Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.
– Stephen Vincent Benét
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- The dying process begins the minute we are born, but it accelerates during dinner parties. – Carol Matthau
- Dreaming men are haunted men. – Stephen Vincent Benet
- It’s not love’s going hurts my days, But that it went in little ways. – Edna St. Vincent
- The art finds kingdoms in a foot of ground. – Stephen Vincent
- The minute you start talking about what you’re going to do if you lose, you have lost. – George Shultz
- Four hundred thousand South Africans are dying of AIDS every year. This makes the war on Iraq look like a birthday party. – Jeremy Cronin
- There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking. – Alfred Korzybski
- In many ways, the young are more religiously minded than the older generations. I think it’s the flip side of an age of individualism. Youngsters are not afraid to tell you what they think, to express their faith and be quite exuberant about it. – Vincent Nichols
- My Dad, a small-town lawyer, was also named Paul. Until we lost him when I was 16, he was a gentle presence in my life. I like to think he’d be proud of me and my sister and brothers, because I’m sure proud of him and of where I come from, Janesville, Wisconsin. – Paul Ryan
- There are no wishy-washy astronauts. You don’t get up there by being uncaring and blase. And whatever gave you the sense of tenacity and purpose to get that far in life is absolutely reaffirmed and deepened by the experience itself. – Chris Hadfield