Graves Quotes - Page 22

• The way to really live is to die. The passport to living is to imagine yourself in your grave. Imagine you're lying in your coffin....Now look at your problems from that viewpoint. Changes everything, doesn't it?

  Anthony de Mello

  Change, Lying, Looks

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• Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.

  Francis Bacon

  Wise, Witty, Philosophy

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Studies'

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• Grammar is the grave of letters.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Letters, Grammar

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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• In those days, our Declaration of Independence was held sacred by all, and thought to include all; but now, to aid in the making the bondage of the negro universal and eternal, it is assailed, and sneered at, and construed, and hawked at, and torn, till, if its framers could rise from their graves, they could not at all recognize it.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Independence, Slavery, Sacred

  Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 1: 1832-1858: Library of America #45”, p.396, Library of America

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• I cannot believe in the immortality of the soul. No, all this talk of an existence for us, as individuals, beyond the grave is wrong. It is born of our tenacity of life - our desire to go on living - our dread of coming to an end.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Atheist, Believe, Soul

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• He was a worshiper of liberty, a friend of the oppressed. A thousand times I have heard him quote these words: 'For Justice all place a temple, and all season, summer.' He believed that happiness is the only good, reason the only torch, justice the only worship, humanity the only religion, and love the only priest. He added to the sum of human joy; and were every one to whom he did some loving service to bring a blossom to his grave, he would sleep tonight beneath a wilderness of flowers. . . .

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Love, Summer, Flower

  Cameron Rogers, Robert Green Ingersoll (1927). “Colonel Bob Ingersoll: a biographical narrative of the great American orator and agnostic”

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• The Catholic community must offer support to those women who may find it difficult to accept a child, above all when they are isolated from their family and friends. Likewise, the community should be open to welcome back all who repent of having participated in the grave sin of abortion, and should guide them with pastoral charity to accept the grace of forgiveness, the need for penance, and the joy of entering once more into the new life of Christ.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Children, Support, Abortion

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• In some ways, the challenges are even more daunting than they were at the peak of the cold war. Not only do we continue to face grave nuclear threats, but those threats are being compounded by new weapons developments, new violence within States and new challenges to the rule of law.

  Kofi Annan

  Peace, War, Law

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• Those who love not their fellow-beings live unfruitful lives, and prepare for their old age a miserable grave.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Funny, Kindness, Age

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1871). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Complete in One Volume”, p.51

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• I'll always have the memories of guys I lost in Vietnam. And I've lost friends since the war, but I'll always have the memories. The riches are great, but riches aren't everything, because when you go you can only take your memories and your word and your honor to the grave with you.

  Michael E. Thornton

  Memories, War, Guy

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• This day relenting God
  Hath placed within my hand
  A wondrous thing; and God
  Be praised. At His command,
  Seeking His secret deeds
  With tears and toiling breath,
  I find thy cunning seeds,
  O million-murdering Death.
  I know this little thing
  A myriad men will save.
  O Death, where is thy sting?
  Thy victory, O Grave?
  Poem he wrote following the discovery that the malaria parasite was carried by the amopheline mosquito.

  Ronald Ross

  God, Men, Discovery

  Philosophies (1910) "In Exile" pt. 7 (describing his part in discovering the life-cycle of the malaria parasite in 1897; cf. Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (1979) 77:1)

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• I wish that all those, who on this night are not merry enough to speak before they think, may ever after be grave enough to think before they speak!

  Ann Radcliffe

  Night, Thinking, Wish

  Ann Radcliffe (1811). “The Italian or the Confessional of the Black Penitents”, p.265, Lulu.com

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• Photography in our time leaves us with a grave responsibility. While we are playing in our studios with broken flowerpots, oranges, nude studies and still lifes, one day we know that we will be brought to account: life is passing before our eyes without our ever having seen a thing.

  Brassai

  Photography, Eye, Responsibility

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• If I lie down on my bed I must be here,
  But if I lie down in my grave I may be elsewhere.

