obedience, and the glory of Christ the great end for which He lives.

  Charles Hodge

  Christian, Jesus, Son

  Charles Hodge (1860). “An Exposition of the Second Epistle to the Corinthians”, p.133

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• Christ did not die for man because they were intrinsically worth dying for, but because he is intrinsically love, and therefore loves infinitely.

  C. S. Lewis

  Men, Miracle, Christ

  C. S. Lewis (1996). “Miracles: A Preliminary Study”, Touchstone Books

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• The song and dance didn't stop us dying. It just stopped the fear of death swallowing us up while we were still alive.

  Jackie French

  Song, Dancing, Swallowing

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• I have stood in a bar in Lambourn and been offered, in the space of five minutes, a poached salmon, a leg of a horse, a free trip to Chantilly, marriage, a large unsolicited loan, ten tips for a ten-horse race, two second-hand cars, a fight, and the copyright to a dying jockey's life story.

  Jeffrey Bernard

  Horse, Fighting, Race

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• Of course, the age-old tradition that a star must appear even if he or she is practically dying is an excellent one, but it can be carried too far. I one played a performance of The Knight of the Burning Pestle with a temperature of 103 and gave sixteen members of the company mumps, thereby closing the play and throwing everybody out of work. There may be a moral lurking somewhere in this, but I cannot for the life of me discover what it is.

  Noel Coward

  Stars, Knights, Play

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• A nation that does not support and encourage its theater is - if not dead - dying; just as a theater that does not capture with laughter and tears the social and historical pulse, the drama of its people, the genuine color of the spiritual and natural landscape, has no right to call itself theater; but only a place for amusement.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Spiritual, Laughter, Drama

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• Being is Dying by Loving.

  Meher Baba

  Path

  Meher Baba (1977). “The Mastery of Consciousness: An Introduction and Guide to Practical Mysticism and Methods of Spiritual Development”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

  Oscar Wilde

  Fashion, Children, Parent

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.19, Oscar Wilde

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• A dying people tolerates the present, rejects the future, and finds its satisfactions in past greatness and half remembered glory

  John Steinbeck

  Past, Greatness, People

  John Steinbeck (2003). “America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction”, p.318, Penguin

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• It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil,... that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

  George McGovern

  Death, Evil, Illness

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• I love the autumn for its sense of melancholy seems to strike my need for sadness. There is poetry in the dying of the year and mystery as well.

  Kyffin Williams

  Sadness, Autumn, Years

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• "I'm going over the valley." (Dying from throat cancer, his doctor found him wandering around his room, asked him where was he going?)

  Babe Ruth

  Cancer, Doctors, Valleys

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• When Death doth close his tender dying eyes.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Eye

  William Shakespeare (2015). “King Henry the Sixth: Parts I, II, and III”, p.57, Hackett Publishing

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• Don't be so scared of dying that you stop living.

  Santosh Mohan Dev

  Scared

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• Kids are dying from diarrhea ... that just shouldn't be in this day and age, and it's that kind of thing that needs to be changed. Enough is enough

  Brad Pitt

  Kids, Health, Age

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• ...in the midst of migrants in search of a better life there are people in need of protection: refugees and asylum-seekers, women and children victims of trafficking...Many move simply to avoid dying of hunger. When leaving is not an option but a necessity, this is more than poverty.

  Antonio Guterres

  Children, Moving, People

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• We should change our attitude toward the United Nations. There has to be some power in the world superior to our own. We should not have attacked Iraq without the okay of the United Nations. Now we have to live with that mistake. We're living with it, and too many of our guys are dying with it.

  Andy Rooney

  Change, Attitude, Mistake

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• Riegger's Dichotomy sounded as though a pack of rats were being slowly tortured to death while, from time to time, a dying cow moaned.

  Walter Abendroth

  Music, Cows, Rats

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• Marriage is worse than dying. Why stay with one person for fifty years? We advise against marriage.

  Joey Ramone

  Marriage, Years, Fifty

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• We need to stop the dying and start the living; stop the hunger and start the hoping.

  Penelope Cruz

  Needs, Hunger, World Hunger

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• Time mellows people as it mellows wine, as long as the grapes are good. You may set out to be a businesswoman or businessman but in the course of time end up caring for a dying parent, orphaned niece, or disabled brother. You may encounter illness yourself and end up being a writer, touching the heartstrings, not the purse strings of other people. That's why it's best to always be true to yourself and God and to be flexible within His will. He will use you.

  Barbara Johnson

  Time, Brother, Niece

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