c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
Writing novels is largely about endurance and patience. I take a lot of breaks, hit walls, and go do something else while I think things through. But I do it every day, and I try to treat it as a job, something that is not dictated by whimsy or muses.
— Adam Mansbach
Science is to be much commended for the ingenuity, the patience, and the persistency it displays in the invention of instruments wherewith to ferret out the secrets of nature.
— Max Heindel
I believe there's too little patience and context to many of the investigations I read or see on television.
— Bob Woodward
You have to have patience to be a legislator.
— Gene Green
An Englishman bears with patience any ridicule which foreigners cast upon him. John Bull never laughs so loudly as when he laughs at himself but the Americans are nationally sensitive and cannot endure that good-humoured raillery which jests at their weaknesses and foibles. 
— Isabella Bird
When I returned from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1972, my father was running a forging business with a turnover of Rs 3.5 crore. But I had no patience and wanted to grow the business via exports.
— Baba Kalyani
Artists know that diligence counts as much, if not more, as inspiration; in art, as in politics, patience counts as much as revolution.
— Tony Kushner
For believers, both privilege and privation are a trial, and both demand responses: one demands service, and the other demands patience. The greatest privilege is to live well in flourishing lands; the greatest privation is to live in the midst of war, especially civil war.
— Hamza Yusuf
The perfect ham and cheese sandwich is all about focusing on quality ingredients and about simple techniques. You start with great bread, a well-cured ham and a sharp local cheese, and the rest is easy. A little butter in a pan and a little patience - in the end you'll have a sandwich that is at once comforting and delicious.
— Daniel Humm
I'm constantly looking for ways to learn and elevate your craft, patience for yourself, and patience for this business. It's not a fair business. You may be great, but it may take years for someone to notice what you're capable of because of politics.
— Aldis Hodge
Writing is boring, very boring, and it takes so much patience.
— Ingmar Bergman
I didn't choose 'Silver Spoons'. I think my mom and agent chose it because at that time there was a lack of patience on some of the people that were in charge of my career. I think there was a big offer on the table, and I think they took it.
— Ricky Schroder
I still have to work on patience.
— Robert Mueller
I think all musicians have at one time or another experienced one physical problem or another. I have had tendinitis a couple of times, so I try to be really careful. It takes patience and persistence to overcome injury.
— Yo-Yo Ma
My mum told me to have patience. It's about realising that when things aren't going the way you want them to, or you don't have inspiration, it will come.
— Vanessa Paradis
There is no harm in patience, and no profit in lamentation. Death is easier to bear (than) that which precedes it, and more severe than that which comes after it. Remember the death of the Apostle of God, and your sorrow will be lessened.
— Abu Bakr
I don't know the definition of a star; I am just an actor. I prefer doing hard work, as I feel luck can't do much in absence of hard work. I am a lazy person - when I entered into this industry, I thought it was a cakewalk, but I have realised it needs a lot of patience and hard work.
— Emraan Hashmi
If I am told to be at a shoot at 10 A.M., I am ready on time. By 11:30, I lose my patience. After that, I keep threatening to leave the sets if they don't begin soon. It works sometimes.
— Emraan Hashmi
Earlier, looking lighter or slimmer never mattered to me. Frankly, I didn't care. I had more important things to do. But when I figured that it's not that hard, and I have the time, passion and patience to take it up, I jumped onto the health-wagon. I started working out.
— Kajol
Movies require a lot of patience. I like instant results. If I have done something that's not funny at all, the audience will let me know in two seconds. With the movie, I will have to wait nine months to know if I was that bad.
— Vir Das
Because I'm the author of my screenplays I know what I'm looking for. It's true that I can be stubborn in demanding that I get what I want, but it's also a question of working with patience and love.
— Michael Haneke
There are very little things in this life I cannot afford and patience is one of them.
— Larry Hagman
If I could have one prayer answered, I would pray for patience. I move so fast sometimes. I try to slow down.
— Debra Winger
The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.
— John Major
Give your dog or cat respect, patience, understanding and love. And if you just change to one vegetarian day a week, that's a wonderful step that will save animal lives. It means you have chosen something kind instead of something cruel.
— Ingrid Newkirk
One problem with age is that patience begins to ebb.
