Anne Shropshire famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • He who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin, and dies in this state, is fit for glory.

  • There must be some unwritten law that says about fifty people have to move into your house when somebody dies. If it weren't for the smell of death clinging to the walls, you might think it was your family's turn to host the month neighborhood potluck supper.

  • Often in winter the end of the day is like the final metaphor in a poem celebrating death: there is no way out.

  • The dominance of short-term perspectives has led to routine decisions in the markets that sacrifice the long-term buildup of genuine value in pursuit of artificial, short-term gains.

  • Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.

  • A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view is worth 80 IQ points

  • There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for.

  • Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated can be compared. For there to be an equivalency, the death penalty would have to punish a criminal who had warned his victim of the date at which he would inflict a horrible death on him and who, from that moment onward, had confined him at his mercy for months. Such a monster is not encountered in private life.

  • Instead of killing and dying in order to produce the being that we are not, we have to live and let live in order to create what we are.

  • Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part.