Quotes About Deaths

OF THE LUSITANIA'S 1,959 PASSENGERS AND CREW, only 764 survived; the total of deaths was 1,195. The 3 German stowaways brought the total to 1,198. Of 33 infants aboard, only 6 survived. Over 600 passengers were never found. Among the dead were 123 Americans.

In the first six months of 1892 the city experienced nearly eight hundred violent deaths. Four a day.

No other British city experienced such losses, but throughout the United Kingdom the total of civilian deaths in 1940 and 1941, including those in London, reached 44,652, with another 52,370 injured. Of the dead, 5,626 were children.

Mijnheer Smith: Eén ding begrijp ik niet. Waarom zetten ze in de krant onder de burgerlijke stand altijd wèl de leeftijd van mensen die gestorven zijn en nooit die van pasgeborenen! Dat is onzin.

I'd followed the strange deaths of pro football players for years, sensing something odd going on.

Mining is a dangerous profession. There's no way to make a mine completely safe: These are the words owners have always used to excuse needless deaths and the words miners use to prepare for them.

Rushing blindly towards unproven drugs can be disastrous and result in countless more deaths.

The remodels and fresh coats of paint wouldn't cover all the shadows those two deaths had cast, the pall that had fallen over what had been a bucolic place to grow up. That

Leda, Lula and Rochelle had not been women like Lucy, or his Aunt Joan; they had not taken every reasonable precaution against violence or chance; they had not tethered themselves to life with mortgages and voluntary work, safe husbands and clean-faced dependants: their deaths, therefore, were not classed as 'tragic', in the same way as those of staid and respectable housewives.

Rome, on the other hand, lost—suffering on that one day more battle deaths than the United States during the entire course of the war in Vietnam, suffering more dead soldiers than any other army on any single day of combat in the entire course of Western military history.

Howard Markel estimates that the total number of Americans who died of the 1918 pandemic was between 500,000 and 750,000; the

We see them reporting the words and actions of a man who called them to as exacting a level of integrity as any religion has ever known. They were willing to live out their beliefs even to the point of ten of the eleven remaining disciples being put to grisly deaths, which shows great character. "In terms of honesty, in terms of truthfulness, in terms of virtue and morality, these people had a track record that should be envied.

Sure there have been injuries and deaths in boxing - but none of them serious.

If births continued and deaths were severely curtailed, overpopulation would soon cause devastating effects.

The consequences of Fast and Furious are higher crime and more deaths. I remain committed to seeing justice brought for Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry and the hundreds of Mexicans who have lost their lives.

We are sweet preserves of song, stored away so that in the winter of our deaths you can taste again the tang of our summers.

Loose diagnosis is causing a national drug overdose of medication. Six percent of our people are addicted to prescription drugs, and there are now more emergency room visits and deaths due to legal prescription drugs than to illegal street drugs.6

The most heroic deaths of all were the pointless ones,

The death toll from health care screwups adds up to at least 500,000 Americans annually. That is the equivalent of more than three jumbo jets crashing every day of the year (or over 1,000 jets annually). Because these individuals are dying at home, in hospitals, or in nursing homes, no one is counting the bodies. There is no outrage, no plan to change a system that allows too many to die unnecessarily. The medical profession seems largely immune to the consequences of its errors.

Internet gambling is a horrible thing,' Hawthorne went on, and for once he sounded genuinely sympathetic. 'Your son was one of around three hundred thousand addicts in the country. There are about five hundred deaths a year and most of them are young men, university students, kids living alone. And the big online gambling companies … they know what they're doing with those bright lights and flashing colours, the personalised texts and emails

The best part of my job is being able to travel to places to investigate powerful stories, many of which contains unsolved mysteries and deaths. To me as a documentarian and paranormal investigator, this puts the adventure in my life and meaning to my job.

But the universe would not turn backward. It was a great engine projected upon the grey void of nonexistence. His knife, if it brought the deaths of the twins, would only reverberate against that void, weaving new complexities to echo through human history, creating new surges of chaos, inviting humankind to attempt other forms of order and disorder.

California - with more cars, more drivers and more people - still has less DWI-related deaths than Texas does.

Putting wives through fire has continued since ancient times, from Sita to sati to dowry deaths. It is a curious aspect of our social culture.