To think of the part one little woman can play in the life of a man, so that to renounce her may… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocuous but piquant confection and to transform their… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
For black people in the western hemisphere, if you can't generate a mythology that creates models of heroism and power out of… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
“Heroism is rarely the loud, world-saving stuff of the movies. Often it's just having the courage not to give up; it's being… — Corey Booker Copy Share Image
What is a hero? Is it someone who is willing to sacrifice their life for another? Is it someone who prevents the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I see no reason in morality, why literature should not have as one of its intentions the arousing of thoughts of lust.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
However much of time, labor, or other means it takes to establish a reputation, it frequently happens that it requires nearly as… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
In the conditions of modern life the rule is absolute, the race which does not value trained intelligence is doomed. Not all… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
No man with a genius for legislation has appeared in America. They are rare in the history of the world. There are… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“He had acquired a reputation for possessing a noble character, and even for being something of a hero - or, at least,… — K.J. Bishop Copy Share Image
We bow our heads in respect for those Soviet women who displayed exceptional courage in the severe time of war. Never before… — Leonid Brezhnev Copy Share Image
A man can be a hero if he is a scientist, or a soldier, or a drug addict, or a disc jockey,… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
What can I do now? What am I to become? How can I live in this world I'm condemned to but can't… — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
Dynamic ecstasy is absolute romanticism , absolute heroism . And here I return to my point. From my point of view, after… — Juan Ramon Jimenez Copy Share Image
“The great human being is a finale; the great age — the Renaissance, for example — is a finale. The genius, in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Isn't every hero aware of all the terrible reason they did those good deeds?" Aware of every mistake they ever made and… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
I thought, This is fabulous. It sent shivers up my spine. I thought, What kinds of people are these that would produce… — Bruce Beresford Copy Share Image
Australians are not given to applauding tragedy unless it is at a distance like Gallipoli or Cooper's Creek, and they prefer pure… — Geoffrey Dutton Copy Share Image
Heroism is no extempore work of transient impulse--a rocket rushing fretfully up to disturb the darkness by which, after a moment's insulting… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
If in heroic conduct, whether of warriors, philosophers or scientists, we see what is of essential nature, then we know that all… — Alfred Rosenberg Copy Share Image
“I do not wish to give the impression by what I have said that, behind all the intemperance and extravagance of these… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
“You carry the hopes of humanity into the realm of the eternal. Monsters never die. They are reborn from the chaos and… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
I detest my past, and anyone else's. I detest resignation, patience, professional heroism and obligatory beautiful feelings. I also detest the decorative… — Rene Magritte Copy Share Image
“This is not to say that the point of the hard way is that we must be heroic. The attitude of "heroism"… — Chögyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
Heroism is latent in every human soul - However humble or unknown, they (the veterans) have renounced what are accounted pleasures and… — Joshua Chamberlain Copy Share Image