— Carl Hiaasen
I have all the patience in the world about Sirens. For me it's not a Grateful Dead project, it's a Me project.
— Jerry Garcia
I think I have more patience now than I did in the past.
— T. Boone Pickens
Horses teach you patience and how to do things the right way so you can get the right result.
— Lyle Lovett
I always tell up-and-coming DJs you have to really love what you do and find that interest to drive you. It requires so much attention to detail, and it takes up a lot of your time. You hear a song, and there are so many little pieces that make that song work. It requires a lot of patience, diligence and resilience.
— Steve Aoki
Patience was not something that came naturally to me, but in cooking it is the quintessential skill.
— Gail Simmons
You know, I lose patience really easily; I'd rather shop in the grocery store than in the department store. I can pick an apple like nobody's business.
— Gail Simmons
I would be horrible at Twitter. I wouldn't know the answer to fans' questions half the time - and the patience involved! I couldn't imagine. I did have a Twitter account that I tried for a couple days, but found I had nothing to say.
— Jim Parsons
When I first started submitting my work professionally - and we're talking years and years ago - I had no patience for editorial response times. I hated waiting to hear back from people, hated waiting to see my work in print.
— Cullen Bunn
Does anyone want to see a person who's making the money that the newspapers say I'm making complaining, 'Woe is me, my life is terrible, and people are being unfair?' No one would've had any patience for that. I wouldn't have any patience for that.
— Matt Lauer
Everyone is given one gift, a reason for being, and it's our obligation to do something with it. Obviously, it's a challenge - but if you're not taking the bull by the horns, I have no patience for you. You're just taking up space.
— Melissa Rosenberg
When I was 20, I thought I was 30 - but I was so far from it. When you're young, you want everything to happen now. As you mature, you can look back and see all the great things you achieved with time and patience.
— Elisha Cuthbert
In this day and age, you need a lot of patience if you are in the movie business.
— Brett Ratner
Honestly, I didn't have the patience for biology or history in an academic sense, but I always liked the kind of big questions.
— Andrew Bird
The notion that patience is a virtue is something you don't fully appreciate until you're a parent. You need endless patience with little ones.
— Deirdre O'Kane
I make really good pasta sauce. The secret to getting it right is just patience and love.
— Banks
I have no patience at all.
— Alan Sugar
I make a mean pecan pie, and I have a great recipe for pralines - also using pecans. Pralines take a lot of patience, and patience is a must in the duck blind as well as in the kitchen. Good things come to those who wait.
— Phil Robertson
People ask me a lot about the values I got from playing for the Cubs for so many years. The value I got out of it was patience. A lot of people these days are not very patient.
— Ernie Banks
When you bat, you need to have a lot of patience. I started training for it from the age of eight or nine. So, I knew what I needed when I stepped on the field to bat.
— Mohammad Azharuddin
Republican patience with how unionism deals with the political institutions, and with key issues like equality and human rights, will be tested because, obviously, there will be a battle a day on these matters. So lets face up to all of this with our eyes wide open.
— Gerry Adams
Patience is the art of hoping.
— Luc de Clapiers
I'm not about my breasts; I'm just about good health, OK. I'm not afraid of doing what I need to do to stay here. I really don't understand women who are in denial, who don't want to go for a mammogram. I think it's stupidity. Sorry. I have no patience for that.
— Jaclyn Smith
If you were to ask me when I was 17 if I was mad because I didn't have a deal, I would have probably said, 'Yeah.' Now I'm so glad I got it when I got it. People tell you to be patient and wait. Patience is not a virtue of mine, but I think everything definitely happened the right way for me.
— Chris Young
My impression is that most women public service workers have a long fuse. Precisely because they care so deeply about services, more than anyone, they still want to find a sensible and fair negotiated agreement. But their patience has run out.
— Frances O'Grady
I don't have a lot of patience for boring arthouse movies.
— Zoe Kazan
Patience is key. You can't get selfish, and that's the number one thing I've learned at WWE. The world continues to go round, and I just knew - given the right opportunity and the right moment - that the world would know I was good, but now the world knows that I'm great.
— Sasha Banks
So when I do Chinese cooking, I mix everything together, then the kids have to eat their vegetables. They won't have the patience to pick them out.
— Martin Yan
The principle part of faith is patience.
