Embalmed Alive Quotes & Sayings

Money doesn't bring courage, I learned. It's the other way around. Once I took that lesson to heart, I began to rebuild my life. — Suze Orman

PASTIME, n. A device for promoting dejection. Gentle exercise for intellectual debility. — Ambrose Bierce

Sex standing up and walking on sand will bring any man to a bad end. He — Andrea Camilleri

Let them say what they will, 'cause they will anyhow. Let them say what they will, 'cause they will anyhow. — Tegan Quin

Life is not a hotel. Life is a battlefield. — Kevin Abdulrahman

Reading Myself
Like thousands I took just pride and more than just,
struck matches that brought my blood to a boil;
I memorized the tricks to set the river on fire
somehow never wrote something to go back to.
Can I suppose I am finished with wax flowers
and have earned my grass on the minor slopes of Parnassus ...
No honeycomb is built without a bee
adding circle to circle, cell to cell,
the wax and honey of a mausoleum
this round dome proves its maker is alive;
the corpse of the insect lives embalmed in honey,
prays that its perishable work live long
enough for the sweet tooth bear to desecrate
this open book..my open coffin — Robert Lowell

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order. Life refuses to be embalmed alive. The more prolonged the halt in some unrelieved system of order, the greater the crash of the dead society. — Alfred North Whitehead

As we grow as unique persons, we learn to respect the uniqueness of others. — Robert H. Schuller

Style is the only thing you can't buy. It's not in a shopping bag, a label, or a price tag. It's something reflected from our soul to the outside world. An emotion. — Alber Elbaz

I learned a lot, investigative methodology - wise, from litigators - watching their process. — Sarah Stillman

A good story is alive, ever changing and growing as it meets each listener or reader in a spirited and unique encounter, while the moralistic tale is not only dead on arrival, it's already been embalmed. It's safer that way. When a lively story goes dancing out to meet the imagination of a child, the teller loses control over meaning. The child gets to decide what the story means. — Katherine Paterson

Lincoln made mistakes. Roosevelt made mistakes. Eisenhower made mistakes. The Battle of the Bulge was the biggest intelligence failure in American military history, much bigger than any in Vietnam or now. We didn't know that the Soviets were moving 400,000 or 500,000 troops. We missed it. — Rudy Giuliani

There was a time when doing "Zoolander 2" that I was literally flying between the "Zoolander" shoot and "The Leftovers" in Texas and at that point, I was getting comedy whiplash. It was a relief, though, to get to Rome and be like, "Oh my God, I get to laugh on set." — Justin Theroux

In general, shorter is better. If you can encapsulate your idea into a single captivating sentence, you're halfway home. — Len Wein

Limiting birth by artificial means is an absurdly wrong step. The consequences of this act are irresponsible fatherhood or frustrated motherhood. — Sathya Sai Baba