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“If you're unilaterally declaring Kyoto dead, if you're declaring the Geneva Conventions not operative, if you're doing a host of things that the world doesn't agree with you on and you're doing it blatantly and in their face, without grace, then you've got to pay the consequences.”
Lawrence Wilkerson (born 1945) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Colonel Finally Saw Whites of Their Eyes, By Dana Milbank, The Washington Post (20 October 2005)
“General Taylor spoke but we couldn't hear a word he said; a formation of C-47s passed over about that time. But we heard the names of the dead. All 414. I never talked with any of my buddies about that day, but I wondered if we were all wondering about the same two things: if the list would ever end. And if, down the road, our names would ever be on it.”
Donald Malarkey (1921–2017) said by 2017 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“'You can't drive a flock of sheep to market in a dead straight line, but there are ways of getting 'em there.'”
John Wyndham (1903–1969) said by 1969 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“These developments in the biological sciences are o f little interest to our colleagues in other research areas for whom the Aryan presence remains a vital issue. A t best, the skeletal biologist familiar with the record of human remains from South A sia can respond by asking “How could one recognize an Aryan, living or dead, when the biological criteria for Aryanness are non-existent?”
Kenneth A. R. Kennedy (1930–2014) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: quoted in Danino, M. (2009). A BRIEF NOTE ON THE ARYAN INVASION THEORY. PRAGATI| April-June 2009
“Color is life, or a world without color appears to us as dead. Colors are the children of light, and light is their mother. Light (...) reveals to us the spirit and living soul of the world, through colors. The colors of the rainbow and the Northern Lights soothe and elevate the soul. The rainbow is accounted as a symbol of peace.”
Alma Thomas (1891–1978) said by 1978 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The old Cambridge, which some of us knew in our youth, with its solemn ecclesiasticism, its quaint archaisms, its fantastic anomallies, its fascinating picturesqueness, its dear old barbaric unintelligible odds and ends that met us at every turn in street and chapel and hall—that old Cambridge is as dead as the Egypt of the Pharaohs.”
Augustus Jessopp (1823–1914) said by 1914 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Not to speak evil of the dead.”
Chilon of Sparta (600–520 BC) said by 520 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In those days, and long after, an English clergyman dressed like a gentleman; he now wears a black livery, and he looks like a bishop's footman, in mourning, with his master, for some dead archbishop.”
Thomas Gordon Hake (1809–1895) said by 1895 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Ibn Ishaq 764 - “Torture him until you extract what he has.” So he kindled a fire with flint and steel on his chest until he was nearly dead. Then the apostle delivered him to Muhammad bin Maslama and he struck off his head.”
Ibn Ishaq (704–768) said by 768 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Two things make the future real, the artist's imagination and the worker's hope. Fascism destroys both. Therefore the artist and the worker must unite to destroy Fascism. The Fascist artist is a traitor, the neutral is already dead. Art and anti-Fascism are synonymous.”
John Langdon-Davies (1897–1971) said by 1971 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“First, the fact he awoke at all. Cogito, ergo how the hell aren’t I dead?”
Ian Tregillis (born 1973) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In a field where bats swarmed I watched a pillar of crumbling flesh it trembled lonely in the evening darkness smelled raw like dead-man's-grass that flutters at a shadow and was as ugly as rotting meat with throngs of maggots crawling on it.”
Sakutarō Hagiwara (1886–1942) said by 1942 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If those who have already committed suicide and are dead were to become alive once again and speak, they would probably talk of the actuality of this. They are all regretting ghosts in their graves. I think about this a hundred times and am still terrified, and I shudder even in my dreams.”
Sakutarō Hagiwara (1886–1942) said by 1942 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It's midnight in Vegas And oh, I want to be famous And oh, I'm willing to get it just right for you That's why I'm spread on the bed tonight I'm feeling so dead inside”
Emily Blue (born 1994) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Daddy" (Emily Blue on Audiotree Live, 2019)
“Despite common belief, the goblin language did include a word for trust. It was derived from the word for trustworthy, which in the goblin tongue, was the same as the word for dead.”
Jim C. Hines (born 1974) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Jig’s life would be much simpler if she were dead. That more than anything else, convinced him she was still alive.”
Jim C. Hines (born 1974) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The best advice about getting older? Just be thankful you're not dead!”
Chadwick Boseman (1976–2020) said by 2020 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As a great fan of the work of Mark Twain, I was so sorry when I recently learned he was dead. My thoughts and prayers go out to the whole Twain family. Especially the wonderful Shania.”
Julia Louis-Dreyfus (born 1961) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Why, we’ll do missionary work for it natcherly,” Drake said, “spreadin’ enlightenment to anybody too dumb to listen, until we have ultimately converted all those souls sufferin’ from excess wealth—” “Yep,” Kruger said. “We’ll give ’em a choice. They can convert from rich to poor or from alive to dead.”
