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Science is the record of dead religions.

Oscar Wilde

One way to compensate for a tiny brain is to pretend to be dead.

Scott Adams

If no one is pissed-off with you then you are dead but just haven't figured it out yet.

Tom Peters

A dead thing goes with the stream. Only a living thing can go against it.

G. K. Chesterton

It's the possibility that when you're dead you might still go on hurting that bothers me.

Keri Hulme

It is not righteousness to outrageA brave man dead, not even though you hate him.

Sophocles

The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept.

William Shakespeare

Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.

Plotinus

The only completely consistent people are the dead.

Aldous Huxley

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

Aldous Huxley

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

Benjamin Franklin

I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons.

Douglas Adams

The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Arlo Guthrie

The past is not dead. In fact, it's not even past.

William Faulkner

Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.

Publilius Syrus

We simply rob ourselves when we make presents to the dead.

Publilius Syrus

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.

Samuel Goldwyn

Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.

Harold Macmillan

A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.

Carl Sandburg

Do not speak ill of the dead.

The Seven Sages

My lands are where my dead lie buried.

Tashunka Witko 'crazy Horse'

We are not quite sure if he is alive or dead.

Baqir Jabbur

My best girl is dead.

Fred Smith

The living need charity more than the dead.

George Arnold

The missing person case has never been closed, ... She has never been found, alive or dead.

Anthony Murphy

We emerged to find an alien landscape. We bound our wounds, we buried our dead, and we commenced to rebuild.

Gary Michiels

When I am dead, my dearest, Sing no sad songs for me.

Christina G. Rossetti

If that cavalier character (existed), rest assured, today it's dead.

Patrick Flanagan

Johnson is dead. - Let us go to the next best: - There is nobody; no man can be said to put you in mind of Johnson.

William Hamilton

We were dead in the water.

Mark Rebholz

Anyone who thinks the art of conversation is dead ought to tell a child to go to bed.

Robert C. Gallagher

Faith without works is as dead as a doornail.

Millard Fuller

The buffalo hunt is dead.

Jim Mcconoughey

We've tried to make it dead simple for the small business owner.

Dean Nicolls

Dead. That's how it feels around here to me.

U.z. Bridges

Of course, usually one or two doesn't fare too well during the trip. A couple are usually dead on arrival.

Tiffany Thompson

We really weren't that encouraged. Everybody had dead faces before the game.

Becky Powell

It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life.

Irish Sayings

Being able to approach or confront the person or send them a letter is so important. If they're dead, you never can do that.

Bud Welch

Since we have to speak well of the dead, let's knock them while they're alive.

John Sloan

History is a pack of lies we play on the dead.

Voltaire

In Spain, the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world.

Federico Garcia Lorca

For me personally, I was a little tired going into overtime. I was dead.

Chris Hulit

Oil prices are not going down, they're going up. And if you don't have a car that can deal with that, you're dead.

Gal Luft

We could be dead.

Denise Young

These things are fun. We're restoring something as good as dead and bringing it back to life.

Harold Mentzer

We were seeing dogs eating dead dogs.

Wendy Guidry

He's a good player. See what I mean? He's got a dead eye.

Nadine Turcotte

I'm awful sorry he's dead.

Brian Mitchell

We thought he was dead because they said the water was contaminated.

Barbara Walker

The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

We're taking full advantage of the area, so there's no dead space at all.

David Ricks

The grass is so dead - you might as well have matches sitting out there.

Troy Taylor

It stank up in there. It smelled like dead bodies.

Herbert Perry

It was not a pretty day. Sort-of like beating a dead horse.

Ted Weisberg

So far the death toll has reached 14 and we can see some dead bodies within the building.

Jaspher Ombati

They could all be dead by now.

Franco Tito

We are going to take them out dead or alive.

Juan Sanchez

I thought it was brilliant, ... and pretty dead-on concerning what we had to do.

Larry Izzo

The idea that engineering is dead [in the U.S.] is hype.

Ahmad Bahai

Presidential budgets have always been declared 'dead on arrival,' as long as I have been here.

David Drier

You're already falling in love with me.I'm gonna make you wish you were dead.

How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days

I thought they were going to tell me (Charlie) was dead.

Patricia Wysocki

We're not going to be able to create a town center. That's a dead deal.

Bill Hidell

At the beginning of the meeting it looked like Scribner Place was dead.

James Garner

They say Elvis is dead. I say, no, you're looking at him. Elvis isn't dead; he just changed color.

Dennis Rodman

The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.

James Russell Lowell

That prevents dogs from voting; that prevents dead people from voting.

Sen. Delbert Scott

These guys, they're dead on their feet.

Tim Bayard

MS-DOS isn't dead, it just smells that way.

Henry Spencer

Eternity is not something that begins after you're dead. It is going on all the time. We are in it now.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

I thought she was dead, and the fireman thought she was dead. But then she moved.

