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“Dependency is death to initiative, to risk-taking and opportunity. It's time to stop the spread of government dependency and fight it like the poison it is.”
Mitt Romney
“I've been looking at some video clips on YouTube of President Obama - then candidate Obama - going through Iowa making promises. The gap between his promises and his performance is the largest I've seen, well, since the Kardashian wedding and the promise of 'til death do we part.”
Mitt Romney
“Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.”
Ayn Rand
“Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“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
“Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“The U.S. couldn't even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that the EU is just a passing fad. They'll be killing each other again in less than a year. I'm sick to death of all these fascist lawsuits.”
Bill Gates
“In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death.”
Anne Frank
“I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again.”
Anne Frank
“Grumbling is the death of love.”
Marlene Dietrich
“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
“To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.”
Bertrand Russell
“The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.”
Bertrand Russell
“It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.”
Simone de Beauvoir
“Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.”
William Blake
“Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.”
Francis Bacon
“I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.”
Francis Bacon
“McVeigh's lawyer got him the death penalty, which, quite frankly, I could have done.”
Jon Stewart
“Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.”
Carl Sagan
“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
“After your death you will be what you were before your birth.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
“Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
“Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
“We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
“One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic.”
Joseph Stalin
“Death solves all problems - no man, no problem.”
Joseph Stalin
“Death is the solution to all problems. No man - no problem.”
Joseph Stalin
“The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.”
Joseph Stalin
“If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a 'peace conference,' you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes.”
Joseph Stalin
