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A company in which anyone is afraid to speak up, to differ, to be daring and original, is closing the coffin door on itself. — Leo Burnett

The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul. — Christian Nestell Bovee

Like a church bell, a coffin, and a vat of melted chocolate, a supply closet is rarely a comfortable place to hide. — Lemony Snicket

He managed not to disturb too much of the flower bed as he tamped soil over the Jaffa Cake box that had taken on the role of hamster coffin so well. — Anonymous

One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment. — Harold Coffin

Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible. — William Sloane Coffin

Hot afternoon
the squeak of my hands
on my daughter's coffin — Lenard D. Moore

The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love. — William Sloane Coffin Jr.

Fear is a real enemy. What does it do?
It buys our coffin long before we are destined to die. — Sri Chinmoy

Every nation makes decisions based on self-interest and defends them on the basis of morality. — William Sloane Coffin

His face was a ghost story: graveyard eyes, cheekbones as sharp as urban legends, a sealed-coffin mouth. — Allyse Near

She wanted to be buried in a coffin filled with used paperbacks. — Sherman Alexie

Never go down to the darkest room. Stay far away from the rotting coffin. If you want to live through the night, let the devil sleep. — John Verdon

The coffin, it shall protect me, though Death himself lies in it — Erich Maria Remarque

Isn't that what growing up is all about - learning to outlast despair? — William Sloane Coffin

When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer. — Harold Coffin

He makes a very handsome corpse and becomes his coffin prodigiously. — Oliver Goldsmith

there was a feeling as if I carried a small leaden coffin in the place of my heart — Iris Murdoch

To be avoided at all costs is the solace of opinion without the pain of thought. — William Sloane Coffin

You should always pay attentionto quality. A coffin, for instance, should laast a lifetime. — Kurt Tucholsky

I asked an 85 year old professor, 'What makes you cry?' He said, 'Whenever I see or hear the truth.' — William Sloane Coffin

Martin's coffin when the man toppled over, dead before he hit the floor. His back — Marvin W. Bronson

Tom is trying to tag a banshee? By himself? Go for it, coffin bait. — Kim Harrison

Charity is only a waystation on the road to justice. — William Sloane Coffin

I remember that I auditioned with the scene where I pull the grandfather out of the coffin. I just loved it so much. — Brigid Brannagh

Death does that: it makes everyone feel sentimental. When we stand in front of a coffin, we all see only what is good or what we want to see. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I won't be sad too often, If they bury me in the library With bookworms in my coffin. — J. Patrick Lewis

It seems to me that every thing in the light and air ought to be happy, Whoever is not in his coffin and the dark grave let him know he has enough. — Robert Goolrick

We could be putting the hammer in Luton's coffin — Ray Wilkins

Fame is but an inscription on a grave, and glory the melancholy blazon on a coffin lid. — Alexander Smith

Your coffin reached the monstrous hole. And a part of me went down into the muddy earth with you and lay down next to you and died with you. — Rosamund Lupton

For me, curiosity is life. If you are not curious, you are in your coffin. — Pierre Boulez

The dictates of humanity came in opposition to the law of the land, and we ignored the law. — Levi Coffin

Monotony is not to be worshipped as a virtue; nor the marriage bed treated as a coffin for security rather than a couch from which to rise refreshed. — Freya Stark

The woman most in need of liberation is the woman in every man and the man in every woman. — William Sloane Coffin

What is faith? Faith is being grasped by the power of love. — William Sloane Coffin

So what did you do, drug me, stuff me in the trunk, then dump me like a sacrificial offering into that vampire's coffin? - Shella — Krista Alasti

Love is in the giver, not the gift. — William Sloane Coffin

Locked in darkness that surrounded me like a coffin, I had nothing to distract me from my memories. — Maria V. Snyder

No. I usually rest in my satin-lined coffin, actually. I'm not allowed out in daylight hours. — Jimmy Page

Falling in love is the best way to kill your heart because then it's not yours anymore. It's laid in a coffin, waiting to be cremated. — Ville Valo

It is one thing to say with the prophet Amos, "Let justice roll down like mighty waters," and quite another to work out the irrigation system. — William Sloane Coffin

I don't want to own anything that won't fit into my coffin. — Fred Allen

I'm not OK, you're not OK-and that's OK. — William Sloane Coffin

The only way you can become a legend is in your coffin — Bette Davis

He was in his coffin, ready to be buried, and yet he knew that he wasn't dead. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

You can sleep in a coffin,but the past aint through with you! — Gerard Way

Human beings who blind themselves to human need make themselves less human. — William Sloane Coffin

Your Honour, unless your Honour, without a moment's loss of time, makes sail for the nearest shore, this is a doomed ship, and her name is the Coffin! — Charles Dickens

We want God to be strong, so that we can be weak. But He wants to be weak so that we can be strong. — William Sloane Coffin

