Grave Quotes - page 24

We receive reports now on a daily basis from our own people on the ground in Darfur on widespread atrocities and grave violations of human rights against the civilian population. (Jan Egeland)
I'm just ultracompetitive. I will be till they put me in the grave. View quote
Jerry West
Lying to a committee is a very grave abuse, and there ought to be a clear punishment. View quote
John Bercow
The word of God is full of sad and grave counsel, full of the knowledge of God, of examples of virtues, and of correction of vices, of the end of this life, and of the life to come. View quote
John Jewel
Whatever else I do before finally I go to my grave, I hope it will not be looking after young people. View quote
John Thorn
There is a serious, immediate and extraordinarily grave threat to the continued existence of this country. View quote
James Forrestal
The danger of that - and there's a grave danger that I, myself, have to be very aware of - is that you become so involved and intrigued in the language that sometimes you lose track that that is only a means to an aesthetic experience that the listener has to get. View quote
Leo Ornstein
There's a saying in Africa: 'To find out you are pregnant is to have one foot in the grave.' View quote
Liya Kebede
It is a grave matter to enter a war, without adequate military preparation; it may prove fatal to come into peace, without moral and religious preparation. View quote
Louis Finkelstein
If you still persist in writing, "Good food at it's best", you deserve to be struck by lightning, hacked up on the spot and buried in an unmarked grave. View quote
Lynne Truss
Call it vanity, call it arrogant presumption, call it what you wish, but I would grope for the nearest open grave if I had no newspaper to work for, no need to search for and sometimes find the winged word that just fits, no keen wonder over what each unfolding day may bring. (Bob Considine)
I have never lived through any time in my career when there haven't been grave challenges facing newspapers. View quote
Donald Newhouse
The foolish and cruel notion that a wife is to obey her husband has sent more women to the grave than to the courts for a divorce. View quote
Lemuel K. Washburn
I fully believe in ghosts. I have, my entire life. The first house I ever lived in was haunted. There was a grave of a man in the backyard. I was just a baby then, but my parents would tell me that every night, at the same time, they would hear someone walking up the stairs. View quote
Meaghan Rath
With respect to the first of these obstacles, it has often been made a matter of grave complaint against Political Economists, that they confine their attention to Wealth, and disregard all consideration of Happiness or Virtue. View quote
Nassau William Senior
It's never easy with characters in these dark and grave circumstances but that's my job. View quote
Patricia Clarkson
Things that Shane doesn't want on his grave: (1.) I thought it wasn't loaded. (2.) Hand me a match so I can check the gas tank. (3.) Killed over Ice Cream. View quote
Rachel Caine
When I was single my career was my life, so everything I did was of grave importance and was greatly disturbing. View quote
Rickie Lee Jones
One doesn't simply write about Lyndon Johnson. You get the Johnson treatment from beyond the grave - arm around you, nose to nose. I should admit that he also reminds me of my father, quite an overbearing and narcissistic character. And in some ways, he reminds me of myself. Another workaholic. View quote
Robert Dallek
To know we are being spied on by our own government, and to have someone else's government collaborating on that, to know that data storage is so cheap your information can be kept for years and used to create any kind of story, to me that's a grave attack on human rights. View quote
Sara Harrison
Kennedy had been assassinated a month or so before. So we walked to the grave of John Kennedy and ended our walking symbolically at the Arlington National Cemetery. (Satish Kumar)
I was born with a romantic nature, and I'll carry it to my grave. View quote
Telly Savalas
Every pessimist who ever lived has been buried in an unmarked grave. Tomorrow has always been better than today, and it always will be. View quote
Will Harvey
Full surely there is a blessedness beyond the grave for those who have already entered on it here, and in no other form than that wherein they know it here, at any moment. View quote
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
Man made one grave mistake in answer to vaguely reformist and humanitarian agitation he admitted women to politics and the professions. The conservatives who saw this as the undermining of our civilization and the end of the state and marriage were right after all it is time for the demolition to begin. View quote
Germaine Greer