Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Sagan

Widespread intellectual and moral docility may be convenient for leaders in the short term, but it is suicidal for nations in the long term. One of the criteria for national leadership should therefore be a talent for understanding, encouraging, and making constructive use of vigorous criticism.

Edward Said

Captain Ahab was a man possessed with an obsessional drive to pursue the white whale which had harmed him - which had torn his leg out - to the ends of the Earth, no matter what happened. In the final scene of the novel, Captain Ahab is being borne out to sea, wrapped around the white whale with the rope of his own harpoon and going obviously to his death. It was a scene of almost suicidal finality.

Arthur Koestler

There is only one prospect worse than being chained to an intolerable existence: The nightmare of a botched attempt to end it.

Edward Abbey

Our suicidal poets (Plath, Berryman, Lowell, Jarrell, et al.) spent too much of their lives inside rooms and classrooms when they should have been trudging up mountains, slogging through swamps, rowing down rivers. The indoor life is the next best thing to premature burial.

Adolf Hitler

I myself and my wife - in order to escape the disgrace of deposition or capitulation - choose death. It is our wish to be burnt immediately on the spot where I have carried out the greatest part of my daily work in the course of a twelve years' service to my people.

Courtney Love

I am not suicidal. Occasionally, like all of us, I get depressed and it was over a year ago and I had a little mini attack, well a big one ... I don't know quite why it happened but I find medication is not the answer to this.

E. O. Wilson

The most dangerous of devotions, in my opinion, is the one endemic to Christianity: I was not born to be of this world. With a second life waiting, suffering can be endured--especially in other people. The natural environment can be used up. Enemies of the faith can be savaged and suicidal martyrdom praised.

Damien Rice

May you be satisfied to never know why-sometimes someone just wants to die.

Douglas Coupland

After my brush with the suicidal impulse, I listen with new ears to others when they speak on the subject. I think there are people who were born with that little door open, and they have to go through life knowing that they might jump through it at any moment.

Julian Wright

Regardless of how your body is feeling, you have to stay focused. Coach Self keeps us focused. We keep getting better. That's one thing, I think, the freshmen have done throughout the season.

Sathya Baba

Reform the body, reconstruct the mind, regulate the way of living, then, the country will become automatically strong and prosperous.

Christopher Cartwright

Our requirements turned out to be overkill. If you try to treat one of these suppliers as a body shop -- telling them exactly what to do and how to do it -- it does not go well.

Joseph Campbell

Original Experience has not been interpreted for you, and so youve got to work out life for yourself. Either you can take it or you cant. You dont have to go far off the interpreted path to find yourself in very difficult situations. The courage to face the trials and to bring a whole new body of possibilities into the field of interpreted experience for other people to experience that is the heros deed.

Ranil Wickremesinghe

Parliament must reassemble. It is the only body with a mandate for negotiations,

Hal Sparks

People only have guilty pleasures when they crowbar pleasure down their throat all the time and then they reach for the brownies. Then you should feel guilty because you're killing your body and that's something to be guilty about.

Martin Short

Steve's body of work is remarkable. I know that because earlier this evening, Steve turned to me and said, 'Isn't my body of work remarkable?'

Dana Trumm

Stevens is very good. They have every body back from last year and they were good last year. The Central match was nip and tuck. We lost three out of four super tie-breakers.

Santiago Lyon

Our practice is to not move material that is known to be offensive - not just the photographs under discussion now, but images of graphic genitalia, extreme close-ups of body parts, images showing offensive language, etc..

Brian Hill

I think the way you survive as a teacher is that you teach the kids so damn well that they are going to do well on tests anyway.

Melody Strong

My mother didn't have any other options. But to be able to educate women now that there are options - damn it, I am going to work my hardest so that there aren't kids that go through what I went through, and grow up with so little self worth.

Melvin Spears

I don't give a damn what they do. My players' lives are more important than any damned football game.

John Tortorella

I don't give a damn about the Leafs. We're not going to look over our shoulder.

Alex Rodriguez

I don't know what it was. I couldn't see the damn thing. He had us all talking to ourselves, and nothing that was said was helpful.

Tom Izzo

But do I expect 18 and 10, 18 and 11? You're damn right I do. Paul's a big key to this stretch run.

Keith Jackson

I'm at a point in my life where I can't see as well, I can't hear as well and I damn sure can't run as fast. And you get tired after a while. I've been doing it for 53 years and I think that's long enough.

Joe Torre

Hernandez pitched one hell of a game. He's pretty damn good, that's for sure.

Bob Odom

If it's clean, I'll let it go, ... I'll renew (the ban) every damn month if I have to, I will do whatever I have to to protect the consumer.