I would die happy if I knew that on my tombstone could be written these words, "This man was an absolute fool. None of the disastrous things that he reluctantly predicted ever came to pass!"
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Related Had I to carve an inscription on my tombstone I would ask for none other than "The Individual SOREN KIERKEGAARD My granddad always said he wanted to make me an England player. As soon as I went on to that pitch a... DAVID DUNN He believed that he must, that he could and would recover the good things, the happy things, the eas... SAUL BELLOW I was happy to take the lie detector test. I knew we would pass and that would keep the focus on fin... BRENDA DAM I was happy to take the lie detector test. I knew we would pass and that would keep the focus on fin... BRENDA VAN DAM These are the words that I keep coming back to. This was when I knew the situation would be out of o... AMY WILSON Percy smiled. He knew the stakes were high. He knew this day could go horribly wrong. But he also kn... RICK RIORDAN For if I be an offender, or have committed any thing worthy of
death, I refuse not to die: but if ... BIBLE If a man needs an elaborate tombstone in order to remain in the memory of his country, it is clear t... OSCAR WILDE So little cause for carolings / Of such ecstatic sound / Was written on terrestrial things / Afar or... THOMAS HARDY On my tombstone, I want written: 'He never did 'Love Boat!' ORSON WELLES These are the words of a fool: I am happy to be a fool, for i won't spend my time gazing at lines di... MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON A lot of lawyers are going to be arguing over this. I think what we all would like to see is for the... FRANK WHITE If my mom came here today, she'd probably join this red-hat brigade, ... My mother got my sense of h... HOWIE MANDEL I used to have nightmares that they would put 'He played Ted' on my tombstone. KEANU REEVES I feel bad for him because he really had a fantastic season and he deserved to be here to accept thi... BOOMER ESIASON Oh my gosh, if I could be on '30 Rock', my life would be made. That is my favorite show. My ... WENDI MCLENDON-COVEY For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall a... BIBLE If a book were written all in numbers, it would be true. It would be just. Nothing said in words eve... URSULA K. LE GUIN I knew this is really challenging for him not playing, but if we ever needed him there was never a d... ALAIN VIGNEAULT I personally was very happy to take it because I knew we would pass it. BRENDA DAM I personally was very happy to take it because I knew we would pass it. BRENDA VAN DAM Hey,” Watney said over the radio, “I've got an idea.” “Of course you do,” Lewis said.... ANDY WEIR poor boy! I never knew you, Yet I think I could not refuse this moment to die for you, if that would... WALT WHITMAN I knew I could never be an actor as a man. It just doesn't work, you know? And so when I was doi... CANDIS CAYNE Jesus Christ could die instead of man because He was sinless. As a man without sin, He was not under... HENRY HON When I am dead and buried, on my tombstone I would like to have it written, "I have arrived." Becaus... YUL BRYNNER If I knew I was going to die tomorrow, And Spring came the day after tomorrow, I would die... ALBERTO CAEIRO Heed my words, daughter, if you ever mean to be happy: Never give yourself to a man. DONNA WOOLFOLK CROSS My wolf was a cute guy and he was holding my hand. I could die happy. MAGGIE STIEFVATER My uncle Sammy was an angry man. He had printed on his tombstone: What are you looking at? MARGARET SMITH When I was a teenager, my father went bust. He could have declared himself bankrupt, but he was an h... JO NESBO When I was excited about life, I didn't want to write at all. I've never written when I was happy. I... JEAN RHYS If I knew I was going to die at a specific moment in the future, it would be nice to be able to cont... CHUCK KLOSTERMAN Write 'judge of beautiful women' on my tombstone. I'd be quite happy. NIGEL BARKER I was an awful critic. I operated on the assumption that there was an absolute scale of values again... TOM STOPPARD The man who uses big words is afraid that if people knew what he was talking about, they would know ... VIKRANT PARSAI No one can guarantee the environmental effects won't be disastrous. How in good conscience can I pas... JAN JOHNSON I don't know if this is the kind of retrospective analysis that people are fond of applying to t... RUSSELL BRAND I knew last semester that I was going to be on the committee this fall, so I came up with an idea ov... JACOB BEST When I am dead and buried, on my tombstone I would like to have it written, 'I have arrived.'