If your descent is from heroic sires, Show in your life a remnant of their fires. — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Copy Share Image
I think people respond to villains because people in general are more villainous than heroic. — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
Heroic deeds, to use whatever dower Heaven has bestowed, to test our utmost power. — Sarah Knowles Bolton Copy Share Image
The myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Live in robust sanity, in holy obedience to the ordinary." (The Message) "In an insane asylum like the world, simple sanity can… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
People think me a sort of Florence Nightingale, but I have no heroic qualities. I simply don’t feel very much. — Franny Billingsley Copy Share Image
There's a heroic amount of effort that goes into making him [Doctor Strange] a superhero by the end of the film. — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
The function of (heroic) symbols is to give you a sense of Aha! Yes, I know what it is, it's myself. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
He would still see it as his duty to shut up and get on with it, not cause any trouble. In our… — Eddie Campbell Copy Share Image
He wanted to appear suddenly to her in novel and heroic colors. He wanted to stir her from that casualness she showed… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I was once invited to take part in a heroic, possibly fatal enterprise, but I declined, mainly on account of sloth. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
A Quest of any kind is a heroic journey. It is a rite of passage that carries you to an inner place… — Denise Linn Copy Share Image
There's a book that I read, really a great book - it's called 'Lone Survivor' and I think they're trying to make… — Jared Padalecki Copy Share Image
For every bourgeois, in the heat of youth, if only for a day, for a minute, has believed himself capable of immense… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Without doing injustice to the living, it may safely be asserted that our loss is irreparable; and that among the shining hosts… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
If God does not enter your kitchen, there is something wrong with your kitchen. If you can't take God into your recreation,… — Peter Marshall Copy Share Image
There are two types of courage involved with what I did. When it comes to picking up a rifle, millions of people… — Daniel Ellsberg Copy Share Image
Nor is there wanting in the press Some spirit to stand simply forth, Heroic in it nakedness, Against the uttermost of earth.… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
Enthusiasm springs from the imagination, and self-sacrifice from the heart. Women are, therefore, more naturally heroic than men. All nations have in… — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
Conflict is the microscope of a book. When it's trained on a character, you see what's underneath the narratives of physical description.… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
The conquest of the fear of death is the recovery of life's joy. One can experience an unconditional affirmation of life only… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
At Waco, was there really an urgency to get those people out of the compound at that particular time? Was the press… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
What we accomplished during World War Two is just amazing. We turned our country upside down. African Americans were demanding to be… — Margaret D. Klein Copy Share Image
Chantal's only ruse ... was her shattering simplicity. While a weak man or an imposter is always more complicated than the problem… — Georges Bernanos Copy Share Image
Climbing is a heroic liberating act; and height spontaneously symbolizes things of high value, be it in the value of worldly power… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
As agonizing a disease as cancer is, I do not think it can be said that our civilization is threatened by it.… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
There came to him an image of man’s whole life upon the earth. It seemed to him that all man’s life was… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
tragedy in the theater opens our eyes so that we can discover and appreciate the heroic in reality. — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
People try to typecast astronauts as heroic and superhuman. We're only human beings. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Games are a way of escaping reality - that's why you need heroic factor. — Hideo Kojima Copy Share Image
Plants respond far better to moderate but consistent care than they do to occasional bouts of heroic intervention. — Martha Stewart Copy Share Image
I wanted to do something heroic if I was going to be on TV. And the first thing that appeals to me… — Kevin Bacon Copy Share Image
When I hear a guy lost a battle to cancer, that really did bother me, that that's a term. It implies that… — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image