Quotes about "Death & Mortality"

Around the district, I've talked to more local bankers who are scared to death. ”

I'm shy and can't for the life of me barge around and slap people on the back. I sit in a corner by myself and am tickled to death when someone comes over to talk to me. ”

I'm working myself to death. ”

Anyone who was alive during the outbreak of the bubonic plague in the 14th century experienced something terrifyingly close to the widespread death and chaos of an apocalyptic event. ”

I don't work Sunday any more... The Sabbath is a very reasonable idea. Otherwise, you work yourself to death. ”

Real heroes are those who face death for a principle - say, to save the lives of others - without any promise of reward. ”

I've written important articles on prevention, on the concept of the preventive state, how the law is moving much more in an area of trying to prevent wrongs than trying to deal with them after they occur. That will be my academic/intellectual legacy. ”

I did a production of Macbeth in the 1960s in which I had a swordfight in the final scene. But the blade fell off my sword just as I was stabbing the guy. I ended up having to hammer him to death. ”

In the end we are all sacked and it's always awful. It is as inevitable as death following life. If you are elevated there comes a day when you are demoted. Even Prime Ministers. ”

Obviously death is a theme I'm fascinated by. ”