Life Or Death Quotes - Page 4

• One man's life or death were but a small price to pay for the acquirement of the knowledge which I sought

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Men, Pay, One Man

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1993). “Frankenstein”, p.23, Wordsworth Editions

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• Bring the absolute power to destroy other nations under the absolute control of all nations. Weapons of war must be abolished before they abolish us...No longer is the quest for disarmament a sign of weakness, (nor) the destruction of arms a dream - it is a practical matter of life or death. The risks inherent in disarmament pale in comparison to the risks inherent in an unlimited arms race.

  John F. Kennedy

  Dream, War, Race

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• Therefore if we realize that our nature and destiny are what they should be, we will have no anxiety and will be at ease with ourselves in the face of life or death, prominence or obscurity, or an infinite amount of changes and variations, and will be in accord with principle.

  Guo Xiang

  Change, Destiny, Anxiety

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• You are wrong, sir, if you think that a man who is any good at all should take into account the risk of life or death; he should look to this only in his actions, whether what he does is right or wrong, whether he is acting like a good or a bad man.

  Socrates

  Apology, Thinking, Men

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• Stated as an English sentence, of course, this is just a banal platitude - but the fact is that, in the day-to-day trenches of adult existence, banal platitudes can have life-or-death importance. That may sound like hyperbole, or abstract nonsense.

  David Foster Wallace

  Sound, Adults, May

  "'Plain Old Untrendy Troubles and Emotions'". www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2008.

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• Mankind must give up war in the Atomic Era. What is at stake is the life or death of humanity.

  Albert Einstein

  Peace, Giving Up, War

  Albert Einstein (2017). “Einstein on Peace”, p.594, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• People aren't often asked to make life or death decisions. There are no causes to die for. You can go through life never knowing which of your friends would really come through for you

  Bella Pollen

  Knowing, People, Decision

  Bella Pollen (2011). “Midnight Cactus”, p.320, Pan Macmillan

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• When one does not feel life or death, it's the best future.

  Sylvia Chang

  Doe, Feels

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• Fearful and unprepared, we have assumed lordship over the life or death of the whole world, of all living things.

  John Steinbeck

  World, Lordship, Fearful

  John Steinbeck (2003). “America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction”, p.147, Penguin

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• For an acrobat, the acting concepts of 'risk', 'a life or death situation' and 'trusting your partner' are visceral. If an actor loses focus, the scene dies; if an acrobat loses focus, their partner might die.

  Jeff Raz

  Focus, Risk, Acting

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• I'll bet most of the companies that are in life-or-death battles got into that kind of trouble because they didn't pay enough attention to developing their leaders.

  D. Wayne Calloway

  Leader, Coaching, Battle

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• Anything that brings you to a decision will be answered. The stronger the decision is, the faster it's answered. So if you're in a situation where it seems life or death, and the desire is strong, it is answered now, because it must be answered now to be answered at all.

  Esther Hicks

  Strong, Decision, Desire

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• I have long suspected that the power of speech is not a power at all, but a mere form of hysteria from which the living that really know the truth never suffer because they do not fear life or death as we do and can afford to be calm and silent. The frailest flower that blooms knows that it will rise from the dead in the next season's sun, breathe, feel again the dew and rain. Therefore these little ones make no such tragedy as we do of death.

  Corra May Harris

  Rain, Flower, Hysteria

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• Only in a true life or death scenario can you have mental clearness to know that you cannot feel guilty for surviving.

  George Zimmerman

  Life, Guilty, Feels

  "George Zimmerman accuses Obama of inflaming racial tensions" by Jethro Mullen, www.cnn.com. March 24, 2015.

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• I started as a GED instructor, I created my own GED program, and I realized that a lot of young people that don’t do well academically. It’s not that they don’t have the competency to do it or the skill set to do it; it’s just that they weren’t motivated to learn. They weren’t interested in school, so I started just talking to students and just really going in on them like, “Yo, this is life or death.”

  Eric Thomas

  School, Talking, Skills

  "Daily Word: Happy Holidays!! (You Have to Want Success As Bad As You Want To Breathe!!)". Interview with Ash Cash, allhiphop.com. December 25, 2012.

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• I come to you with only Karate, Empty Hands. I have no weapons, but should I be forced to defend myself, my principles or my honor, should it be a matter of life or death, of right or wrong, then here are my weapons, Karate, my Empty Hands.

  Ed Parker

  Hands, Honor, Principles

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• Women in particular seem to say things like, "I'm sure I'd be the one screaming and not moving in an emergency." I don't think that's the case. People who've been through really horrible life-or-death situations say that nobody behaves the way they would have expected. But that said, there are predictors.

  Amanda Ripley

  Moving, Thinking, People

  "Five Ways to Survive Any Disaster". Interview with Jen Quraishi, www.motherjones.com. June 9, 2008.

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• When it becomes a part of every man's thinking that a single thought can change the polarity of our entire body toward either life or death - and can likewise change its entire chemistry toward increasing alkalinity or acidity to strengthen it or weaken it - or can change the shape of every corpuscle of matter in the entire body in the direction of either growth or decay - then the medical profession will radically change both its principles and its practices with the ailment of bodies.

  Walter Russell

  Life, Healing, Thinking

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• I am with the South in life or death, in victory or defeat. I believe the North is about to wage a brutal and unholy war on a people who have done them no wrong, in violation of the Constitution and the fundamental principles of government. They no longer acknowledge that all government derives its validity from the consent of the governed. They are about to invade our peaceful homes, destroy our property, and murder our men and dishonor our women. We propose no invasion of the North, no attack on them, and only ask to be left alone.

  Patrick Cleburne

  War, Believe, Home

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