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“The men and women who serve in our military have won for us every hour we live in freedom, sometimes at the expense of the very hours of the lifetimes they had hoped to live.”

Men Sometimes Hours Military He Man Men And Women Lifetime Expenses Afterlife

Author:Bob Riley

“My children didn't when they were little because I thought that they had to be of a certain age. I hoped they liked me well enough not to want to see me in that sort of a spot.”

Want Wells Children Littles Enough Age Certain Spots My Children Afterlife

Author:Fay Wray

“The attack did not succeed as well as I had hoped, no small impediment having been the loss of my right leg.”

Wells Loss Succeed Legs Afterlife Impediments Speech Impediment

Author:Peter Stuyvesant

“In spite of certain distressing but isolated occurrences in the last battle, I certainly hoped that the Army would be in a position to continue to hold out.”

Would Be Lasts Certain Position Battle Army Spite Afterlife Isolated Distressing

Book:Out of My Life

Source: Out of My Life

“My recovery, though slower than hoped for, is nevertheless assured.”

Recovery Afterlife Nevertheless Assured

Author:Frederick William Borden

“I had hoped that he has mouth smell or something other repelling, but nothing! It was even charming.”

Mouths Smell Afterlife Charming Repelling

Author:Michelle Hunziker

“I wasn't getting the responses I hoped for. You can't protect yourself from other judgments.”

Protect Judgment Response Afterlife Protect Yourself

Author:Charlotte Gainsbourg

“Our moneyed men have ruled us for the past thirty years. Under the flag of the slaveholder they hoped to destroy our liberty.”

Men Years Past Liberty Thirty Afterlife Flags Thirty Years Slaveholders

Author:Denis Kearney

“Metaphysical thinking will always no doubt be a strong element in her mentality, and it is to be hoped that she will never lose her great, her sovereign powers in that direction.”

Thinking Strong Loses Doubt Elements No Doubt Afterlife Mentality Sovereign Metaphysical

Book:Bulletin

Source: Bulletin

“I think I probably hoped for it a little bit, but I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist... or maybe even a pessimist.”

Thinking Littles Bits Little Bit Afterlife Optimist Pessimist Realist

Author:Clay Aiken

“I had hoped God would be neutral.”

Would Be Afterlife

Author:Darrell Royal

“I had hoped that the current presidential campaign debates might educate the public as to what is really involved in the ongoing controversy over campaign financing.”

Might Involved Currents Campaigns Debate Presidential Educate Afterlife Controversy Ongoing Financing Presidential Campaign

Author:James L. Buckley

“We always have hoped that American diplomacy deploys itself in dialogue and persuasion rather than by ultimatums. That is the path we want in international relations.”

Want Path Relation International Dialogue Afterlife Persuasion Diplomacy International Relations Having Hope Power Of Persuasion

Author:Mahmoud Abbas

“I can't speak for the other authors, but what I hoped to achieve was to illuminate certain corners of the Lucas universe that hadn't yet been explored.”

I Can Certain Universe Speak Achieve Corners Afterlife

Author:Walter Jon Williams

“We met with the poet Frank O'Hara, who was a link between Upper and Lower Bohemia, and who worked at the Museum of Modern Art, where we had hoped to do the readings.”

Art Reading Modern Poet Mets Links Museums Afterlife Frank Modern Art Bohemia

Author:David Amram

“We hoped against hope that what we had been doing was enough to prevent a riot. It was not enough.”

Enough Afterlife Riot

Author:Jerome Cavanagh

“On recovering my senses, I hastened to quit a place where I hoped there was nothing further to detain me. I first filled my pockets with gold, then fastened the strings of the purse round my neck, and concealed it in my bosom.”

Firsts Gold Filled Rounds Quitting Senses Necks Pockets Strings Afterlife Bosoms Concealed Purses Recovering

Book:Famous German Novellas of the 19th Century

Source: Famous German Novellas of the 19th Century

“I had hoped to hear the President tonight tell the Congress and the American people exactly how he plans to tackle some of the important issues facing this country, unfortunately I did not.”

People Important Country President Issues Plans Congress Tonight Afterlife Important Issues

Author:Frank Lautenberg

“Listeners will wonder what an Englishman is doing on the German radio tonight. You can imagine that before taking this step I hoped that someone better qualified than me would come forward.”

Wonder Steps Imagine Radio Tonight Afterlife Imagine That Listeners Qualified Englishmen

Author:John Amery

“They've got to deliver twenty-six episodes a season and they're not going to beat their heads up against a wall if they feel something didn't, like, pan out the way they had hoped.”

Ifs Way Feels Wall Six Beats Seasons Twenties Afterlife Episodes Heads Up

Author:Rene Auberjonois

“I'm using the afterlife as a backdrop against which to explore the joys and complexities of being human - it turns out that it's a great lens with which to understand what matters to us.”

Humans Matter Joy Turns Complexity Afterlife What Matters Being Human Lenses Backdrop

Author:David Eagleman

“My view of the afterlife is that it's made of different levels, depending on how spiritual a life we live.”

