Graves Quotes - Page 18

• It is the right to bear arms which is the problem. I think if the Founding Fathers knew what was happening they would be turning in their graves with embarrassment at how that law has been interpreted.

  Liam Neeson

  Father, Thinking, Law

  "Liam Neeson interview: Hard man actor on Bono, Ralph Fiennes and his fear of guns". Interview with Gill Pringle, www.independent.co.uk. September 12, 2014.

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• I don't get the romances. I did try - a film called 'Roseanna's Grave' in the 1990s. I liked it. But the audience didn't come.

  Jean Reno

  Romance, Trying, Film

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• I've made it clear for years that the threat from Iran is grave.

  Barack Obama

  Iran, Years, Made

  "The Case Against Obama - In His Own Words" by Lorie Byrd, www.realclearpolitics.com. August 22, 2008.

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• I think everybody wants to redeem themselves after they've done something that might be considered negative. I don't think anyone wants to go to the grave negative.

  Ice T

  Thinking, Negative, Done

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• Morality only is eternal. All the rest is balloon and bubble from the cradle to the grave.

  David McCullough

  Balloons, Morality, Cradle

  David McCullough (2011). “David McCullough American History E-book Box Set: John Adams, 1776, Truman, The Course of Human Events”, p.341, Simon and Schuster

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• The birth of Christ our Lord was more than an incident, it was an epoch in the history of the world... He came to teach us the character of God, and by example and precept pointed out the path which, if we walk in it, will lead us back into his presence. He came to break the bands of death with which man was bound, and made possible the resurrection by which the grave is robbed of its victory and death of its sting.

  Heber J. Grant

  Christmas, Character, Men

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• To every good friend I send my greet feet; addio nitwit. Love true true true until the grave, if I live that long and do behave.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Good Friend, Emotional, Feet

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• One of the issues that we professional newspaper columnists are required by union regulations to voice grave concern about is the federal budget deficit, which we refer to as the "mounting" deficit, because every extra word helps when you have to produce a certain number of gravely concerned newsprint inches.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Voice, Numbers

  Dave Barry (1989). “Dave Barry's Greatest Hits”, Ballantine Books

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• If Jesus remained dead, how can you explain the reality of the Christian church and its phenomenal growth in the first three centuries of the Christian era? Christ's church covered the Western world by the fourth century. A religious movement built on a lie could not have accomplished that....All the power of Rome and of the religious establishment in Jerusalem was geared to stop the Christian faith. All they had to do was to dig up the grave and to present the corpse. They didn't.

  Henry F. Schaefer, III

  Christian, Religious, Jesus

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• Up until now, I believed the nuclear threat to the U.S. from Iran was limited to the ability of terrorists to penetrate the borders or port security to deliver a device to a major city. ...While that threat should continue to be a grave concern for every American, these tests by Iran demonstrate just how devious the fanatical mullahs in Tehran are. We are facing a clever and unscrupulous adversary in Iran that could bring America to its knees.

  Joseph Farah

  Clever, Iran, Cities

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• The Iranian regime supports violent extremists and challenges us across the region. It pursues a nuclear capability that could spark a dangerous arms race and raise the prospect of a transfer of nuclear know-how to terrorists. Its president denies the Holocaust and threatens to wipe Israel off the map. The danger from Iran is grave, it is real.

  Barack Obama

  Real, Israel, Iran

  "The Iranian Revolution". "Rear Vision" with Annabelle Quince, www.abc.net.au. February 11, 2009.

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• So as grave and learned men may doubt, without any imputation to them; for the most learned doubteth most, and the more ignorant for the most part are the more bold and peremptory.

  Edward Coke

  Men, Law, Doubt

  Sir Edward Coke, Sir Thomas Littleton, Francis Hargrave, Charles Butler, Sir Matthew Hale (1832). “The First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England: Or, a Commentary Upon Littleton : Not the Name of the Author Only, But of the Law Itself ... : Haec Ego Grandaevus Posui Tibi, Candide Lector”, p.632

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• It is an in, a grave evil and a disturbance of the right order, for a larger and higher organisation, to arrogate to itself functions which can be performed efficiently by smaller and lower bodies.

