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Letter "P" » putting to death
«In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us»
Author: Dag Hammarskjold
(Statesman)
| About:
Death and dying
| Keywords:
analysis, answers, conception, decides, in the last analysis, puts, putting to death, The Last
«We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.»
Author: Judy Garland
| Keywords:
cast, cast about, cast away, cast on, Fed, feed upon, illusion, In Dreams, priceless, putting to death, put to death
«Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.»
Author: Rabindranath Tagore
(Essayist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
dawn, extinguishes, extinguishing, lamp, putting, putting to death, The Light
«Suicide may also be regarded as an experiment -- a question which man puts to Nature, trying to force her to answer. The question is this: What change will death produce in a man's existence and in his insight into the nature of things? It is a clumsy experiment to make; for it involves the destruction of the very consciousness which puts the question and awaits the answer.»
Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
awaited, awaits, clumsy, experiment, insight, involves, putting to death, regarded, The Nature of Things
«If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy»
Author: St. Thomas Aquinas
| Keywords:
convict, convicted, convicts, excommunicate, excommunicated, excommunicating, heresy, malefactor, malefactors, putting to death, put to death, secular
«A man also or woman that hath a familiar spirit, or that is a wizard, shall surely be put to death: they shall stone them with stones: their blood shall be upon them.»
«And the man that committeth adultery with another man's wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbour's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
adulterer, adulteress, adulteresses, adultery, neighbour, putting to death, put to death
«Ants and savages put strangers to death»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
ants, putting to death, savaged, savages, Strangers, The Ants
«It was not death, for I stood up, / And all the dead lie down; / It was not night, for all the bells / Put out their tongues, for noon.»
Author: Emily Dickinson
(Poet)
| Keywords:
bells, lie down, noon, putting to death, put out, stood, The Dead, tongues
«The only things that I can tell you is that every case I have reviewed I have been comfortable with the innocence or guilt of the person that I've looked at. I do not believe we've put a guilty... I mean innocent person to death in the state of Texas.»
Author: George W. Bush
(President)
| Keywords:
guilt, innocence, not guilty, putting to death, reviewed, reviewing, Texas
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