To exclude all jurors who would be in the slightest way affected by the prospect of the death penalty would be to deprive the defendant of the impartial jury to which he or she is entitled under the law.
The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn’t get worse every time Congress meets.
Death is with you all the time; you get deeper in it as you move towards it, but it’s not unfamiliar to you. It’s always been there, so what becomes unfamiliar to you when you pass away from the moment is really life.
Give me liberty or give me death.
Death was like love, a romantic escape.
Death is the king of this world: ‘Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.
It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.
I’m not afraid of death. It’s the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.
On ‘Death In Paradise,’ I had a CGI pet lizard and had to react to nothing, which was hideously embarrassing.
My second bout with Cro Cop was the hardest. I had a serious injury in my eye during the fight and he knocked me out in the second round. I think it was the closest I’ve been to death.
Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.
Real heroes are those who face death for a principle – say, to save the lives of others – without any promise of reward.
Life and death. They are somehow sweetly and beautifully mixed, but I don’t know how.
My objection to the death penalty is based on the idea that this is a democracy, and in a democracy the government is me, and if the government kills somebody then I’m killing somebody.
Sometimes I can tackle an issue -homelessness, tobacco litigation, insurance fraud, the death penalty – and wrap a good story around it. These are the best books, the ones with a story and a message.
In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death.
Feminists bore me to death. I follow my instinct and if that supports young girls in any way, great. But I’d rather they saw it more as a lesson about following their own instincts rather than imitating somebody.
The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.
Life is but a moment, death also is but another.
Death means change our clothes. Clothes become old, then time to come change. So this body become old, and then time come, take young body.
Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.
Art is built on the deepest themes of human meaning: good and evil, beauty and ugliness, life and death, love and hate. No other story has incarnated those themes more than the story of Jesus.
No one owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death.
The older I get, the more I want to do. It beats death, decay or golf in unfortunate trousers. Peace and quiet depress me.
The closer we come to the negative, to death, the more we blossom.
