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A certain death of an artist is overconfidence. -- Robin Trower
I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death. -- George Carlin
Jerusalem meant one thing for Jesus: certain death. -- John Piper
What's a friend for if not to face almost certain death with, eh? -- Katie MacAlister
Three things are certain: Death, taxes, and lost data. Guess which has occurred. -- David Dixon
True courage, in the face of almost certain death, is the rarest quality on earth. -- Christopher Pike
A man falling off a cliff to certain death will stretch out a hand even to his worst enemy. -- Robert Jordan
To be brave without compassion, generous without moderation, and rule without refraining from being first in the world, are certain deaths. -- Laozi
How ironic, she thought, as she fell to her certain death, that at that moment she would have given anything to be a giant goose again. -- Michael Buckley
Although the constant shadow of certain death looms over everyday, the pleasures and joys of life can be so fine and affecting that the heart is nearly stilled in astonishment. -- Dean Koontz
Life flows on over death as water closes over a stone dropped into a pool. ... Fate is certain; death is certain; but the courage and nobility of men and women matter more than these. -- Winifred Holtby
Asking a girl if she's alright is like jaywalking across a black ice-covered 4 lane street: you think you can make it safely to the other side, but you're more likely to slip and fall to a most certain death. -- David Bowick
What if we never 'get over' certain deaths, or our childhoods? What if the idea that we should have by now, or will, is a great palace lie? What if we're not supposed to? What if it takes a life time...? -- Anne Lamott
It boils down to this: we should have done with humbug, and let war be war, and not a game ... If there were none of this magnanimity business in warfare, we should never go to war, except for something worth facing certain death for. -- Leo Tolstoy
Once I'm on my feet i realize escape might not be so simple, panic begins to set in. i can't stay here. flight is essential but i can't let my fear show. Winning means fame and fortune, losing mean certain death, The Hunger Games have begun . . . -- Suzanne Collins
All things being at God's disposal, and the decision of salvation or death belonging to him, he orders all things by his counsel and decree in such a manner, that some men are born devoted from the womb to certain death, that his name may be glorified in their destruction. -- John Calvin
He has built a pedestal for her so tall that she is afraid to be lifted atop it, because to fall would mean certain death. But oh, she would rise far, far beyond fear and be held by arms so strong, and love so pure, that falling would not be an option. -- Ellen Hopkins
Life is short, and therefore, one thing being certain, death, let us take up a great ideal, and give up the whole life to it. For what is the value of life, this vegetating little low life of man? Subordinating it to one high ideal is the only value that life has. -- Swami Vivekananda
There is always a choice." "You mean I could choose certain death?" "A choice nevertheless, or perhaps an alternative. You see I believe in freedom. Not many people do, although they will of course protest otherwise. And no practical definition of freedom would be complete without the freedom to take the consequences. Indeed, it is the freedom upon which all the others are based. -- Terry Pratchett
Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain. -- Mark Twain
Nothing in life is certain except death, taxes and the second law of thermodynamics. -- Seth Lloyd
In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes. -- Benjamin Franklin
Once a child is confronted with the concept of death there's a certain innocence that goes. -- Patsy Kensit
My decision on this matter is as certain and final as death and the staggering New Deal taxes. -- Thomas Dewey
At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life. -- Jessica Lange
It's certain that the death of an actor can be on a television screen playing the same thing every week. -- Giancarlo Esposito
There are certain people that are marked for death. I have my little list of those that treated me unfairly. -- Jennifer Lopez
Apart from death and taxes, the one thing that's certain in this life is that I'll never be a fashion icon. -- Bruce Dickinson
We never stop reading, although every book comes to an end, just as we never stop living, although death is certain. -- Roberto Bolano
I'm not personally obsessed with death. At a certain age, the light that you live in is inhabited by the shades - it 'tis. -- Seamus Heaney
The richness of the world, all artificial pleasures, have the taste of sickness and give off a smell of death in the face of certain spiritual possessions. -- Georges Rouault
Who Fears Death' addresses the push and pull in African culture that powerful women face when their culture has certain duties and beliefs that can stifle them. -- Nnedi Okorafor
Everybody believes that capital punishment is wrong, but when they look at certain cases, they're quick to say, 'Put them to death,' or scream 'capital punishment.' -- Jeff Lindsay
All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and social issues, freedom. -- Isabel Allende
