Before I Die Quotes - Page 2

• I trust to luck. I am planning to be a millionaire before I die but I don't have a plan as to how that will happen.

  Neil Oliver

  Luck, Planning, Millionaire

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• I think if I have one message, one thing before I die that most of the world would know, it would be that the event does not determine how to respond to the event. That is a purely personal matter. The way in which we respond will direct and influence the event more than the event itself.

  Virginia Satir

  Thinking, Events, Doe

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• Life is a book, and there are a thousand pages I have not read. I would read them together with you, as many as I can, before I die -" She put her hand against his chest, just over his heart, and felt its beat against her palm, a unique time signature that was all its own. "I only wish you would not speak of dying," she said. "But even for that, yes, I know how you are with your words, and, Will- I love all of them. Every word you say. The silly ones, the mad ones, the beautiful ones, and the ones that are only for me. I love them, and I love you.

  Cassandra Clare

  Beautiful, Silly, Book

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• I have spoken, and I was understood. It's not like I'm a tragic person who wasn't understood. All those books are in print, all those movies are still out there, the audience gets younger. So I don't have that "I've got to do one thing before I die." I did it.

  John Waters

  Book, Tragic, Print

  Source: www.timeout.com

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• My number one rule is to keep that camera rolling. Even if it's shaky or slightly out of focus, I don't give a rip. Even if a big old alligator is chewing me up I want to go down and go, 'Crikey!' just before I die. That would be the ultimate for me.

  Steve Irwin

  Rip, Numbers, Giving

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• I smoke pot because I want to go to heaven before I die

  Andy Warhol

  Heaven, Want, Pot

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• Before I die, I want to fight for life.

  Paulo Coelho

  Fighting, Want, Dies

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• It's all right, Tessa, you can go. We love you. You can go now.' 'Why are you saying that?' 'She might need permission to die, Cal.' 'I don't want her to. She doesn't have my permission.

  Jenny Downham

  Love You, Needs, Want

  Jenny Downham (2007). “Before I Die”, David Fickling Books

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• I want to kiss you one more time before I die.

  Cassandra Clare

  Kissing, Want, More Time

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.1308, Simon and Schuster

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• [...] "I recall what you said to me once," Will went on. "That words have the power to change us. Your words have changed me, Tess; they have made me a better man than I would have been otherwise. Life is a book, and there are a thousand pages I have not read. I would read them together with you, as many as I can, before I die -

  Cassandra Clare

  Book, Men, Together

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.539, Simon and Schuster

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• I would like, before I die, to see the changes I've always fought for being made. If not, my life will have been worth nothing.

  Brigitte Bardot

  Made, Has Beens, Dies

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• When I direct my own scripts, it's much easier as it's been in my head for a year already... What I love about this is having an idea and seeing it come to fruition on screen. I would like to direct someone else's script one day, but I might not get round to it before I die - you can't legislate for being hit by a bus!

  Ricky Gervais

  Years, Ideas, One Day

  "The Award-Wining Comedy Drama Returns". Interview with James Rampton, www.rickygervais.com. April 15, 2014.

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• I've had many more thousands of books in my possession than my shelves at home would indicate. At one time, I tried to keep them all, but that quest soon became impossible; I now only keep the ones I'm sure I'm going to reread, the ones I'm definitely going to read before I die, and the ones I can't bear to part with because of an aesthetic or emotional attachment.

  Lewis Buzbee

  Book, Home, Emotional

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• Everything Tolstoy wrote is precious, but I found this final statement of the truth about life as he had come to understand it particularly beautiful and moving. 'That is what I have wanted to say to you, my brothers. Before I died.' So he concludes, giving one a vivid sense of the old man, pen in hand and bent over the paper, his forehead wrinkled into a look of puzzlement very characteristic of him, as though he were perpetually wondering how others could fail to see what was to him so clear - that the law of love explained all mysteries and invalidated all other laws.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Love, Beautiful, Brother

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• What I do not know and cannot even hope to understand before I die is why human beings are willfully, coldly, matter-of-factly cruel to each other ... What nerve has atrophied in the torturer, or worse is sensually moved?

  Storm Jameson

  Nerves, Matter, Cruelty

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• So many things can get you high, I'm gonna try them all just once before I die.

  Sammy Hagar

  Alcohol, Drug, Trying

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• I would still like to go to the moon before I die.

  Richard E. Grant

  Moon, Stills, Dies

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• But I have a list of books that I want to read before I die, and whenever I get time to read something that isn't a script, I'll read something from that.

  Elizabeth Olsen

  Book, Want, Scripts

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think I should get the Nobel Peace Prize before I die for ending the war between the sexes.

  Betty Dodson

  Sex, War, Thinking

  "Betty Dodson's Feminist Sex Wars". Interview with Melissa Gira Grant, www.truth-out.org. December 16, 2013.

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• Most of us are tiptoeing through life so we can reach death safely. We should be praying, "If I should wake before I die. . . ." Life can get away from you.

  Tony Campolo

  Life, Praying, Should

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• If you shoot, I will kill her before I die." Yes," Kitai said in a patient tone. "Which is why I have not shot you. Yet.

  Jim Butcher

  Tone, Patient, Shots

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• That slow smile again. I love that smile! DId I think he was ugly just now? No, his face is transformed.

  Jenny Downham

  Thinking, Ugly, Faces

  Jenny Downham (2007). “Before I Die”, David Fickling Books

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• I love cop shows and crime books and thrillers, and before I die I'm gonna play a cop.

  Amy Sedaris

  Book, Play, Cop

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• Come on, Gypsy girl. I'm bleeding to death here, in case you haven't noticed. At least make it worth my while and kiss me before I die.

  Jennifer Estep

  Girl, Kissing, Bleeding

  Jennifer Estep (2012). “Mythos Academy Bundle: First Frost, Touch of Frost, Kiss of Frost & Dark Frost”, p.491, Kensington Publishing Corp.

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• A long-term substance abuser, a few months before his death, penned this poem: Went downtown, Hastings and Main, looking for relief from the pain. All I did was find a ticket on a one-way train. ... Give me peace before I die. The track is laid out so well; we all live our private hell; just more tickets on the hell-bound train.

  Gabor Mate

  Pain, Long, Track

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