Virtue is but heroic bravery, to do the thing thought to be true, in spite of all enemies of flesh or spirit,… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
I'm not great at fear. I made the least frightening vampire show ever on TV. I'm pretty much good at heroic narratives… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
One of the rules I try to follow is that normal people are going to be involved even in heroic events — David Brin Copy Share Image
Keep out of this," Lucian said. "I'm not smiting anybody." "You're showing mercy." Catch-a-Tick nodded. "That's heroic, too. But not as good… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
“People become followers of the God because of his fear, but they become a fan of a hero because of his work.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“In some significant aspects, heroes are born, not made. Heroic qualities flow through a person's veins like an undercurrent, ready to be… — Mo Yan Copy Share Image
I salute all the nations of the Arab Spring and I salute the heroic people of Syria who are striving for freedom,… — Ismail Haniyeh Copy Share Image
True heroism consists in being superior to the ills of life, in whatever shape they may challenge us to combat. — Napoleon Bonaparte 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
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
I feel like I'll be defined more so by ... when I get a chance to play roles where I'm the father/husband.… — Michael Jai White 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
I have a lot of spiritual books that I read that I really, really love - everything from the Bible to Joseph… — Viola Davis 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
I suppose all fictional characters, especially in adventure or heroic fiction, at the end of the day are our dreams about ourselves.… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
The script of 'Shaapit' was such that the leading man couldn't be shown indulging into anything heroic. — Vikram Bhatt Copy Share Image
In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to continue to be heroic days. — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
I like writing about women, weak and strong, pathetic and heroic. I like writing about men, ditto. And all the variants of… — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of magnanimity and greatness of soul that… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
“What a great thing, to be loved! What a greater thing still, to love! The heart becomes heroic though passion…if no one… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Yet only the atrocities of the conquered are referred to as criminal acts; those of the conqueror are justified as necessary, heroic,… — Jim Fergus Copy Share Image
The real test of compassion is not what we say in abstract discussions but how we conduct ourselves in daily life. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Of all man's inborn dispositions there is none more heroic than the love in him. Everything else accepts defeat and dies, but… — Laurens van der Post Copy Share Image
There are so many stories about boys becoming heroes, learning their powers and becoming incredibly heroic. There have to be those stories… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
If you want to be heroic, Don't emulate your heroes, learn from them. Heroes don't follow anyone, they set their own course. — Jonathan Lockwood Huie Copy Share Image
As well as tasting fantastic, blackberries are good for you. Anthocyanin isn't just a pigment, it's a flavonoid, a heroic antioxidant! The… — Alice Roberts Copy Share Image
“Yeah, who's this Leo guy anyway?" "How would he even know where we are? He's not a problem." "False: I'm Leo, and… — Hazel Blackthorn Copy Share Image
“She and Lisa always called that kind of snow heroic, because a person could do no wrong in it. Everyone skied like… — Kaya McLaren Copy Share Image
In such misfortunes my Mother was of an heroic spirit, in suffering patiently when there was no remedy, and being industrious where… — Margaret Cavendish Copy Share Image
A heroic moral victory for the New York Mets. It may be the only kind of victory we're achieving this season, but… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Architecture is the alphabet of giants; it is the largest set of symbols ever made to meet the eyes of men. A… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I don't understand why women get upset when you compare them to one of the monkeys from Planet of the Apes, even… — David James Copy Share Image
In the action business, when you don't want to say you ran like a mouse, you call it 'taking cover.' It's more… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Sam’s probably out there somewhere being his usual heroic self,” Caine said. “I can’t let that boy save the world all alone.… — Michael Grant Copy Share Image
The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone! — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
You are brave, kicking a chained prisoner. They must sing heroic ballads about you on winter nights!" (Alanna) — Tamora Pierce Copy Share Image
