We bear, all of us, the misfortunes of other people with heroic constancy. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The tragic sense of life: our heroic acceptance of the suffering of others. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
In a truly heroic life there is no peradventure. It is always doing or dying. — Roswell Dwight Hitchcock Copy Share Image
The Dance instills in you something that sets you apart. Something heroic and remote. — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
In Puritan thinking, the Christian life was a heroic venture, requiring a full quota of energy. — Leland Ryken Copy Share Image
Give me a character that has an heroic quality, and I'll go there. — Richard Armitage Copy Share Image
I like books that expose me to people unlike me and books that do battle against caricature or simplification. That, to me,… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I've not seen in my lifetime any politician who is a heroic figure. The manipulation that all politicians use on one level… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
This obsession with leadership... It's not neutral; it's American, this idea of the heroic leader who comes in on a white horse… — Henry Mintzberg Copy Share Image
I've always thought like I'm really a 3-feet-high comic trapped in a leading man's body... but then I played Nicholas Nickleby, and… — Roger Rees Copy Share Image
My stepfather stepped in where no man would've stepped in - six kids, five of them boys - and that's heroic. — Tim Allen Copy Share Image
“There are indeed no dead heroes or heroines; for they are still breathing through their undying legacies.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
How much we forgive to those who yield us the rare spectacle of heroic manners! We will pardon them the want of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I was never able to write seriously about heroes because I was very aware that I was not one and that in… — Robert Sheckley Copy Share Image
Not everything that is good make everyone happy. A heroic act may be considered as an act of a villain by others.… — Frank Matobo Copy Share Image
We believe that business is good because it creates value. It is ethical because it is based on voluntary exchange; it is… — John Mackey Copy Share Image
There is a power in love to divine another's destiny better than that other can, and by heroic encouragements, hold him to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
She tried to open the bottle, but the top slipped through her fingers without moving. He took the bottle from her hand… — Paolo Giordano Copy Share Image
You know, it shouldn't just be about women as heroic figures overcoming things, it just needs to be about women in general… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
No other agency is scrutinized like the police. Everything we do is in a goldfish bowl. We are not the most popular… — Raymond Kelly Copy Share Image
In South America, I heard the 8th Symphony of Beethoven. And the young conductor thought, Beethoven must be heroic. But this is… — Kurt Masur Copy Share Image
The ideal of having a real job that you risk your soul in and make good or be damned, belongs to the… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
It is in the name of Jesus, himself become God, that fanaticism ignominiously condemned to the stake men like Giodano Bruno, Vanini,… — Camille Flammarion Copy Share Image
Mythology is the study of whatever religious or heroic legends are so foreign to a student's experience that he cannot believe them… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
I'd have a stable full of Arabian steeds, rooms piled with books, and I'd write out of a magic inkstand, so that… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
... In contrast to the "banality of evil," which posits that ordinary people can be responsible for the most despicable acts of… — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
At Wal-Mart, a co-worker once advised me that, although I had a lot to learn, it was also important not to "know… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
“Compare King William with the philosopher Haeckel. The king is one of the anointed by the most high, as they claim—one upon… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Nobody can deny that we have a lot of wars going on; brothers killing brothers; we have a lot of diseases and… — Ousmane Sembene Copy Share Image
Theresa Rebeck's writing is so scarily funny. I just love how unapologetic she is with her writing: she doesn't try to make… — Lily Rabe Copy Share Image