— George MacDonald
For me, most writing consists of siphoning out useless pre-story matter, cutting and cutting and cutting, what seems to be endless rewriting, and what is entailed in all that is patience, and waiting, and false starts, and dead ends, and really, in a way, nerve.
— Deborah Eisenberg
I tell people a lot of times, if you want to be a part of something, you never know, you kind of just have to be around. A lot of people don't really have the patience for it, and they don't stick around. Dre and I are still working together, and we have plenty of music for the future.
— Anderson Paak
I don't think I have the ability or patience to teach badminton to others.
— Saina Nehwal
Honestly, Americans are more open-minded and have the patience and the time for new types of music. In Australia and New Zealand, you must earn your place.
— Gin Wigmore
Negative thinking patterns can be immensely deceptive and persuasive, and change is rarely easy. But with patience and persistence, I believe that nearly all individuals suffering from depression can improve and experience a sense of joy and self-esteem once again.
— David D. Burns
I think as more people use the phones to access the Internet, they have a lot less patience for trying to find things on the search engines. That is because you need to figure a lot of things out for search to work.
— Adam D'Angelo
The key to sauces is having patience. I'm not a patient woman, but I learned with sauces that you have to get everything on a slow roll and layer the flavors. That's where you get robust tastes: it starts one way and ends another.
— Kelis
My wife makes fun of me by calling me a grandpa because I have very little patience for inconsiderate children. So if we're walking in the mall, and some kid goes by really fast on a skateboard, I become the grumpiest eighty-five-year-old man in the world and start screaming at them.
— Rob McClure
The patience that goes with the game, the little things that go along with the game, you have so much more time to think in golf than you do in football - you have to keep your thoughts positive. I'm not sure I've got that mastered.
— John Elway
I've worked so hard to eliminate the inner geek from my life. I suddenly realize I have no patience for those people who still have their geeks showing. Now I see why being 'normal' has been so important to me.
— Kenny Loggins
I've said my patience is not infinite.
— Darrell Issa
Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair.
— Matthew Arnold
Coaching takes patience. I'm more enthused when teaching players who want it versus when I have to.
— Kevin Garnett
My relationship with the Philharmonia Orchestra brought me many times to London and I will always reflect positively on that early period of development with them - their patience, their warmth, their dedication.
— Gustavo Dudamel
Right-wing extremism is all about patience. That is, until it makes its move, and then it is sudden and explosive.
— Steven Weber
Is the patience of the American people that long suffering? Is there no outrage left in the country?
— Andrew Greeley
Thank God my parents had an abundance of patience.
— Lexa Doig
When people see a legend, they call it a legend. But to be a legend, it's a lot of hard work and patience. You can't play for five or ten years and be a legend. It takes longer than that.
— Burning Spear
An impatient person plays differently than a more patient person.
— Vladimir Kramnik
Secretary of War Stanton used to get out of patience with Lincoln because he was all the time pardoning men who ought to be shot.
— Elihu Root
A final word: I am not knowledgeable about the internet. I do not have a computer. I guess that at 74 years of age, I don't have the patience to learn.
— David Wilkerson
No, you're not allowed to be bossy when you're married. You have to learn compromise, and compassion and patience.
— Star Jones
Generations of gun owners have taught their sons and daughters that it takes as much patience and skill to be a good shot as it does to be a good steward of a powerful weapon.
— Gabrielle Giffords
I've always been a person with patience, and I don't like to force things.
— Harry Shum, Jr.
I'm patient with crossword puzzles and the most impatient golfer.
— Brett Hull
Americans have less and less patience for the intrusive and divisive moral scolds who thrived in the bubbles of the Clinton and Bush years.
— Frank Rich
Serbia has shown enough patience, but it has also sent a clear and strong message that the law must be respected and that no one is stronger than the state.
— Ivica Dacic
When I have a job to do, time means nothing. I lose patience with people who work on a clock.
— Don Cornelius
And we ask the American people to play an important part of our layered defense. We ask for cooperation, patience and a commitment to vigilance in the face of a determined enemy.
— Janet Napolitano
Of course I would never compare myself to someone who actually went through a war, but I definitely matured shooting 'The Pacific.' I'm more calm and I have more patience.
