Christ can very well stand as an heroic figure. The hero need not be of wisdom all compounded. Also he is not… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
The quest for heroic adventure then is a quest for the gospel, although it might not be seen that way by everyone. — Alan Hirsch Copy Share Image
I think that always makes it fun, trying to create a heroic character and putting your own twist on it and injecting… — Dwayne Johnson Copy Share Image
“The Coward will run away from danger, only to strike in the dark. The Heroine will run through the dark, even though… — David A. Cleinman Copy Share Image
If I programmed my own TV network, it would air good news! Just positive stories. Heroic stories. Cute puppy dogs doin' stuff. — Jennifer Aniston Copy Share Image
Because that is when you love somebody - when you see them being game in the face of the worst. Not courageous.… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
I should say sincerity, a deep, great, genuine sincerity, is the first characteristic of all men in any way heroic. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Some men make gain a fountain, whence proceeds A stream of liberal and heroic deeds; The swell of pity, not to be… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Somehow super power and hero are so synonymous that they get combined into one word, 'superhero,' whereas I'm kind of more interested… — Doug Liman Copy Share Image
We could say that compassion is the ultimate attitude of wealth: an anti-poverty attitude, a war on want. It contains all sorts… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
I have the greatest respect for single parents who struggle and sacrifice, trying against almost superhuman odds to hold the family together.… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
“To be heroic may mean nothing more than this then, to stand in the face of the status quo, in the face… — Mike Alsford Copy Share Image
All progress in literary style lies in the heroic resolve to cast aside accretions and exuberances, all the conventions of a past… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
On that day, we couldn't reach the conclusion whose hero is the strongest. And today when we are 41 years old, we… — Kim Do-Jin Copy Share Image
In the pain, the agony, and the heroic endeavors of life, we pass through a refiner's fire, and the insignificant and the… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
We can put our whole heart into whatever we do; but if we freeze our attitude into for or against, we're setting… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
I did a different size of photograph at the FIAT gallery - this time the images are 30" by 40," so they're… — Scott Schuman Copy Share Image
Chantal's only ruse ... was her shattering simplicity. While a weak man or an imposter is always more complicated than the problem… — Georges Bernanos Copy Share Image
It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Climbing is a heroic liberating act; and height spontaneously symbolizes things of high value, be it in the value of worldly power… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
As agonizing a disease as cancer is, I do not think it can be said that our civilization is threatened by it.… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“The heroic quest typically highlights a seemingly average person (think Thomas Anderson before he becomes Neo) who embarks on a perilous undertaking,… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
We cannot look upon our lives as dreams of a dreamer who has no awakening in all time. We have a personality… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
The holiday season promotes a heightened sense of community. It draws our chins up and helps us look above and over the… — Mary Anne Radmacher Copy Share Image
I'm not building each one character around one metaphor, so much as trying to build a heroic archetype that can be used… — Kurt Busiek Copy Share Image
What the writers do, and we hopefully can bring to life, is that they present characters who, on the surface, aren't always… — Charlie Cox Copy Share Image
The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one's self a fool. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
I honestly think part of the appeal of 'Rumours' was that it was sort of heroic. We managed to push through in… — Lindsey Buckingham Copy Share Image
Whereas in a memory you edit things out and sort of restructure the things to seem a little bit more heroic, or… — Chris Ware Copy Share Image
A truley heroic way of life lies in squarely confronting and courageously overcoming the pounding vicissitudes that life always throws in our… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
Christianity is not the faith of the complacent, the comfortable or of the timid. It demands and creates heroic souls... — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
I make dark dramas, movies about people living in desperate fear who then overcome that fear and find a heroic side to… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
There were no formerly heroic times, and there was no formerly pure generation. There is no one here but us chickens, and… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
The quality of films out there depends on how much responsibility we're willing to take. I try to play women who are… — Cheryl Ladd Copy Share Image
“To be heroic does not have to mean possessing the ability to stand against the evils of the world, either well or… — Mike Alsford Copy Share Image
The Japanese covet important symbols - their heroic past as enshrined in Yasukuni, the Imperial family which has never been sullied by… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
No where else in Christianity does the terrible or heroic name of Armageddon play such role as in America. Not even in… — Jürgen Moltmann Copy Share Image
“I’d scale the tallest tree, just to surreptitiously watch you sunbathe naked. So the real question is, does that make me romantic—or… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“The mark of the true hero is that the most heroic of his deeds is done in secret. We never hear of… — Erika Johansen Copy Share Image