  Pope Leo XIII

  Government, Order, Evil

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• Only weeks after Oslo began, when nearly all the world and most of Israel was drunk with the idea of peace, I argued that a Palestinian society not constrained by democratic norms would be a fear society that would pose a grave threat to Israel.

  Natan Sharansky

  Peace, Israel, Ideas

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• Whatsoever your hand finds to do, do it gladly. Because there is no work, love, knowledge, or wisdom in the grave.

  Rutger Hauer

  Meaningful, Hands, Work Love

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• The only really effective means of enabling States to deal with the grave problem of poverty is to provide them with the necessary resources through foreign financial aid - public and private - granted under reasonable conditions, within the framework of international commercial relations regulated with fairness.

  Pope John Paul II

  Mean, Poverty, Enabling

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• And part of the soil is called to wash away In storms and streams shave close and gnaw the rocks. Besides, whatever the earth feeds and grows Is restored to earth. And since she surely is The womb of all things and their common grave, Earth must dwindle, you see and take on growth again.

  Lucretius

  Science, Erosion, Rocks

  Titus Lucretius Carus, Anthony M. Esolen (1995). “De rerum natura”, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr

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• With respect to the first of these obstacles, it has often been made a matter of grave complaint against Political Economists, that they confine their attention to Wealth, and disregard all consideration of Happiness or Virtue.

  Nassau William Senior

  Happiness, Political, Attention

  Nassau William Senior (1836). “An Outline of the Science of Political Economy”, p.130

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• I hate this place. I shall hate it to my grave.

  Wallis Simpson

  Hate, I Hate

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• Start her, now; give 'em the long and strong stroke, Tashtego. Start her, Tash, my boy-start her, all; but keep cool, keep cool-cucumbers is the word-easy, easy-only start her like grim death and grinning devils, and raise the buried dead perpendicular out of their graves, boys-that's all. Start her!

  Herman Melville

  Strong, Boys, Sea

  Herman Melville (2008). “Moby-Dick”, p.317, Velvet Element Books

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• Above the dirt of an unmarked grave and beneath the shadow of the abandoned refinery, the children would play their own made up games: Wild West Accountants! in which they would calculate the loss of a shipment of gold stolen from an imaginary stagecoach, or Recently Divorced Scientists! in which they would build a super-collider out of garbage to try and win back their recently lost loves.

  Joe Meno

  Love, Children, Loss

  Joe Meno (2006). “The Boy Detective Fails”, p.8, Akashic Books

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• When my wife's Aunt Caroline was in her nineties, she lived with us, and she once remarked: 'Remembrance is sufficient of the beauty we have seen.' I cherish the remembrance of the beauty I have seen. I cherish the grave, compulsive word.

  E. B. White

  Inspiring, Aunt, Wife

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• My closest friend, who died not long ago, is buried near Marx's grave in Highgate cemetery, so I see the gaggle of admirers laying roses at the foot of his tombstone regularly. I have never been tempted to leave flowers there myself. Great theories, shame about the practice. Marx did many things. But inventing class was not one of them.

  Alastair Campbell

  Tombstone, Flower, Long Ago

  "The royals are so thick" by Alastair Campbell, www.theguardian.com. April 11, 2001.

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• The grave is but the threshold of eternity. What a world were this, how unendurable its weight, If they whom death hath sundered, did not meet again!

  Robert Southey

  World, Weight, Headstone

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• We believe, as the President has indicated, that this combination of a rogue state that possesses weapons of mass destruction and has known ties to terrorist organizations, is a grave threat to the people of the United States and to other countries around the world.

  Paul Cellucci

  Country, Believe, Organization

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