We don't tend to write about disease in fiction - not just teen novels but all American novels - because it doesn't… — John Green Copy Share Image
The generative energy, which, when we are loose, dissipates and makes us unclean, when we are continent invigorates and inspires us. Chastity… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Gentlemen, here is a truth: Enduring tedium over real time in a confined space is what real courage is… True heroism is… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Today the economic development of Armenia is as important as victory in the war was yesterday. Our battle has moved from the… — Vazgen Sargsyan Copy Share Image
I've seen of enough of people who die for an idea. I don't believe in heroism; I know it's easy and I've… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Through action, a Man becomes a Hero. Through death, a Hero becomes a Legend. Through time, a Legend becomes a Myth. By… — Grant Hope Copy Share Image
I am of certain convinced that the greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
Isn't it only natural to leave a place where one is so bitterly hated?...The heroism involved in staying put in spite of… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“I'm not the girl who inspires men to commit acts of heroism. In real life those girls speak much more quietly and… — Becca Wilhite Copy Share Image
What is the commonest, and yet the least remembered form of heroism? The heroism of an average mother. Ah! when I think… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
The less you demand total fulfillment from relationships, the more you can appreciate them for the beautiful tapestries they are, in which… — John Welwood Copy Share Image
John Wells and Christopher Chulack were pretty honest from the get-go in our first meeting about 'Southland.' They were looking to create… — Shawn Hatosy Copy Share Image
All the stories and descriptions of that time without exception peak only of the patriotism, self-sacrifice, despair, grief, and heroism of the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Invention is an Heroic thing, and plac'd above the reach of a low, and vulgar Genius. It requires an active, a bold,… — Thomas Sprat Copy Share Image
“I know that my buddy Jorgeson was a real American hero. I wish that he had lived to be something else, if… — Thom Jones Copy Share Image
“We find a model for learning how to live in stories about heroism. The heroic quest is about saying yes to yourself… — Carol S. Pearson Copy Share Image
On September 11, 2001, America suffered an unimaginable tragedy and witnessed the incredible heroism of hundreds of first responders who rushed into… — Lucy McBath Copy Share Image
Sometimes standing against evil is more important than defeating it. The greatest heroes stand because it is right to do so, not… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
People will say it's sad that she leaves a lesser scar, that fewer remember her, that she was loved deeply but not… — John Green Copy Share Image
In most films - especially in regards to the protagonist - really from the get-go they set up some scenario that endears… — Joaquin Phoenix Copy Share Image
War is elevating, because the individual disappears before the great conception of the state... What a perversion of morality to wish to… — Heinrich von Treitschke Copy Share Image
The thing about a hero, is even when it doesn't look like there's a light at the end of the tunnel, he's… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
African American patriotic heroism is always a curious spectacle. Often white political observers and politicians will praise Black people for their bravery,… — Jason Johnson Copy Share Image
... into the novel goes such taste as I have for rational behaviour and social portraiture. The short story, as I see… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
As a rule, all heroism is due to a lack of reflection, and thus it is necessary to maintain a mass of… — Ernest Renan Copy Share Image
A hero is someone who stands in the community and speaks their hopes and speaks their passion. That's almost an act of… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
“Stories are the preferred way human beings learn and define our values. In our stories we find heroes whose larger than life… — Douglas M. Beaumont Copy Share Image
“Christian heroism, and indeed one perhaps sees little enough of that, is to risk unreservedly being oneself, an individual human being, this… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“There is no heroism without responsibility; there is no shining example without an honest accounting of actions. There is no valor for… — Luis Carlos Montalván Copy Share Image
Martin Luther King, Jr., would have been the last person to have wanted his iconization and his heroism. He was an enormously… — Michael Eric Dyson 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
“The definition of a good man is someone who makes the moral choice when temptation invites him to do otherwise. The definition… — Lindsay Buroker Copy Share Image
Sometimes what we call love is just a settling of old scores, or a seeking of forbidden pain, or a circuitous path… — Anne Roiphe Copy Share Image
There are no more heroes in America. Because of the Internet, heroism has become momentary and within seconds someone who we should… — Tommy Mottola Copy Share Image
A hero is not a movie character. Hero is an ordinary person who finds the strength and courage to persevere and keep… — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
“It was a symposium of horror and heroism, the like of which has not been known in the civilized world since man… — The Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters Copy Share Image
To judge by the event is an error all commit: for in every instance courage, if crowned with success, is heroism; if… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Heroism--that is the disposition of a man who aspires to a goal compared to which he himself is wholly insignificant. Heroism is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the restraints of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There has seldom if ever a shortage of eager young males prepared to kill and die to preserve the security, comfort and… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