  Stevie Smith

  Lying, Bed, May

  Stevie Smith (1988). “New Selected Poems of Stevie Smith”, p.32, New Directions Publishing

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• In any open question, we should argue from what we do know to what we do not know. We do know that fervent legends and stubborn myths arise easily and naturally. We do not know that dead people rise from the grave.

  Dan Barker

  People, Religion, Stubborn

  Dan Barker, Richard Dawkins (2008). “Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists”, p.299, Ulysses Press

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• I trust Jesus with all my tomorrows, knowing that He will solve the mystery of life beyond the grave.

  Billy Graham

  Trust, Religious, Jesus

  Billy Graham (1994). “Death and the Life After”, p.133, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The spectacle of modern investment markets has sometimes moved me towards the conclusion that to make the purchase of an investment permanent and indissoluble, like marriage, except by reason of death or other grave cause, might be a useful remedy for our contemporary evils. For this would force the investor to direct his mind to the long-term prospects and to those only.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Long, Evil, Mind

  John Maynard Keynes (2006). “General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money”, p.143, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• The privilege of opening the first trial in history for crimes against the peace of the world imposes a grave responsibility. The wrongs, which we seek to condemn and punish, have been so calculated, so malignant, and so devastating, that civilization cannot tolerate their being ignored, because it cannot survive their being repeated. That four great nations, flushed with victory and stung with injury, stay the hand of vengeance and voluntarily submit their captive enemies to the judgment of the law is one of the most significant tributes that power has ever paid to reason.

  Robert H. Jackson

  Responsibility, Civilization, Hands

  Opening statement for the prosecution before International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg, Germany, 21 Nov. 1945

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• It's really a pity that there are observers who view political events like comic strips. There has to be a Zorro, there has to be a star. No, the problem of Upper Volta is more serious than that. It was a grave mistake to have looked for a man, a star, at all costs, to the point of creating one, that is, to the point of attributing the ownership of the event to captain Sankara, who must have been the brains, etc.

  Thomas Sankara

  Stars, Mistake, Men

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• We need to know why NHTSA, which has officials who are paid to do nothing else but monitor accidents, have been asleep at the wheel when it had information served up to it on a silver platter by State Farm Insurance Company which would suggest grave problems with Firestone tires.

  Fred Upton

  Silver Platter, Needs, Information

  "New NHTSA Administrator Sue Bailey Already in Hot Seat Over Firestone Tire Problems". "Morning News" with Daryn Kagan, www.cnn.com. September 12, 2000.

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• Thanks to our cinctures and corsets we have succeeded in making an artificial being out of woman. She is an anomaly, and Nature herself, obedient to the laws of heredity, aids us in complicating and enervating her. We carefully keep her in a state of nervous weakness and muscular inferiority, and in guarding her from fatigue, we take away from her possibilities of development. Thus modeled on a bizarre ideal of slenderness to which, strangely enough, we continue to adhere, our women have nothing in common with us, and this, perhaps, may not be without grave moral and social disadvantages.

  Paul Gauguin

  Law, Weakness, Anomalies

  Paul Gauguin (1987). “Gauguin: a retrospective”, Hugh Lauter Levin Associates

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• If then, said I, the question is put to me would I rather have a miserable ape for a grandfather or a man highly endowed by nature and possessing great means and influence and yet who employs those faculties for the mere purpose of introducing ridicule into a grave scientific discussion-I unhesitatingly affirm my preference for the ape.

  Thomas Huxley

  Mean, Men, Grandfather

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• Sing of the nature of women, and then the song shall be surely full of variety; old crotchets and most sweet closes. It shall be humorous, grave, fantastic, amorous, melancholy, sprightly, one in all, and all in one.

  John Marston

  Song, Sweet, Humorous

  John Marston (2014). “The Malcontent”, p.82, A&C Black

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• The Russian dramatist is one who, walking through a cemetery, does not see the flowers on the graves. The American dramatist . . . Does not see the graves under the flowers.

  George Jean Nathan

  Flower, Theatre, Doe

  George Jean Nathan (1921). “The Theatre, the Drama, the Girls”

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• There are grave difficulties on every hand, and more are looming ahead. Therefore, we must go forward.

  William Carey

  Christian, Prayer, Hands

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