— Rami Malek
When I said a few weeks ago that our people would eat cooking oil and olives if necessary, I didn't mean that there really would be only oil and olives. What I meant was that our people have the necessary patience to endure the current difficult situation. Palestinians would rather do without certain food items than their national rights.
— Ismail Haniyeh
The biggest challenge, I think for any new artist, is patience.
— Brett Eldredge
I've always admired teachers for their patience and purpose in choosing their profession.
— Eve Arden
When traveling with someone, take large does of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee.
— Helen Hayes
I've got to give my neighbors a bottle of wine or something because I was just screaming into microphones and learning how to play instruments, and it was a lesson in patience for them, I believe.
— Joshua Ostrander
I can imagine few things more trying to the patience than the long wasted days of waiting.
— Robert Falcon Scott
The lions taught me photography. They taught me patience and the sense of beauty, a beauty that penetrates you.
— Yann Arthus-Bertrand
As for goals, I don't set myself those anymore. I'm not one of these 'I must have achieved this and that by next year' kind of writers. I take things as they come and find that patience and persistence tend to win out in the end.
— Paul Kane
I don't believe moviegoers don't have patience. Screenwriters are told a scene can't be longer than three minutes, that you have to cut to the chase. Not true!
— Tracy Letts
I have so little patience with the whole Y.A. book thing. As far as I'm concerned, you either read books for children or you read books for adults.
— Richard K. Morgan
Writing takes a lot of patience. It usually takes me a year to write a book. One time, it took me 14 years to write a book, not that I worked on it every day.
— Avi
I think both running and science reflect certain character traits. I have endurance, patience, and ambition. I'm willing to work hard toward a goal, to push myself and overcome limits. Running and science both let me express these traits.
— Wolfgang Ketterle
Americans' distrust of the conspicuously intellectual - a habit we learned, I suppose, on the frontier, but which remains a feature of the national character - has the virtue of puncturing the pretentious and exposing the fake, but it may also have impaired American listeners' patience for music that is especially complex or austere.
— Steven Stucky
I haven't got a lot of patience.
— Jeffrey Katzenberg
I pray they will carry on in spite of that dreadful monster prejudice, and with patience, courage, fortitude and perseverance achieve success for themselves.
— Major Taylor
A show that no one thought had a chance has just finished its fifth year: Charmed. I think it's tougher for the younger networks, so I think they have a little more patience for the sake of the show. But who knows?
— Aaron Spelling
It's amazing. My kids have grown me in ways I never knew possible. The patience I've received and the love I get from them is just amazing.
— Candace Cameron Bure
I think the Iraqi people have shown extraordinary patience and courage in the last few months. They have really put a political system on the way to success, to a real democracy here.
— Paul Bremer
I wish I was a shredder that could play everything, but I don't have the patience.
— Dave Navarro
A career in showbiz is like a distance run. You have to have patience and pace yourself.
— Tate Donovan
Looking back, I didn't have the patience to work in fashion. I like women so much, but I was never qualified to torture them in photo shoots. You have to be really tough and brutal.
— Rene Burri
The single biggest advantage a value investor has is not IQ. It's patience and waiting. Waiting for the right pitch, and waiting for many years for the right pitch.
— Mohnish Pabrai
Towards my husband, I often fail to show interest in his affairs and amusements, not rousing myself to respond when I'm tired or concerned with other things, forgetting he is very patient with me.
— Evelyn Underhill
Constant repetition of tongue-twisters was like lifting weights for me, but patience and persistence have paid off.
— Nicholas Brendon
People need patience. It takes time to build a brand.
— Carmen Busquets
When you read about a car crash in which two or three youngsters are killed, do you pause to dwell on the amount of love and treasure and patience parents poured into bodies no longer suitable for open caskets?
— Jim Bishop
True enough, nature has endowed me with a fair measure of patience and composure, yet I should be lying if I told you that, having seen the reporter off on his way to make his deadline, I fell peacefully asleep.
— Leon Jouhaux
Speaking from my experience as a person involved for a long time in building the European Union, it is important to have patience and efforts to build a community of nations.
— Giorgio Napolitano
Patience has never been my strong suit.
