If you think aficionados of a living Constitution want to bring you flexibility, think again. You think the death penalty is a good idea? Persuade your fellow citizens to adopt it. You want a right to abortion? Persuade your fellow citizens and enact it. That's flexibility.
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.
I found that the things I am afraid of most are things for which there are no obvious remedies. Like, what do you do with a fear of death? You either come to terms with it or you don't, but there's no solving it.
The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.
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.
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.
After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
The idea is to die young as late as possible.
In man, the mechanical breathing is essential to life, and it is one of the old tests for death to see whether these movements have ceased completely.
Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.
The approach of death certainly concentrates the mind.
In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.
I love myself. Anything that has my name I'm tickled to death.
Where is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower taxes- and who has not proceeded to vote for the very spending projects that make tax cuts impossible?
The line between life or death is determined by what we are willing to do.
Death is with you all the time; you get deeper in it as you move towards it, but it's not unfamiliar to you. It's always been there, so what becomes unfamiliar to you when you pass away from the moment is really life.
Some people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75.
If your best friend has stolen your girlfriend, it does become life and death.
Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
No one can outrun death. It will catch up to all of us eventually.
Every human being is under construction from conception to death.
Racism and injustice and violence sweep our world, bringing a tragic harvest of heartache and death.
I don't believe in the term 'guilty pleasure,' because it implies I should feel ashamed for liking something. A real guilty pleasure would be, I don't know, taking gratification in some stranger's ghastly death or something - which I guess I do enjoy, because I read a ton of true crime.
Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.
Drake's my little brother; I love him to death, and he's family-oriented.
The death penalty confronts us with a penetrating moral question: Can even the monstrous crimes of those who are condemned to death and are truly guilty of such crimes erase their sacred dignity as human beings and their intrinsic right to life?
I want to see the U.S. wiped out. Death to the U.S.
The death penalty is discriminatory and does not do anything about crime.
Success can breed all kinds of other behavior and cause companies to behave a certain way that isn't necessarily the ingredients for achieving more success. For instance, with success comes arrogance, and that's typically the death of success.
I don't believe in death, neither in flesh nor in spirit.
Life and death are important. Don't suffer them in vain.
You've gotta be very careful that grace and politeness do not merge into a banality of behavior, where we're just nice, sort of 'death by cupcake.'
Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St John.
I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
You can't call it an adventure unless it's tinged with danger. The greatest danger in life, though, is not taking the adventure at all. To have the objective of a life of ease is death. I think we've all got to go after our own Everest.
Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive.
Epigenetics doesn't change the genetic code, it changes how that's read. Perfectly normal genes can result in cancer or death. Vice-versa, in the right environment, mutant genes won't be expressed. Genes are equivalent to blueprints; epigenetics is the contractor. They change the assembly, the structure.
Birth and death; we all move between these two unknowns.
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.
Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.
The death of my kid made me a stronger person. There's no end to what I'm willing to do.
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.
Anorexia taught me to love life and to realise that starving yourself to death is a bloody waste of time. It's awful, and it hurts so many people around you. It's a terribly selfish thing to do.
If someone were to say that life at hard labor is as painful as death and therefore equally cruel, I should reply that, taking all the unhappy moments of perpetual slavery together, it is perhaps even more painful, but these moments are spread out over a lifetime, and capital punishment exercises all its power in an instant.
We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.
It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge.
We are all dwellers on this one small earth; we live one life, die one death; we have the same difficulties to contend with; we ought in common to fight the foes of ignorance and wrong.
After my death, the molecules of my being will return to the earth and the sky. They came from the stars. I am of the stars.