#dead

The common denominator of all my friends is that they're dead. ↗

— Peter O'Toole

#common denominator #dead #denominator #friends

Four years ago, I promised to end the war in Iraq. We did. I promised to refocus on the terrorists who actually attacked us on 9/11. We have. We've blunted the Taliban's momentum in Afghanistan, and in 2014, our longest war will be over. A new tower rises above the New York skyline, al Qaeda is on the path to defeat, and Osama bin Laden is dead. ↗

— Barack Obama

#actually #afghanistan #ago #al #attacked

Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction. ↗

— Barack Obama

#compass #deadly #direction #engaged #exercising

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

— Phil Ochs

#dead #god #just #missing

Reagan's dead, and he was a lousy President. ↗

— Keith Olbermann

#lousy #president #reagan

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination. ↗

— e. e. cummings

#dead #imagination #knowledge #polite #word

Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is seeking. ↗

— Edward Dahlberg

#dead #fruit #get #greatest #likely

Truth never yet fell dead in the streets; it has such affinity with the soul of man, the seed however broadcast will catch somewhere and produce its hundredfold. ↗

— Theodore Parker

#broadcast #catch #dead #fell #however

Delay is the deadliest form of denial. ↗

— C. Northcote Parkinson

#delay #denial #form

They were so exhausted and seasick and all they could do was crawl up those beaches. And thousands of them lay dead in no time at all. It's unthinkable. ↗

— Barry Pepper

#could #crawl #dead #exhausted #lay