Top 100 Or Die Quotes
#1. Many people spend time studying the properties of animals or herbs; how much more important it would be to study those of people, with whom we must live or die!
Baltasar Gracian
#2. There were lots of things in this lifetime that I'd doubted, precious little I'd known for sure. But in that moment, I knew I would save her, or die trying.
Red Tash
#3. Love isn't a smiling bride who holds a colorful bouquet and gazes lovingly at her husband; it's a corpse-littered battlefield where the walking wounded have to keep searching for survivors or die themselves.
Gary A. Braunbeck
#4. The fire seemed to live, go down, or die according to its own schemata. In the morning, however, it always saw fit to die.
Toni Morrison
#5. We are all subject to the fates. But we must act as if we are not, or die of despair.
Philip Pullman
#6. Al-Lah alone decides whether we live or die. The rest is vanity.
Sherry Jones
#7. We can either laugh in the face of death or die trying not to.
James Grippando
#8. Much is made of a kind heart," he said. "I'm more of a feed-yourself-or-die kind of guy.
Michael Lewis
#9. If a spiritual being is naive to the lower aspects of the world, they usually are killed or die young. Did Jesus really know which of the twelve would betray him? I doubt it.
Frederick Lenz
#10. A Bradypus or Sloth am I, / I live a life of ease, / Contented not to do or die / But idle as I please.
Michael Flanders
#11. In war, you win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash.
Douglas MacArthur
#12. When it comes to do or die situations, Matt Hardy will not die.
Matt Hardy
#13. There's no way out of this, it's stark: live or die. Every given moment a bubble that bursts. Step on, from one to the next, ever onwards, a rainbow of stepping stones, each bursting softly as your foot touches and passes on. Till one step finds only empty air. Till that step, live.
Carol Birch
#14. Do you want to die, Gabriel?" "No." His hand fell to cover hers, heated and rough. "I just want that moment when the choice to live or die isn't my responsibility. Not my life, or anyone else's." Pale eyes fixed on her. "More than anything, I want a reason to keep living.
Cole McCade
#15. I am going to keep going untill I succeed or die.
Don't think I don't know how this might end.
I've known it for years.
-Harry Potter
J.K. Rowling
#16. Looking back, I have come to realize that the gang lifestyle back then - the fame, the respect, and the recognition - was stronger and powerful than any drug. We were serious with what we were dealing with. It was like a do or die situation. Shelton 'Apples' Burrows reform gang leader
Drexel Deal
#17. Legends simply don't live or die like men
Paul Levitz
#18. Things don't change because people change their minds. They change because they retire or die.
Douglas Crockford
#20. The problem with dictatorships - as I read somewhere recently - and with poisonous ideologies, too, is that they are like sharks. They must keep moving forward or die. What caused their aggression is not what you did. It's who they are.
Robert A. Heinlein
#21. Money serves those who can match it the right way.
So it is for us to decide and understand the meaning of Live Rich or Die Rich
Gian Kumar
#22. Corporations are mandated, in effect, to 'grow or die,' a rule also called 'the growth imperative.'
Michele Simon
#23. When there's love enough you can stand anything. When there isn't, you can stand nothing. Living together every day you find out a lot you didn't know, and love can't keep still. It's got to grow or die.
Kate Langley Bosher
#25. At those critical junctures, the question is not simply whether to live or die but what kind of life is worth living.
Paul Kalanithi
#26. There are five options in war: fight, defend, flee, surrender, or die. You have proven inept at the first two, and now have the temerity to surrender. Death is all you deserve!
Sima Yi
#28. The Hunger Games. Kill or die, a difficult choice. This type books are the best
Suzanne Collins
#29. I'm going to keep going until I succeed - or die. Don't think I don't know how this might end. I've known it for years.
J.K. Rowling
#30. There are those who would say true predators are animals that don't have free will. I say everything's a choice. All creatures can choose to live or die, eat or starve, love or hate according to their will.
April White
#31. You kick a dog long enough, that dog is going to bite you or die.
Dave Pelzer
#32. The impossibility of a retreat makes no difference in the situation of men resolved to conquer or die; and, believe me, my friends, if your conquest could be bought with the blood of your general, he would most cheerfully resign a life which he has long devoted to his country.
James Wolfe
#33. M'sieur, I am as a slave to my wife." He kissed the tips of his fingers. "I am as the dirt beneath her feet." He clasped his hands. "I must bestow on her all that she desires, or die!"
"Pray make use of my sword, " invited his Grace. "It is in the corner behind you.
Georgette Heyer
#35. I came up almost completely through the subsidised theatre. I have never been absolutely at the market interface, where I've got to sell my wares or die - I've always been protected from that.
Harriet Walter
#36. Truth does not pay homage to any society, ancient or modern. Society has to pay homage to Truth or die.
