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" I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty. "

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" In Christ we see a maturity of love that flowers in self-sacrifice and forgiveness; a maturity of power that never swerves from the ideal of service; a maturity of goodness that overcomes every temptation, and, of course, we see the ultimate victory of life over death itself. "

Vincent Nichols

" Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts. "

" Death surrenders us totally to God: it makes us enter into him; we must, in return, surrender ourselves to death with absolute love and self-abandonment since, when death comes, all we can do is to surrender ourselves completely to the domination and guidance of God. "

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

" Biography lends to death a new terror. "

" Our words will either bring life and victory or death and destruction. If we want to be happy, we have to be serious about speaking words of life that line up with God's Word. "

" You can't be scared of death. When that time comes, it comes. "

" If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it. "

Michel de Montaigne

" I have found people on both sides of the aisle, white and black, that'll give you the shirt off their back. And I've also found people that won't give you a piece of bread if you're starving to death. "

" The New Zealand sense of humor is tough and realistic. Jokes are not surreal; they are about life and death and tough decisions. "

Anthony McCarten

" How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset. "

George MacDonald

" A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor. "

" I love the name of honor, more than I fear death. "

" I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first. "

Stephen Hawking

" If we heard that somebody starved to death in Sweden or Switzerland, we would be shocked. "

" I always say that death can be one of the greatest experiences ever. If you live each day of your life right, then you have nothing to fear. "

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

" We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death. "

Charles de Montesquieu

" When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity. "

" Because success is such a weasel word anyway, it's such a horribly American word, and it's such a vamp and, I think it's a death trap. "

Daniel Berrigan

" As one whose husband and mother-in-law have died the victims of murder and assassination, I stand firmly and unequivocally opposed to the death penalty for those convicted of capital offenses... An evil deed is not redeemed by an evil deed of retaliation. "

Coretta Scott King

" I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion. "

William Shakespeare

" My food hero has to be Auguste Escoffier. And the villain? The man who's been most responsible for the death of food in my time is Ronald McDonald. He's always scared me, I think he's evil - he's a wolf in sheep's clothing. Him and the Hamburglar. "

Arthur Potts Dawson

" All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do. "

" Which death is preferably to every other? 'The unexpected'. "

" I don't want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I've never met. I want to go on living even after my death! "

" 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. "

" I am not the born; how can there be either birth or death for me? "

" I said from the very beginning, I don't want a big house, I don't want big grounds, I don't want the trouble with the maintenance and all of that. "

" If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive. "

Martin Luther King, Jr.

" We love the sight of the brown and ruddy earth; it is the color of life, while a snow-covered plain is the face of death. Yet snow is but the mask of the life-giving rain; it, too, is the friend of man, the tender, sculpturesque, immaculate, warming, fertilizing snow. "

" 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. "