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"Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men." Zora Neale Hurston 4.7647 average rating Rate this Quote
"There is something about poverty that smells like death." Zora Neale Hurston 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"I want a busy life, a just mind, and a timely death." Zora Neale Hurston 4.2000 average rating Rate this Quote
"...The task is overwhelming, and the chance is slight. We must take the chance or die." Robert Maynard Hutchins 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"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 Maynard Hutchins 4.4286 average rating Rate this Quote
"Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead." Aldous Leonard Huxley 4.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Death is the only thing we haven't succeeded in completely vulgarizing." Aldous Leonard Huxley 4.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life." Lido Anthony "Lee" Iacocca 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"At the moment of death I hope to be surprised." Ivan Illich 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not." Robert Green Ingersoll 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God." Thomas Jefferson 4.6364 average rating Rate this Quote
"The Greeks by their laws, and the Romans by the spirit of their people, took care to put into the hands of their rulers no such engine of oppression as a standing army. Their system was to make every man a soldier, and oblige him to repair to the standard of his country whenever that was reared. This made them invincible; and the same remedy will make us so." Thomas Jefferson 4.2500 average rating Rate this Quote
"It is better to live rich than to die rich." Dr. Samuel Johnson 4.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Do not ... hope wholly to reason away your troubles; do not feed them with attention, and they will die imperceptibly away. Fix your thoughts upon your business, fill your intervals with company, and sunshine will again break in upon your mind." Dr. Samuel Johnson Rate this Quote
"War is always the same. It is young men dying in the fullness of their promise. It is trying to kill a man that you do not even know well enough to hate. Therefore, to know war is to know that there is still madness in the world." Lyndon Baines Johnson 4.3333 average rating Rate this Quote
"Living and dying is not the big issue. The big issue is what you're going to do with your time while you are here." Bill T. Jones 4.3333 average rating Rate this Quote
"I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me. I have accepted fear as a part of life--specifically the fear of change, the fear of the unknown; and I have gone ahead despite the pounding in my heart that says: turn back, turn back, you'll die if you venture too far." Erica Mann Jong 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Although rumors persist to the contrary, there were no deaths while making the movie Ben Hur." Deane Jordan Rate this Quote
"The air is full of souls; those who are nearest to earth descending to be tied to mortal bodies return to other bodies, desiring to live in them." Philo Judaeus Rate this Quote
"Luxury is more deadly than any foe." Juvenal Rate this Quote
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