All our compatriots know that the loss of Mongolia would mean the demise of our country. We would rather resist Russia and die heroically than succumb to Russia and perish shamefully. – Sun Yat-sen
My mama always used to tell me: ‘If you can’t find somethin’ to live for, you best find somethin’ to die for.’ – Tupac Shakur
I’ve read and traveled a lot in the Middle East, and I built on eyewitness accounts of horrific executions that would shape a boy’s character and beliefs if he watched his father die that way. These are the stuff of which nightmares are made. – Terry Hayes
There are few things more fundamentally encouraging and stimulating than seeing someone else die. – Stanley Kubrick
When you do something in a nonviolent way, people will die and there will be casualties. But you’re taking a different point of view that has a power. – Tom Shadyac
In ‘Last to Die,’ three children living in different cities are the only survivors when their families are slaughtered. Two years later, their foster families are murdered, and these three orphans are once again the only survivors. – Tess Gerritsen
I’m the luckiest guy in the world, and I am going to give away every penny before I die. – William E. Conway, Jr.
You either create something and you keep it a secret and you die with it, or you can benefit the craft. – Vidal Sassoon
When you die, it does not mean that you lose to cancer. You beat cancer by how you live, why you live, and in the manner in which you live. – Stuart Scott
The fact that we die is one of the more interesting things that happen to us. Fiction ought to be about bottom lines, and that’s as bottom-line as you can get. – Stanley Elkin
I intend, before the endgame looms, to die sitting in a chair in my own garden with a glass of brandy in my hand and Thomas Tallis on the iPod. Oh, and since this is England, I had better add, ‘If wet, in the library.’ Who could say that this is bad? – Terry Pratchett
I’ve watched a lot of my friends die, everyone from John Belushi, River Phoenix to Chris Farley. It just keeps going on and on. – Willie Aames
There are some fine books and essays about that. Lewis Hyde has written about alcoholism and poets and the role that society gives its writers – encouraging them to die. – Sharon Olds
Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death has no dominion over them; they live, and their influence lives forever. – William Styron
Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old. – Tryon Edwards
I have a lifetime appointment and I intend to serve it. I expect to die at 110, shot by a jealous husband. – Thurgood Marshall
I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so. – Stephen Leacock