— Michael Chiklis
In my experience, not just in shooting films but in the commercials I've done, initially, it's very exciting for the community, and its a real novelty. Very quickly, though, they realize there's a buck to be had, and it becomes annoying, and they lose their patience pretty quick.
— John Curran
The practice of patience toward one another, the overlooking of one another's defects, and the bearing of one another's burdens is the most elementary condition of all human and social activity in the family, in the professions, and in society.
— Lawrence G. Lovasik
I think there's not much patience for organized labour, period, public or private sector.
— Kathleen Wynne
Kids teach you a lot of patience.
— Mona Singh
Like anyone, you could love someone, and it doesn't mean that you're equipped or you were taught or have the patience or the love or the wherewithal to be a good parent. One has nothing to do with the other.
— Elizabeth Rodriguez
We are telling the American people to have patience, courage, resolve and determination.
— Muammar al-Gaddafi
Your patience would fail you if I should continue to relate all the disrespectful speeches and treatment which your servants have been obliged to listen to and patiently to bear.
— Peter Stuyvesant
A nation may be born in a day, but the great truths which make for the glory and uplift of the race only through long ages permeate and control humanity. We must have the divine patience and understand the divine mathematics of a thousand years as one day.
— David Josiah Brewer
I think God's really blessed me with patience. I'm good with a lot of things going on at once.
— Niki Taylor
I don't have much patience with sick people.
— Maura Tierney
When I was on the bench, I used to have a yellow pad, and I put on the pad at the beginning of the day, 'patience' and 'restraint.'
— Joseph Wapner
I have a huge respect for writers and realise that this is not an area that I find easy. I doubt that I would have the patience in front of a blank sheet of paper to become a writer.
— Jenny Agutter
I will exercise patience and will provide all facts to the general public.
— Yingluck Shinawatra
I have very little patience with children.
— Mem Fox
Deep down, I know that I am a child of God who has inherited divine capacities; some of them I strive to develop, others are left languishing. I also have a human side. I lose my temper, lose patience and sometimes judge others and myself.
— Mary Manin Morrissey
Not only will this make you treat each moment more preciously, but you will be more patient with yourself and with others, recognizing that there are millions of moments on the path to any worthwhile achievement.
— Menachem Mendel Schneerson
Beauty, unlike the rest of the gifts handed out at birth, does not require dedication, patience and hard work to pay off. But it's also the only gift that does not keep on giving.
— Paulina Porizkova
Anyhow, a philosophical turn of thought now was not amiss, else one's patience would have given out almost at the harbour entrance. The term of her probation was eight days.
— Joshua Slocum
I think film requires a lot more patience and concentration and each day you're keeping the entire picture in your head throughout a two to three month film shoot. Whereas TV, especially half hour, is like doing a play a week or live theater.
— Shawnee Smith
The Italians are not indulgent, as Americans are. They don't have the patience to teach young singers how to move. They think you should learn in school.
— Marcello Giordani
Everything is out there if you know how to find it, and have the patience. I don't and haven't, but that's my problem.
— Tom Holt
Patience is passion tamed.
— Lyman Abbott
That's why I never became a director. I never had patience with people.
— Ray Harryhausen
Talent is required, but much of writing is a matter of craft, which develops with time, attention, patience and practice, like playing an instrument or learning to dance.
— Susan Wiggs
I couldn't be a director because I couldn't put up with the actors. I don't have the patience. Why, I'd probably kill the actors. Not to mention some of the beautiful actresses.
— Spencer Tracy
God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction.
— Richard Cecil
It has taken a great deal of energy, which has not been so difficult to summon as the necessary patience to wait, simply wait much of the time - until my instincts assured me that I had assembled my materials in proper order for a final welding into their natural form.
— Hart Crane
If I am right about the big picture, I will be rewarded for my patience.
— Thomas Kaplan
And so, at the age of thirty, I had successively disgraced myself with three fine institutions, each of which had made me free of its full and rich resources, had trained me with skill and patience, and had shown me nothing but forbearance and charity when I failed in trust.
— Simon Raven
I've been called Mr. Patient Money because I have the patience to work through challenging circumstances.
— N. Murray Edwards
As a young boy, I read 'Cheaper by the Dozen' and immediately became neurotic about my use of time. It taxed me severely, but only for the next 50 years. But I think it also allowed me to discipline myself to sit in the chair and be a writer, where one of the most needed qualities is patience.
