“ Mortality, and Paternity; the one supposed, the other expressed in the text: Jacob was the Father of Joseph, and that Father dead, and therefore Joseph mourned for him. ”
- John Pearson- Copy
- 851
“ Curse ruthless time! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it! ”
- Winston Churchill- Copy
- 3.9K
“ I mean, the Lord told me it was going to be A, a disaster, and B, messy,... I warned him about casualties. ”
- Pat Robertson- Copy
- 1.7K
“ It's one of the most emotionally eloquent performances of the year. It shows how Hollywood has just scratched the surface of her talent. ”
- David Ansen- Copy
- 3.8K
“ I have been unexpectedly confronted with my own mortality as I was told that I had cancer. ”
- Jodi Rell- Copy
- 3.5K
“ I think on civilian casualties they could do more. It's actually something I've discussed with the editors involved. They're aware of it, and I'm hopeful that there will be more reporting on that. ”
- Daniel Okrent- Copy
- 31
“ This is unprecedented in its scale of mortality. We've been monitoring these sites since 1997 and I've never seen anything this devastating. ”
- Jeff Miller- Copy
- 1.2K
“ Sister, look ye, How, by a new creation of my tailor's I've shook off old mortality. ”
- John Ford- Copy
- 620
“ The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all. ”
- William Dean Howells- Copy
- 962
“ That flesh is but the glasse, which holds the dust That measures all our time; which also shall Be crumbled into dust. ”
- George Herbert- Copy
- 3.7K
“ Cats are magical...the more you pet them the longer you both live. ”
- Albert Camus- Copy
- 1.1K
“ Does it afflict you to find your books wearing out? I mean literally... the mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all. ”
- William Dean Howells- Copy
- 1.6K
“ I've been accused of every death except the casualty list of the World War. ”
- Al Capone- Copy
- 3.7K
“ Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties. ”
- John Irving- Copy
- 2K
“ Science is analytical, descriptive, informative. Man does not live by bread alone, but by science he attempts to do so. Hence the deadliness of all that is purely scientific. ”
- Eric Gill- Copy
- 1.6K
“ Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent. ”
- R. D. Laing- Copy
- 2.3K
“ On the morrow the horizon was covered with clouds- a thick and impenetrable curtain between earth and sky, which unhappily extended as far as the Rocky Mountains. It was a fatality! ”
- Jules Verne- Copy
- 3.3K
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