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Maximus Decimus Meridius4 quotes
Are you not entertained? — Maximus Decimus Meridius · 2000Brothers, what we do in life...echoes in eternity. — Maximus Decimus Meridius · 2000Death smiles at us all. All a man can do is smile back. — Maximus Decimus Meridius · 2000Whatever comes out of these gates, we've got a better chance of survival if we work together. Do you understand? If we stay together, we survive. — Maximus Decimus Meridius · 2000William Wallace3 quotes
Every man dies, not every man really lives. — William Wallace · 1995Aye, fight and you may die. Run, and you'll live... at least a while. And dying in your beds, many years from now, would you be willing to trade all the days, from this day to that, for one chance, just one chance, to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives, but they'll never take...our freedom! — William Wallace · 1995We all end up dead, it's just a question of how and why. — William Wallace · 1995Eric Liddell2 quotes
Jenny, I believe God made me for a purpose, but he also made me fast and when I run I feel His pleasure. — Eric Liddell · 1981Everyone runs in her own way, or his own way and where does the power come from, to see the race to its end? From within. — Eric Liddell · 1981Malcom Wallace2 quotes
Your heart is free. Have the courage to follow it. — Malcom Wallace · 1995It's our wits that make us men. — Malcom Wallace · 1995Solomon Northup2 quotes
My back is thick with scars for protesting my freedom. — Solomon Northup · 2013I don't want to survive. I want to live. — Solomon Northup · 2013Spartacus2 quotes
All men lose when they die and all men die. But a slave and a free man lose different things. — Spartacus · 1960Death is the only freedom a slave knows. That's why he's not afraid of it. — Spartacus · 1960Abraham Lincoln1 quote
A compass, I learnt when I was surveying, it'll...it'll point you True North from where you're standing, but it's got no advice about the swamps and desert and chasm that you'll encounter along the way. If in pursuit of your destination, you plunge ahead, heedless of obstacles, and achieve nothing more than to sink in a swamp...what's the use of knowing True North? — Abraham Lincoln · 2012Cicero1 quote
Sometimes I do what I want to do. The rest of the time, I do what I have to. — Cicero · 2000Dr. Nicholas Garrigan1 quote
If you're afraid of dying, shows you have a life worth keeping. — Dr. Nicholas Garrigan · 2006Gracchus (Gladiator)1 quote
The beating heart of Rome is not the marble of the Senate, it's the sand of the Coliseum. He'll bring them death—and they will love him for it. — Gracchus (Gladiator) · 2000Gracchus (Spartacus)1 quote
Privately I believe in none of them. Neither do you. Publicly I believe in them all. — Gracchus (Spartacus) · 1960Itzhak Stern1 quote
Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire. — Itzhak Stern · 1993King George VI1 quote
There may be dark days ahead, and war can no longer be confined to the battlefield, but we can only do the right as we see the right, and reverently commit our cause to God. If one and all, we keep resolutely faithful to it, then, with God's help, we shall prevail. — King George VI · 2010Lawrence1 quote
There may be honor among thieves, but there's none in politicians. — Lawrence · 1962Lionel Logue1 quote
Long pauses are good, they add solemnity to great occasions. — Lionel Logue · 2010Marcus Aurelius1 quote
When a man sees his end, he wants to know there was some purpose to his life. — Marcus Aurelius · 2000Messala1 quote
By condemning without hesitation an old friend, I shall be feared. — Messala · 1959Minny Jackson1 quote
Fried chicken just tend to make you feel better about life. — Minny Jackson · 2011Oskar Schindler1 quote
Power is when we have every justification to kill, and we don't. — Oskar Schindler · 1993Quintus Arrius1 quote
Your eyes are full of hate, forty-one. That's good. Hate keeps a man alive. It gives him strength. — Quintus Arrius · 1959Sextus1 quote
You can break a man's skull, you can arrest him, you can throw him into a dungeon. But how do you control what's up here? How do you fight an idea? — Sextus · 1959Stanley Baldwin1 quote
I'm very much afraid, sir, that your greatest test is yet to come. — Stanley Baldwin · 2010