While I understand the passions and the anger that arise over the death of Michael Brown, giving into that anger by looting or carrying guns, and even attacking the police, only serves to raise tensions and stir chaos.
Barack Obama
PoliceDeathAngerChaosGiving
If it were just a dream to be famous, then I probably would have died a really quick death, because there is nothing about me that equals fame. I'm not a standup comedian. I don't sing.
Viola Davis
DeathMeFamousDreamFameNothing
Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.
Solon
DeathManHappyLuckyOnlyHe
For 200 years we've been conquering nature. Now we're beating it to death.
Tom McMillan
NatureDeathNowYearsBeenBeating
I can't have white roses. They symbolize death.
Nina Arianda
DeathRosesWhiteSymbolize
The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.
George Meredith
LoveImaginationDeathLove IsMost
I am afraid of death, scared by it. I already don't know whether I exist or not. So dying really terrifies me.
Stephen Rea
DeathI AmMeKnowDyingAfraid
Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death's the other.
Tennessee Williams
LiveDeathWayOutSystemLiquor
I know my generation - a lot of them, they're getting old now, and they want to think back fondly, they want to kid themselves. A lot of them think, 'Yeah, we were the best.' That's the kiss of death. That's non-growth. And also that's very bad for the world.
Joni Mitchell
BestDeathKissWorldThinkBad
People always speak beautifully when they are in love or close to death.
Svetlana Alexievich
LoveDeathPeopleSpeakAlways
For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.
Khalil Gibran
LifeSeaDeathRiverLife And Death
One of the greatest gifts we can give people is the hope that their death is nothing to fear - you know, not that it has no fear in it, but the promise of scripture is that God will lead us through the valley of the shadow of death.
Max Lucado
FearGodHopeDeathShadowPeople
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.
Cedric Richmond
DeathNever ForgetTragedyForget
We don't have real control over death. You could die of a heart attack, a building could fall on you, you could be in an accident, you could have a fatal disease. So, how should you conduct your life? You just go ahead and live, taking reasonable precautions - like handling the mail more carefully.
Rudy Giuliani
LifeLiveHeartDeathControlDie
There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
Francois Rabelais
ScienceSoulDeathWithout
Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.
Bodhidharma
DeathWillBirthThroughMove
What makes Freddy Krueger such a horrible character? What makes him scare you to death? You can't get rid of the guy. He never goes away.
Nick Saban
CharacterDeathYouNeverHimGuy
Because the Illinois death penalty system is arbitrary and capricious - and therefore immoral - I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death.
George Ryan
DeathDeath PenaltySystemBecause
Death threatens our speech with futility because death is not just a biological event - it is a reality we fear may rob our living of any significance.
Stanley Hauerwas
FearDeathRealitySpeechLiving
It's not morbid to talk about death. Most people don't worry about death, they worry about a bad death.
Terry Pratchett
DeathPeopleWorryBadTalkMost
There is nothing glamorous or romantic about war. It's mostly about random pointless death and misery.
Jon Krakauer
RomanticDeathWarRandomNothing
I am able to follow my own death step by step. Now I move softly towards the end.
Pope John XXIII
DeathI AmStepEndMy OwnFollow
There's death and there's loss, but there's also celebrations, right?
Justin Hartley
DeathLossRightCelebrationsAlso
'Death of a Salesman' is a brilliant taxonomy of the spiritual atrophy of mid-twentieth-century white America.
John Lahr
DeathSpiritualAmericaWhite
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