Dead People Quotes - Page 2

• Only the gospel can truly save you. The gospel doesn't make bad people good; it makes dead people alive...the gospel is God's acceptance of us based on what Christ has done, not on what we can do.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Acceptance, People, Done

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• If I ran the Web, you could email dead people.

  Rives

  People, Email, Internet

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• One thing about dead people, they're all the same.

  Charles Starkweather

  People, One Thing

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• Where there's life, there's hope. Living people can change things, dead people cannot.

  Cory Doctorow

  People, People Can Change

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• Tradition and heritage are all dead people's baggage, stop carrying it. Move forward.

  Doug Stanhope

  Moving, Heritage, Baggage

  "Doug Stanhope: Oslo - Burning the Bridge to Nowhere". Comedy, 2011.

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• Out of the people that ever were, almost all of them are dead. There are way more dead people, and you're all gonna die and then you're gonna be dead for way longer than you're alive. Like that's mostly what you're ever gonna be. You're just dead people that didn't die yet.

  Louis C. K.

  Thinking, People, Laughing

  "The Collected Wisdom of Louis C.K." by Bradford Evans, www.vulture.com. February 26, 2013.

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• Dead people are all on the same level.

  Charles Starkweather

  Death, Suicide, People

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• I like stuff designed by dead people. The old designers. They always got it right because they didn't have to grow up with computers. All of the people that made the spoon and the dishes and the vacuum cleaner didn't have microprocessors and stuff. You could do a good design back then.

  John Maeda

  Growing Up, People, Design

  "John Maeda Goes Meta On Design". Interview with Kim Zetter, www.wired.com. March 8, 2007.

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• It's the closest I've come to touching immortality, by reading the words of dead people.

  Sarah Strohmeyer

  Reading, People, Touching

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• I recollected one story there was in the village, how that on a certain night in the year (it might be that very night for anything I knew), all the dead people came out of the ground and sat at the heads of their own graves till morning.

  Charles Dickens

  Morning, Halloween, Night

  Charles Dickens (1841). “Master Humphrey's Clock”, p.239

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• Dead people can be our heroes because they can't disappoint us later; they only improve over time, as we forget more and more about them.

  Veronica Roth

  Hero, People, Forget

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• The gospel doesn't make bad people good, it makes dead people alive.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  People, Alive, Bad People

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• When you see illegals and people who aren't citizens and they're on the registration rolls ... We can be babies, but you take a look at the registration you have illegals, you have dead people, you have this. It's really a bad situation. It's really bad.

  Donald Trump

  Baby, People, Citizens

  "Donald Trump Super Bowl interview transcript with Fox News' Bill O'Reilly". www.sbnation.com. February 5, 2017.

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• Dead people I could handle. They were usually beyond hysteria. This was the people-left behind part. The hard part.

  Darynda Jones

  Hysteria, People, Left Behind

  Darynda Jones (2011). “First Grave on the Right”, p.32, Macmillan

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• You totally need to watch the news." "Can't." "Why?" "It's too depressing." "Right, because hanging with dead people isn't.

  Darynda Jones

  Depressing, People, Watches

  Darynda Jones (2012). “Third Grave Dead Ahead”, p.54, St. Martin's Press

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• I kept thinking how they were all names of dead people, and how names are basically the only thing dead people keep.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Thinking, Names, People

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• So why don't you tell him you're sorry?" Gaby suggested. "Uh... because he probably never wants to speak to me again?" "How do you know? Do you have a fifth sense too?" Scarlett sighed. "No. And I think that's sixth sense." "No, I don't see dead people. It's different.

  Lauren Conrad

  Sorry, Thinking, People

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• If you were to go, and hopefully someday you will, you would see a lot of paintings of dead people. You'd see Jesus on the cross, and you'd see a dude get stabbed in the neck, and you'd see people dying at sea and in battle and a parade of martyrs. But Not. One. Single. Cancer. Kid. Nobody biting it from the plague or smallpox or yellow fever or whatever, because there is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of.

  John Green

  Jesus, Cancer, Kids

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• I knew that I would know more dead people. The bodies pile up. Could there be a space in my memory for each of them, or would I forget a little of Alaska every day for the rest of my life?

  John Green

  Memories, Alaska, Space

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.127, Penguin

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• You did something because it had always been done, and the explanation was, ‘But we’ve always done it this way.’ A million dead people can’t have been wrong, can they?

  Terry Pratchett

  People, Done, Way

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “The Fifth Elephant: (Discworld Novel 24)”, p.41, Random House

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• I've decided that I can also touch the hearts of many - dead people, but the living, too. (Cameryn Mahoney)

  Alane Ferguson

  Heart, People, Decided

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• All of my best friends are dead people. Someday I've got to figure out how that happened.

  Claudia Gray

  People, My Best Friend, Someday

  Claudia Gray (2011). “Afterlife (Evernight, Book 4)”, p.18, HarperCollins UK

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• When a Tralfamadorian sees a corpse, all he thinks is that the dead person is in bad condition in the particular moment, but that the same person is just fine in plenty of other moments. Now, when I myself hear that somebody is dead, I simply shrug and say what the Tralfamadorians say about dead people, which is "So it goes.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Thinking, People, Slaughterhouse Five

  KURT VONNEGUT JR (1969). “SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE”

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• For the first time in her life Granny wondered whether there might be something important in all these books people were setting store by these days, although she was opposed to books on strict moral grounds, since she had heard that many of them were written by dead people and therefore it stood to reason reading them would be as bad as necromancy. Among the many things in the infinitely varied universe with which Granny did not hold was talking to dead people, who by all accounts had enough troubles of their own.

  Terry Pratchett

  Reading, Book, Talking

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• Because I took an oath to help people. To protect them from The League and any corrupt government. (Devyn) Yeah, and I know people better than to believe that for even an instant. Altruism is dead. People use and they take until you’re nothing but a bleeding corpse on the ground at their feet. (Alix)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Believe, Government, Feet

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