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They're like ghost stories. – Wendel White	Found on CNN 8 years ago
But in all of this I also saw a peace and beauty, sometimes the scare is in the brief look at something. Like when you watch a horror movie, you only see a glimpse of the ghost, murderer or monster and your imagination works all the fright up for you. I think I felt I need to see everything to make it 'normal' and undramatic. And I think it works the same way with our relation to death in general. – Cathrine Ertmann	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Jesus did not come back from the grave as a ghost. Nor was it a simple resuscitation of a corpse. Jesus reversed death. – Francis Cardinal George, OMI	added by anonymous 8 years ago
When the birds are nesting there, the island is a chaotic, loud, busy place. All of a sudden, it’s like a ghost town. – Vic Doig	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Al-Houta is like a ghost town now. – Sanad Shehab	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The notion of ghost ships drifting on autopilot toward the coasts of Europe in the hopes that coast guards will rescue the people on board and the hideous sight of men and women tearing their flesh on barbed-wire fences in a desperate, and sometimes lethal, attempt to clamber into Europe and find a better, more peaceful life: Such scenes are simply intolerable. – Zeid Raad al-Hussein	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
These teachers have been out of the classroom for years, they call themselves teachers, they're paid by the district and they retire as teachers. But if you look for them in the classroom, you won't find them. They're ghost teachers. – Nate Bohlander	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
The government has to not just address it but deal with it, identify the ghost workers, take sanctions against those who are responsible, remove those names from the list, clean up the database and stop these leakages. – William Hanna	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
If we are paying for people in Ghana it has to be real teachers, real nurses, not ghost workers. – William Hanna	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The military has to be cleaned of all these numbers, figures of ghost soldiers and other mismanagement. – Finance Minister Hoshiyar Zebari	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
It is a sacred thing to create a face, it's like a ghost appearing in the gem as you work. The dialogue of gemstone, color and light gives it life. – Wallace Chan	Found on CNN 9 years ago
Definitely we will recommend strongly that there should be some serious deep-rooted reforms in the military security establishment to fight corruption, mismanagement, but at the same time, the military has to be cleaned of all these numbers, figures of ghost soldiers and other mismanagement. – Hoshiyar Zebari	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Definitely there has to be checks and balances. All the formations have to be reviewed in terms of the numbers. There should be no ghost members of the military, people should be accountable. Your battalion, the number of your members should be accounted for, for weapons or salaries, for munitions for food. These are basic things it doesn’t need a genius (to understand). – Hoshiyar Zebari	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
All human life is here, but the Holy Ghost seems to be somewhere else. – Anthony Burgess	added by anonymous 10 years ago
When the truth is concealed, mistakes are repeated in the future and the ghost of the catastrophic doom of the past resurrect; bringing in it wake the now inevitable doom. Only but the truth was concealed. – Iwitness Truth	added by anonymous 11 years ago
if you want my ghost just say ' we've always done it that way.' and I will haunt you for 24 hours. – Grace Murray Hopper	added by anonymous 11 years ago
Do not let your TODAY be stolen by the ghost of yesterday or the "To-Do" list of tomorrow!" – Steve Maraboli	added by anonymous 13 years ago
A cap of good acid costs five dollars and for that you can hear the Universal Symphony with God singing solo and the Holy Ghost on drums. – Hunter S. Thompson	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Anyone who clings to the historically untrue - and thoroughly immoral - doctrine that violence never settles anything I would advise to conjure up the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and the duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The ghost of Hitler would referee. Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forgot this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and there freedoms. – Robert Heinlein	added by anonymous 13 years ago
History is like a ghost. It is as dead as alive. – Kedar Joshi	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I stalk my prison like my own ghost... – Roger Zelazny	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I am now going to make you a gift that will stay with you the rest of your life. For the rest of your life, every time you say 'We've always done it that way,' my ghost will appear and haunt you for twenty-four hours. – Grace Murray Hopper	added by anonymous 14 years ago
If a man harbors any sort of fear, it ... makes him landlord to a ghost. – Lloyd Douglas	added by anonymous 14 years ago

They're like ghost stories.

