Dead Quotes

Was the real Jesus of history one and the same as the Christ of faith whom we read about in the New Testament and worship in the church? Was Jesus really raised from the dead? Is he really the divine Lord of lords?

I'm the only American alive or dead who presided unhappily over the removal of a vice president and a president.

I want to be buried with a mobile phone, just in case I'm not dead.

I am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mood - sex and the dead.

If it were possible to cure evils by lamentation and to raise the dead with tears, then gold would be a less valuable thing than weeping.

Much smoking kills live men and cures dead swine.

A strong hatred is the best lamp to bear in our hands as we go over the dark places of life, cutting away the dead things men tell us to revere.

I mean they're making remakes of my films and I'm not even dead yet! Why would you want to make a remake?

Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place - service - social service - the ants creed, the bees creed.

Half the issues they - are so polished they're talking about - are dead by the time they get into the office, and into the midst of their tour where they're really productive.

This crowd did not diminish through the whole of that cold, wet day; they seemed not to know what was to by their fate since their great benefactor was dead, and though strong and brave men wept when I met them.

When he's late for dinner, I know he's either having an affair or is lying dead in the street. I always hope it's the street.

Call no man happy until he is dead, but only lucky.

My favorite time in the cycles of public life is the time when the Pope is dead and they haven't elected a new one. There's no one in the world who is infallible for those weeks. And you know, I don't miss it.

Well, to tell you the straight honest truth, it was like a Grateful Dead cover band. I didn't feel - and nothing against the guys - I didn't feel that they were opening up like they should. I'll tell you what, with guitar players, Steven has what I like in guitar players.

Exclusively oral cultures are unencumbered by dead knowledge, dead facts. Libraries, on the other hand, are full of them.

You want to know whether we're better off? I've got a little bumper sticker for you: Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive. Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive! Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive!

I don't really have a favorite bass player. I listen to a lot of bluegrass. But then again, I'm not a typical bluegrass bass player. I was really into the Grateful Dead, and I still am - I don't listen to them too much, but for me they are a big influence.

There should be no strife with the vanquished or the dead.

Being with an insanely jealous person is like being in the room with a dead mammoth.

Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.

I'm worth more dead than alive. Don't cry for me after I'm gone; cry for me now.

The only difference between a dead skunk lying in the road and a dead lawyer lying in the road is that there are skid marks around the skunk.

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

The middle of the road is for yellow lines and dead armadillos.

India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to do for herself and the human peoples.

It is also asserted that the election settled the matters of the war and the torture of prisoners. These are dead issues that no longer need be addressed.

Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.

I don't talk about success. I don't know what it is. Wait until I'm dead.

When they talk of ghosts of the dead who wander in the night with things still undone in life, they approximate my subjective experience of this life.