Bernard Cornwell Quotes
The Tippoo still led the fight. ... Those gaudy stones made him a target for every redcoat and sepoy, yet he insisted on staying in the very front rank where he could pour his rifle fire at the stalled attackers, and his charms worked, for though the bullets flicked close none hit him. He was the Tiger of Mysore, he could not die, only kill.
Bernard Cornwell
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It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.
Victor Hugo
We know what the birth of a revolution looks like: A student stands before a tank. A fruit seller sets himself on fire. A line of monks link arms in a human chain. Crowds surge, soldiers fire, gusts of rage pull down the monuments of tyrants, and maybe, sometimes, justice rises from the flames.
Nancy Gibbs
For me, take Tiger Woods. I always thought he was great, but I never truly understood how good he was until I had the chance to go to Tiger Woods Golf Camp. He taught me how to swing and was hitting the ball, and this dude was unreal.
Larry Fitzgerald
The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so.
Ursula K. Le Guin
However and wherever we are, we must live as if we will never die.
Nazim Hikmet
There's no story that breaks, including a five-alarm fire in Brooklyn, that I don't wish I were covering.
Walter Cronkite
Live fast, die young.
Ed Westwick
I was the big, bossy older sister, full of enthusiasms, mad fantasies, desperate urges to be famous, and anxious to be a saint - a settled sort of saint, not one who might have to suffer or die for her faith.
Maeve Binchy
With Tiger Woods, you know everyone is watching. But I think interest in women's golf is getting better too.
Yani Tseng
To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.
Samuel Butler
To retire is to begin to die.
Pablo Casals
Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die, but long after we are gone be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistence.
Daniel Burnham
There's such a good vibe in Minneapolis. You've got an upscale downtown, and yet people aren't afraid to sit around the fire pit in the middle of winter and drink a beer. It's amazing.
Philip Winchester
I'm always trying new things and learning new things. If there isn't anything more you can learn - go off and die.
Morgan Freeman
I think the whole nerves thing comes into play when we worry about what other people and society will think.
Dana Plato
Describing passive violence in this culture is kinda like someone who is drowning in the middle of the ocean giving you the low-down on water. The only way you can really understand passive violence is by going somewhere far, far away from phones, news, TV, the Internet.
Inga Muscio
What is a society without a heroic dimension?
Jean Baudrillard
The Tippoo still led the fight. ... Those gaudy stones made him a target for every redcoat and sepoy, yet he insisted on staying in the very front rank where he could pour his rifle fire at the stalled attackers, and his charms worked, for though the bullets flicked close none hit him. He was the Tiger of Mysore, he could not die, only kill.
Bernard Cornwell