Quotes About Spartan Death

#1. The primary thing I should do, apart from being a good husband, brother, son, and friend, is to be a citizen activist. But I'm afraid it takes away from the writing. Not that anything depends on whether I put an essay in 'The Nation' or not. But you want to participate.

Tony Kushner

#2. 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

#3. Illness is the opposite of freedom. It makes everything impossible.

Francoise Sagan

#4. The body,-that is dust; the soul,-it is a bud of eternity.

Nathaniel Culverwell

#5. Big media are all about the angle, the spin. Look to the overarching theme that runs through each and every news story. Be hip to the meta-narrative peddled.

Ilana Mercer

#6. It's jarring to go from one amazing experience to another that feels ordinary. I don't quite know how to explain it. You see the uniqueness of what you've been doing, and disassociating yourself from it and going back to the 'normal' life is tough.

Nat Wolff

#7. 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

#8. Today I begin a new life for I am the master of my abilities and today is going to be a great and beautiful day!

Tyrese Gibson

#9. Nobody ever had too many of them (pitchers).

Casey Stengel

#10. For most people, most of the time, the media are little more than a background hum. . .

Julianne Schultz

#11. I'm not a vegetarian! I'm a dessertarian!

Bill Watterson

#12. Most of our problems in the United States can be traced to a blatant disregard for private property.

Michael Badnarik