Die Quotations | Page 3

Personally, I've always thought dying on vacation was the better way to go . . . I do have certain requests about my passing, though. I hope that if I die in a plane crash, it's coming FROM a vacation instead of heading TO. I know, it's a small consolation, but I'd have a tan and would look rested at my calling hours.

One thing I am determined on is that by the time I die my brain shall weigh as much as a man's if study and learning can make it so.

Nicotine addiction is such a powerful force that even the heartbreak of watching a family member die of lung cancer often isn't enough to convince smokers to quit.

Nearly 50 percent of all babies who die suddenly and unexpectedly are in a bed-sharing situation, so why take the chance?

On paper, it's very good. People would die to have a year like this, but I was disappointed because of the season I had last year. Also disappointing because I didn't win a major.

Only the Brits do this; as for the military from the rest of Europe and NATO - you could die in front of them and they would take no notice.

On the death of his brothers, my dad lied about his age and joined the army in 1918. He was in the trenches long enough to be gassed and contract the early stages of tuberculosis from which he would eventually die just before my birth.

Only when the privileged classes perform military service, only when elite youth are on the firing line, does the country define the cause as worth young peoples' blood and do war losses become acceptable, ... the answer to what constitutes vital national interests is found not so much on the cause, itself, but in who is willing to die for that cause.

I was reckless, part of me wanted to die and everyday on camera part of me did.

I was real pleased with the never say die attitude. When you have that many placers it's a great accomplishment.

I was something that lay under the sun and felt it, like the pumpkins, and I did not want to be anything more. I was entirely happy. Perhaps we feel like that when we die and become a part of something entire, whether it is sun and air, or goodness and knowledge.

I would rather die in freedom on my way back home than starve to death here.

I was popular. Everyone wanted to know my thoughts, give me things. I was king of my universe. After my first molestation, I began to act out sexually. I was reckless. Part of me wanted to die and, every day on camera, part of me did.

If we do all this work, and there's no pandemic, you still have 36,000 people die every year of seasonal flu, and you could make a big dent in that. Wouldn't that be wonderful?

If the rich could hire other people to die for them, the poor could make a wonderful living.

I grew it out specifically for the race. This feels fantastic. It feels like you're about to die out on the course, but boy, nothing feels better than finishing down Main Street. It's a beautiful hill, the church bell is ringing, everyone is cheering. It's wonderful.

If they can't get them off of these buildings in the next day or so, I would say a substantial number of them will die by the weekend,

If they get things right, the park will grow and grow and then they will show a profit. If not, the dinosaurs die and the park goes bankrupt.

If they get into a bad situation, there are only two possible outcomes: the individuals will either die or they will have to pay for a very expensive rescue.

I didn't want to be on television ... didn't want to hunt men down, but you know what, as my wife always said to me, 'Let's make sure Adam didn't die in vain,'

I didn't move away from Jack because of money. I moved away from Jacques-Imo's because I wanted to get away from frying, ... I'm going to die. But I'm not going to die over that fryer.

I didn't believe she would die from this. There was nothing wrong with the way she looked; she looked beautiful. She was my daughter.

I die every game that any of our fans has to watch or (Dolan) has to watch. Hey, everywhere I've been, every place I've ever coached, I always felt we were getting better. I've never been in a situation where I didn't know in my heart we weren't getting better. And I'm not giving up here.

I am afraid that he could die at any time over the next 24 hours, ... I would be very surprised if he survived another 24 hours.

I am feeling energized, and know, that 43 people who had to die is an interesting fact, as one of the things I'm fascinated by in BSG is that here's this women who was thrust into power, instead of having to work her way into it.

I believe there's a hero in all of us, that keeps us honest, gives us strength, makes us noble, and finally allows us to die with pride, even though sometimes we have to be steady, and give up the thing we want the most. Even our dreams. ... Spider-Man 2

I believe we're starting to see a shift ... from a debate primarily on the safety of the device to the appropriate use of the device, ... I think we're going to see things die down with the continuous legal and scientific evidence supporting our cause.

Cares are often more difficult to throw off than sorrows; the latter die with time, the former grow.

Cells will die in minutes to days if they lack their genetic information system. They will not evolve, they will not replicate, and they will not live.

(Bush) said we wont stop until victory, but what does victory look like and how many sons and daughters are going to have to die and lose limbs?

Basically we are descended from a long line of successful flirts and it is hard-wired into our brains. If we didn't initiate contact with the opposite sex, then we wouldn't reproduce, and the species would die out.

Basically, you die earlier and spend more time disabled if you're an American rather than a member of most other advanced countries.

