Quotes About King Leonidas

#1. Xerxes: It isn't wise to stand against me, Leonidas. Imagine what horrible fate awaits my enemies when I would gladly kill any of my own men for victory.
King Leonidas: And I would die for any one of mine.

Frank Miller

#2. 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

#3. Give them nothing, but take from them everything.

Frank Miller

#4. To be a 'believer' does not make you superior to others; but to be a 'humanist' does make it so!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#5. The reason I always insisted on signing my work was not to be subordinate to anyone.

Paul Rand

#6. There is no peace that cannot be found in the present moment.

Tasha Tudor

#7. Winston Churchill (him again!) once said words to the effect that everyone gets the chance to make their fortune once, but not everybody takes it.

Bear Grylls

#8. Loneliness swept over me, and I became aware of the vast uninhabited spaces.

Claire Fejes

#9. The upper current of society presents no pertain criterion by which we can judge of the direction in which the under current flows.

Thomas B. Macaulay

#10. I had tremendous fun fooling around with the way people talked about songs, just the way that became another way of understanding the world.

Greil Marcus

#11. Ram fell in love after he saw Sita in a garden immediately before the swamber. The love's visibility was so obvious that even Lakshman could gauge it and felt that Sita would be his Bhabi/Mata. Now

Kulbhushan Singhal

#12. Every generation enjoys the use of a vast hoard bequeathed to it by antiquity, and transmits that hoard, augmented by fresh acquisitions, to future ages.

Thomas B. Macaulay

#13. Leave my past... come in the present (PLEASE).

Deyth Banger

#14. As to methods there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble. - RALPH WALDO EMERSON

Timothy Ferriss

#15. Baseball is more like a novel than a war. It is like an ongoing, hundred-year work of art, peopled with thousands of characters, full of improbable events, anecdotes, folklore and numbers.

Luke Salisbury

#16. A mere four giant meatpacking companies (Tyson subsidiary IBP, Cargill subsidiary Excel, Swift & Company, and National) now slaughter and market four of every five beef cattle born in this country

Michael Pollan

#17. He was reading with his mouth open, and he didn't hear me walk across the porch and sit down on the railing opposite his chair.
I kicked his chair with the toe of my shoe. "Stop reading, Mac," I said. "Put down that book. Entertain me." He was reading Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises.

J.D. Salinger

#18. Choosing one path means abandoning others - if you try to follow every possible path you will end up following none.

Paulo Coelho