I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.William Shakespeare
I'd been brought up on the Upper East Side in a WASP society, which was death on crutches. Harry Mathews
I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.Stephen Hawking
I'm not supposed to be able to speak clearly, and decipher what's going on in the media. I'm supposed to be the typical amateur who's 22 and scared to death and can't believe he won the Olympics. Carl Lewis
I'm watching the Weather Channel more than I've ever watched it. I'm scared to death it's going to rain. John Elway
If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death. Sam Snead
If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive.Martin Luther King
If you make every game a life and death proposition, you're going to have problems. For one thing, you'll be dead a lot. Dean Smith
It is death that goes down to the center of the earth, the great burial church the earth is, and then to the curved ends of the universe, as light is said to do. Harold Brodkey
It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls. Epicurus
It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world. John Steinbeck
It's torturous what my siblings put me through. I can take any Olympic final, I can fight in a world championship and fall behind and win in sudden death, but when it comes to my siblings, it's out of my control. There's not much I can do. Steven Lopez
Just think: in all the clean, beautiful reaches of the solar system, our planet alone is a blot; our planet alone has death. Annie Dillard