Swami Vivekananda
#37. To have a dream is a do or die so you have to persuade it with patience; you must have a room for challenges and a room for criticisms.
Euginia Herlihy
#38. I get stage fright with short stories. For me it feels like standup comedy: kill or die. I'm more confident when I begin a novel because I know I have space to fail.
Sefi Atta
#40. All things considered, Her Grace's plan may not have been the single rashest, most foolhardy, do-or-die, all-or-nothing throw of the dice in the history of the Royal Manticoran - or Grayson - Navy. If it wasn't, however, I have so far failed to find the plan that was.
David Weber
#41. Sites like Funny or Die and College Humor are great, but I'd say it's appealing to 80% men and 20% women.
Zooey Deschanel
#42. Why have I always been forbidden to touch him? (Stryker) Ours it not to question why. Ours is but to live or die. (Apollymi)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#43. Because," he went on, his eyes locked with mine, "I didn't want you to fight alone. Or die alone."
And for a moment, I remembered that faerie who had died in our foyer, and how I'd told Tamlin the same thing. "Thank you," I said, my throat tight.
Sarah J. Maas
#44. I've distilled everything to one simple principle: win or die!
Glenn Close
#45. He will protect me if it is his will. It is not up to me whether I live or die. Either way, Heaven is what'll wait for me - the light at the end of the tunnel.
K. Weikel
#46. Do you ever get a panicky feeling that nobody cares if you live or die? (A husband will often care decisively, one way or another.)
Sandra Gould
#47. Fuck my country and yours, they will continue fighting whether we live or die. But I can't, and won't, go on without you. Not anymore.
S.A. McAuley
#48. We do not make mistakes. Surrender at once! Resistance is fertile!"
"Don't you mean futile?"
" ... That's what I said! Surrender or die!
Toby Frost
#49. Move or die. (Quills) Never give someone a choice that doesn't leave them with any way out except to hurt you. (Devyn)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#50. They suffered from the terrible delusion that something could be done. They seemed prepared to make the world the way they wanted it or die in the attempt, and the trouble with dying in the attempt was that you died in the attempt.
Terry Pratchett
#51. A significant portion of the earth's population will soon recognize, if they haven't already done so, that humanity is now faced with a stark choice: Evolve or die.
Eckhart Tolle
#52. You're not living until it doesn't matter a tinker's damn to you whether you live or die. At that point you live. When you're ready to lose your life, you live it.
Anthony De Mello
#53. A people that has licked a more formidable enemy than Germany or Japan, primitive North America ... a country whose national motto has been "root, hog, or die."
D. W Brogan
#54. Old words; words that nearly brought me to my knees. Live free or die
Lauren Oliver
#55. That should be your town motto. It's all I ever hear. Like: New Hampshire, Live Free or Die. It should be: Despair, You Need To Leave Now.
Lee Child
#56. There's no graduating from this kind of education, couples just keep growing and changing until they either break up or die.
Brian K. Vaughan
#57. And some, like me, sit down and write because we're not brave enough to live or die.
V.J. Campilan
#58. There's no way to know what makes one thing happen and not another. What leads to what. What destroys what. What causes what to flourish or die or take another course.
Cheryl Strayed
#59. I wonder that religion can live or die on the strength of a faint, stirring breeze. The scent trail shifts, causing the predator to miss the pounce. One god draws in the breath of life and rises; another god expires.
Barbara Kingsolver
#60. Job security is a myth ... it is also risky for self-employed people in my opinion. If they get sick, injured, or die, their income is directly impacted.
Robert Kiyosaki
#61. There is absolutely no point in sitting down to write a book unless you feel that you must write that book, or else go mad, or die.
Robertson Davies
#62. The top two lines on every prophet's job description look like this: Speak openly and clearly about what God is for. Speak openly and clearly about what God is against. The third and fourth lines look like this: I [God] am with you. Have courage. (But you may have to duck or die.)
Scot McKnight
#63. So let us here resolve that Dag Hammarskjold did not live, or die, in vain. Let us call a truce to terror. Let us invoke the blessings of peace. And, as we build an international capacity to keep peace, let us join in dismantling the national capacity to wage war.
John F. Kennedy
#64. In the playoffs, it is do or die. You win or you go home. As a competitor, you love it.
Ben Roethlisberger
#65. Live for everything, or die for nothing
Nate Spears
#66. It's difficult. You tell yourself that, but you don't believe it. You always feel like there's another game. You know, the reality is, it's do or die. And I think I'm going to play like that.
Marshall Strickland
#67. Either push your limits or die.
Bruce Lee
#69. It wasn't enough to be alive. Everyone needed something to live for.
Or die for.
