Men are bad cyclists, hunters of wild animals, kamikazes, samurai and Christian martyrs.
Dead anarchists make martyrs, you know, and keep living for centuries. But absent ones can be forgotten.
Saints and martyrs had never interested Maggie so much as sages and poets.
I'm fighting so I can die a martyr and go to heaven to meet God. Our fight now is against the Americans.
Beyond all the other reasons not to do it, free speech assaults always backfire: they transform bigots into martyrs.
Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr, the man who will not act until he knows all will never act at all.
Joe Gould: Jesus H. Christ! Jesus Mary and Joseph! All the saints and martyrs and Jesus! Did I mention Jesus?
Norfolk: So cut off my head, and make me a martyr. The people will always remember it. Walsingham: No... they will forget.
It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk; get drunk without stopping! On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.
I nursed men back to sanity who were driven to despair. I solicited clothes for the ragged children, for the desperate mothers. I laid out the dead, the martyrs of the strike.
Playing the martyr doesn’t suit you, Leila.’ ‘Maybe not, but playing the complete and utter bastard clearly suits you.
Come on you target for faraway laughter. Come on you stranger, you legend, you martyr, and shine!
All religions have periods in their history which are looked back to with retrospective fear and trembling as eras of persecution, and each religion has its own book of martyrs.
Martyrs - those killed because of their Catholic faith - can be beatified even if they don't perform a miracle. However, all beatified individuals must stage a certifiable miracle before being made a saint.
The heart was always seen as the noblest of the internal organs as well as the most vital. The hearts of martyrs or future candidates for sainthood would be preserved, but never their livers, say, or the entrails - at least not on their own; it was e...
The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.
The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster.
People genuinely happy in their choices seem less often tempted to force them on other people than those who feel martyred and broken by their lives.
I think that directing is the ultimate martyred task of filmmaking, that it has nobility to it. It takes three years to make a film, for the most part. I think it requires the attentiveness of a mother hen.
Damien: Micheail was killed because he wouldn't say his name in English. That what you call a martyr, is it, Teddy?
Death is only dreadful for those who live in dread and fear of it. Death is not wild and terrible, if only we can be still and hold fast to God’s Word. Death is not bitter, if we have not become bitter ourselves. Death is grace, the greatest gift o...
