Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
Bertolt Brecht
If you don’t stand for something you will fall for anything.
Malcolm X
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible and achieves the impossible.
Charles Caleb Colton
Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
You are not what you were born, but what you have it in yourself to be.
Kingdom of Heaven (2005)
The fight isn’t over until you’ve won it.
Winners always want the ball.
The Replacements
As we grow older, it’s not the things we did that we often regret, but the things we didn’t do.
Josh: Tell me democracy doesn’t have a sense of humor. We sit here, we drink this beer out here on the stoop, in violation of about 47 city ordinances. I don’t know, Toby, it’s election night. What do you say about a government that goes out of its way to protect even citizens that try to destroy it?
Toby: God bless America.
The Midterms, The West Wing
And if I ever needed proof of how the Dark Side have taken the beautiful dream of what a nation could be and had twisted it, destroyed it. Well, that was it.
But I won’t stop.
I won’t give up.
Because when I look at what is happening in the world, I know that now, more than ever, we need to be all that we can be. Now, more than ever, we need the Jedi.
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.
I wish I could say something classy and inspirational, but that just wouldn’t be our style. Pain heals, chicks dig scars, glory lasts forever.
Shane Falco, The Replacements
Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.
Vaclav Havel
