As long as we don't die, this is gonna be one hell of a story.
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As long as we don't die, this is gonna be one hell of a story.
I want to be a jazzman until the day I die. To help keep that motion, momentum and movement going, for myself, for my students, for the people who hear me. Oh sure, some days you look around at this country and look at the evidence and think, Oh Lord, don't look good. But you keep moving. You gotta keep moving.
It is terrible to die of thirst in the ocean. Do you have to salt your truth so heavily that it does not even-quench thirst any more?
To be unselfish, perfectly selfless, is salvation itself; for the man within dies, and God alone remains.
To die will be an awfully big adventure.
Abstract truth has no value unless it incarnates in human beings who represent it, by proving their readiness to die for it.
He thought it happier to be dead, To die for Beauty, than live for bread
Make sure your son and daughter understands they don't get to decide when or where they go to war. It is rich, predominantly white men in the House and Senate that have the power to send children of other parents - but not their own children - off to die [and] be injured in a senseless war.
I shall despair. There is no creature loves me;_x000D_ _x000D_ And if I die no soul will pity me:_x000D_ _x000D_ And wherefore should they, since that I myself_x000D_ _x000D_ Find in myself no pity to myself?
May I die like a dog rather than hasten the ripening of a sentence by a single second!
Live or die but don't poison everything.
What never vary are the necessities of being in the world, of having to labor and to die there.
The hind that would be mated by the lion _x000D_ _x000D_ Must die for love.
Civilization rests on a set of promises; if the promises are broken too often, the civilization dies, no matter how rich it may be, or how mechanically clever. Hope and faith depend on the promises; if hope and faith go, everything goes.
How base a thing it is when a man will struggle with necessity! We have to die.
Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep.
Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die. And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow and the triumphs that are the aftermath of war.
If a healthy soil is full of death, it is also full of life: worms, fungi, microorganisms of all kinds ... Given only the health of the soil, nothing that dies is dead for very long.
But the peasants - how do the peasants die?
Honey, we all got to go sometime, reason or no reason. Dying's as natural as living. The man who's too afraid to die is too afraid to live.
They say we die twice - once when the last breath leaves our body and once when the last person we know says our name.
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