— Ridley Pearson
This is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and what a Man's resolution can achieve.
— Wilkie Collins
He preacheth patience that never knew pain.
— Henry George Bohn
My wife is my favorite person I've ever met in my 40 years on the planet, and I'm sure she would agree that patience is not her strongest characteristic. I don't know that golf would be the game for her.
— Mike Greenberg
As I pass it, I feel as if I saw a dear old mother, sweet in her weakness, trembling at the approach of her dissolution, but not appealing to me against the inevitable, rather endeavouring to reassure me by her patience, and pointing to a hopeful future.
— Thomas Edward Brown
After months of preparation working with a stylist who explained to me how a fashion house runs and the process of making a dress, I developed a respect for the patience and skill it takes to design these dresses.
— Pierre Niney
Difficult years lie ahead, patience is required.
— Yiannis Stournaras
A philosopher goes where the truth leads and has no patience with mere emotion.
— John C. Wright
My biggest weakness is patience, wanting to see things happen too quickly or get changes in place right away. Not having the patience to let things develop.
— Paul Gleason
So it's been a slow process and it's taken some patience. That's why patients are called patients I think - patience is required.
— Bowie Kuhn
I am very hopeful that my personal success in Qatar will ignite others, especially those in the so-called non-traditional sports, to try even harder because now they can see for themselves that significant achievements can be attained. But let me stress that it takes a lot of work - in fact, very hard work - mixed with very heavy doses of patience.
— Alia Atkinson
I've done an awful lot of stuff that's a monument to public patience.
— Tyrone Power
The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
I don't fear death so much as I fear its prologues: loneliness, decrepitude, pain, debilitation, depression, senility. After a few years of those, I imagine death presents like a holiday at the beach.
— Mary Roach
Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life.
— Corazon Aquino
I don't have no fear of death. My only fear is coming back reincarnated.
— Tupac Shakur
For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.
— Khalil Gibran
Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive.
— Brian Clough
Yes, people pull the trigger - but guns are the instrument of death. Gun control is necessary, and delay means more death and horror.
— Eliot Spitzer
Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
— Socrates
In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
— Benjamin Franklin
When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.
— Tecumseh
Cowards die many times before their deaths the valiant never taste of death but once. 
— William Shakespeare
Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.
— Lao Tzu
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.
— Leonardo da Vinci
Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.
— John Wayne
Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!
— Patrick Henry
There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.
— Nelson Mandela
A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
— Fidel Castro
No matter how devastating our struggles, disappointments, and troubles are, they are only temporary. No matter what happens to you, no matter the depth of tragedy or pain you face, no matter how death stalks you and your loved ones, the Resurrection promises you a future of immeasurable good.
— Josh McDowell
Without health life is not life it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death. 
— Buddha
God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives; who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves?
— Friedrich Nietzsche
While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
— Leonardo da Vinci
Hatred is corrosive of a person's wisdom and conscience; the mentality of enmity can poison a nation's spirit, instigate brutal life and death struggles, destroy a society's tolerance and humanity, and block a nation's progress to freedom and democracy.
— Liu Xiaobo
Some people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75.
— Benjamin Franklin
Death is not extinguishing the light it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come. 
— Rabindranath Tagore
Who am I? Not the body, because it is decaying; not the mind, because the brain will decay with the body; not the personality, nor the emotions, for these also will vanish with death.
— Ramana Maharshi
The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.
— Joseph Stalin
Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.
— Tryon Edwards
There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death. Whether it's the mundane violence we do to our bodies by overeating toxic food or drink or the extreme violence of child abuse, domestic warfare, life-threatening poverty, addiction, or state terrorism.
— bell hooks
I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.
— J. Robert Oppenheimer
Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death.
— Sun Tzu
As one whose husband and mother-in-law have died the victims of murder and assassination, I stand firmly and unequivocally opposed to the death penalty for those convicted of capital offenses... An evil deed is not redeemed by an evil deed of retaliation.
— Coretta Scott King
Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.
— Unknown
I have come to regard November as the older, harder man's October. I appreciate the early darkness and cooler temperatures. It puts my mind in a different place than October. It is a month for a quieter, slightly more subdued celebration of summer's death as winter tightens its grip.
