I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.

Because, sometimes you've to think about more than your own safety! Sometimes you've to think about the greater good! This is war!

J.K. Rowling

Virtue and genuine graces in themselves speak what no words can utter.

William Shakespeare

Our poverty will be brought home to us to its full extent only after the war.

Joseph A. Schumpeter

I can't do with mountains at close quarters -- they are always in the way, and they are so stupid, never moving and never doing anything but obtrude themselves.

D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

An accent mark, perhaps, instead of a whole western accent -- a point of punctuation rather than a uniform twang. That is how it should be worn: as a quiet point of character reference, an apt phrase of sartorial allusion -- macho, sotto voce.

Phil Patton

But though I have wept and fasted, wept and prayed, Though I have seen my head grown slightly bald brought in upon a platter,I am no prophet--and here's no great matter;I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker,And I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker,And in short, I was afraid.

TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot, Excer

The Goddess Fortune is the devil's servant, ready to kiss any one's ass.

William Blake

A million dollars sounds like a lot, I know. Especially when you're young. But you can't let money erode your principles or you'll wind up with nothing.

Wendelin Van Draanen

Christ's grave was the birthplace of an indestructible belief that death is vanquished and there is life eternal.

Adolph Harnack

Thus we have on stage two men, each of whom knows nothing of what he believes the other knows, and to deceive each other reciprocally both speak in allusions, each of the two hoping (in vain) that the other holds the key to his puzzle.

Umberto Eco

In the deeps are the violence and terror of which psychology has warned us. But if you ride these monsters deeper down, if you drop with them farther over the world's rim, you find what our sciences cannot locate or name, the substrate, the ocean or matrix or ether which buoys the rest, which gives goodness its power for good, and evil its power for evil, the unified field: our complex and inexplicable caring for each other, and for our life together here. This is given. It is not learned.

Annie Dillard

If we define an American fascist as one who in case of conflict puts money and power ahead of human beings, then there are undoubtedly several million fascists in the United States.

Henry A. Wallace