#mort

I've danced one time in my life. It was the most mortifying experience I ever had. ↗

— Billy Bob Thornton

#ever #experience #had #i #life

If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons. ↗

— James Thurber

#any #beliefs #certain #dogs #few

Probably I chose immortality because mortality is a universal human obsession. ↗

— Joan D. Vinge

#chose #human #i #immortality #mortality

If, before every action, we were to begin by weighing up the consequences, thinking about them in earnest, first the immediate consequences, then the probable, then the possible, then the imaginable ones, we should never move beyond the point where our first thought brought us to a halt. The good and evil resulting from our words and deeds go on apportioning themselves, one assumes in a reasonably uniform and balanced way, throughout all the days to follow, including those endless days, when we shall not be here to find out, to congratulate ourselves or ask for pardon, indeed there are those who claim that this is the much talked of immortality. ↗

— José Saramago

#consequences #deeds #forgiveness #immortality #forgiveness

We are immortal until our work on earth is done. ↗

— George Whitefield

#earth #immortal #our #until #work

Every radish I ever pulled up seemed to have a mortgage attached to it. ↗

— Ed Wynn

#ever #every #i #mortgage #pulled

God is one, greatest of gods and men, not like mortals in body or thought. ↗

— Xenophanes

#god #gods #greatest #like #men

If your souls were not immortal, and you in danger of losing them, I would not thus speak unto you; but the love of your souls constrains me to speak: methinks this would constrain me to speak unto you forever. ↗

— George Whitefield

#danger #forever #i #immortal #losing

An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick, unless soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing for every tatter in its mortal dress. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#clap #coat #dress #every #hands

The Obama administration deserves credit for quickly ending the housing free fall. In particular, Obama empowered the Federal Housing Administration to ensure that households could find mortgages at low interest rates even during the worst phase of the financial panic. ↗

— Mark Zandi

#could #credit #deserves #during #empowered