There have been a lot of murders and suicides in my family; it's like the primary cause of death. I wonder if there's a certain energy that attracts that. -- Rose McGowan
I'm not on the run from anything and I'm not at all clear about what I'm running towards. But as some great writer put it, I want to be certain that when I arrive at death, I'm totally exhausted. -- Fiona Shaw
Life is uncertain; death is certain. -- Gautama Buddha
Death was far more certain than God. -- Graham Greene
Nothing in the world is as certain as death. -- Jean Froissart
The only certain things in life are death and taxes! -- Benjamin Franklin
Nothing is certain, ma petite, not even death." - Jean-Claude -- Laurell K. Hamilton
Death is the last fact of which we can be certain. -- Geraldine Jewsbury
Death, as the Psalmist saith, is certain to all, all shall -- William Shakespeare
Nothing in the world is certain except for death and taxes. -- Benjamin Franklin
Few things in life are certain except death and being taxed. -- Felix Dennis
Things as certain as death and taxes, can be more firmly believed. -- Daniel Defoe
Death, as the Psalmist saith, is certain to all, all shall die. -- William Shakespeare
Sometimes death is proof of life. Sometimes decay points out a certain verve. -- Karen Thompson Walker
The one certain thing was that death never came at an expected moment. -- George Orwell
Nothing in life is certain except death, taxes, and the second law of thermodynamics. -- Seth Lloyd
Winning means fame and fortune. Losing means certain death. The Hunger Games have begun" -- Suzanne Collins
When death is so certain, it is better to die for a good cause. -- Swami Vivekananda
To that which is born, death is certain; to that which is dead, birth is certain. -- L.E. Modesitt Jr.
We are still too close to the birth of the universe to be certain about its death. -- John Desmond Bernal
Since death is certain and the time of death is uncertain, what is the most important thing? -- Pema Chodron
Nothing, they say is more certain than death, and nothing more uncertain than the time of dying -- Thomas Paine
My decision on this matter is as certain and final as death and the staggering New Deal taxes. -- Thomas Dewey
Like young men from the dawn of time, I decided to choose the risk of death over certain humiliation. -- Ben Aaronovitch
Even if we don't know if God exists, we can be certain love exists, because its power transcends death. -- Sandra Cisneros
There is a fear of voluptuousness that is itself voluptuous, just as a certain fear of death can itself be deadly. -- Joseph Roth
In every situation do the thing you fear. If you do the thing you fear, the death of fear is certain. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
In Europe, nothing is certain except death and welfare, and why let the former get in the way of the latter? -- Mark Steyn
We must conquer life by living it to the full, and then we can go to meet death with a certain prestige. -- Aleister Crowley
if you fight with all your might, there is a chance of life; where as death is certain if you cling to your corner -- Sun Tzu
What makes you so certain?" "But I am not certain," I told him. "Nothing is certain. You want certainty?" "Yes!" "Then you want death. -- Stephen R. Lawhead
There is no corelation between life and death, except that life is the biggest lie we believed, while death; is the most certain truth. -- Husam Wafaei
Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street. -- James Thurber
Our Constitution is in actual operation; everything appears to promise that it will last; but in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes. -- Benjamin Franklin
Death, of course, should not be feared, but awaited with certain wonder. To die was to step across a threshold into a new world, unknown, unimaginable. -- Juliet Marillier
All life is preoccupied with death. Death is the only certain future. Yet in the face of reason, everyone holds out hope for the highly improbable. -- Johnny Rich
In the midst of life we are in death, earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust, in sure and certain hope of the Resurrection. -- Thomas Cranmer
I've always been a little skittish about death. On certain days I'm okay with it. On other days it's like, "Really? I have to? No, man, not me." -- Charlie Sheen
There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him of death; this is mere cruelty. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
I think when you're 10 years old, it's too much to see something with the threat of death in every episode. Kids are better left naive about certain things. -- J. J. Abrams
I've always been about setting goals. Then when I had a near death experience at nineteen, it made it even more important to strive to achieve certain things. -- Phil Keoghan
For watching death, and above all, after death; not death in battle, but death after battle, brings one to certain indifferences that are also a form of death. -- Mary Butts
Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in the world nothing can be said to be certain except death and taxes. -- Benjamin Franklin
Precarity designates that politically induced condition in which certain populations suffer from failing social and economic networks of support and become differentially exposed to injury, violence, and death. -- Judith Butler

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