“Where once we aspired to be more like our heroes, today we try to make our heroes more like us.” — James Rozoff Copy Share Image
Heroes are heroes because they are heroic in behavior, not because they won or lost. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Believe me, 'tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue. — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
I don't really think of Odo as a heroic lead, but that's nice if you do. — Rene Auberjonois Copy Share Image
“Virtue is a system and men do heroic acts as part of the day's work and without self-consciousness.” — Charles H. Cooley Copy Share Image
I should throw you off this building minus the flying horse and see how heroic you sound on the way down. — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
The best perfection of a religious man is to do common things in a perfect manner. A constant fidelity in small things… — Bonaventure Copy Share Image
I love characters who are clever and smart, and you have to run to catch up with. I think there's something very… — David Tennant Copy Share Image
Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure. There is no security in following the call to adventure. Nothing… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
I was born at six months, and I weighed 900 grams [less than two pounds]. I have a very heroic birth story. — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
I would love to do something like 'Beverly Hills Cop'. I'd get to be funny and cool and heroic all in the… — Ja Rule Copy Share Image
I'm definitely good. I'm not bad; I'm extremely honest, and I allow no bullshit to pass by my radar. And that will… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
The human response it calls for is truly heroic, requiring nothing short of rewiring the entire planet with a new generation of… — Eban Goodstein Copy Share Image
When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic. Women face childbed and the scrubbing brush, revolutionaries keep their mouths shut… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Finally Marcus stepped forward. "If you insist on going through me to get him, it's your call. But I warn you, I… — Dan Wells Copy Share Image
I didn't want readers to think I was asking to be praised for taking care of my wife while she was ill.… — Rafael Yglesias Copy Share Image
I find Jessica Jones a much more interesting character to write for than Wonder Woman. Wonder Woman is so noble and heroic,… — Melissa Rosenberg Copy Share Image
To me, he's a hero, ... He's not polite. He's not someone you want to take home to meet your mother, necessarily.… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
Hope is easy; knowledge is hard. Science is the one domain in which we human beings make a truly heroic effort to… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Take, say, the solidarity movement in Central America, which I think is what you probably had in mind. To a large extent,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“I used to read in books how our fathers persecuted mankind. But I never appreciated it. I did not really appreciate the… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Hope and optimism are different. Optimism tends to be based on the notion that there's enough evidence out there to believe things… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
There was about all the Romans a heroic tone peculiar to ancient life. Their virtues were great and noble, and these virtues… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Now this spirit is admirably mortified by the exercise of patience. It involves also a continual practice of the presence of God;… — Frederick William Faber Copy Share Image
In the heroic effort of the handcart pioneers, we learn a great truth. All must pass through a refiner’s fire, and the… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
I assure you, my children, that when a Christian carries out with love the most insignificant everyday action, that action overflows with… — Josemaria Escriva Copy Share Image
“Heroes deal out vengeance, wiping out insults, and in an existential sense denying their own death. In twentieth-century camps, however, Todorov found,… — Edward E. Baptist Copy Share Image
“what makes and ordinary person heroic is when they give up the thing they want most” — Jane Heller Copy Share Image
Each individual has a universal responsibility to shape institutions to serve human needs. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Photography is a kind of overstatement, a heroic copulation with the material world. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The most heroic thing you can do is tell someone that you love them. — Jacques Audiard Copy Share Image
When you're younger, you're going to be cast as the heroic, earnest leading man. — Ioan Gruffudd Copy Share Image