To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you're dead.
Og Mandino

Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.
James A. Baldwin

Thug Life to me is dead.
Tupac Shakur

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.
Francis Bacon

It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.
Marcel Proust

A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years.
Harry S. Truman

The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.
Saint Thomas Aquinas

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
Aldous Huxley

What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you're advancing. If you don't you're as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn't there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you.
Lyndon B. Johnson

This is not Johnson's war. This is America's war. If I drop dead tomorrow, this war will still be with you.
Lyndon B. Johnson

The past is not dead. In fact, it's not even past.
William Faulkner

Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
William Faulkner

It is a very mixed blessing to be brought back from the dead.
Kurt Vonnegut

Once they get their hooks into you, you're a dead pigeon.
Bud Abbott

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

The big debate right now is if Saddam is alive or dead. He's dead, then he's alive, then dead, then alive. It's just confusing. Today they showed videotape, and Saddam was speaking at his own funeral.
David Letterman

Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
Denis Waitley

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

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