The quick and the dead

The last reads: "For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries: Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you: Who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the quick and the dead".

[11] In the Nicene Creed the phrase appears in the following passage (taken from the 1662 Book of Common Prayer):[4] In the Apostles' Creed the phrase appears in the following passage (also from the 1662 Book of Common Prayer):[4] This phrase occurs in Shakespeare's tragedy Hamlet, when Ophelia's brother, Laertes, at the burial of his sister, Ophelia, asks the gravedigger to hold off throwing earth onto Ophelia's body and jumps into her grave and says, "Now pile your dust upon the quick and the dead .

Robert Heinlein's 2016 short story "The Roads Must Roll" tells that "It was not physically possible to drive safely in those crowded metropolises.

[citation needed] Sam Raimi's 1995 film The Quick and the Dead tells the story of a female gunfighter who rides into a frontier town and joins a deadly duelling competition to seek revenge for her father's death; here, 'quick' means both "quick on the draw" and "alive".

"[19] Michelle Toumayants, describing Melvin B. Tolson's use of a mass of proverbs occupying 84 lines of the text of his poetic Libretto, writes that these give the reader insight into the suffering of slaves of African origin: "Griots, the quick owe the quick and the dead.

while the character representing Europe denies that Africa has a history: Seule de tous les continents...l'Afrique n'a pas d'histoire.

[20] In her view, the "unrelenting, metered, pithy proverbs" are for Tolson "the poetry of the Africans, their art, their music, their culture" as spoken by the "poet-warrior griot".