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“If you have music you want to play that no one asks you to play, you have to go out and find where you can play it. It's called do or die.”

Ifs Want Play Dies Asks

Author:Steve Lacy

“'What do you really think happens after you die?' That's the question that everyone, everyone, everyone asks. And I'm so sick of it. But my true answer is, I don't know. And there's no way I'm going to find out 'til it happens.”

Thinking Knows Way Happens Dies Asks Answers Sick So Sick

Author:Ellen Muth

“Prayers prayed in the Spirit never die until they accomplish God's intended purpose. His answer may not be what we expected, or when we expected it, but God often provides much more abundantly than we could think or ask. He interprets our intent and either answers or stores up our prayers. Sincere prayers are never lost. Energy, time, love, and longing can be endowments that will never be wasted or go unrewarded.”

Thinking May Spirit Purpose Dies Asks Energy Lost Prayer Answers Longing Accomplish Expected Stores Sincere Our Prayers Time Love Endowment Sincere Prayer

Author:Wesley L Duewel

“You ask me to plow the ground. Shall I take a knife and tear my mother's bosom? Then when I die she will not take me to her bosom to rest.”

“Most men eddy about Here and there-eat and drink, Chatter and love and hate, Gather and squander, are raised Aloft, are hurled in the dust, Striving blindly, achieving Nothing; and then they die- Perish;-and no one asks Who or what they have been.”

Men Has Beens Hate Dies Asks Achieve Drink And Love Raised Strive Dust Mortality Here And There Love And Hate Chatter

Book:Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)

“If a sheep dies on the shore of the Euphrates I fear lest Allah ask me to account for it on the Day of Resurrection.”

Ifs Dies Asks Accounts Ask Me Shore Resurrection Sheep

Author:Umar

“"You sound as if you question the authority and the decision of the Oracle, who said he should die." "I do not. Why should I? But the Oracle did not ask me to carry out its decision." [...] "The Earth cannot punish me for obeying her mesenger," Okonkwo said. "A child's fingers are not scalded by a piece of hot yam which its mother puts into its palm."”

Ifs Should Children Said Earth Mother Dies Asks Sound Decision Pieces Authority Hot Fingers Ask Me Should I Palms Obeying Oracles Things Fall Apart Okonkwo Yams Okonkwo

Author:Chinua Achebe

“People ask me whether I think that one day I might wake up one morning and run dry, but I've had the opposite feeling - that I would die before I had time to write all the ideas in my drawer.”

People Thinking Writing Ideas Feelings Might Running Dies Asks Morning One Day Opposites Wake Up Ask Me Dry Drawers

Author:Woody Allen

“Give me my freedom for as long as I be All I ask of livin' is to have no chains on me All I ask of livin' is to have no chains on me And all I ask of dyin' is to go naturally... And when I die, and when I'm gone There'll be one child born, in our world To carry on, to carry on...”

World Giving Children Long Dies Asks Born Gone Give Me Chains Our World

Author:Laura Nyro

“We can each sit and wait to die, from the very day of our births. Those of us who do not do so, choose to ask - and to answer - the two questions that define every conscious creature: What do I want? and What will I do to get it? Which are, finally, only one question: What is my will? Caine teaches us that the answer is always found within our own experience; our lives provide the structure of the question, and a properly phrased question contains its own answer.”

Want Two Dies Asks Found Waiting Answers Teach Our Lives Birth Creatures Conscious Structure

Author:Matthew Woodring Stover

“No matter what people call you, you are just who you are. Keep to this truth. You must ask yourself how is it you want to live your life. We live and we die, this is the truth that we can only face alone. No one can help us. So consider carefully, what prevents you from living the way you want to live your life?”

People Way Want Matter Helping Faces Dies Asks No Matter What Who You Are Live Your Life

Author:Shams Tabrizi

“I know I will die with either a camera in hand or a woman on top - what more could one ask of life?”

Knows Hands Dies Asks Cameras

Author:Christopher Doyle

“Did you hear the one about the woman who is attacked on the street by a gorilla, beaten senseless, raped repeatedly, and left to die? When she finally regains consciousness and tries to speak, her doctor leans over to hear her sigh contently and to feebly ask, 'Where is that marvelous ape?'”

Trying Dies Asks Left Speak Consciousness Streets Doctors Marvelous Beaten Sigh Apes Gorillas

Author:John McCain

“Some men make a womanish complaint that it is a great misfortune to die before our time. I would ask what time? Is it that of Nature? But she, indeed, has lent us life, as we do a sum of money, only no certain day is fixed for payment. What reason then to complain if she demands it at pleasure, since it was on this condition that you received it.”

Ifs Men Reason Death Certain Dies Asks Pleasure Conditions Demand Complaining Fixed Our Time Misfortunes Complaints Payment

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“The heart asks pleasure first, And then, excuse from pain; And then, those little anodynes That deaden suffering; And then, to go to sleep; And then, if it should be The will of its Inquisitor, The liberty to die.”

Ifs Should Firsts Heart Littles Pain Suffering Dies Asks Sleep Pleasure Liberty Excuse Going To Sleep

Book:The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson

Source: The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson

“we do not believe until we want a thing and feel that we shall die if 'tis not granted to us, and then we kneel and kneel and believe, because we must have someone to ask help from.”

Ifs Want Feels Believe Helping Dies Asks Prayer Granted

Book:A Lady of Quality

Source: A Lady of Quality

“I only ask of the Government to be treated as all other men are treated. If I cannot go to my own home, let me have a home in a country where my people will not die so fast.”

People Ifs Men Country Home Government Dies Asks My Own Let Me Treated

Author:Chief Joseph

“When you think of it, really there are four fundamental questions of life. Youve asked them, Ive asked them, every thinking person asks them. They boil down to this; origin, meaning, morality and destiny. How did I come into being? What brings life meaning? How do I know right from wrong? Where am I headed after I die?”

Thinking Knows Persons Dies Asks Destiny Four Morality Fundamentals Meaning Of Life Life Means Thinking Person

Author:Ravi Zacharias

“Man only of all earthly creatures, asks, Can the dead die forever? - and the instinct that urges the question is God's answer to man, for no instinct is given in vain.”

Men Art Death Dies Asks Given Answers Forever Creatures Instinct Vain Urges

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?”

Men World War Death Dies Asks Antiwar

Author:W. H. Auden