Mortality Quotes - Page 17

• Remember that ofttimes the wisdom of God appears as foolishness to men, but the greatest single lesson we can learn in mortality is that when God speaks and a man obeys, that man will always be right.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Wisdom, Learning, Men

  FaceBook post by Thomas S Monson from Jul 07, 2014

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• It is the fancy of every mortal that being cradled in the arms of mortality is a safe place for the time being.

  Robert Breault

  Safe, Arms, Fancy

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• The biggest public health challenge is rebuilding health systems. In other words, if you look at cholera or maternal mortality or tuberculosis in Haiti, they're major problems in Haiti, but the biggest problem is rebuilding systems.

  Paul Farmer

  Challenges, Tuberculosis, Looks

  "Q&A: Dr. Paul Farmer and Ophelia Dahl on recovery efforts in Haiti". Interview with Molly Hennessy-Fiske, latimesblogs.latimes.com. January 29, 2011.

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• For a moment of night we have a glimpse of ourselves and of our world islanded in a stream of stars - pilgrims of mortality, voyaging between horizons across the eternal seas of space and time.

  Henry Beston

  Stars, Night, Our World

  "The Outermost House". Book by Henry Beston, www.wired.com. 1928.

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• The reason some men fear older women is they fear their own mortality.

  Frances Lear

  Men, Reason, Older Women

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• Beer is a gift from the goddesses, a soothing balm given our species to bring joy and comfort in compensation for the curse of self-awareness, the awful realization of our mortality

  Alan D. Eames

  Beer, Self, Joy

  Alan D. Eames (2014). “The Secret Life of Beer!: Exposed: Legends, Lore & Little-Known Facts”, p.15, Storey Publishing

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• O, let me kiss that hand! KING LEAR: Let me wipe it first; it smells of mortality.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Kissing, Hands

  William Shakespeare (2015). “King Lear: Tragedies by William Shakespeare”, p.163, 谷月社

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• Keeping the daily demands of life in balance is one of the great tasks of mortality. There is no peace for those whose lives are out of balance temporally or spiritually.

  Brent L. Top

  Balance, Tasks, Demand

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• Most estimates of the mortality risk posed by asteroid impacts put it at about the same risk as flying in a commercial airliner. However, you have to remember that this is like the entire human race riding the plane - it is one of the few risks that really could wipe us all out.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Impact, Race, Risk

  "We're All Gonna Die!" by Gregg Easterbrook, www.wired.com. July 1, 2003.

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• A health system that lacks commodities for managing high-mortality infectious diseases and the main killers of mothers and young children will not have an adequate impact. By the same token, even the best-stocked delivery system will have an inadequate impact if it fails to reach the poor.

  Margaret Chan

  Mother, Children, Impact

  "WHO director general Margaret Chan says fight for global health on all fronts" by Sarah Boseley, www.theguardian.com. May 9, 2011.

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• With spectacular events taking up so much of the available anxiety quotient, we need to be constantly reminded of the more workaday threats to our mortality - threats that, while they may also be functions of human error, have become so ubiquitous that we've begun to apprehend them as natural phenomena.

  Will Self

  Errors, Anxiety, Events

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• Most of my childhood revolved around wondering when we would be blown up by the Russians. I couldn't stand the news, I knew that if the missile were launched, mortality would arrive in half an hour, so I spent a lot of my childhood feeling that I was 30 minutes from being dead.

  Jane Smiley

  Childhood, Feelings, Would Be

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• I think when you see an aircraft fire, these angry, black puffs of smoke, knowing that one of them could kill you that you - you - you understand the seriousness of the mission. And you understand your own mortality.

  George H. W. Bush

  Thinking, Knowing, Fire

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• Mortality is very different when you're 20 to when you're 50.

  Keanu Reeves

  Different

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• An awareness of one's mortality can lead you to wake up and live an authentic, meaningful life.

  Bernie Siegel

  Meaningful, Wake Up, Awareness

  Bernie S. Siegel (2011). “Love, Medicine and Miracles: Lessons Learned about Self-Healing from a Surgeon's Experience with Exceptional Patients”, p.11, Harper Collins

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• In your own bosom you bear your heaven and earth,
  And all you behold, though it appears without,
  It is within, in your imagination,
  Of which this world of mortality is but a shadow.

  William Blake

  Imagination, Heaven, Shadow

  William Blake, David Fuller (2008). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, Longman Publishing Group

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• In these days before antiseptics, doctors themselves also suffered high mortality rates. Florence Nightingale, a nurse during the Crimean War (1853-1856), watched one particularly inept surgeon cut both himself and, somehow, a bystander while blundering about during an amputation. Both men contracted an infection and died, as did the patient. Nightingale commented that it was the only surgery she'd ever seen with 300 percent mortality.

  Sam Kean

  War, Cutting, Men

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• Focusing on the Lord and everlasting life can help us not only at Christmas, but through all the challenges of mortality.

  Russell M. Nelson

  Challenges, Helping, Lord

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• The earliest sensation at the onset of illness, often preceding the recognition of identifiable symptoms, is apprehension. Something has gone wrong, and a glimpse of mortality shifts somewhere deep in the mind. It is the most ancient of our fears.

  Lewis Thomas

  Mind, Glimpse, Gone

  Lewis Thomas (1996). “Fragile Species”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• My friends are Peter Gabriel, Bruce Springsteen, and we're singing about mortality, getting older. It's an interesting time.

  Sting

  Interesting, Singing, Getting Older

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• Since the beginning, a woman's first and most important role has been ushering into mortality spirit sons and daughters of our Father in Heaven.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Daughter, Father, Son

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• Yes, we've cut the maternal mortality rate in half, but far too many women are still denied critical access to reproductive health care and safe childbirth, and laws don't count for much if they're not enforced. Rights have to exist in practice - not just on paper. Laws have to be backed up with resources and political will. And deep-seated cultural codes, religious beliefs and structural biases have to be changed.

  Hillary Clinton

  Religious, Cutting, Rights

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• Probably I chose immortality because mortality is a universal human obsession.

  Joan D. Vinge

  Obsession, Immortality, Humans

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• We are daughters of our Heavenly Father. We are covenant-making women of all ages walking the path of mortality back to His presence. Keeping covenants protects us, prepares us, and empowers us.

  Rosemary M. Wixom

  Daughter, Father, Empowering

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• I wasn't prepared for death. Nobody is. You lose someone you love more than you love yourself, and you get a crash course in mortality. You lie awake night after night, wondering if you really believe in heaven and hell and finding all kinds of reasons to cling to faith, because you can't bear to believe they aren't out there somewhere, a few whispered words of a prayer away.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Prayer, Lying, Love Yourself

  FaceBook post by Karen Marie Moning from Nov 06, 2013

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