... YUL BRYNNER Butch nodded as if he knew exactly what was doing. "Like I said, my man, it's whatever. You and me? ... J.R. WARD Wolves eat coyotes," Gordon said[...] If he weren't an old man, I had some rude things I could have ... PATRICIA BRIGGS It was never predicted that I would be a songwriter - with this bohemian lifestyle, CHRISTINE LAVIN If the Confederacy fails, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a Theory. JEFFERSON DAVIS Only in this world of topsy-turvy attitudes could outright stupidity, such as I had displayed, be so... PETER DAVID In 2004, Kucinich was the only presidential candidate who warned that a war in Iraq would be complet... MARIANNE WILLIAMSON The difference between this waiting period and the wait that I had already been enduring was that I ... TRACIE MILES My lawyer would kill me if he knew I was signing this! KRISTIN DAVIS He understands that if I'm not happy - which was not an understanding in my first marriage - if I'm ... KATE MULGREW We got the best doctors we could find because I had to know for an absolute certainty that there was... JACK MESI It was an idea, I thought, that could almost be written as a helping tool. People seemed to like the... FLORENCE SEIDELMAN I have always been terrified of the death of my parents. I never knew if I could count on myself. I ... DAN PALLOTTA If we ever pass out as a great nation we ought to put on our tombstone 'America died from a delusion... WILL ROGERS My life came to a standstill. I could breathe, eat, drink and sleep, and I could not help doing thes... LEO TOLSTOY He knew that his wings could ignite at any moment, but the closer he came to touching the fire, the ... PAUL AUSTER Presently [Bridey] said: “If I was Rex”—his mind seemed full of such suppositions: “If I was... EVELYN WAUGH I didn’t have a good idea, but I had an idea. Which would be a fitting quote on my tombstone. B.C. JOHNSON That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it... DOROTHY PARKER (It's) really the embodiment of my big brother. He was about a foot shorter than me, and I outweigh ... JOE SHIELDS I couldn't even be mad at him, because this was who he was. This was who he'd always been. He'd neve... JENNY HAN Fly you crows. My father was not a spectacle. He was the greatest man I ever knew. He was my everyth... STACEY LEE On my tombstone just write, 'The sorest loser that ever lived.' EARL WEAVER I used to want the words "She tried" on my tombstone. Now I want "She did it." KATHERINE DUNHAM 'Sherlock' is one of the biggest things I will do, ever - we could never have predicted that... MARTIN FREEMAN He would probably be up here right next to me. I would say he would probably be critical because tha... PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN We knew for years this would be our destination. I've read articles that 'Kirby just came here to di... JODI OLSON And when her lips met mine, I knew that I could live to be a hundred and visit every country in the ... NICHOLAS SPARKS And, I believe that if a man dies with a single penny still sitting in the bank, he's a fool. DAN AYKROYD They knew where I was going to be. The girl that was covering me knew everywhere I was going. That w... EMERY WALLACE He was so happy that he could go and get his brother's body. I felt terrible telling this guy his br... DAVID BEATSON I learned that I knew it (there are some things in life, you knew before you could put the words to ... MARK VAUGHAN It would be great, even if was only for a day, to be in the national spotlight. I knew when I came h... JUSTIN DAVIS I just knew that this would be the last time I would play and I tried to do the best I could out the... BECCA MCARDLE For it was not so much that by means of words I came to a complete understanding of things, as that ... PLUTARCH If I knew that today would be the last time I’d see you, I would hug you tight and pray the Lord b... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED FOR THE... KURT VONNEGUT JR. If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED FOR THE... KURT VONNEGUT Luck, normalcy, fate ... none of those seemed to be on our side. Our very being together went agains... AMY PLUM He knew more of my intended career than I knew myself. I should be well enough educated for my desti... CHARLES DICKENS I am so infinitely happy that he loves me so much, and I pray that it will always be like this. It w... EVA BRAUN While wandering a deserted beach at dawn, stagnant in my work, I saw a man in the distance bending a... LOREN EISELEY I knew my own situation, my own town, and I knew I had it in my hand. Once I got it, I knew I could ... CARL STOKES I knew that if I ever got here and got an opportunity, that I would be able to stick around and make... DANNY ARDOIN It was probably one of the dumbest things I ever did, ... If I could undo it, I would. BOB DAVIS I could always count on (Michael) to get the job done if ever I wasn't around. He was a great man an... JASON LONG He had let me know time after time that he was a thinking man, a man of intellect and wit. Yet one u... COCO J. GINGER How little we know of what there is to know. I wish that I were going to live a long time instead of... ERNEST HEMINGWAY I had written a book of short stories which was published under the title of "Uncle Tom's Children".... RICHARD WRIGHT This is my fundamental teaching: that there is no division between this and that. That is contained ... OSHO Nobody ever dared with Frank, because he had such mood swings, and you never knew how he was going t... DON RICKLES Tess, Tess, Tessa. Was there ever a more beautiful sound than your name? To speak it ... CASSANDRA CLARE What I mean is that none of my talents had a - what's that great word - rubric. A singer, an act... STEVE MARTIN I was thinking about cutting my hair right after the season. I knew if I came here it would be a big... JOHNNY DAMON My dad and I would watch Ray Lewis a lot. His tenacity, and he was everywhere. I wanted that mindset... MALIK JACKSON Every time I would walk in, I'd make sure my name was there. I still do to this day. I knew whether ... DAVID PAK These are the moments I fall deeper in love with him. When neither of us says anything, and we just ... AMANDA GRACE The two men had a conversation. Brief, cryptic, to the point. As though they had exchanged numbers a... ARUNDHATI ROY When I was growing up, my mother was always a friend to my siblings and me (in addition to being all... MARLO THOMAS I was working on a job somewhere one day and a girl came and asked me if I knew who would collect th... FRED SPINK
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LEWIS CLARKE Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind. LEWIS GRIZZARD I don't want a tan, but I do love blushes in colors that give you that whole sun-kissed thing. JULIETTE LEWIS Being a playwright is like the equivalent of doing a jigsaw puzzle that has 1,500 pieces, and it'... LEWIS BLACK Which of the religions of the world gives to its followers the greatest happiness? While it lasts, ... C.S. LEWIS I have three tools at my disposal - my whistle, my body language and my talk. It is a question of ho... ALAN LEWIS I'm a huge reggae fan. I want to go to Jamaica and make, like, Bob Marley 'One Love' pos... JENNY LEWIS Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't mer... C.S. LEWIS People will buy anything that is 'one to a customer.'. SINCLAIR LEWIS Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is b... SINCLAIR LEWIS Watching Bo Jackson, seeing his size, his speed, a lot of his abilities, really drove me. JAMAL LEWIS I really liked watching Bo Jackson run just because of his size and his speed. JAMAL LEWIS We are built to make mistakes, coded for error. LEWIS THOMAS My first boyfriend was a surfer. We bonded over loving the sun, Depeche Mode, and The Cure. JULIETTE LEWIS There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them. C.S. LEWIS I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was marrie... LEWIS GRIZZARD Instead of getting married again. I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house. LEWIS GRIZZARD When I started off with 'Dance India Dance,' even the TV show people thought it won't be... TERENCE LEWIS We had high and boisterous winds last night and this morning: the Indians continue to purchase repai... MERIWETHER LEWIS I'm a late bloomer. It's taken me a long time to find my voice, and I think all the records ... JENNY LEWIS The more often he feels without acting, the less he will be able ever to act, and, in the long run, ... C.S. LEWIS The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are C.S. LEWIS Every Friday I used to have about fifty, sixty kids who would wait for me on Sunset Boulevard and I&... AL LEWIS Bottom line, your body is a temple, and you have to treat it that way. That's how God designed i... RAY LEWIS The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from science, along with beha... LEWIS THOMAS