Keith Lawrence

If I'm not skiing, I'm dead. I'll always ski.

Denver Haslam

We're really lucky he's not dead.

Ann Hill

Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land!

Sir Walter Scott

At dramatic rehearsals, the only author that's better than an absent one is a dead one.

George S. Kaufman

Twenty-six are dead, 130 wounded.

Krzysztof Mejer

How can it be that she's really dead? How can it be that she's not going to come back? How can it be that her life is just completely over?

Janet Pelasara

I wouldn't be caught dead marrying a woman old enough to be my wife.

Tony Curtis

Rest is for the weary, sleep is for the dead.

Doctor Who

It's raining my soul, it's raining, but it's raining dead eyes.

Guillaume Apollinaire

I always wanted to remain one step ahead of those who wanted me dead.

Leo Bretholz

There will be thousands of dead. You will all think of me.

Kay Nehm

That is not dead which can eternal lie, yet with stranger aeons, even Death may die.

H. P Lovecraft

If you could have seen what we saw ... dead bodies floating everywhere.

Cedric Sawyer

Without this, I'd be either in jail or dead. It is real motivating.

Joshua Young

I?m not confident that the numbers will go down. We have seen some dead fish on a consistent basis in the area.

Don Kain

Anger as soon as fed is dead- 'Tis starving makes it fat.

Emily Dickinson

The European constitution is dead for the Netherlands.

Bernard Bot

It's almost two societies, the living and the dead, and you live with them both.

John Hall Wheelock

I didn't know if he was dead when we left. (I) can't sleep. That's what you see because you know it could happen to you.

Marcelino Alfaro

Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.

Malcolm Muggeridge

By tomorrow, we'll have dead patients simply because they were not evacuated.

Norman Mcswain

I've got to run for the money. I hope there is speed. If there is no speed, we're dead.

Julio Canani

To have someone dead at your feet is such an honor and so noble.

David Torres

The Egyptian authorities have confirmed to us that among the dead is one Swiss victim.

Lars Knuchel

I would know if she was dead. She would find a way to let me know.

Gwyn Mcclellan

It's all-around much nicer. We're on a dead-end street in a beautiful section. We did very well.

Scott Morgan

People are dead because of what this son of a bitch said. How could he be credible now?

Larry Dirita

It's said that if you can't say something good about a dead person, don't say it. Well, I consider him dead.

Thurgood Marshall

Center City is dead. I think a lot of people just didn't bother to come in.

Bob Coleman

Thanx for all you did and said, i'm so grateful dad's not dead.

Victoria Wood

Be a dreamer. If you don't know how to dream, you're dead.

Jim Valvano

DOA: Dead or Alive.

Natassia Malthe

Washington, D.C. to New Orleans: Drop dead.

Mort Kondracke

Those who live, live off the dead.

Antonin Artaud

Both (of the dead) were Pakistani nationals.

Abdul Rashid

If I leave, reality will devour me. Then they will all really be dead.

Asne Seierstad

Dawn of the Dead.

Michael Kelly

We're dead lucky to come here because it's so modern? It was like - wow!

Robyn Mooney

I don't mourn the dead. I mourn the living.

Stephen Evans

God isn't dead-he's just missing in action.

Phil Ochs

After most natural disasters, there is a fear that dead bodies will cause epidemics.

Oliver Morgan

They were dead wrong.

Mike Dewine

They could be dead because it happened last night.

Franco Tito

When you can get people to believe in virgin birth and resurrection of the dead as reality - well, what can one say.

Grace Mcgarvie

I can't see dead people.

Nancy Cartwright

There's one good kind of writer - a dead one.

James T. Farrell

Is this the day Matt will call and tell me he's coming home? Is this the day the Army will call and tell me he's dead?

Carolyn Maupin

You'll have time to rest when you're dead.

Robert De Niro

We shall heal our wounds, collect our dead and continue fighting.

Mao Tse tung

Help! Someone help me! Is someone there? Hey! Oh sh*t, I'm probably dead.

Leigh Whannell

There is about to be a big calamity if something isn't done soon. Without the regional centers, we are dead in the water.

John Pinkerton

There are 12 people dead and 14 wounded, both police and civilians.

Yousuf Stanizai

She looked dead at us.

Alicia Bell

Perhaps God is not dead; perhaps God is himself mad.

R. D. Laing

They thought they were looking to see who was dead.

Robert Holcomb

The worm may be dead, but hands-on learning is alive at Bailey Station.

Janet Martin

This was the Lazarus campaign. In January, we were dead and in the tomb.

John Franco

The reality is this is a case about five dead children.

Kaylynn Williford

Dude. I thought you were dead.

Bobby Higginson

He's no failure. He's not dead yet.

William Lloyd George

If my defense is weak, and giving up 2-3 runs, we're dead.

Ron Hoyt

The ocean moans over dead men's bones.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

We look dead, ... but I guess we don't feel dead.