Magnus Flyte
#70. I have my website, The Ruckus, which is an Internet site, similar to the Funny or Die format, where people post funny videos. I get a chance to rate their videos; they get a chance to blog and kick it with me.
J. B. Smoove
#71. In the end, a gun is an instrument to make someone surrender to your will or die, and music is exactly the opposite - it's seductive and invitational.
Pedro Reyes
#73. ...when you hit the expressway to Declinistan there are few exit ramps. That America's animating principles should require a defense at all is a melancholy reflection on how far we've already gone. Live free--or die from a thousand soothing caresses of nanny-state sirens.
Mark Steyn
#74. Businesspeople are like sharks, not just because we're gray and slightly oily, or because our teeth trail the innards of those we have eviscerated, but because we must move forward or die.
Stanley Bing
#75. Why now? Why not? Live or die, a man and a woman need love. There is a need in the race. We need to share. To belong. Perhaps you will die before the year is out. But remember this: to have may be taken from you, to have had never. Far better to have tasted love before dying, than to die alone.
David Gemmell
#76. The sound Noah made when he speared him with his tongue sent Cameron from hard and twitching to gotta fuck or die.
K.A. Mitchell
#77. Mr. Adams, describing a conversation with Jonathan Sewall in 1774, says: "I answered that the die was now cast; I had passed the Rubicon. Swim or sink, live or die, survive or perish with my country was my unalterable determination."
John Adams
#78. The whole image is that eternal suffering awaits anyone who questions God's infinite love. That's the message we're brought up with, isn't it? Believe or die! Thank you, forgiving Lord, for all those options.
Bill Hicks
#79. joy is a product not of whether characters live or die but of what they've realized and achieved, or how they are remembered.
Will Schwalbe
#81. Vine, the Ringling Brothers circus, Friendster, horseshoes, pay phones, typewriters, etc. Things go out of business. Don't think it can't happen to Madison Avenue. Adapt or die.
Andrew Essex
#82. They must have a feeling of do or die. It is such an overcrowded profession.
Louise Jameson
#83. People under siege turn to us in complete frustration and I get a chance to go in when it's do or die.
Curtis Sliwa
#84. I guess what they say is true - sometimes you have to smack up against a brick wall before you can admit it's time to change or die. For me the death was an emotional one. It's taken me this long to figure out I was killing myself by shutting off my true feelings and desires.
Claire Thompson
#85. Only the insane equate pain with success."
"The uninformed must improve their deficit, or die."
_Cheshire Cat
Lewis Carroll
#86. There are no rules. There are no guidelines. You have few supplies, and there's nothing to help you along the way. Go through the Flat Trans at the time indicated. Find open air. Go one hundred miles, directly north, to the safe haven. Make it or die.
James Dashner
#87. He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt, and his only mission each time he went up was to come down alive. The
Joseph Heller
#88. But with the hours I sometimes kept at the coffeehouse I had to have learned to take naps during the day or die, and I had learned to take naps. Up until five months ago "something or other or die" had always seemed like a plain choice in favor of the something or other.
Robin McKinley
#90. Making a film is very hard work, and you live or die by the sword just a little bit every time you do it, but I wouldn't chuck it in.
Matthew Goode
#91. Adapt or die, that's as true for religion as it is for people.
Robert Ferrigno
#92. I am the woman who lost herself but now is found, the lesbian, outside the law of the church and man, the one who has to love herself or die. If you are not as strong as I am, what will be make together? I am all muscle and wounded desire, and I need to know how strong we both can be.
Dorothy Allison
#93. Whether you live or die is irrelevant. You are Arameri, and like all of us, you will serve.
N.K. Jemisin
#94. The Republican Party needs to reform or die. President Bush did three things. He destroyed the Republican majority, he crippled the American conservative movement and he weakened the country.
Joe Scarborough
#95. Live or die: mere consequences of what you have built. What matters is building well. So here we are I've assigned myself a new obligation. I'm going to stop undoing deconstructing I'm going to start building ... What matters is what you are doing when you die ... I want to be building.
Muriel Barbery
#97. The task is overwhelming, and the chance is slight. We must take the chance or die.
Robert M. Hutchins
#98. Where there's life, there's learning, and the truth is always calling us out of our pride. If we don't harken, it will call louder, and throw a situation at us. A pebble at first. If we still don't listen, we'll get a stone. Then a rock. Then a great crashing boulder. We must learn, or die.
Orna Ross
#99. I've reached the point where I hardly care whether I live or die. The world will keep on turning without me, and I can't do anything to change events anyway.
Anne Frank
#100. If a deep-wreck diver stays in the sport long enough, he will likely either come close to dying, watch another diver die, or die himself. There are times in this sport when it is difficult to say which of the three outcomes is worst.
Robert Kurson