I have a phobia of anything that doesn't die in the microwave after five seconds.

I hate to see him die that way. It didn't have to happen that way.

I find this more troubling than deception in the political campaigns. The level of misunderstanding and the consequences of misunderstanding can be much more dramatic. If we don't hold the right people accountable and the right processes accountable, we'll risk having another catastrophe without real preparedness, and more people will die needlessly.

I can think back to so many times over the years when they could have been doing something else instead of practicing, but they chose to practice anyway. And practices are not fun. In fact they're downright brutal. I've pushed these two girls so hard, almost to the point of them wanting to quit at times. But through all the misery of training, they persevered and now have a love for the sport that will never die and a love for our team that will never die.

Great Scot! The green pastures, the serene lakes and the magic in the summer sky are to die for.

Growing up ... in the projects of south Atlanta, I witnessed a lot of things. I've seen people killed, seen people stabbed, and there was always some kind of (cause and effect) behind it. You know, here's a guy, we finished the Lord's Prayer after the game and he died. And that's something I never experienced - somebody to die without any reasoning behind it. That made it real tough for me.

Getting a win on the road feels great. It's do or die for us in the next eight ballgames, so to start out with a win may relieve some of the pressure that's been on us about winning on the road.

Fourteen heart attacks and he had to die in my week. In MY week.

From our standpoint, it pays to diversify. If there is one sport that is down, the other ones can pick it up. We don't live and die off of one or two sports. There are so many wild cards, injuries, crashes. We don't put pressure on one particular athlete to come through.

I don't spend a lot of time thinking about dying, but I like to think that I've - if it did occur - that I would die peacefully and not make too much of a fuss about it.

For us last year, we had the problem of giving up the big inning a lot of the time. We got better as things went on, and this year we're a totally different team, and we have to put that stuff behind us. We've got several freshmen and sophomores we're going to live or die with. That's our future.

If it's just a few sporadic birds dying off, people are then exposed and then get sick and die -- it means it's a very difficult thing to stop when it's on a small scale.

If we play as individuals, we're going to die as individuals,

If that takes five years I will die before the shooting is finished,

He went from being in really bad shape to saying he wanted to get the word out that he wasn't dead and didn't intend to die any time soon.

He had so much life left in him. No man as good as Harold should have to die like that.

He is not welcome in my bar, and he is never welcome until I die or sell the place.

He loved me well: so well he could but die - To show he loved me better than his life; he lost it for me

What do they want us to do? Roll over and die too? ... Do they want us to just give up?

What more can we want. I'd take that every night of the week. We were going to live or die with him. He deserved to be the hero.

There is evidence that we are headed into what would be the planet's sixth mass extinction. It's hard to know for sure if you're in one because a mass extinction is an event where over 75 percent of the species on the planet die out over a - usually about a million-year period. The fastest it might happen is in hundreds of thousands of years.

The purposes are lost. They need to come home. Right now, they're sitting ducks and our troops are going to die in vain.

The people here have already had so much taken away. We don't want them now thinking they are going to die in the shelters.

We're pretty much going to live and die with home runs. That's our offense. The guys in the middle of the lineup are key.

What is disgraceful and outrageous is that 18,000 children die of hunger every day, every one of them a preventable death. That's what the controversy should be about.

With merger speculation failing to die out and strengthening metals prices, European markets are set for another strong start.

To General McChrystal, those men on his team are his family. You know, these guys, they would do anything. They would die for each other.

What you gotta think about is what they're saying in their locker room. They need to jump on us. On our home court, they know how successful we are there and they know how huge the game is. It's do or die for them. It's even more important for us to come out and hopefully break their backs in the first 10 minutes.

What we wanted to show was that this man, after 30 years, decides he wants to die and he doesn't seem to us like someone who was unstable, as some people have suggested.

Here I was coming up on 45 myself and thinking I don't want to do the family statistic thing and die young.

He's asked several times to return to Washington. ... He'd like to die here. And we have declined because we want to ensure that he never returns to this community where he harmed children.

He should die the way my sister died.

His sentence expires Nov. 7 and he thinks he will die before then if he is not released from isolation.

Hopefully, things will die down in a few months and be somewhat normal.

There aren't a whole lot of things I want out of life. My bucket list is extremely short: Achieve the success in the industry I want, and get married. If I achieve both of those, I can die completely stoked. I don't need anything else.

We made some adjustments at the half and started running our offense. Campbell played hard and showed a lot of heart. They had nothing to lose. We knew it was going to be a tough game and that they live and die by the 3-point shot.