Robert Fick

So far, three people are confirmed dead.

Manzoor Mughal

Over the first 30 days it can be almost as bad for you to have a sick spouse as a dead spouse.

Dr. Nicholas Christakis

My heart is dead but the dead still cries.

Larry Kelly

I thought it was dead because he was laying down.

Kelly Long

You saw the game. We were flat, like some dead bodies out there.

Al Beye

We both went home and got divorces. We were both in dead-end relationships.

Doug Clark

One patient from Charity was being hand-ventilated. That patient was almost dead when he left here.

Norman Mcswain

It is better to fall among crows than flatterers; for those devour only the dead - these the living.

Antisthenes

Tell everybody we're not dead yet.

Lou Duva

I thought there was a dead body in there.

Victor Thomas

Ding, dong, the witch is dead.

Bill Davoren

If it wasn't for Sean we would have been dead.

Paul Bacsardi

Last year people said it was a 'new era,' ... If anything, the 'new era' is dead.

Harold Evensky

This was wrong. This man should be with his family for Christmas. Now he's dead.

John Mcalhany

It's not a dead community at all.

Fred Klein

Basically the plan was dead on arrival. The plan wasn't done following state law.

Joel Devore

There are two kinds of pedestrians - the quick and the dead.

Thomas Robert Dewar

You could tell which houses had the dead bodies in them because you could smell the stench before you got out of the car.

Jim Faria

Paying alimony is like feeding hay to a dead horse.

Groucho Marx

In Dead Earnest (Lee's Compost Song).

Lee Hays

He must be from around here and we need to find him at all costs because it's disrespectful to the dead.

Michalakis Christodoulou

The preliminary information we have is four dead and six wounded.

Matthew Conway

You go in it or near it and you're dead.

Paul Carter

He may be dead; or he may be teaching English.

Cormac Mccarthy

She had contact with dead chickens.

Ly Sovann

This family wants some answers. I want someone to be able to clearly explain to us why my son is dead.

David Moss Sr

When they speak, dead frogs fall out of their mouths.

David Hare

Monuments are for the living, not the dead.

Frank Wedekind

A Day With the Living Dead.

John Leguizamo

That he thinks, he believes he is dead.

Adam Levine

These are ideas to get off dead-center.

Mike Volesky

I didn't murder him, he was already dead when I cut his throat.

Jack Mccann

The freeze in '89 killed them all graveyard dead.

Dave Black

If Mr. Selwyn calls again, show him up; if I am alive I shall be delighted to see him; and if I am dead he would like to see me.

Henry Fox

If not for the stabbing, I would not expect him to be dead at this point.

Dan Schultz

[Another thing he himself did not deal with were the dead.] Yes, there were bodies, ... We saw them, but there was nothing we could do about them because we were looking for the living.

Mark Reed

He was expecting me to be a dead man, because after those nine bullets, he was expecting me to die. He wasn't expecting me to be in court.

Patrick Benjamin

In the long run, we are all dead.

John Maynard Keynes

We can't roll over and play dead. We can't play scared.

Jeff Shotwell

I can confirm that one person is dead because of the high winds, and I can confirm that we are lucky that thus far, only one person is dead.

Bill Sadler

Alternative F is a dead duck.

John Whitescarver

Please don't be angry at us. Don't be worried. We will find a way to care for the injured and the dead.

Willie Revillame

It turned out to be a dead end.

Ralph Anderson

They played with the heads for days. They were in very, very close contact with the dead chickens.

Dr. Huseyin Avni Sahin

Dr. Weir and I were about to pronounce you dead.

John Uecker

The only thing good about it is you're not dead.

Lillian Hellman

As far as anyone knows, and officials have checked, there was no wreck and Junior was not dead.

James Gallagher

I've had friends dead and see friends dead here that I actually grew up with.

David Kenney

It depends on what you call a lie. I'm not saying call and tell someone their mom is dead. I would never tell somebody something that wasn't true.

Paula Austin

It's a miracle. Everyone was telling us they were probably dead.

Loretta Ables

Rather be dead than cool.

Kurt Cobain

But for the state's intervention, Miss Cross might well be dead.

Linda Thomas

The survivors would envy the dead.

Nikita Khrushchev

They have to come in and maybe they will take us alive or dead. We will not surrender.

Ahmed Saadat

Chivalry's dead, sugar.

Adam Brody

A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.

Gustave Flaubert

We fear there may be many more dead.

Johann Bohnert

If it's dead, the body's till warm.

Frank Wright

Dead Chef's Society Dinner.

Steve Lee

Much smoking kills live men and cures dead swine.

George Dennison Prentice

It's not going to change anything. Steve will still be dead and is not coming back to us.

Gary Mace

If we do not stay on track, we are dead meat.

Claude Bolton

I prefer to think that God is not dead, just drunk.

John Huston