To save your world, you asked this man to die:Would this man, could he see you now, asked why?
– WH Auden
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- We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and see our illusions die. – WH Auden
- I don’t need you because I want to save you. I want to save you because I need you to save me. – Anne L Parks
- As a Christian, you are not here to change the world; you are here to save the world. Jesus came to save the world. – Felix Wantang
- How do you ask a man to be the last man to die in Vietnam? How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake? – John F Kerry
- Jesus didn’t die to save me from God. Jesus died to save me from myself. – Ricky Maye
- How ironic it would be, to die at his hands while trying to save him, when he first came to me because he was trying to save me. – Beth Revis
- My whole life, I prepared to come down in order to save the world above.. Now I have to ascend to save the world below.. – Jonathan Friesen
- Oh, man, why is this the life? Why is it? Why is one rich and the other poor? Why is one black and the other white? – Tony DSouza
- How is it more for the glory of God to save man irresistibly, than to save him as a free agent, by such grace as he may either concur or resist? – John Wesley
- We are this world. Its next generation. If you’re not trying to save us, then what exactly are you trying to save? – Claudia Gray
- I want to save the world but I haven’t worked out a way to save myself yet. – Rae Earl
- Being a superhero is hard work. You have to save the world. But going to school is even harder. You have to save yourself. – Lenore Look
- If you have never known the power of God’s love, then maybe it is because you have never asked to know it – I mean really asked, expecting an answer. – Frederick Buechner
- If someone asked me if I liked him, Yes!If someone asked me if it was love, Jeez, no!Being offered sex with him, I’d say -˜hell, yeah!’. – Kavipriya Moorthy
- It was our first date and I asked what his favorite movie is. He asked if I’d judge him, but instead of judging him I just loved him. – Dominic Riccitello
- Cinderella never asked for a prince. She asked for a night off and a dress. – Kiera Cass
- Now, in the Kingdom of School, to be asked into another child’s room is like being asked inside their heart. – Catherynne M Valente
- A teacher asked me once, what I wanted to be when I grew up. I told her a clown and she asked me if I was joking – Ivan Baublitz
- The worst question ever asked, is the one which is never asked. – Krishna Saagar
- I used to say why save money if I’ll die tomorrow, I haven’t died yet and I have nothing to survive on – Bangambiki Habyarimana
- Why children?’ he asked. ‘Why always children? For love to end where it begins is far more beautiful, and Nature knows it. – EM Forster
- Mindfulness is observing and asking why. Millions saw the apple fall but Newton asked why. – Amit Ray
- You are dead, you know!- he screeched delightedly, -œCome on Miss Wright! Die! Die! DIE! – William Axtell
- To die famous is the goal of the immortal. To die young is the goal of the healthy. To die memorably is the goal of the survivor. – Bauvard
- To wish a healthy man to die is the wish from a mind of sickness. To wish an ailing man to die is the wish of the ambitious – Lea R Caguinguin
- Every man carries with him through life a mirror, as unique and impossible to get rid of as his shadow. – WH Auden
- In short, it became possible – never easy, but possible – in the poet Auden’s phrase to find the mortal world enough. – Stephen Greenblatt
- A girl yesterday during my program asked me a question; Sir, Why is this world an Unsafe place? And i had confusion not clarity… No answers – Dinesh Kumar
- If to have breasts is to be human, then to save them is to save ourselves. – Florence Williams
- You can Save Time with Writing but you can Save a Life by Reading. – Divya Chawla
- Closing a museum to save money is like holding your breath to save oxygen… – Nanette L Avery
- A businessman who stops advertising to save money is like a foolish who stops a clock to save time. – Moosa Rahat
- It wasn’t supposed to happen like this. I was supposed to free him. I was supposed to save him. I was supposed to save everyone. – Nely Cab
- With a blade at your throat, a well-connected uncle or a wealthy mother could not save you. Only you could save yourself. – Natalia Marx
- We cannot save ourselves. Only God has the power to save us. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- Save the children, save mankind. – Aaron B Powell
- But I was done trying to wake her up, to make her see. To save her. The only person I could save was myself. – Emme Rollins
- Today humanity faces a stark choice: save the planet and ditch capitalism, or save capitalism and ditch the planet. – Fawzi Ibrahim
- He didn’t save me, though. He allowed me the freedom to save myself, which is the very best type of rescue. – Amy Engel
- If his mother was drowning and I was drowning and he had to choose one of us to save, He says he’d save me. – Judith Viorst