Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Engvall

There's a group in California that wants to make suicide a capital offense punishable by death. That's like punishing someone for being on a hunger strike by sending them to bed with no supper.

Carl Sagan

Many statements about God are confidently made by theologians on grounds that today at least sound specious. Thomas Aquinas claimed to prove that God cannot make another God, or commit suicide, or make a man without a soul, or even make a triangle whose interior angles do not equal 180 degrees. But Bolyai and Lobachevsky were able to accomplish this last feat (on a curved surface) in the nineteenth century, and they were not even approximately gods.

Aron Ralston

I'd fallen in love with a woman but she broke up with me and I was devastated. Six months later, I went into a suicidal depression from the break-up of the relationship, but I resolved to not do what my friends had done. And so I reached out for help

Bill Vaughan

What Strauss is going through drives you nuts. If you care about your batting - which I'm sure he does - he will feel like jumping off a bridge and committing suicide

Bertrand Russell

America remained a land of promise for lovers of freedom. Even Byron, at a moment when he was disgusted with Napoleon for not committing suicide, wrote an eloquent stanza in praise of Washington.

Bertrand Russell

In adolescence, I hated life and was continually on the verge of suicide, from which, however, I was restrained by the desire to know more mathematics. Now, on the contrary, I enjoy life; I might almost say that with every year that passes I enjoy it more.

Charles Clarke

I wish we didn't have the problem. I wish we didn't have suicide bombers at all. I wish I could go like that and they're gone,

Charles J. Shields

Self-pity is a sin. It is a form of living suicide.

Charles A. Beard

Killing time is not murder, it is suicide.

B. F. Skinner

We do not choose survival as a value, it chooses us.

Carl Sagan

If we do not speak for Earth, who will? If we are not committed to our own survival, who will be?

Charles Darwin

This preservation of favourable variations and the destruction of injurious variations, I call Natural Selection, or the Survival of the Fittest. Variations neither useful nor injurious would not be affected by natural selection and would be left a fluctuating element.

Charles Darwin

The most important factor in survival is neither intelligence nor strength but adaptability.

Cameron Sinclair

It angers me when sustainability gets used as a buzz word. For 90 percent of the world, sustainability is a matter of survival.

Carl Zimmer

We really depend on viruses for our complete survival.

Alain de Botton

We wanted to test each other's capacity for survival: only if we had tried in vain to destroy one another would we know we were safe.

Deepak Chopra

Survival of the fittest is over. Get over it. We need survival of the wisest.

Deepak Chopra

The next step in mans evolution will be the survival of the wisest.

Charles Colson

To turn away from the great questions and dilemmas of life is a tragedy, for the quest for meaning and truth makes life worth living.

Charles Peguy

Life holds only one tragedy, ultimately: not to have been a saint.

Carroll Quigley

I am now quite sure that Tragedy and Hope was suppressed although I do not know why or by whom

Carol Burnett

Comedy = tragedy + time.

Alan Cumming

I like the tragedies way more than the comedies because they're so universal.

Edward Abbey

A life without tragedy would not be worth living.

Aristotle

A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.

Tristan Taylor

When the tragedy first happened, I wished there was a way I could go there and help.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Life is a mixing of all kind of things: comedy and tragedy going together.