"His [Gen. Douglas MacArthur's] own heroes were Lincoln and Washington, and in some ways he resembled them."

-- William Manchester

#Hero Quotes #Way Quotes #Heroism Quotes

“Man can now fly in the air like a bird, swim under the ocean like a fish, he can burrow into the ground like a mole. Now if only he could walk the earth like a man, this would be paradise.”
“Integrity is the lifeblood of democracy. Deceit is a poison in its veins.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I never considered myself an Americana artist, but I'm a huge fan of old-time music from the States, the recordings that were made in the '20s and '30s. Trying to chase down the exact stylistic trappings of that stuff always felt like a dead end. That spirit of directness and economy, but also the poetic pungency of the writing and almost ugly, or raw, performance - all that seemed like the real message. I've just tried to somehow stay true to that feeling.”
“Life does not end when we die. Death is a rebirth into a spirit world of light and love, a transition from the physical to the spiritual that is no more frightening or painful than passing between rooms through an open doorway. It is a joyful homecoming to our natural home, . . .”

Source : Betty J. Eadie (1997). “The Awakening Heart: My Continuing Journey to Love”, p.11, Simon and Schuster
“We may faint and we may sink Feel the pain and near the brink But the dark begins to shrink When you find the one who knows”

Source : Song: He Knows, Album: I Will Follow, 2015
“A leader has to be one of two things: he either has to be a brilliant visionary himself, a truly creative strategist, in which case he can do what he likes and get away with it; or else he has to be a true empowerer who can bring out the best in others.”
“Think about the strangeness of today's situation. Thirty, forty years ago, we were still debating about what the future will be: communist, fascist, capitalist, whatever. Today, nobody even debates these issues. We all silently accept global capitalism is here to stay. On the other hand, we are obsessed with cosmic catastrophes: the whole life on earth disintegrating, because of some virus, because of an asteroid hitting the earth, and so on. So the paradox is, that it's much easier to imagine the end of all life on earth than a much more modest radical change in capitalism.”

Source : "Mapping Ideology" by Slavoj Žižek, p.1, 1994.
“The ending has to fit. The ending has to matter, and make sense. I could care less about whether it's happy or sad or atomic. The ending is the place where you go, â€œAha. Of course. That's right.â€”

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