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
“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
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
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
Geography was not furthered by the achievement, scientific progress was scarcely hastened, and nothing new was discovered. Yet the names of Hillary… — Edmund Hillary Copy Share Image
I'm not saying this in a condescending kind of way, but it's quite simple: The making of America was a heroic thing.… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
Remarkable. . . . Moskos manages to capture a world that most people know only through the distorting prism of television and… — Daniel Horan Copy Share Image
The really heroic thing about Nick Hornby is that he lives in north London and rarely leaves it... Every English writer needs… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Hakomi is a path taken by those who work to go beyond the half remembered hurts and failed beliefs that linger unexamined… — Ron Kurtz Copy Share Image
As Charles Lamb says, there is nothing so nice as doing good by stealth and being found out by accident, so I… — William James Copy Share Image
Whoever is fortunate enough to be an American citizen came into the greatest inheritance man has ever enjoyed. He has had the… — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
Without the heroic, man has no meaning; without the economic, he has no sense. Economic man is most likely to be economic… — Kenneth E. Boulding 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
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
“A lot of the younger people think you're downright heroic." "Oh, good," I say, a sour taste in my mouth. "Heroism is… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Surely tis by faith we are upheld thro such trials-justice will be meted in time to those who fill soft places and… — Elizabeth Blair Lee 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
All good American literature is always interested in people who are ambiguously heroic, like Gatsby. — John Green 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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
“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
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
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
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
The script of 'Shaapit' was such that the leading man couldn't be shown indulging into anything heroic. — Vikram Bhatt Copy Share Image
