Decisive inventions and discoveries always are initiated by an intellectual or moral stimulus as their actual motivating force, but, usually, the final… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
Katherine Johnson is a shining example of what you can truly do with hard work and persistence. Under what had to be… — Jim Justice Copy Share Image
Darwin was not afraid to look deeply into the void. His bold view can be seen as either noble and pessimistic or… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
The ultimate dreamer is Vishnu floating on the cosmic Milky Ocean, couched upon the coils of the abyssal serpent Ananta, the meaning… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
'Frida' was a joy; this was delicious, I couldn't wait every day to get to the set, although I was exhausted, and… — Salma Hayek Copy Share Image
“It's patterns," he said. "If they think you're a hero, they're wrong. After you die, you don't get to be Beowulf or… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Children have a ton of mirror neurons when they are babies and kids and they mimic what they see and so heroes… — John Assaraf Copy Share Image
It has been said that terror is the principle of despotic government. Does your government therefore resemble despotism? Yes, as the sword… — Maximilien Robespierre Copy Share Image
I figured out I wanted to tell stories in college. I'm an only child who moved around a lot growing up, and… — Joe Robert Cole Copy Share Image
“Edilio is in hiding,” Astrid snapped. “Edilio has to worry about being kicked out of the country. Our Edilio.” “He’s got a… — Michael Grant Copy Share Image
If the black man is feeble and not important to the existing races, not on a parity with the best race, the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The Peloponnesian War turns out to be no dry chronicle of abstract cause and effect. No, it is above all an intense,… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
What the myths say, is that you have to be the hero of your own life. You're the one who has to… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
My dad is like a cactus - introverted and tough. I'm a people person, like my mom, but I got my competitiveness… — Gary Vaynerchuk Copy Share Image
The thing about Luke Cage that makes him different is - on the surface is he's a hero for hire; Luke Cage… — Cheo Hodari Coker Copy Share Image
The thing about grown ups is that they're always wanting you to be this Great Hero and Leader. What's wrong with being… — Cressida Cowell Copy Share Image
Who but the artist has the power to open man up, to set free the imagination? The others - priest, teacher, saint,… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
If someone comes to me with a script and says, 'Sir, this hero...' I'm like, 'Is there a name, or he is… — Rajkummar Rao Copy Share Image
“But what's left on earth that I haven't tried?" Prince Lír demanded. "I have swum four rivers, each in full flood and… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
I loved Debussy, Stravinsky, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, anything with romantic melodies, especially the nocturnes. Nietzsche was a hero, especially with 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra.'… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
Conservatives are people who worship at the graves of dead radicals. Stop to think about that. The people who started this country,… — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
When I was a child, ladies and gentlemen, I was a dreamer. I read comic books and I was the hero of… — Elvis Presley Copy Share Image
Very early on, I was writing stories, and I was amazed at Spielberg's movies when I was young. Coming from the countryside,… — Denis Villeneuve Copy Share Image
Infinite perfection is in every man, though unmanifested. Every man has in him the potentiality of attaining to perfect saintliness, Rishihood, or… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
You have to kind of lose yourself and not think about just how brave Mulan is. Yes, I am playing a hero,… — Liu Yifei Copy Share Image
The 'cool' record store. It is where you can talk to people who are like you. They look like you, think like… — Wayne Coyne Copy Share Image
I think it's a dance that people want to see. It's a chemistry that people want to see. In the same way… — Nathan Fillion Copy Share Image
For the greater a man's works for the future, the less the present can comprehend them; the harder his fight, and the… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
“In those moments of moving through the streets with people who share one's beliefs comes the rare and magical possibility of a… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Heroes are ordinary men and women who dare to see and meet the call of a possibility bigger than themselves. Breakthroughs are… — Werner Erhard Copy Share Image
Intercessors constitute the greatest unseen group of spiritual heroes in world history. Their labors are not seen, but the results are. Those… — Max Anders Copy Share Image
Where are the heroes and the saints, who keep a clear vision of man's greatest gift, his freedom, to oppose not only… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
(...)Did she really tell Roddy Carstairs she could outshoot him with his own pistol?" "No," Jason said dryly. "She told him that… — Judith McNaught Copy Share Image
Heroes rarely look the way we draw them in our minds: attractive, imposing figures with rippling muscles and strong chins. More times… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
When I was a young man, Dirac was my hero. He made a breakthrough, a new method of doing physics. He had… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
You're a hero one day, you're a villain another day. They say that's football. When a manager does well, they're applauded, when… — Vincent Tan Copy Share Image
Those who see and observe kings, heroes, and statesmen, discover that they have headaches, indigestion, humors and passions, just like other people;… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Comeback records always worry me, especially when they're made by one of my heroes, and I'd heard stories about Gil Scott-Heron recently,… — Will Hermes Copy Share Image
Small towns and local publications love to have a hero of some kind. For Portland, it's definitely Ian Karmel and Ron Funches,… — Amy Miller Copy Share Image
Hero-worship is the deepest root of all; the tap-root, from which in a great degree all the rest were nourished and grown… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
