Dead Man Quotes - Page 5

• Dead men do not cooperate with grace. Unless regeneration takes place first, there is no possibility of faith.

  R. C. Sproul

  Men, Grace, Firsts

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• There is no doubt, that man is not built to be a carnivorous animal. What a sweet, pleasing and innocent sight is the spectacle of a table served that way and what a difference to a make up of fuming animal meat, slaughtered and dead! Man in no way has the constitution of a carnivorous being. Hunt and voracity are unnatural to him. Man has neither the sharp pointed teeth or claws to slaughter his prey. On the contrary his hands are made to pick fruits, berries and vegetables and teeth appropriate to chew them.

  John Ray

  Sweet, Men, Animal

  "Humanimal". Book by Vergil Z. Ozeca, p. 171, 2010.

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• I'm not kidding myself. My voice alone is just an ordinary voice. What people come to see is how I use it. If I stand still while I'm singing, I'm dead, man. I might as well go back to driving a truck.

  Elvis Presley

  Men, Voice, People

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• There is a willow grows aslant a brook, That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream; There with fantastic garlands did she come Of crow-flowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples That liberal shepherds give a grosser name, But our cold maids do dead men's fingers call them: There, on the pendent boughs her coronet weeds Clambering to hang, an envious sliver broke; When down her weedy trophies and herself Fell in the weeping brook.

  William Shakespeare

  Weed, Flower, Men

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 4, sc. 7, l. 167

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• We are all dead men on leave.

  Eugen Levine

  Death, Men, Dying

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• I worshipped dead men for their strength, Forgetting I was strong.

  Vita Sackville-West

  Strength, Strong, Warrior

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• Even in an empire of atheists the dead man is always sacred.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Atheist, Men, Sacred

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• Oh, without prayer what are the church's agencies, but the stretching out of a dead man's arm, or the lifting up of the lid of a blind man's eye? Only when the Holy Spirit comes is there any life and force and power.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Prayer, Eye, Men

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1988). “Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series”, Baker Publishing Group

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• Give an Irishman lager for a month and he's a dead man. An Irishman's stomach is lined with copper, and the beer corrodes it. But whiskey polishes the copper and is the saving of him.

  Mark Twain

  Drinking, Beer, Men

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• The reason why congregations have been so dead is, because they had dead men preaching to them. O that the Lord may quicken and revive them! How can dead men beget living children?

  George Whitefield

  Children, Men, Reason Why

  "George Whitefields's Journals".

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• Yeah, I had actually tried to stop acting before I made Dead Man Walking.

  Sean Penn

  Men, Acting, Yeah

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• The dead man is on the trolley and the woman collapses across his chest. That's what the ghouls want a shufti at, like at that Princess Diana's funeral, they want to scrutinise those who really knew her, to drink the misery out of their faces.

  Irvine Welsh

  Princess, Men, Ghouls

  Irvine Welsh (1998). “Filth”, Random House (UK)

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• The ocean moans over dead men's bones.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Ocean, Men, Bones

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• An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Death, Eye, Men

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1854). “The complete works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an introductory essay upon his philosophical and theological opinions”, p.237

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• The plants filled the place, a forest of them, with nasty meaty leaves and stalks like the newly washed fingers of dead men.

  Raymond Chandler

  Men, Forests, Nasty

  Raymond Chandler (2011). “The Big Sleep & Farewell, My Lovely”, p.13, Modern Library

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• The miracle of Sunday is that a dead man lives. The miracle of Saturday is that the eternal Son of God lies dead.

  John Ortberg

  Lying, Son, Sunday

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• Words are not in the power of men; men are in the power of words. Every time we open our mouths, a thousand dead men speak through us.

  Hermann Bahr

  Men, Mouths, Speak

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• Sinners in their natural state lie dead, lifeless, and moveless; they can no more believe in Christ, nor repent, than a dead man can speak or walk: but, in virtue of the promise, the Spirit of life from Christ Jesus, at the time appointed, enters into the dead soul, and quickens it; so that it is no more morally dead, but alive, having new spiritual powers put into it, that were lost by Adam's fall.

  Thomas Boston

  Spiritual, Jesus, Lying

  Thomas Boston (1767). “A view of the covenant of grace from the sacred records: Wherein the parties in that covenant, the making of it; its parts ... and the administration thereof, are distinctly considered. Together with the trial of a saving personal in-being in it, and the way of instating sinners therein ...”, p.151

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• There's not much a newspaper reporter can do about dead men. But a newspaper reporter and a cop and a judge can deliver some justice. That's why the founding fathers wrote it up the way they did, I suppose. Life. Liberty. Pursuit of happiness. Everyone is entitled to those things.

  Charlie LeDuff

  Father, Pursuit Of Happiness, Men

  Charlie LeDuff (2013). “Detroit: An American Autopsy”, p.164, Penguin

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• A man who is not with a woman is a dead man.

  William A. Drake

  Men

  "Fictional character: Doctor Otternschlag". "Grand Hotel", www.imdb.com. 1932.

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• What a writer has to do is write what hasn't been written before or beat dead men at what they have done.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Men, Done

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.1086, Simon and Schuster

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• Jesus' death wasn't to free us from dying, but to free us from the fear of death. Jesus came to liberate us so that we could die up front and then live. Jesus Christ wants to take us to places where only dead men and women can go.

  Erwin McManus

  Jesus, Men, Dying

  Erwin Raphael McManus (2011). “Unleashed: Release the Untamed Faith Within”, p.48, Thomas Nelson

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• I am quite ready to acknowledge . . . that I ought to be grieved at death, if I were not persuaded that I am going to other gods who are wise and good (of this I am as certain as I can be of any such matters), and to men departed who are better than those whom I leave behind. And therefore I do not grieve as I might have done, for I have good hope that there is yet something remaining for the dead.

  Socrates

  Wise, Men, Grieving

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• I heard that I am crazy for taking this fight but I'm very excited about this chance. His manager is saying that I'm a 'dead man walking' but 'dead men' cannot have 'nightmares'.

  Wladimir Klitschko

  Motivation, Crazy, Fighting

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• Even if the disciples had believed in the resurrection of Jesus, it is doubtful they would have generated any following. So long as the body was interred in the tomb, a Christian movement founded on belief in the resurrection of the dead man would have been an impossible folly.

  William Lane Craig

  Christian, Jesus, Men

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