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I learned a long time ago that some people would rather die than forgive. It's a strange truth, but forgiveness is a painful and difficult process. It's not something that happens overnight. It's an evolution of the heart.
Sue Monk Kidd

Time, Truth, Heart

I guess I so desperately want to see us put this planet right. It's so horrifying to me that a fifth of us are starving every night, and that forty thousand children die every single day.
Ann Druyan

Children, Single, Night

Of course, there are diseases of which people die.
Serge Lang

When the money dries up, the sites die off. That's the way to go after piracy.
Jared Polis

Money, After, Off

More than half the combat deaths in Vietnam occurred after Richard Nixon was elected on a promise to bring the war to an end, and after the American people had already decided that they did not want one more soldier to die in Vietnam.
Raul Grijalva

War, End, After

We in this Congress have a choice. The American people have a right to exercise a choice on this issue, as to whether our men and women will continue to fight and die in a war based on deception and fantasy, or to start bringing the troops home.
Raul Grijalva

Women, Men, Home

It doesn't matter. What matters is that you're about to die.
Franco Nero

Matter, Matters

It is the individual who knows how little they know about themselves who stands the most reasonable chance of finding out something about themselves before they die.
S. I. Hayakawa

Before, Chance, Themselves

Ofttimes the test of courage becomes rather to live than to die.
Vittorio Alfieri

Courage, Live, Rather

It is always dangerous to generalize, but the American people, while infinitely generous, are a hard and strong race and, but for the few cemeteries I have seen, I am inclined to think they never die.
Margot Asquith

Strong, Hard, American

He is not valiant that dares die, but he that boldly bears calamity.
Philip Massinger

Calamity, Bears, Dares

I'd like to see the bay cleaned up before I die.
Richard Wright

Before, Bay, Cleaned

In fact, a large majority of those have died and of those expected to die of AIDS, as well as of those who are infected with the virus, are in sub-Saharan Africa.
Claudio Hummes

Fact, Africa, Died

The people that live in these districts, they don't want to watch it. They don't want to see their children die or killing other people. The only people that it is entertainment to are the people in the capital that have been brainwashed and are misguided and living in a completely unrealistic kind of world.
Liam Hemsworth

Live, Children, Living

Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death has no dominion over them; they live, and their influence lives forever.
William Styron

Death, Live, Said

So what really gets me is these chickenhawks, who sent our kids to die, without ever serving in a war themselves. They don't know what it's all about.
Cindy Sheehan

War, Kids, Themselves

I think to be in exile is a curse, and you need to turn it into a blessing. You've been thrown into exile to die, really, to silence you so that your voice cannot come home. And so my whole life has been dedicated to saying, 'I will not be silenced.'
Ariel Dorfman

Life, Home, Saying

There were rumors I wasn't going to die. The whole cast was sitting around the table reading the script. I fell on the floor - I'm not kidding. I looked up at Katherine Heigl, and she was crying.
Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Around, Whole, She

I guess I'd like to get old and die, in that order.
Preston Manning

Old, Order, Guess

There can't be a pure myth, especially when the myth has been handed down in the oral tradition. As the stories are told, they change. If the stories don't change they just die.
Maxine Hong Kingston

Change, Down, Stories

I adore life but I don't fear death. I just prefer to die as late as possible.
Georges Simenon

Life, Death, Fear

Already old, the question Who shall die? Becomes unspoken Who is innocent?
Karl Shapiro

Old, Question, Innocent

Laughter and grief join hands. Always the heart Clumps in the breast with heavy stride; The face grows lined and wrinkled like a chart, The eyes bloodshot with tears and tide. Let the wind blow, for many a man shall die.
Karl Shapiro

Heart, Laughter, Eyes

People under siege turn to us in complete frustration and I get a chance to go in when it's do or die.
Curtis Sliwa

Chance, Turn, Complete

I'm a great dog fanatic. My own dog died a little while ago and I take it very personally when things die - it's a major offence.
Clive Barker

Great, While, Dog

The American people know that every day 3,000 kids begin to smoke, 1,000 of them die an early death. They're not going to allow us to go forward this year and not have comprehensive bipartisan legislation. It's in everybody's best interest.
Erskine Bowles

Best, Death, Forward

Many people who did not die right away came down with nausea, headache, diarrhea, malaise, and fever, which lasted several days. Doctors could not be certain whether some of these symptoms were the result of radiation or nervous shock.
John Hersey

Down, Away, Days

If you don't execute your ideas, they die.
Roger von Oech

The czar was always sending us commands - you shall not do this and you shall not do that - till there was very little left that we might do, except pay tribute and die.
Mary Antin

Might, Left, Pay

What upset me the most was not that I would die, but that I was letting down my parents. I felt very guilty for chasing this dream career of mine, at the expense of my parents.
Linda Vester

Parents, Career, Down

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