The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness. Where we find a heroic life appearing as the… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
The heroic soul does not sell its justice and its nobleness. It does not ask to dine nicely and to sleep warm.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
My own heroes are the dreamers, those men and women who tried to make the world a better place than when they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Am I willing to give up what I have in order to be what I am not yet? Am I willing to… — Mary Caroline Richards Copy Share Image
You see tragedy requires persons of heroic stature. It works on the principle of people being more than humansuper-humanand also being only… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Most of all, I love Manchester. The crumbling warehouses, the railway arches, the cheap abundant drugs. That's what did it in the… — Tony Wilson Copy Share Image
America’s founding ideal was the principle of individual rights. Nothing more-and nothing less. The rest-everything that America achieved, everything she became, everything… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Delicate, gracious, and eloquent, John Brandi's poems reveal that he remains an extraordinary profound poet of prayer and praise. His is the… — David St. John Copy Share Image
This visit is meant to express my closeness to our brothers and sisters who endured the suffering, loss and devastation caused by… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Let children have tales of the imagination, scenes laid in other lands and other times; heroic adventures, hairbreadth escapes, delicious fairy tales,… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
Though much is taken, much abides; and though We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven,… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
She has a choice. She can either accept a life of misery or she can struggle against it. And she chooses to… — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
I'm always interested in getting to know people, and that means vilified people as much as those celebrated. You find out that… — Dustin Lance Black Copy Share Image
The root of humanly caused evil is not man's animal nature, not territorial aggression, or innate selfishness, but our need to gain… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
The breakage and agony rending us today will be our salvation if they drive us by new routes to meet it. No… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
One of the differences between now and then is that the idea of body image is a much bigger issue now. Back… — Ben Affleck Copy Share Image
Perhaps this is what we mean by sanity: that, whatever our self-admitted eccentricities might be, we are not the villains of our… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
Our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit and go out into a sometimes hostile world declaring… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I have to confess that I had gambled on my soul and lost it with heroic insouciance and lightness of touch. The… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
A rational process is a moral process. You may make an error at any step of it, with nothing to protect you… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
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It's important to be heroic, ambitious, productive, efficient, creative, and progressive, but these qualities don't necessarily nurture soul. The soul has different… — Thomas Moore Copy Share Image
When I wrote War Against the Mafia as a Vietnam statement, I didn't expect much to come of it-but quite a bit… — Don Pendleton Copy Share Image
If thou workest at that which is before thee ... expecting nothing, fearing nothing, but satisfied with thy present activity according to… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The other terror that scares us from self-trust is our consistency; a reverence for our past act or word, because the eyes… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I lived a dream life (almost too exclusively, perhaps) when I was a lad and even now my thought goes back for… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
This fair homestead has fallen to us, and how little have we done to improve it, how little have we cleared and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Indeed, the idea that doubt can be heroic, if it is locked into a structure as grand as that of the paintings… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
Is it absurd to imagine that our social behavior, from amoeba to man, is also planned and dictated, from stored Information, by… — Albert Claude Copy Share Image
In commemoration of the fact that France was our ally in securing independence the citizens of that nation joined with the citizens… — William Jennings Bryan Copy Share Image
To me, it feels like 'The Doctor' has to have a long coat, and that's something imprinted on me from childhood, because… — David Tennant Copy Share Image
The news of the open military help to Franco from Hitler and Mussolini, and the heroic resistance of the people of Madrid,… — Bill Alexander Copy Share Image
“Who is better off? The one who writes to revel in the voluptuousness of the life that surrounds them? Or the one… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
But why,... if you have a serious comment to make on the real life of men, must you do it by talking… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The United States and the freedom for which it stands, the freedom for which they died, must endure and prosper. Their lives… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The majority of people are ready to throw their aims and purposes overboard, and give up at the first sign of opposition… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
[About the great synthesis of atomic physics in the 1920s:] It was a heroic time. It was not the doing of any… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
When I was younger, not being accepted made me enraged, but now, I am not inclined to dismantle my history. If you… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
The so-called Christian virtues of humility, love, charity, personal freedom, the strong prohibitions against violence, murder, stealing, lying, cruelty-all these are washed… — John T. Flynn Copy Share Image
“I'm not ashamed of heroic ambitions. If man and woman can only dance upon this earth for a few countable turns of… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
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