#death

I was going to be a concert pianist, and when I was in high school, my parents were scared to death that I would focus too much on that too soon. And that I'd end up in some sort of dead end, and not fulfilling whatever potential they thought I had. ↗

— David Hyde Pierce

#concert pianist #dead #dead end #death #end

If success attends my steps, honor and glory await my name-if defeat, still shall it be said we died like brave men, and conferred honor, even in death, on the American Name. ↗

— Zebulon Pike

#attends #await #brave #brave men #conferred

Death is an awful thing. I don't believe in it myself. ↗

— Eugene Ormandy

#awful thing #believe #death #i #myself

If you do anything for too long, it starts to lack edge, to become too easy. Easy is the kiss of death. ↗

— Julia Ormond

#become #death #easy #edge #kiss

It's normally the kiss of death to be identified as a rising star, or someone to watch. ↗

— George Osborne

#identified #kiss #normally #rising #someone

You can change your world by changing your words... Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue. ↗

— Joel Osteen

#changing #death #life #our world #power

I'm actually really opposed to the death penalty. ↗

— Bill Paxton

#death #death penalty #i #opposed #penalty

Skulduggery stood among the ruins of what had once been a sofa. Valkyrie raised an eyebrow. 'I was trying to make up the sofa bed so you could get some rest,' he explained, and pointed to the second sofa across the room. 'Unfortunately, it would appear that that is the sofa bed, and this, apparently, is just a sofa. ↗

— Derek Landy

#furniture #humor #humorous #mistakes #death

The miser, starving his brother's body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice, poor and naked and miserable. ↗

— Theodore Parker

#body #brother #creep #death #estate

The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#charm #death #even #every #fame