Spartan Death Quotes & Sayings

Couldn't control herself. She had always dreamed of hitting Victoria, and the feeling of her hand connecting to Victoria's face was so damn fulfilling that Elli wanted to do it again. — Toni Aleo

NFL cheerleading is harder than most people think. They train up to six hours every day with games on Sundays. They gave me a great work ethic. — Sarah Shahi

No front porches. My uncle says there used to be front porches. And people sat there sometimes at night, talking when they wanted to talk, rocking, and not talking when they didn't want to talk. Sometimes they just sat there and thought about things, turned things over. My uncle says the architects got rid of the front porches because they didn't look well. But my uncle says that was merely rationalizing it; the real reason, hidden underneath, might be they didn't want people sitting like that, doing nothing, rocking, talking; that was the wrong KIND of social life. People talked too much. And they had time to think. So they ran off with the porches. — Ray Bradbury

Courage is worthy of respect when displayed in the maintenance of legitimate claims and in the repelling of aggressions, bodily or other. Courage is worthy of yet higher respect when danger is faced in defence of claims common to self and others, as in resistance to invasion. Courage is worthy of the highest respect when risk to life or limb is dared in defence of others. — Herbert Spencer

In those moments when I'm obsessively counting my sins against me, it is good news to remember that God has counted my sins against Christ. — Tullian Tchividjian

And in this constancy, in this complete indifference to the life and death of each of us, there lies hid, perhaps, a pledge of our eternal salvation, of the unceasing movement of life upon earth, of unceasing progress towards perfection. — Anton Chekhov

Feel no fear before the multitude of men, do not run in panic,
but let each man bear his shield straight toward the fore-fighters,
regarding his own life as hateful and holding the dark spirits of death as dear as the radiance of the sun. — Tyrtaeus

In a groundbreaking move, the Associated Press, the largest news-gathering organization in the World, will no longer use the term 'illegal immigrant'. They will now use the phrase 'undocumented democrat'. — Jay Leno

A bastard son must fight his own way in the world. Osferth knew that. — Bernard Cornwell

Poverty is the test of civility and the touchstone of friendship. — William Hazlitt

This was love. It didn't come free, you paid in pain. Your own. But then nobody ever said love was easy. Well, they did, but they were idiots. — Kate Atkinson

It has been said that most revolutions are not caused by revolutionaries in the first place, but by the stupidity and brutality of governments, — Malcolm Gladwell

If you happen to be in the right place at the right time, the capitalist system is a beautiful thing. — Richard Rainwater

We're seeing how the videos translate to the live shows and how the technology is really reaching kids. — Willie Aames

Someone once asked the Spartan king Leonidas to identify the supreme warrior virtue from which all others flowed. He replied: "Contempt for death." For us as artists, read "failure. — Steven Pressfield

Elliot waved goodbye, and before he thought better, Ilyas waved in return.
Only once he got back into his own tent did he realise he'd been smiling the entire way back. — Astrid Amara

Ali ruled from 656 to 661 but believed Muhammad intended him to succeed him originally in 632, rather than Abu Bakr. — Zephyros Press