You may ask why I write. And yet my reasons are quite many. For it is not unusual in human beings who have witnessed the sack of a city or the falling to pieces of a people to desire to set down what they have witnesses for the benefit of unknown hei...
Rocket Raccoon: But Quill, beating Ronan... it can't be done. You're asking us to die. Peter Quill: Yeah... I guess I am. [pause] Gamora: [stands up] Quill, I have lived most of my life surrounded my enemies. I will be grateful to die among my friend...
It is easier to stand in front of a bullet than it is to stand up to the world.
A nation that does not stand for its children does not stand for anything and will not stand tall in the future.
I don't stand for the black man's side, I don' t stand for the white man's side. I stand for God's side.
I don't like doing stand-up, because I don't like standing up.
I don't stand for black man's side, I don't stand for white man's side, I stand for God's side.
If you don't make a stand for something you'll never make a stand for nothing..
For a lot of people, Superman is and has always been America's hero. He stands for what we believe is the best within us: limitless strength tempered by compassion, that can bear adversity and emerge stronger on the other side. He stands for what we ...
Who would not give up wit for power and beauty?
The more wit the less courage.
Impropriety is the soul of wit.
A writer's work is to witness things.
I want to stand for something, and it's probably going to be something that some people stand against.
Always stand up for what you believe in…even if it means standing alone.
Krebs, who knew some Russian and at one stage in his career had been embraced by Stalin, was "a smooth, surviving type." And so, with almost incredible effrontery, he tried to talk to Chuikov as an equal, opening the conversation with the general com...
[first lines] [two figures visible on the horizon prepare to duel. Three witnesses stand between them] Second: Gentlemen, cock your pistols! Gentlemen... Narrator: Barry's father... Second: ...aim your pistols! Narrator: ...had been bred, like many o...
Initially, the purveyors of racism need no more than the silent acquiescence of the public ... [I]t is never too soon to confront bigotry and racism whenever, wherever, and in whatever form it raises its ugly head. It is incumbent upon all people to ...
I want to make a splash in the world, and I want to make one with my dry wit. My dry wit is wetter than you’d imagine.
And it was not merely tens of thousands, or hundreds of thousands, but hundreds of millions of people who were the obedient witnesses of this slaughter of the innocent. Nor were they merely obedient witnesses: when ordered to, they gave their support...
The fatigue I've gathered year after year and stored inside now heaves a muted cry of helplessness. Nothing but fatigue, rounding my shoulders, heavier than ever on this late autumn day with a useless sun, a world of unforgiving disasters. So many st...
