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" Comparison is a death knell to sibling harmony. "
Elizabeth Fishel
Comparison
Sibling
Harmony
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" Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away. "
Oscar Wilde
Facts
Explain
Death
" In order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us all. The sea, rains, necessity, desire, the struggle against death... these are things that unite us all. "
Albert Camus
Us
Reality
Sea
" The lessons I learned from my mother and her friends have guided me through death, birth, loss, love, failure, and achievement, on to a Fulbright scholarship and Harvard Business School. They taught me to believe that anything was possible. They have proven to be the strongest family values I could ever have imagined. "
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
Failure
Business
Mother
" The death industry markets caskets and embalming under the rubric of helping bodies look 'natural,' but our current death customs are as natural as training majestic creatures like bears and elephants to dance in cute little outfits, or erecting replicas of the Eiffel Tower and Venetian canals in the middle of the harsh American desert. "
Caitlin Doughty
Cute
Death
Training
" The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation. "
Hermann Hesse
Great
Sweet
Love
" It's a consoling notion that death is a very tiny hole, and you need to make yourself very small to get through it. One obviously needs to lighten off, and a rucksack full of bricks or a mantelpiece full of trophies will certainly have to be abandoned - the sooner the better, I say. "
Michael Leunig
You
Yourself
Better
" Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes to us with our grief. As for me, I have faith; I believe in a future life. How could I do otherwise? My daughter was a soul; I saw this soul. I touched it, so to speak. "
Victor Hugo
Light
Future
Faith
" Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective. "
P. J. O'Rourke
Death
Dying
Child
" If God is not sending earthquakes, destroying economies and inflicting pain upon human beings, what is God doing? God works through people, calling them to help their neighbors in need. God comforts His people, walking with them even 'through the valley of the shadow of death.' "
Adam Hamilton
Shadow
People
Death
" The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living. "
W. H. Auden
Guts
Words
Death
" While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die. "
Leonardo da Vinci
Learning
Thought
Live
" When I was a child, I used to paint intently. The older I become, and the closer death approaches, the brighter my life gets day by day. "
Yayoi Kusama
Death
Paint
My Life
" The destination is a happy life, an accomplished life that doesn't end with death but with eternal life. "
Angelo Scola
Life
End
Destination
" Learning is not just a labour market or economic growth issue. It is an integral part of human development. We learn from birth to death. "
Alexander De Croo
Birth
Learning
Learn
" Our life is made by the death of others. "
Leonardo da Vinci
Death
Our
Others
" Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright. "
Alice Thomas Ellis
Everything
Past
Death
" Every spiritual tradition has this idea of death and resurrection. It's not unique to Christianity. "
Deepak Chopra
Tradition
Unique
Death
" In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death. "
Alfred Russel Wallace
Eternity
Solitude
Space
" I don't know why Alzheimer's was allowed to steal so much of my father before releasing him into the arms of death. But I know that at his last moment, when he opened his eyes, eyes that had not opened for many, many days, and looked at my mother, he showed us that neither disease nor death can conquer love. "
Patti Davis
Mother
Death
Why
" There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake. "
Daniel Berrigan
War
Bring
Peace
" Most states in the union where the death penalty is theoretically on the books don't have executions. "
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Union
Death Penalty
Most
" Rather than writing about international events, I write about individual lives. There is elation and sadness, death and birth, love and jealousy, co-operation and betrayal. All the great emotional transactions that happen wherever people come together. "
Tom Drury
Death
Jealousy
Love
" Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die. "
Unknown
Nobody
Die
Wants
" Disease generally begins that equality which death completes. "
Samuel Johnson
Disease
Equality
Death
" I believe in books that do not go to a ready-made public. I'm looking for readers I would like to make. To win them, to create readers rather than to give something that readers are expecting. That would bore me to death. "
Carlos Fuentes
Death
Me
Create
" There are always those 'Gossip Girl' walk-and-talk scenes where you're walking and just talking about life and death. You're having a serious conversation, looking someone in the eye, but everywhere around you, it's literally a circus. "
Chace Crawford
Death
Eye
Looking
" There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it. "
Ernest Hemingway
Man
Death
Wife
" Life and death are illusions. We are in a constant state of transformation. "
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Death
Life
Illusions
" When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity. "
George Eliot
Never
Come
Death
" The death penalty and the arguments it inspires don't only involve ethics, morals, and justice. There are bureaucratic and economic aspects to it as well. All these different aspects commingle in ways that convince me we should take whatever steps we can to abolish the death penalty. "
Reid Hoffman
Morals
Well
Death