Hunger allows no choice, To the citizens or the police; We must love one another or die

He was not brought to judgment, but he was brought to justice. He did not die in a hail of bullets in Belgrade or in retirement on the French Riviera. He died in a jail cell.

I admire that team (Indiana-South Bend). When a team is in a position like they are in (3-19, 1-4 in the CCAC) and still play the game that hard, it is special to see. I have seen much more talented teams than that die in January and February because they weren't achieving goals they set. So I hope we learn something from this team.

He wants to become the number one opponent of a government that is already weak. This was the only path he could take if he did not want to die politically.

He wanted to die here. He said he wanted to be a martyr (for Islam). It was quite clear that he wanted to go similar to a suicide bomber,

He did not die in the night, / He did not die in the day, / But in the morning twilight / His spirit passed away.

He didn't live and die with every play and every at-bat. He kind of learned to take it as it was. Go out and play defense, separate the two and he did very well at that. He played offense and he played defense and he was more confident.

He is the best manager that I've worked with. I've never dealt with a person who has his type of ability to be able to get every single player, even those on the bench, to be 100% willing to go out and die for the team.

HALF, n. One of two equal parts into which a thing may be divided, or considered as divided. In the fourteenth century a heated discussion arose among theologists and philosophers as to whether Omniscience could part an object into three halves; and the pious Father Aldrovinus publicly prayed in the cathedral at Rouen that God would demonstrate the affirmative of the proposition in some signal and unmistakable way, and particularly (if it should please Him) upon the body of that hardy blasphemer, Manutius Procinus, who maintained the negative. Procinus, however, was spared to die of the bite of a viper.

Guitar music or rock n' roll or whatever you want to call it sort of goes away with trends, but it'll never go away completely. It can't die because it's so fundamentally attractive.

There are the characters who die but who you follow after death, and they often lead much more interesting lives after they are dead! So the characters usually drive me along, but occasionally the plot has to come first. It can get sticky.

Kirby always said he was going to die before he turned 50. I'm praying he gets through this.

Katherine Harris is going to live and die on (President Bush's) coattails. She is not someone who has political legs. She is more tied to the president than the ordinary member of the House.

Just the guilt of the unborn babies is enough. Also, I have asthma and if I get sick, it becomes double pneumonia. The doctor warned me it's getting serious either sell the cafe or die early. It's so serious (cigarette smoke) that my help wasn't going to work here anymore.

I take risks, sometimes patients die, but not taking risks causes more patients to die - so I guess my biggest problem is I've been cursed with the ability to do the math.

I thought we were going to die out there, ... We had to sleep on the ground. Use the bathroom in front of each other. Laying on that ground, I just couldn't take it. I felt like Job.

It is a great art to die well.

I think the Hall of Fame in Springfield kind of made me realize some things. ... There's a lot of people in the Hall of Fame that are dead. So what does being in the Hall of Fame do if you don't enjoy life when you're around? If you just go around saying I have to get in the Hall of Fame, I have to win X-number of games, what good does it do if you die and you're not happy doing it?

I thought everyone was going to die on the mountain. I didn't think that anyone could make it out.

I thought Carlos did a heck of a job. We are going to live and die with him. He just needs some more reps. He will get better with each game.

I think the boycott will die of its own weight,

I thought the pole was plenty, ... When something like this happens, it makes you feel pretty good. But I don't want to die just yet.

I thought they were going to live and die with the big girl.

I thought, 'This woman didn't die in this bed,'

I thought she was just gonna bring me home to die. That was my thinking. I don't wanna die here. I wanna go home. She shows up with an ambulance and the cops and i freaked out on her because that's not what I wanted. The last thing you want is cops at a drug house.

I think this is possibly my last chance to speak to somebody who will listen. I don't want to die here.

It is logical for a U.S. person to give their money away while they are alive, as the government will take it from you when you die in taxes.

It is important we do not give this too much attention. Just as in the early days of the internet, porn was everywhere and later people got bored of it, interest in interest in this too will die a natural death.

It is intended to be a wake-up call to America about the fact that 500,000 people die prematurely a year due to tobacco use in America -- 50,000 of those die from the tobacco use of others,

I watched her mother sobbing over her dying daughter. We walked out into the hallway and Mary said to me, 'David, I'm no lawyer and I'm no doctor. But I don't understand why they have to kill my little girl.' That's the troubling moral dilemma. Why, with family who wanted her, did Terri have to die this horrific death?

I will almost guarantee you that somebody is going to die this weekend.

It is a very, very traditional industry and some old habits do die hard.