– Wendel White

Found on CNN
8 years ago

But in all of this I also saw a peace and beauty, sometimes the scare is in the brief look at something. Like when you watch a horror movie, you only see a glimpse of the ghost, murderer or monster and your imagination works all the fright up for you. I think I felt I need to see everything to make it 'normal' and undramatic. And I think it works the same way with our relation to death in general.

– Cathrine Ertmann

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Jesus did not come back from the grave as a ghost. Nor was it a simple resuscitation of a corpse. Jesus reversed death.

– Francis Cardinal George, OMI

added by anonymous
8 years ago

When the birds are nesting there, the island is a chaotic, loud, busy place. All of a sudden, it’s like a ghost town.

– Vic Doig

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Al-Houta is like a ghost town now.

– Sanad Shehab

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The notion of ghost ships drifting on autopilot toward the coasts of Europe in the hopes that coast guards will rescue the people on board and the hideous sight of men and women tearing their flesh on barbed-wire fences in a desperate, and sometimes lethal, attempt to clamber into Europe and find a better, more peaceful life: Such scenes are simply intolerable.

– Zeid Raad al-Hussein

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

These teachers have been out of the classroom for years, they call themselves teachers, they're paid by the district and they retire as teachers. But if you look for them in the classroom, you won't find them. They're ghost teachers.

– Nate Bohlander

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

The government has to not just address it but deal with it, identify the ghost workers, take sanctions against those who are responsible, remove those names from the list, clean up the database and stop these leakages.

– William Hanna

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

If we are paying for people in Ghana it has to be real teachers, real nurses, not ghost workers.

– William Hanna

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The military has to be cleaned of all these numbers, figures of ghost soldiers and other mismanagement.

– Finance Minister Hoshiyar Zebari

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

It is a sacred thing to create a face, it's like a ghost appearing in the gem as you work. The dialogue of gemstone, color and light gives it life.

– Wallace Chan

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Definitely we will recommend strongly that there should be some serious deep-rooted reforms in the military security establishment to fight corruption, mismanagement, but at the same time, the military has to be cleaned of all these numbers, figures of ghost soldiers and other mismanagement.

– Hoshiyar Zebari

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Definitely there has to be checks and balances. All the formations have to be reviewed in terms of the numbers. There should be no ghost members of the military, people should be accountable. Your battalion, the number of your members should be accounted for, for weapons or salaries, for munitions for food. These are basic things it doesn’t need a genius (to understand).

– Hoshiyar Zebari

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

All human life is here, but the Holy Ghost seems to be somewhere else.

– Anthony Burgess

added by anonymous
10 years ago

When the truth is concealed, mistakes are repeated in the future and the ghost of the catastrophic doom of the past resurrect; bringing in it wake the now inevitable doom. Only but the truth was concealed.

– Iwitness Truth

added by anonymous
11 years ago

if you want my ghost just say ' we've always done it that way.' and I will haunt you for 24 hours.

– Grace Murray Hopper

added by anonymous
11 years ago

Do not let your TODAY be stolen by the ghost of yesterday or the "To-Do" list of tomorrow!"

– Steve Maraboli

added by anonymous
13 years ago

A cap of good acid costs five dollars and for that you can hear the Universal Symphony with God singing solo and the Holy Ghost on drums.

– Hunter S. Thompson

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Anyone who clings to the historically untrue - and thoroughly immoral - doctrine that violence never settles anything I would advise to conjure up the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and the duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The ghost of Hitler would referee. Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forgot this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and there freedoms.

– Robert Heinlein

added by anonymous
13 years ago

History is like a ghost. It is as dead as alive.

– Kedar Joshi

added by anonymous
14 years ago

I stalk my prison like my own ghost...

– Roger Zelazny

added by anonymous
14 years ago

I am now going to make you a gift that will stay with you the rest of your life. For the rest of your life, every time you say 'We've always done it that way,' my ghost will appear and haunt you for twenty-four hours.

– Grace Murray Hopper

added by anonymous
14 years ago

If a man harbors any sort of fear, it ... makes him landlord to a ghost.

– Lloyd Douglas

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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