People have their complexities. They have their heroic moments and their villainous moments, too. — Ryan Reynolds Copy Share Image
“The truth of war is not always easy. The truth is always more heroic than the hype.” — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
A heroic figure... not wholly to blame for the religion that's been foisted on him. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
There is nothing man desires more than a heroic life: there is nothing less common to men than heroism. — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
What makes us heroic?--Confronting simultaneously our supreme suffering and our supreme hope. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Some people might say my coming out after just winning the MVP award is heroic, and I understand that, — Sheryl Swoopes Copy Share Image
The Dance instills in you something that sets you apart. Something heroic and remote. — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
Studies from universities in Holland and Berlin confirm that 80 percent of Muslims in the Netherlands believe it is a heroic deed… — Geert Wilders Copy Share Image
A nice war is a war where everybody who is heroic is a hero, and everybody more or less is a hero… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Sadly, a prize for peace is a rarity in this world. Most nations have monuments or memorials to war, bronze salutations to… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
I like books that expose me to people unlike me and books that do battle against caricature or simplification. That, to me,… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I've always thought like I'm really a 3-feet-high comic trapped in a leading man's body... but then I played Nicholas Nickleby, and… — Roger Rees Copy Share Image
This obsession with leadership... It's not neutral; it's American, this idea of the heroic leader who comes in on a white horse… — Henry Mintzberg Copy Share Image
My stepfather stepped in where no man would've stepped in - six kids, five of them boys - and that's heroic. — Tim Allen Copy Share Image
How much we forgive to those who yield us the rare spectacle of heroic manners! We will pardon them the want of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Cowards never won heaven. Do not claim that you are begotten of God and you have His royal blood running in your… — William Gurnall Copy Share Image
He is like to be mistaken who makes choice of a covetous man for a friend, or relieth upon the reed of… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
How many attractions for us have our passing fellows in the streets, both male and female, which our ethics forbid us to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is a power in love to divine another's destiny better than that other can, and by heroic encouragements, hold him to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is impossible to put into words what we have been through. What happened exceeded our boldest dreams. The Germans fled twice… — Mordechai Anielewicz Copy Share Image
Not everything that is good make everyone happy. A heroic act may be considered as an act of a villain by others.… — Frank Matobo Copy Share Image
You know, it shouldn't just be about women as heroic figures overcoming things, it just needs to be about women in general… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
She tried to open the bottle, but the top slipped through her fingers without moving. He took the bottle from her hand… — Paolo Giordano Copy Share Image
Israel exists; it has a right to exist in peace behind secure and defensible borders; and it has a right to demand… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
To write a book such as Tiger Bone & Rhino Horn is a formidable undertaking. You must accumulate thousands of facts and… — Elizabeth Marshall Thomas Copy Share Image
I'd have a stable full of Arabian steeds, rooms piled with books, and I'd write out of a magic inkstand, so that… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
At Wal-Mart, a co-worker once advised me that, although I had a lot to learn, it was also important not to "know… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Theresa Rebeck's writing is so scarily funny. I just love how unapologetic she is with her writing: she doesn't try to make… — Lily Rabe Copy Share Image
The truth is that the heroism of your childhood entertainments was not true valor. It was theatre. The grand gesture, the moment… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
I think, at the L.A. County Museum of Art, I saw my first example of Kerry James Marshall, who had a very… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
It is in the name of Jesus, himself become God, that fanaticism ignominiously condemned to the stake men like Giodano Bruno, Vanini,… — Camille Flammarion Copy Share Image
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