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Hugging trees has a calming effect on me. I'm talking about enormous trees that will be there when we are all dead and gone. I've hugged trees in every part of this little island.
Gerry Adams

Talking, Gone, Trees

I'm 86 and my doctor used to tell me to slow down - at least he did until he dropped dead.
Cesar Romero

Down, Tell, Used

A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.
Herbert Spencer

Living, Moment, Place

Whoever said love is blind is dead wrong. Love is the only thing that lets us see each other with the remotest accuracy.
Martha Beck

Love, Said, Wrong

I want to be alone and work until the day my heads hits the drawing table and I'm dead. Kaput. I feel very much like I want to be with my brother and sister again. They're nowhere. I know they're nowhere and they don't exist, but if nowhere means that's where they are, that's where I want to be.
Maurice Sendak

Work, Alone, Again

He that hath lost his credit is dead to the world.
George Herbert

Lost, Credit, Hath

A person dishonored is worst than dead.
Miguel de Cervantes

Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
Herman Melville

Faith, Hope, Her

It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late.
Pearl S. Buck

Religion, Strength, May

I'm not dead and I don't have blue hair but some people say there are similarities. It is usually intolerable to watch myself onscreen but this time it's fine. I think it's beautiful and a real work of art.
Helena Bonham Carter

Work, Time, Art

It was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace.
Anna Akhmatova

Peace, Time, Happy

There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.
Thornton Wilder

Love, Living, Meaning

Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.
St. Jerome

War, Friends, Dying

Against the State, against the Church, against the silence of the medical profession, against the whole machinery of dead institutions of the past, the woman of today arises.
Margaret Sanger

Medical, Today, Past

Most people are dead. Did you know that? It's true, out of all the people that ever were, almost all of them are dead.
Louis C. K.

I heard that chivalry was dead, but I think it's just got a bad flue.
Meg Ryan

Bad, Heard, Chivalry

If the dead talk to you, you are a spiritualist; if God talks to you, you are a schizophrenic.
Thomas Szasz

God, Talk, Talks

After a while I started to think of that as an image of something that went a lot deeper than the dead dog, which is you can't bring back anything to life.
Alan Alda

Life, After, While

Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.
Harold MacMillan

Mean, Living, Means

God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.
William Ellery Channing

Life, God, Spiritual

I hate those e-books. They can not be the future... they may well be... I will be dead.
Maurice Sendak

Future, Hate, May

Let's get a couple of things straight. It hasn't been years and years since I made a movie. I'm not coming back from the dead - I've just had two kids! I have no intention of retiring, but I do think it's impossible to do movie after movie, because there aren't that many good films made.
Julia Roberts

Good, Made, Two

If you don't have any fight in you, you might as well be dead.
Scott Caan

Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods and day by day the dead leaves fall and melt.
William Allingham

Fire, Fall, Along

If life were fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.
Johnny Carson

Life, Alive, Fair

Canada was built on dead beavers.
Margaret Atwood

Canada, Beavers, Built

I like to stay busy, I like to stay focused, and I like to stay creative. Without being creative I'd be dead.
Jeremy Renner

Busy, Creative, Stay

They can't give a Nobel to someone who's dead so I think they were probably thinking they had better give it to me now before I popped off.
Doris Lessing

Someone, Thinking, Give

I'll be pleased when I'm dead. That will let me off worrying about all these wars.
Doris Lessing

Off, Wars, Worrying

We shall heal our wounds, collect our dead and continue fighting.
Mao Zedong

Fighting, Shall, Continue

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