Heroic dreams are the consolation of the unhappy. After all, when people like us say we're being heroic, it usually means we're… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
In my fantasies, I was always caught up in heroic struggles, and I saw myself saving lives, sacrificing myself for others. I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My characters are never heroic. They are mostly lost and trying to find the right door to open and they end up… — Gaspar Noe Copy Share Image
Revival comes from heaven when heroic souls enter the conflict determined to win or die - or if need be, to win… — Charles Grandison Finney Copy Share Image
The whole earth is the tomb of heroic men and their story is not given only on stone over their clay but… — Pericles Copy Share Image
We've made some heroic efforts, but the Earth as a whole is in worse shape today than 30 years ago, ... There's… — Denis Hayes Copy Share Image
Those Victorians: endlessly fascinating, broad in their learning, heroic in their achievements, in parts completely mad. — Simon Heffer Copy Share Image
The emotions - love, mirth, the heroic, wonder, tranquility, fear, anger, sorrow, disgust - are in the audience. — John Cage Copy Share Image
I am indeed willing to acknowledge what I have done, an error and presumption. I will call it an error and presumption… — Deborah Sampson Copy Share Image
Tragedy enlightens - and it must, in that it points the heroic finger at the enemy of man's freedom. The thrust for… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
August [Wilson] elevates in us is the average man in a way that is heroic and real and human. What you do… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
On that day, we couldn't reach the conclusion whose hero is the strongest. And today when we are 41 years old, we… — Kim Do-Jin Copy Share Image
Recovering alcoholic guys wake up in the morning, and they have to think of a reason to get up, and then, once… — Liam Neeson Copy Share Image
All progress in literary style lies in the heroic resolve to cast aside accretions and exuberances, all the conventions of a past… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
I think the world is ready for people of color to take on more heroic and leading roles, and not always be… — Jessica Alba Copy Share Image
“To be heroic may mean nothing more than this then, to stand in the face of the status quo, in the face… — Mike Alsford Copy Share Image
Liberty without discipline cannot survive. Without order and authority in the spirit of man the free way of life leads through weakness,… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
“here’s the thing about being a hero: Only a few ever make it into the history books. Every day, people do heroic… — Yasmine Galenorn Copy Share Image
He says he had to go help someone in a desperate situation. Who, exactly, he refuses to say. He doesn’t know when… — Katie MacAlister Copy Share Image
Character cannot be summoned at the moment of crisis if it has been squandered by years of compromise and rationalization. The only… — Dan Coats Copy Share Image
Of course, both [Oscar] Wilde & [Vladimir] Nabokov believe in many things, and these things emerge in their writing clearly - for… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in embarrassing the United States. We as a nation need to foster a broader understanding of national security, and… — Ryan Shapiro Copy Share Image
Are you the new person drawn toward me? To begin with, take warning - I am surely far different from what you… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
exile is strangely compelling to think about but terrible to experience. It is the unhealable rift forced between a human being and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We must love men more than things, and I admire and weep more for the soldiers than for the churches which were… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue. Every natural action is graceful; every heroic act is also decent, and causes the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We honor our heroic and patriotic dead by being true men, as true men by faithfully fighting the battles of our day… — David McMurtrie Gregg Copy Share Image
A thirsty ambition for truth and virtue, and a frenzy to conquer all lies and vices which are not recognized as such… — Johann Georg Hamann Copy Share Image
An artist's fine goal is to manifest a well-nigh heroic self-discipline, carefully attending to all that concerns him. — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
Because it is a radical act of freedom, creative achievement is a heroic process that requires, in all its permutations, specific strengths… — Robert Grudin Copy Share Image
Man's natural and inevitable urge to deny mortality and achieve a heroic self-image are the root causes of human evil. — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
A lack of common sense usually ends in some heroic feat, much like the soldier who dives onto the grenade so that… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Bad guys are complicated characters. It's always fun to play them. You get away with a lot more. You don't have a… — Peter Dinklage Copy Share Image
“I would have to call a cab. It wasn't the most heroic way to ride to the rescue, but walkers can't be… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Love doesn't mean doing extraordinary or heroic things. It means knowing how to do ordinary things with tenderness. — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
the highest point a man can attain is not Knowledge, or Virtue, or Goodness, or Victory, but something even greater, more heroic… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the most important thing is knowing when to quit. Sometimes being heroic is knowing when to say enough is enough.” — Nina Riggs Copy Share Image
“My friends wanted their names in the list of employees of some company, well I wanted my name in the list of… — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
That's what heroic stories do for us. They show us the way. They remind us of the good we are capable of. — Sam Raimi Copy Share Image
There's nothing heroic about suicide bombers. They're mostly just dumb, brainwashed kids, stoned out of their minds. — Marcus Luttrell Copy Share Image
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