On my license, it says I'm an organ donor, but the truth is I'd consider being an organ martyr. I'm sure I'm… — Jodi Picoult 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
He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool;… — Charles Caleb Colton 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
Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you don't know when it's through if you are a crook… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
We must acknowledge that for scores of years the Iraqis have offered martyrs and victims but have not been able to change… — Jalal Talabani Copy Share Image
Some leaders of denominations are not of the Bride of Christ. They are leaders in a Church in which many have long… — Richard Wurmbrand Copy Share Image
The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
Beyond all the other reasons not to do it, free speech assaults always backfire: they transform bigots into martyrs. — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
When we read, we fancy we could be martyrs; when we come to act, we cannot bear a provoking word. — Hannah More Copy Share Image
The Roman Catholic Church, had it captured me, as it nearly did, would have sent me on some mission of danger and… — Annie Besant 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
What do you think spies are: priests, saints and martyrs? They're a squalid procession of vain fools, traitors too, yes; pansies, sadists… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
“Ashlei was free to spout off how much she loved her savior because Jesus was not about to rear back and tell… — Thomm Quackenbush Copy Share Image
“I am startled by how resistant people are to doing anything nice or nurturing for themselves, especially women. They fear being selfish.… — Annette Vaillancourt 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
If, as we have said, we commemorate each of the saints with hymns and appropriate songs of praise, how much more should… — Gregory Palamas Copy Share Image
MARTYR, One who moves along the line of least reluctance to a desired death. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Beyond the earliest days of the religion, early Christians were believers because they'd been converted, not because they were witnesses to supernatural… — Robert B. Seidensticker Copy Share Image
Heroes who shed their blood and lost their lives! You are now lying in the soil of a friendly country. Therefore rest… — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk Copy Share Image
A thorough: miser must possess considerable strength of character to bear the self-denial imposed by his penuriousness. Equal sacrifices, endured voluntarily in… — William Benton Clulow Copy Share Image
He had by now divested himself of schoolboy attitudes. He was unburdened by the desire to be a martyr or a hero.… — Roland Huntford Copy Share Image