— Henry Rollins
Give me liberty or give me death.
— Patrick Henry
Suicide is man's way of telling God, 'You can't fire me - I quit.'
— Bill Maher
No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.
— Steve Jobs
Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
— Buddha
Our criminal justice system is fallible. We know it, even though we don't like to admit it. It is fallible despite the best efforts of most within it to do justice. And this fallibility is, at the end of the day, the most compelling, persuasive, and winning argument against a death penalty.
— Eliot Spitzer
Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it's much more serious than that.
— Bill Shankly
How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.
— George MacDonald
People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend.
— Jim Morrison
Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself.
— Martin Heidegger
We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap.
— Anthony Hopkins
The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.
— Will Rogers
Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.
— Omar N. Bradley
Nothing in life is promised except death.
— Kanye West
If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn't worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality. And to me, sailing the open ocean is a real challenge, because it's life or death.
— Morgan Freeman
The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.
— Lois McMaster Bujold
The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.
— Mark Twain
Providing patients and consumers with solid information on the cost and quality of their healthcare options can literally make the difference between life or death and play a decisive role in whether a family or employer can afford healthcare. 
— Timothy Murphy
If we don't know life, how can we know death?
— Confucius
I intend to live forever, or die trying.
— Groucho Marx
To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.
— Buddha
Childhood vaccines are one of the great triumphs of modern medicine. Indeed, parents whose children are vaccinated no longer have to worry about their child's death or disability from whooping cough, polio, diphtheria, hepatitis, or a host of other infections.
— Ezekiel Emanuel
Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.
— W. H. Auden
Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws.
— Jim Morrison
The true face of smoking is disease, death and horror - not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry try to portray.
— David Byrne
I need your help. I am injured, near death, and too weak to hike out of here. I am all alone. This is no joke. In the name of God, please remain to save me. I am out collecting berries close by and shall return this evening. Thank you, Chris McCandless.
— Christopher McCandless
The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The three touchstones that woke Buddha up - sickness, old age, and death - are a pretty good place to start when crafting a tragic tale. And if we need to get more specific: heartbreak, destruction, miscomprehension, natural disasters, betrayal, and the waste of human potential.
— Paul Di Filippo
Crucial to understanding federalism in modern day America is the concept of mobility, or 'the ability to vote with your feet.' If you don't support the death penalty and citizens packing a pistol - don't come to Texas. If you don't like medicinal marijuana and gay marriage, don't move to California.
— Rick Perry
No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
— Plato
The death penalty issue is obviously a divisive one. But whether one is for or against, you can not deny the basic illogic - if we know the system is flawed, if we know there are innocent people on Death Row, then until the system is reformed, should we not abandon the death penalty to protect those who are innocent?
— Richard LaGravenese
There is but One God. His name is Truth He is the Creator. He fears none he is without hate. He never dies He is beyond the cycle of births and death. He is self-illuminated. He is realized by the kindness of the True Guru. He was True in the beginning He was True when the ages commenced and has ever been True. He is also True now. 
— Guru Nanak
The death penalty is ineffective as a deterrent, and the appeals process is expensive and cruel to the surviving family members.
— Martin O'Malley
If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death, human life cannot be complete.
— Viktor E. Frankl
Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death.
— Miyamoto Musashi
The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.
— Edgar Allan Poe
They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person. 
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.
— Vladimir Nabokov
Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.
— Leo Tolstoy
Do I favor the death penalty? Theoretically, I do, but when you realize that there's a 4 percent error rate, you end up putting guilty people to death.
— Gary Johnson
If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
The death of the forest is the end of our life.
— Dorothy Stang
Benjamin Franklin said there were only two things certain in life: death and taxes. But I'd like to add a third certainty: trash. And while some in this room might want to discuss reducing taxes, I want to talk about reducing trash.
— Ruth Ann Minner
I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.
— George Carlin
It is really very important while you are young to live in an environment in which there is no fear. Most of us, as we grow older, become frightened; we are afraid of living, afraid of losing a job, afraid of tradition, afraid of what the neighbours, or what the wife or husband would say, afraid of death.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
Life and death are illusions. We are in a constant state of transformation.
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
I'll never forget Hurricane Katrina - the mix of a natural and a man-made catastrophe that resulted in the death of over 1,500 of our neighbors. Millions of folks were marked by the tragedy.
