Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday lying in hospitals dying of nothing.
The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend as to find a friend worth dying for.
Democracy is worth dying for because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.
They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.
All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying losing cheating and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from easy.
We are perhaps uniquely among the earth's creatures the worrying animal. We worry away our lives fearing the future discontent with the present unable to take in the idea of dying unable to sit still.
As a kid I'd go into the bathroom when I was having a tantrum. I'd be in the bathroom crying studying myself in the mirror. I was preparing for future roles.
I don't think the public is dying to see me necessarily be funny all the time.
When it comes to war we focus more on the mainstream coverage of the event rather than the event itself. People dying is never funny. Protest puppets are always funny.
Latinos have fought in all of America's wars beginning with the Revolutionary War. Many Latinos are fighting and dying for our country today in Iraq just as several of their ancestors fought for freedom in Mexico over a century ago.
Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.
Did you ever see the customers in health - food stores? They are pale skinny people who look half - dead. In a steak house you see robust ruddy people. They're dying of course but they look terrific.
I want my food dead. Not sick not dying dead.
I fear dying in the middle of a book. It would be so annoying to write 80 000 words and not get to the end. I'm phobic about it. So when I'm writing a book I leave messages all over the house for people to know how the story ends and then someone can finish it for me.
Most people come to fear not death itself but the many terrible ways of dying.
We should laugh before being happy for fear of dying without having laughed.
We must laugh before we are happy for fear of dying without having laughed at all.
One thing about being successful is that I stopped being afraid of dying. Once you're a star you're dead already. You're embalmed.
My goal was not to be famous or rich but to be good at what I did. And that required going to New York and studying and working in the theater.
There's so many things I want to do. I want to work with great filmmakers great actors great scripts. And there's no reason for me to do anything short of that because I'm 24 I don't have a family I don't need to make tons of money and I'm not dying to get famous.
All is amiss. Love is dying faith's defying heart's denying.
If I were dying my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.
I don't think it's too hippie to want to clean up the planet so you don't wind up dying of some kind of cancer when you're 45 years old. It enrages me that these big cancer-research organizations can't be bothered to man the front lines of environmental protest.
In more than 20 years I've spent studying the issue I have yet to hear a convincing argument that college football has anything do with what is presumably the primary purpose of higher education: academics.
We're first on executions. We're 49th in funding public education. We're in a race with Mississippi for the bottom and we're winning.