Elizabeth Ann Scarborough (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When we win, do not forget that these people want you broke, dead, your kids raped and brainwashed, and they think it's funny”
Sam Hyde (born 1985) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Night_0f_Fire on Twitter (October 1, 2016)
“Ageing brings a lot of happiness. You get fatter and more wrinkles, and that’s not so good, but there is a freedom that comes with it. The freedom is: I better do what I want to do now, because I’ll be dead soon. So this is my last chance. Also, there’s a serenity that comes – I had the career I had, good or bad, I did the best I could, and now I continue pursuing what is interesting to me.”
Isabella Rossellini (born 1952) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On feeling the freedom now to pursue her own passions in “Isabella Rossellini: ‘Ageing brings a lot of happiness. You get fatter – but there is freedom’” in The Guardian (2020 Oct 13)
“Remember. It's OK to encourage acid attacks on Nigel Farage. It's OK to wish Boris Johnson died of Covid. It's OK to want white people dead. As long as it's on the @BBC or the propaganda media. It’s not OK to not want to shag someone. We must protect the "broadcast ecology" for Adam Boulton at all costs.”
Laurence Fox (born 1978) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From two tweets/posts (29 September 2023), as cited in "Laurence Fox reveals he has completed GB News 'show trial' but 'can't speak freely' after sexism row", The Telegraph (29 September 2023).
“Lives to act, poor thing, it’s all he ever wanted out of life.” “Except he’s dead,” I said. “I know,” said Mr. Punch. “Isn’t the universe wonderful.”
Ben Aaronovitch (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I would have been a much more popular World Champion if I had always said what people wanted to hear. I might have been dead, but definitely more popular.”
Jackie Stewart (born 1939) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Retrospective>>grand Prix & The Man Part 4 – Speedhunters". Speedhunters. (30 October 2009).
“Look up! the proof is round you written large; Your Faith is in the balance wanting found; Your shipless seas confess it; bridgeless streams; Your wasted wealth of ore, and moor, and bay. Beneath the Upas shade of Faith depraved All things lie dead -- wealth, comfort, freedom, power.”
Aubrey Thomas de Vere (1814–1902) first seen 1861 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Sisters; or, Weal in Woe: An Irish Tale" in The Sisters, Inisfail, and Other Poems (1861), pp. 3-42.
“Did she know what it was for a man to come to that point in his life when he found it impossible to touch the body of his own wife? To look at it; and to feel nothing. Not to desire it, at all, when the flesh was inert and dead and meaningless? To have the act of love become (with one's own wife) the most meaningless of all acts?”
Alfred Hayes (writer) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The OSCE Minsk Group, which has not been able to find a solution to the Nagorno-Karabakh issue for 30 years, has been brain-dead,”
Mustafa Şentop (born 1968) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: OSCE Minsk Group is 'brain-dead': Turkey's parliament speaker (October 20, 2020)
“One glaring blind spot in the mainstream media coverage of CHAZ was how the space gave platform to violent extremist ideologies. Reports about CHAZ’s political agenda focused shallowly on ‘racial justice’ and ‘defunding the police’ rather than its explicit calls to kill cops and overthrow the government. Hundreds of graffiti messages and images lined the zone showing dead pigs wearing police hats.”
“In war, the dead people don't cry. The ones who are still alive do.”
William Calley (1943–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What is the quickest way to wind up dead when you aren't suicidal and don't have any health problems? Investigate Hillary Clinton of course.”
Marjorie Taylor Greene (born 1974) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: American Truth Seekers (defunct website deleted post, [September 15, 2017]), as cited in "House GOP candidate known for QAnon support was 'correspondent' for conspiracy website" NBC News (August 14, 2020). Precise date …
“[Links to a post on a Seth Rich conspiracy website falsely claiming a DNC staffer was the source for Wikileaks.] Yet when you go to the website, it tells as if Seth Rich is speaking from the dead saying all the horrible things are true. That Hillary rigged the election against Bernie Sanders. That John Podesta had him [Rich] murdered. That John Podesta is a pedophile and pizza gate [sic] is real.”
Marjorie Taylor Greene (born 1974) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: American Truth Seekers (deleted post, [November 15,] 2017), cited in "GOP candidate Marjorie Taylor Greene spread conspiracies about Charlottesville and 'Pizzagate'" CNN Kfile (August 25, 2020). Precise date from articl…
“Democrats want Republicans dead. They've already started the killings.”
Marjorie Taylor Greene (born 1974) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Marjorie Taylor Greene deceptively tells Trump rally that Democrat 'killings' of Republicans have already started", Business Insider (October 2, 2022)
“Remember, all good proceeds from accord. A leaderless people are dead.”