— Cedric Richmond
Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is important to feel the anger without judging it, without attempting to find meaning in it. It may take many forms: anger at the health-care system, at life, at your loved one for leaving. Life is unfair. Death is unfair. Anger is a natural reaction to the unfairness of loss.
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a great man.
— James Dean
Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.
— J. R. R. Tolkien
Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives.
— Abu Bakr
There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.
— Ernest Hemingway
Attachment and aversion are the root cause of karma, and karma originates from infatuation. Karma is the root cause of birth and death, and these are said to be the source of misery. None can escape the effect of their own past karma.
— Mahavira
Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.
— Emily Dickinson
Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order.
— David Gerrold
Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our arms.
— Che Guevara
In Hinduism, Shiva is a deity who represents transformation. Through destruction and restoration, Shiva reminds us that endings are beginnings, and that our world is constantly undergoing a cycle of birth, death and rebirth.
— Karen Salmansohn
Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.
— Bill Shankly
The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
— Robert M. Hutchins
You know, the Bible is so clear. Go to Genesis chapter nine and you will find the death penalty clearly stated in Genesis chapter nine... God ordains the death penalty!
— Rafael Cruz
The goal of all life is death.
— Sigmund Freud
Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.
— Coco Chanel
To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.
— Aristotle
The meaning of life is not to be discovered only after death in some hidden, mysterious realm; on the contrary, it can be found by eating the succulent fruit of the Tree of Life and by living in the here and now as fully and creatively as we can.
— Paul Kurtz
One-third of our people were dangerously ill, getting worse hourly, and we felt sure of meeting the same fate, with death as our only prospect, which in such a country was much worse yet.
— Alvar N. C. de Vaca
Justifying conscription to promote the cause of liberty is one of the most bizarre notions ever conceived by man! Forced servitude, with the risk of death and serious injury as a price to live free, makes no sense.
— Ron Paul
Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.
— Mark Twain
I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.
— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
— Woody Allen
I found the experience of falling in love or being in love was a death: a death of everything. You kind of watch yourself die in a wonderful way, and you experience for the briefest moment - if you see yourself for a moment through their eyes - everything you believed about yourself gone. In a death-and-rebirth sense.
— Hozier
The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.
— Norman Cousins
Death can't be considered because, if you're afraid to die, there's no room in your life to make discoveries.
— James Dean
Death and life have their determined appointments riches and honors depend upon heaven. 
— Confucius
Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.
— Socrates
Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal.
— Adlai E. Stevenson
The longer your life goes on, the more death you face.
— Patrick Swayze
There's nothing like impending death to rouse you from existential boredom.
— Roger Ebert
It's funny how most people love the dead, once you're dead, you're made for life.
— Jimi Hendrix
When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead.
— John Greenleaf Whittier
I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.
— Woody Allen
I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other.
— Harriet Tubman
The death penalty is discriminatory and does not do anything about crime.
— Bobby Scott
Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world.
— Mary Shelley
The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death so are statues and inscriptions so is history. 
— Lew Wallace
Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time... It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other.
— Leo Buscaglia
The disembodied spirit is immortal there is nothing of it that can grow old or die. But the embodied spirit sees death on the horizon as soon as its day dawns. 
— Thomas Hobbes
The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives all else is claimed by death. 
— Edmund Spenser
The ideal death, I think, is what was the ideal Victorian death, you know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.
— Terry Pratchett
Nothing seemed more important to me than to make the world aware of the senseless death and starvation in South Sudan. I wanted people to see through the eyes of the suffering so my photos might motivate the international community to act.
— Lynsey Addario
I am He who lives, and was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore. Amen. And I have the keys of Hades and of Death.
— Jesus Christ
An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.
— Jose Ortega y Gasset
Good music comes out of people playing together, knowing what they want to do and going for it. You have to sweat over it and bug it to death. You can't do it by pushing buttons and watching a TV screen.
— Keith Richards
The compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell.
— William Lloyd Garrison
See, I have set before you this day life and good, death and evil... I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse; therefore choose life.
— Moses
No matter how prepared you think you are for the death of a loved one, it still comes as a shock, and it still hurts very deeply.
— Billy Graham
In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
— Hannah Arendt