...there is more mercy in God than sin in us. — William Sloane Coffin

It had been torture. But every coffin needed its last nail, and that meeting was ours. — R.K. Lilley

Oh, when I was a kid, I was raised up with all the Disney classics. — Pierre Coffin

To people who remember JFK's assassination, JFK Jr. will probably always be that boy saluting his father's coffin. — Michael Beschloss

Hey." He glanced away from her, instead looking down at the coffin. He looked back at her and raised his eyebrows. "Want a peek? — David Wellington

No pasta. I'm serious. I will climb out of my coffin if anyone brings a baked ziti. — Mindy Kaling

Driving a car is like driving your own coffin — Thabiso Monkoe

When I die, I'll probably climb out of the coffin and play the organ at my own funeral! — Rick Wakeman

If I go back home to Wittenberg, I'll lie down in a coffin and give the maggots a fat doctor to eat. — Martin Luther

I watched him rise from the coffin, with slow, elegant gestures; our gestures, for we are the only beings who routinely rise from coffins. — Anne Rice

Socrates had it wrong; it is not the unexamined but finally the uncommitted life that is not worth living. — William Sloane Coffin

Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own. — Harold G. Coffin

I was built with a love of the night and the unquiet coffin, that's all. — Stephen King

Christ came to take away our sins, not our minds. — William Sloane Coffin Jr.

If Marilyn Monroe was alive right now, what would she be doing?'
Clawing at the roof of her coffin. — Chuck Palahniuk

A rut ... is little more than a coffin with the ends kicked out. — James Hunter

Care to our coffin adds a nail, no doubt, And every grin so merry draws one out. — John Wolcot

You've got
some 'Star-Spangled'
nails
in your coffin, kid.
That's what
they've done for you,
son. — Richard Brautigan

If your heart is full of fear, you won't seek truth; you'll seek security. If a heart is full of love, it will have a limbering effect on the mind. — William Sloane Coffin

Most of the press were vultures descending on the scene for curious America aplomb. Cameras inside the coffin interviewing worms. — Jim Morrison

Science itself is steadily nailing the lid on atheism's coffin. — Lee Strobel

Something you killed didn't stay dead? Wow. That must have really put some termites in your coffin. — Christopher Farnsworth

If you show someone something you've written, you give them a sharpened stake, lie down in your coffin, and say, 'When you're ready'. — David Mitchell

The Phillies beat the Cubs today in a doubleheader. That puts another keg in the Cubs' coffin. — Jerry Coleman

Shoulda sent a thank you note, you little hoe Now Imma wrap your coffin wit a bow — Nicki Minaj

No flower is happy in a vase, because vase is nothing but an ornate coffin for the flower. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear. — Harold Coffin

I consider music to be a service and I am trying to serve the music, the musicians and the audience the best I can at every moment — Jeff Coffin

This is the most uncomfortable coffin I've ever been in. You are wasting my time. — Bela Lugosi

It's not the COUGH that carries you OFF ... It's the COFFIN they carry you OFF IN. — Steven Tyler

I think the best shaped box ever on earth is a coffin which can be handmade to escort the forever numb-hands. — Munia Khan

Unity is not something we are called to create; it's something we are called to recognize. — William Sloane Coffin

Just throw me in my coffin now with these earrings on. — Rachel Zoe

Nothing in the world is more sinister than a child's coffin. — Dominic Smith

Faith handles the ultimate incongruities of life, humor handles the more immediate ones. — William Sloane Coffin

Then coffin, black with silver handles with the dead boy in a black velvet suit. If you're never gonna sweat why not go out in winter style? — Marlon James

I'm going be that n-n-nail in your coffin — Karen Marie Moning

The fellow who thinks he knows it all is especially annoying to those of us who do. — Harold Coffin

Death is only attractive in a fashionable dress, with lilies and an open coffin. — Laura L. Sullivan

It is a mistake to look to the Bible to close a discussion; the Bible seeks to open one. — William Sloane Coffin

Seeing how dumb and stupid they often are, I just couldn't imagine minions being girls. — Pierre Coffin

This is the moment of your defeat; you have just put in the last nails in the coffin of communism. — Lech Walesa

Like King, we need to put on our cemetery clothes and be coffin-ready for the next great democratic battle. — Cornel West

There's a coffin in the back of the church as the wedding is going on ... Look, I'm a romantic. I like marriage ... In the movies. — George Clooney

All of life is the exercise of risk. — William Sloane Coffin

Your grandfather's coffin is heavier than you expect. Your father's coffin is heavier than you can bear. — Todd Lowe

When a man is drowning, it may be better for him to try to swim than to thrash around waiting for divine intervention. — William Sloane Coffin

The humility that comes as we surrender to the circumstances of whatever challenges face us becomes our greatest ally for transformation. Trust — Bonnie Glass-Coffin

A spiritual person tries less to be godly than to be deeply human. — William Sloane Coffin

I don't like him...he makes me feel like he's going to throw me in a coffin and walk around on top of it. — Tama Janowitz