Bill Gates and Warren Buffett have their 'Giving Pledge,' where billionaires promise to give away the majority of their wealth when they die. My Social Security Pledge is better - to give money to good causes when you are alive. Besides, more Americans can participate.
If you spend a lot of energy on things that are wastes of time, then you waste energy, get sick, and die faster.
One thing that worried me was how writers get categorized and so they end up having to write the same kind of book again and again. That is fine if it is what you want to do, but I would rather be locked in the trunk of my car with a weasel than write the same book every three years until I die.
We were taught North Korea is a heaven. They told us how people in western countries die in hospital or have no money to study in school.
God gives life and he takes life. Everybody who dies, dies because God wills that they die.
In war, you win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash.
If we wipe out the fish, the oceans are going to die. If the oceans die, we die. We can't live on this planet with a dead ocean.
I don't care much about politics. That kind of witchcraft I stay away from because people end up dead. I'd rather die for music.
If our freedom is taken, the American dream will wither and die.
I love working. I love it! It makes me feel awake and alive and appreciative, as does my family, but in a different way. If I was told I couldn't do it, I think I would wither and die.
At some point in the idea process, I simply wear myself down and force myself to choose. But here's the thing: Once I do choose, suddenly all the other possibilities wither and die, and thus I never have a backlog of well-formed ideas waiting for me when my latest book gets finished.
We can still do good for others and do good for ourselves. I would wither and die, truthfully. I need to be somewhere where the light's on me.
Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.
You must realize that one day you will die. Until then you are worthless.
Your body has space within you that cannot die.
A nation's youths shouldn't be sent off to die.