In Paris, AIDS was dismissed as an American phobia until French people started dying; then everyone said, ‘Well, you have to die some way or another.’ If Americans were hysterical and pragmatic, the French were fatalistic: depressed but determined to keep the party going.
A squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa.
I was destined to work with dying patients. I had no choice when I encountered my first AIDS patient. I felt called to travel some 250,000 miles each year to hold workshops that helped people cope with the most painful aspects of life, death and the transition between the two.
I was just dying to get out of my twenties.
I only really cast people who are desperate to be in it – who were dying to be in it, whose talent I believed in and were dead ready to do the work that was necessary.
In Sleep we lie all naked and alone, in Sleep we are united at the heart of night and darkness, and we are strange and beautiful asleep; for we are dying the darkness and we know no death.
‘Democratic socialism’ is awful as a slogan and catastrophic as a policy. And ‘social democracy’ – a term that better fits the belief of more ordinary liberals who want, say, Medicare for all – is a politically dying force. Democrats who aren’t yet sick of all their losing should feel free to embrace them both.
The question of whether it’s God’s green earth is not at center stage, except in the sense that if so, one is reminded with some regularity that He may be dying.
I like pop music. I also like the sound of a dying refrigerator. I can listen to that for an hour and a half if I’m in the mood.
It may be tripe, but it’s my tripe – and I do urge other authors to resist encroachments on their brain-children and trust their own judgment rather than that of some zealous meddler with a diploma in creative punctuation who is just dying to get into the act.
It’s weird, but I’m so empathetic; when I see people dying on hot sauce, I do feel for them. And I’m a Midwestern guy, so I think I’m just naturally nice and polite.
Only by God’s mercy and grace. We aren’t worthy, we’re all sinners, but we are because of Jesus dying for us.
It’s been three years since I last performed here so I’m dying to tear the roof off Wembley Arena with some old school joints and brand new bangers. When I’m done, you’re gonna remember it for a long time to come.
I’m not interested in worrying in if I make people uncomfortable. I’m interested in stopping women and children dying – that’s what I’m interested in.
Influenza is a serious disease. Kids die of influenza, both in Japan and the United States, and if you give a drug to people who are at risk of dying, there will be people who die who got the drug,… There is no signal the drug is doing it as opposed to the disease.
I would love to have a number one hit. The truth is if I don’t get one, I’ll be fine, but at the same time, the truth is that I’m dying for one, as well.
We lived in the mountains for 14 months without much food. People were dying from starvation.
Routine pap and HPV screenings save thousands of women from dying of cervical cancer every year.
The idea of being a widow brings the thought of your husband dying. I don’t really feel that way. I have higher confidence in life after that transition. That’s my thought. That’s how I feel. I want to keep him alive.
A number of cases have been reported in which a dying individual has a vision of a person about whose death he or she did not know.
You know, my hair is very upsetting to people, but it’s upsetting on purpose. It is important to look old so that the young will not be afraid of dying. People don’t like old women. We don’t honor age in our society, and we certainly don’t honor it in Hollywood.
Personally, I don’t want to live with limitations. If there comes a time where I am dying to play Juliet or Macbeth, I want to make those avenues for myself.
I wrote ‘A Boy and His Soul’ that talks about how my mother had lupus and my dad dying of a heart condition.
Probably most dying patients, even when suffering greatly, would choose to live as long as possible. That courage and grace should be protected and honored, and we should put every effort into treating their symptoms.
Rock n’ roll is dying because people became OK with Nickelback being the biggest band in the world.
In Fall Out Boy, I noticed that I wasn’t putting all that much soul into it. It was just kind of screaming, I guess. I was just dying to get out of there!
While there are so many great things in my life, you get older, and you have responsibilities. And things happen, like my dad dying – things that are tough to shake off. And there are things I’m still trying to figure out.
Who wants a world in which the guarantee that we shall not die of starvation entails the risk of dying of boredom?
If it happens, it happens, but because everything is going so well over here, we’re not dying to break America.
If you’re not growing, you’re dying, and I’m not ready for that.
I know it sounds weird, but how bad, how hard can dying be?
If you get rid of emotion for a minute and think about the threat of terrorism statistically, it’s not even there. The probability that you will slip on a wet floor in your bathroom and die is a thousand times higher than the probability of you dying as a result of terrorism.
I think fine dining is dying out everywhere… but I think there will be – and there has to always be – room for at least a small number of really fine, old-school fine-dining restaurants.
My father once said, ‘If you’re in the desert and you’re dying of thirst, are you going to drink a glass of blood or are you going to drink a glass of water?’ I think what he was trying to say, interesting coming from my blood father, is sometimes there are people in your family that can be toxic.
I’ve been dying to go to India, especially to the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. I’ve also heard Bollywood town’s a lot of fun!
Healthy people are those who live in healthy homes on a healthy diet; in an environment equally fit for birth, growth work, healing, and dying… Healthy people need no bureaucratic interference to mate, give birth, share the human condition and die.
If a product’s future is unlikely to be remarkable – if you can’t imagine a future in which people are once again fascinated by your product – it’s time to realize that the game has changed. Instead of investing in a dying product, take profits and reinvest them in building something new.
I tend not to think about living to some grand old age. Then again, I don’t think about dying, either.
In an industrialized country as advanced as the United States, no mother should have the fear of dying during childbirth or in the following months.
I think it’s great to grow up in a small town because you’re just dying to break loose.
Power is changing hands, from dying hierarchies to living networks.
I’d sing all day, every day, all the time if I thought it didn’t sound like dying cats.
There’s probably somebody out there who has been dying to be Tony Stark, their whole life, and it will never happen. And then, it comes to me because I happened to do ‘Heroes.’ I mean, I love it. I’m totally respectful of the position, but I wasn’t pursuing it.
The point to have a child is to introduce them to this planet that is in some ways dying and hopefully, this new generation, these new untainted brains, will be the people to fix some of these things that this generation can’t.
Well, it seems all the fish in the rivers are dying. Could this be an act of cod?
Meanwhile, our young men and women whose economic circumstances make military service a viable career choice are dying bravely in a war with no end in sight.
What can I do if everyone from the president to a junior bureaucrat is dying to convict me. If I am such a criminal, what was I doing outside jail before my marriage to Benazir?
In our Western culture, although death has come out of the closet, it is still not openly experienced or discussed. Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it.
The idea of dying and coming back is what makes the Halloween films work.
I know as I’m taking my dying breath, the ambulance guy will ask me why they cancelled Action.
In working with those who are dying, I offer another human being a spacious environment with my mind in which they can die as they need to die. I have no right to define how another person should die. I’m just there to help them transition, however they need to do it.
Thor is magical, yes, but it is the magic of reality. His hammer was crafted ‘in the heart of a dying star,’ but so were you! Most of the atoms that make you up are in fact the innards of a ball of gas in space that got so heavy that it exploded. Stars died so that you could live, as physicist Lawrence Krauss would say.
I was paralyzed from the chest down when I was 19, so I kind of put my head together about dying, and I think I’ve come to terms with it.
It’s not like I’m afraid of dying. I know what it’s like on the other side.
Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything, for ‘Tis the only thing in this world that lasts, ‘Tis the only thing worth working for, worth fighting for – worth dying for.
