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
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
There are hundreds of millions who believe the Messiah has come. If he did, then it is unfortunately the case that his… — Steve Allen Copy Share Image
Necessity does everything well. In our condition of universal dependence, it seems heroic to let the petitioner be the judge of his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I had the good fortune and opportunity to come home and to tell the truth; many soldiers, like Pat Tillman… did not… — Jessica Lynch Copy Share Image
Love is never abstract. It does not adhere to the universe or the planet or the nation or the institution or the… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Thanks to the heroic sons and daughters of this country, who have paid sacrifices, we have been able to score a number… — Girma Woldegiorgis Copy Share Image
I did stand-up comedy for 18 years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent refining, and four years… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
We have all the freedoms we want. But what we are missing is red ink: the language to articulate our non-freedom. The… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
“I felt deep within me that the highest point a man can attain is not Knowledge, or Virtue, or Goodness, or Victory,… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
The world can no longer be left to mere diplomats, politicians, and business leaders. They have done the best they could, no… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
Gemmell's name guarantees a satisfying story and a thumping good read. I recommend all his heroic creations - 'Druss the axeman,' 'the… — Neal Asher Copy Share Image
I like reading books about kids where there weren't really many adults, where they didn't need an adult to come and solve… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
The powerful and prominent soar like dragons, the heroic and valiant fight like tigers: but if you look upon them with cool… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
I admire people who re-create themselves. And it seems to me that what gives us all the opportunity to be heroic in… — Robert Crais Copy Share Image
This we must say, that everything is economics and economic interest as mere satisfaction of physical needs had, have and always will… — Julius Evola 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
But nothing is better than a truth which appears not to have the semblance of truth. There is always something incomprehensible about… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
“I’d once again see that bob of blonde hair back on my pillow, that pink hot smile beaming toward me as I… — Tom Conrad Copy Share Image
I just kind of had my own impressions growing up with Hoover as a heroic figure in the 40s - actually the… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
It is a mystery to me how a theologian can be praised for having brought himself to disbelieve dogmas. I've always thought… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
The imperative to develop new technologies and implement them on a heroic scale no longer seems like the childish preoccupation of a… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
Some of the very heroic and colourful figures in our history are sons of Sabaragamuwa - Parakramabahu I, born in Dedigama, the… — Dominicus Corea Copy Share Image
The exercise of patience involves a continual practice of the presence of God, for we may be called upon at any moment… — Frederick William Faber Copy Share Image
When the life of the nation was attempted, when the cause of liberty and human rights called for their aid, they rushed… — Carl Schurz Copy Share Image
We are always in awe of what the donors have done in terms of providing of themselves to the recipients. It really… — John Roberts Copy Share Image
Heroic people take risks to themselves to help others. There's nothing heroic about accepting $5 million to go out and run around… — Gregg Easterbrook Copy Share Image
Our point isn't to make an examination of popular film but to illustrate that the yearning for a heroic adventure lies just… — Alan Hirsch Copy Share Image
The romance genre is the only genre where readers are guaranteed novels that place the heroine at the heart of the story.… — Jayne Ann Krentz Copy Share Image
Decisive inventions and discoveries always are initiated by an intellectual or moral stimulus as their actual motivating force, but, usually, the final… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
Gird up your loins for the task that now lies ahead. I had asked you for men, money and materials. I have… — Subhas Chandra Bose Copy Share Image
Some journeys are direct, and some are circuitous; some are heroic, and some are fearful and muddled. But every journey, honestly undertaken,… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
I have found that you have only to take that one step toward the gods, and they will then take ten steps… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Oh, sir, the loftiest hopes on earth Draw lots with meaner hopes: heroic breasts, Breathing bad air, run risk of pestilence; Or,… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Riddick is an antihero. He's the quintessential antihero. We all know how much I love antiheroes. It takes you 45 minutes in… — Vin Diesel Copy Share Image
One hears of the mechanical equivalent of heat. What we now need to discover in the social realm is the moral equivalent… — William James Copy Share Image
In a nation of celebrity worshipers, amid followers of the cult of personality, individual modesty becomes a heroic quality. I find heroism… — Shana Alexander Copy Share Image
Are they dead that yet speak louder than we can speak, and a more universal language? Are they dead that yet act?… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I think it is the hardest thing in the world. I'm endlessly intrigued by what human nature is capable of, both the… — Veena Sud Copy Share Image
