You think I should be as forgiving as you are? We can’t all be saints and martyrs. — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
The Martyr finds her way to self-knowledge through pain, suffering, and surrender. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“You have a martyr complex, you know that?" "Course I do. I'm Catholic".” — T. Baggins Copy Share Image
Martyrs, martyrs, martyrs,... we want a million martyrs to march on Jerusalem. — Yasser Arafat Copy Share Image
“Playing the martyr doesn’t suit you, Leila.’ ‘Maybe not, but playing the complete and utter bastard clearly suits you.” — Lindsay J. Pryor Copy Share Image
But whoso is heroic must find crises to try his edge. Human virtue demands her champions and martyrs, and the trial of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Justin Martyr says that he was impressed in his study of the Old Testament, at the seriousness and contents of these writings,… — Larry Hurtado Copy Share Image
“You couldn’t martyr yourself to Area X, you could only disappear trying, and not even be sure of that.” — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
You have eternity in which to explain and only one night to be a martyr in the amphitheater Get out, darling, and… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
What has violence ever accomplished? What has it ever created? No martyr's cause has ever been stilled by an assassin's bullet... — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
“I actually believed that after living as fully as humanly possible, one should then die violently. I expected then as I still… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The gamester, if he die a martyr to his profession, is doubly ruined. He adds his soul to every other loss, and… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
There is no single test or formula for producing moral progress anymore than there is for generating scientific truths. It is a… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
If martyrdom is now on the decline, it is not because martyrs are less zealous, but because martyr-mongers are more wise. The… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
If we make sacrifices in doing good or in doing ill, it does not alter the ultimate value of our actions; even… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Muqtada belongs to the most famous religious family in Iraq, which is the al-Sadr family. He's really the third in line. [Muqtada's… — Patrick Cockburn Copy Share Image
Mere negation, mere Epicurean infidelity, as Lord Bacon most justly observes, has never disturbed the peace of the world. It furnishes no… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
A saint a real saint never does anything, a martyr does something but a really good saint does nothing, and so I… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
True joy, as it turns out, comes only to those who have devoted their lives to something greater than personal happiness. This… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
“In his play Murder in the Cathedral, T. S. Eliot describes a martyr as one “who has become an instrument of God,… — Richard Wurmbrand Copy Share Image
The brave pilot gave his life defending his faith, country and nation and joined other Jordanian martyrs who gave their lives for… — Abdallah II Copy Share Image
The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church. (Terullian) When she ceases to bleed, she ceases to bless. She… — L. E. Maxwell Copy Share Image
We may never be martyrs but we can die to self, to sin, to the world, to our plans and ambitions. That… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
Surely martyrs, irrespective of the special phase of the divine idea for which they gladly give up their bodies to torture and… — Katharine Lee Bates Copy Share Image
“A martyr is someone willing to die for what he believes in. A fanatic is someone willing for you to die for… — Marsha Hinds Copy Share Image
The martyr endured tortures to affirm his belief in truth but he never asserted his disbelief in torture. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The pillory and stocks, the gibbet, and even the whipping-post, have seen many a noble victim, many a martyr. But I cannot… — Alice Morse Earle Copy Share Image
I didn't want to be either the cre'me de la cre'me or a martyr. I'd rather be a novelty, especially in a… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
One, with God, is always a majority, but many a martyr has been burned at the stake while the votes were being… — Thomas Reed Copy Share Image
Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
The unsuccessful strugglers against tyranny have been the chief martyrs of treason laws in all countries. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
This is woman's great benevolence, that she will become a martyr for beauty, so that the world may have pleasure. — Robert Wilson Lynd Copy Share Image
There are daily martyrdoms occurring of more or less self-abnegation, and of which the world knows nothing. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
“He was breaking his fast on white wine and raw onions, in order to keep up the character of martyr, I conclude. ” — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Teach me, 0 God, not to torture myself, not to make a martyr out of myself through stifling reflection, but rather teach… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
I'm planning, you see, to try to confine myself to the truth. That's hard for an old, inveterate fantasy martyr and liar… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
The printing presses of the state treasuries cranked out reams of paper currency- showing wise kinds and blissful martyrs- while bankers wept… — Alan Furst Copy Share Image
The suicide bomber who blows up Israeli children cannot transform himself into a martyr. The Palestinian problem is not an Islamic problem. — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
![“Muqtada belongs to the most famous religious family in Iraq, which is the al-Sadr family. He's really the third in line. [Muqtada's father] drew his power from the first really important al-Sadr, Muhammad Baqir, who was executed by Saddam in 1980, together with his sister. So it's really a family…” quote by Patrick Cockburn](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/e65/patrick-cockburn-28053_als_muqtada-belongs-to-the-most-famous-relig_1789273.jpg)
