I think we are drawn to anti-heroes because that is what most of us are most of the time and it is… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
An epic is not made by piecing together a set of heroic lays, adjusting their discrepancies and making them into a continuous… — Lascelles Abercrombie Copy Share Image
Women who have successfully run that gantlet to get the care they needed or wanted are heroic. But it's clear they should… — Jonathan Capehart Copy Share Image
I think of few heroic actions, which cannot be traced to the artistical impulse. He who does great deeds, does them from… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
I answer the heroic question, 'Death, where is thy sting?' with 'It is in my heart and mind and memories. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
For church planters, the motivation is not about the romantic or heroic venture ... it is because you realize you can't not… — Dan Kimball Copy Share Image
What makes one heroic? - Going out to meet at the same time one's highest suffering and one's highest hope. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the… — C.P. Snow Copy Share Image
It is heroic to prepare for war with a tyrant power. Patriots will always win the admiration of mankind for daring to… — John Boyle O'Reilly Copy Share Image
Somehow super power and hero are so synonymous that they get combined into one word, 'superhero,' whereas I'm kind of more interested… — Doug Liman Copy Share Image
We could say that compassion is the ultimate attitude of wealth: an anti-poverty attitude, a war on want. It contains all sorts… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
You can raise good children in single parent households, and many of you perhaps here today come from that type of environment.… — Sam Brownback Copy Share Image
Im all about entertaining and keeping a reader on the edge of their seat, so to me, the social issues have to… — Andrew Gross Copy Share Image
“For most of the universe's inhabitants, life is not all gummy wads and tarty tarts; is a struggle against hardship, unfairness, corruption,… — Frank Beddor 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
Without order or authority in the spirit of man the free way of life leads through weakness, disorganization, self-indulgence, and moral indifference… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Go back to the '30s, '40s, '50s, and it was the discovery of heroic interventions, the ability to cure people with penicillin… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
“I seem to remember only centuries of heroic war, in which you were always heroes--epic on epic, Iliad on Iliad, and you… — G. K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Having music in the schools, having art in the schools, having art in your life, should not be heroic. It should be… — David Lang Copy Share Image
Most of our platitudes notwithstanding, self-deception remains the most difficult deception. The tricks that work on others count for nothing in that… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Let us teach our people again to be proud that they are Filipinos. Let us teach them to realize anew that being… — Carlos P. Romulo Copy Share Image
But there are still only certain film genres where a woman can stand out, be heroic, be the centerpiece. — Sarah Michelle Gellar Copy Share Image
I like the tradition of ordinary men in extraordinary circumstances and how they react to events which force them to be heroic… — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
We must be prepared to make the same heroic sacrifices for the cause of peace that we make ungrudgingly for the cause… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Of all of men's inborn dispositions there is none more heroic than love. Love will fight no-love every inch of the way. — Laurens van der Post Copy Share Image
It is impossible to strive for the heroic life. The title of hero is bestowed by the survivors upon the fallen, who… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
“The mark of the true hero is that the most heroic of his deeds is done in secret. We never hear of… — Erika Johansen Copy Share Image
No where else in Christianity does the terrible or heroic name of Armageddon play such role as in America. Not even in… — Jürgen Moltmann Copy Share Image
“I’d scale the tallest tree, just to surreptitiously watch you sunbathe naked. So the real question is, does that make me romantic—or… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
The quality of films out there depends on how much responsibility we're willing to take. I try to play women who are… — Cheryl Ladd Copy Share Image
“To be heroic does not have to mean possessing the ability to stand against the evils of the world, either well or… — Mike Alsford Copy Share Image
The Japanese covet important symbols - their heroic past as enshrined in Yasukuni, the Imperial family which has never been sullied by… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
I think that the romantic impulse is in all of us and that sometimes we live it for a short time, but… — Jane Campion Copy Share Image
“The most fulfilling romance is an heroic relationship with yourself. You live and die by your own imagination.” — Dean Cavanagh Copy Share Image
In this watering-place I acted an heroic character, badly studied; and being a novice on such a stage, I forgot my part… — Adelbert von Chamisso Copy Share Image
“I want to do something splendid...something heroic or wonderful that won't be forgotten after I'm dead. I don't know what, but I'm… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
As polishing expresses the vein in marble, and grain in wood, so music brings out what of heroic lurks anywhere. The hero… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In our age, self-indulgence and self-destruction, rather than self-sacrifice, are the foundations for new heroic myths. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
But despite their heroic acts, the Vietnam Veterans of America continued to struggle to establish a combat badge in honor of these… — Tim Holden Copy Share Image