Mirza Basheer-ud-Din Mahmood Ahmad (1889–1965) said by 1965 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Privacy is dead, and it was killed by the internet. This is what our generation will be remembered for.”
Mikko Hyppönen (born 1969) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Mikko Hyppönen interview by Heikki Valkama (in Finnish) Yle, December 2018
“The term 'metaphysical poets' came into being long after the poets to whom we apply it were dead. Samuel Johnson, who coined it, did so with the consciousness that it was a piece of literary slang, that he was giving it a kind of nickname.”
Helen Gardner (critic) first seen 1957 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: (1st edition, 1957)
“The secret to productivity in so many fields -- and in origami -- is letting dead people do your work for you. Because what you can do is take your problem, and turn it into a problem that someone else has solved, and use their solutions.”
Robert J. Lang (born 1961) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You're hearing evidence of dead people voting and you're hearing people who don't live in the states and you think wow this is gonna be turned down, it's gonna be flipped to the rightful winner, and it never happened.”
Mike Lindell (born 1961) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 3 April 2021 interview with Doug Billings
“The nice thing about working in wood is that even a dead tree, in a way is a living medium. The wood does simply do whatever you want, but you have to cooperate with the kind of medium that it is.”
David Konderla (born 1960) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 'This is my light saber' – Tulsa's new bishop makes his own staff (June 8, 2016)
“I believe that trauma is something to be embraced rather than healed or recovered from. I believe that grief is something which situates the place/space of the dead within the living; and that, through repeatedly revisiting that place, through our pained and silent embrace of it over the course of a whole life, life is, perhaps paradoxically, made possible.”
Han Kang (born 1970) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in "Interview with Han Kang" in The White Review (March 2016)
“Look: nations screw up like people do; sometimes they mean well, sometimes they’re selfish or delusional bitches on a spree, and sometimes they just plain make mistakes. But the megacorporations don’t make mistakes; if they do damage, it’s because they like the cost-to-benefit ratios, dead innocents notwithstanding. Nations are bulls in the global china shop; corporations are sharks.”
Charles E. Gannon (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“At half past one o'clock, as today, 90 years ago, expired the man who, in this country, first proposed the liberation of the slaves, and the proclamation of the Republic. He was tried as a defendant of lese-majestie, he was killed, but Tiradentes dead, like the sun at sunset, shows himself to the universe as great as at its dawn.”
Luís Gama (1830–1882) first seen 1882 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: À Forca o Cristo da Multidão, 1882. Source: Luiz Gama desenha o perfil de Tiradentes.
“Ukraine lost half of the army: 61,207 dead, 49,368 wounded.”
Sergei Shoigu (born 1955) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Queen of Cakes pursed her lips. “You must be from Sumi’s world,” she said primly. “You’re just as obnoxious as she was. She’s quiet now. How did you make her that way?” “Well, she died, so that was a large part of it,” said Kade. “Dead people normally stay in their graves, out of the way of the rest of us.”
Seanan McGuire (born 1978) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Given that the Prime Minister is always right, the PDL certainly has growth problems because it has mixed together several. But it's better to be a big party with many different cultures than the dead gora like some opposition party.”
Renato Brunetta (born 1950) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To live in a Western country is to live in a society still utterly saturated by Christian concepts and assumptions. This is no less true for Jews or Muslims than it is for Catholics or Protestants. Two thousand years on from the birth of Christ, it does not require a belief that he rose from the dead to be stamped by the formidable – indeed the inescapable – influence of Christianity.”
Tom Holland (author) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“May the Lord bless you. May He carry you through the pandemic, give salvation to the dead, health to the sick, work for everyone. I also pray for priests who are victims of pressure.”
John Lee Juo-Wang (born 1966) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Why a bishop in Taiwan resigned only six months after installation (23 June 2021)
“Jihad is the secret these investigators are keeping, but only from themselves. It drives the murder spree against infidel troops. It also is part of the culture that renders U.S. utopian plans to train an Afghan army and police force dead on arrival. Not saying so doesn't make it go away. It just wastes the lives of our people. Does anyone care?”
Diana West (born 1961) first seen 2012 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: More Afghan carnage against Western soldiers (January 21, 2012)
“The event today has categorically proved that people who attain the age of 70 years and above are not brain-dead.”
Folake Solanke (born 1932) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Up to date, the country is in the hands of collaborators. They are only concerned about their wealth and not the interest of the masses. Everything they own today is because we fought for it. It’s sad that many of us are either dead or live in deplorable states. I prefer to keep quiet and watch things as they unfold.”
Muthoni wa Kirima (1931–2023) said by 2023 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If you do not have confidence you might as well be dead.”
Muthoni Likimani (born 1926) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source