“The death rate is the same for us as for anybody … one person, one death, sooner or later.”
Robert A. Heinlein book Tunnel in the Sky
Tunnel in the Sky (1955), Captain Helen Walker, Ch. 2
“The death rate is the same for us as for anybody … one person, one death, sooner or later.”
Robert A. Heinlein book Tunnel in the Sky
Tunnel in the Sky (1955), Captain Helen Walker, Ch. 2
Walt Whitman (1819–1892) American poet, essayist and journalist
Memories of President Lincoln, 14
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Lewis Thomas book The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher
"Autonomy"
The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher (1974)
“If we stayed home and did nothing, doom would find us anyway, sooner or later.”
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892–1973) British philologist and author, creator of classic fantasy works
Context: 'Of course, it is likely enough, my friends,' he said slowly, 'likely enough that we are going to our doom: the last march of the Ents. But if we stayed home and did nothing, doom would find us anyway, sooner or later. That thought has long been growing in our hearts; and that is why we are marching now. It was not a hasty resolve. Now at least the last march of the Ents may be worth a song.
Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Speech in Cannon Street Hotel, London (12 December 1930) at the first public meeting of the Indian Empire Society, quoted in Martin Gilbert, Prophet of Truth: Winston S. Churchill, 1922–1939 (London: Minerva, 1990), p. 377
The 1930s