Made Different Spiritual Levels Views Afterlife Different Levels

Author:John Edward

“About belief or lack of belief in an afterlife: Some of you may know that I am neither Christian nor Jewish nor Buddist, nor a conventionally religious person of any sort. I am a humanist, which mean, in part, that I have tried to behave decently without any expectation of rewards or punishments after I'm dead.”

Knows May Mean Persons Christian Belief Religious Expectations Rewards Punishment Behave Humanist Afterlife Religious Person

Book:God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian

Source: God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian

“The religious fanatic who practices terrorism cannot be reasoned with, because there is nothing you can threaten him with, and no alternative you can offer him that is more palatable than his genuine belief that if he dies fighting you, he will be greatly rewarded in afterlife. Only swift and extreme force can stop him.”

Ifs Dies Fighting Belief Force Religious Practice Offers Extremes Terrorism Genuine Alternatives Afterlife Fanatics Self Defense Religious Fanatics

Author:Massad Ayoob

“If you do not prepare now for the Afterlife, then when will you do so?”

Author:Al-Ghazali

“Merrie Destefano storms the world of urban fantasy with AFTERLIFE, breathing new life into the vast genre of the undead. Gritty, poignant, in the tradition of Bladerunner, with the nostalgia of New Orleans. With crisp and beautiful prose, AFTERLIFE blurs the line between the living and the dead to ask life's ultimate questions-even if they take nine lives to solve.”

“The workman cut to the left, still laying on his horn, and roared around the drunkenly weaving limousine. He invited the driver of the limo to perform an illegal sex act on himself. To engage in oral congress with various rodents and birds. He articulated his own proposal that all persons of Negro blood return to their native continent. He expressed his sincere belief in the position the limo driver's soul would occupy in the afterlife. He finished by saying that he believed he had met the limodriver's mother in a New Orleans house of prostitution.”

“R.I.P. Steve Jobs. I bet you're busy right now revolutionizing and redesigning the afterlife for all of us to enjoy when our time comes”

Jobs Enjoy Right Now Busy Our Time Afterlife

Author:Joe Satriani

“Atheism is a fairy story for people afraid of the Light.”

People Stories Light Atheism Fairy Afterlife Afraid Of Death Fairy Stories Not Afraid Of Death Early Death

Author:John Lennox

“There is no "next" after you are dead and gone from your own world.”

World Next Gone Afterlife

Book:Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore: Being a Treasury of Over Ten Thousand Invaluable and Inspiring Thoughts, Views, and Obervations on about Eight Hundred Subjects of Popular Interest, Collected from the Speeches and Writings of These Three Great Leaders of Modern India

Source: Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore: Being a Treasury of Over Ten Thousand Invaluable and Inspiring Thoughts, Views, and Obervations on about Eight Hundred Subjects of Popular Interest, Collected from the Speeches and Writings of These Three Great Leaders of Modern India

“We all waited on an afterlife. Only I planned to be alive for mine.”

Alive Mines Afterlife

Book:A House in the Sky: A Memoir

Source: A House in the Sky: A Memoir

“Must in death your daylight finish? My sun sets to rise again.”

Sun Afterlife Daylight Sun Set

Book:An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry

Source: An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry

“The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.”

Men Burden Afterlife Virtuous After Death

Book:The Poetical Works of John Dryden

Source: The Poetical Works of John Dryden

“Belief in a future life is the appetite of reason.”

Reason Life Is Belief Appetite Afterlife Future Life

Author:Walter Savage Landor

“Divine Wisdom, intending to detain us some time on earth, has done well to cover with a veil the prospect of the life to come; for if our sight could clearly distinguish the opposite bank, who would remain on this tempestuous coast of time?”

Ifs Wells Done Earth Divine Opposites Sight Afterlife Coast Veils Divine Wisdom Time On Earth

Author:Madame de Stael

“If you really want to find out something about immortality, you have to live in the mountain forests for 30 years. If you succeed in perfecting your eyes and ears there, if you harmonize the heart and the will so that your mind becomes clear and pure and free of all that is evil, you will be able to discuss the matter.”

Ifs Want Years Mind Heart Matter Eye Able Evil Clear Pure Succeed Mountain Ears Forests Immortality Afterlife

Author:Wang Yangming

“Perhaps immortality is a gift of heaven rather than the result of some human effort.”

Humans Heaven Results Effort Immortality Afterlife

Author:Wang Yangming

“The question whether our conscious personality survives after death has been answered by almost all races of men in the affirmative.”

Men Has Beens Race Personality Conscious Afterlife After Death Affirmative

Author:James G. Frazer

“I don't believe in the afterlife.”

Believe Don't Believe Afterlife

Author:W. P. Kinsella

“We don't really understand most of what's happening in the cosmos. Is there any afterlife? Who knows.”

Knows Happenings Cosmos Afterlife

Author:David Eagleman

“I'm not sure I believe in the whole 'ghost-afterlife' thing, but I think places are marked by people who have been there.”

People Thinking Believe Has Beens Whole I Believe I Believe In Ghost Not Sure Afterlife

Author:Joanne Harris

“I don't expect too much from the afterlife, I think that I know very well what pain is. When I think of the end of my life, I think mainly: I didn't do nothing, but I could have done more.”

Thinking Knows Wells Ends Done Pain Too Much Afterlife

Author:Sylvia Kristel