Heroic dreams are the consolation of the unhappy. After all, when people like us say we're being heroic, it usually means we're… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
In my fantasies, I was always caught up in heroic struggles, and I saw myself saving lives, sacrificing myself for others. I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Revival comes from heaven when heroic souls enter the conflict determined to win or die - or if need be, to win… — Charles Grandison Finney Copy Share Image
My characters are never heroic. They are mostly lost and trying to find the right door to open and they end up… — Gaspar Noe Copy Share Image
We always need to remember that behind almost every great moment in history, there are heroic people doing really boring and frustrating… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
Heroes are made in the hour of defeat. Success is, therefore, well described as a series of glorious defeats. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A new model of heroic capitalism based on principle-driven, free-market entrepreneurship deserves a central place in business-ethics thought and action. — Robert L. Bradley, Jr Copy Share Image
It is heroic to prepare for war with a tyrant power. Patriots will always win the admiration of mankind for daring to… — John Boyle O'Reilly 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
Im all about entertaining and keeping a reader on the edge of their seat, so to me, the social issues have to… — Andrew Gross Copy Share Image
“For most of the universe's inhabitants, life is not all gummy wads and tarty tarts; is a struggle against hardship, unfairness, corruption,… — Frank Beddor Copy Share Image
You can raise good children in single parent households, and many of you perhaps here today come from that type of environment.… — Sam Brownback 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
Many heroic things happened during slavery. And remember that there was a national movement away from it even at the time. The… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
In this vast universe There is but one supreme truth- That God is our friend! By that truth meaning is given To… — Joshua L. Liebman Copy Share Image
Soil is not usually lost in slabs or heaps of magnificent tonnage. It is lost a little at a time over millions… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Democracy doesn't mean much if people have to confront concentrated systems of economic power as isolated individuals. Democracy means something if people… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Profound meditation in solitude and silence frequently exalts the mind above its natural tone, fires the imagination, produces the most refined and… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
To commit herself to becoming "an apostle of Joy" when humanly speaking she might have felt at the brink of despair, was… — Brian Kolodiejchuk Copy Share Image
“here’s the thing about being a hero: Only a few ever make it into the history books. Every day, people do heroic… — Yasmine Galenorn Copy Share Image
Liberty without discipline cannot survive. Without order and authority in the spirit of man the free way of life leads through weakness,… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Societies create their own history and tend to wipe out lowly beginnings, either by forgetting them or inventing totally fictitious heroic rescues. — Isaac Copy Share Image
In an audience of rough people a generous sentiment always brings down the house. In the tumult of war both sides applaud… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson Copy Share Image
“There’s nothing heroic about sacrificing yourself for him,” Zeffer pointed out. “He wouldn’t do it for you.” “I know that.” — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
To stand upon ramparts and die for our principles is heroic, but to sally forth to battle and win for our principles… — Franklin D Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Love doesn't mean doing extraordinary or heroic things. It means knowing how to do ordinary things with tenderness. — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
“I would have to call a cab. It wasn't the most heroic way to ride to the rescue, but walkers can't be… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
There's nothing heroic about suicide bombers. They're mostly just dumb, brainwashed kids, stoned out of their minds. — Marcus Luttrell Copy Share Image
“My friends wanted their names in the list of employees of some company, well I wanted my name in the list of… — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
That's what heroic stories do for us. They show us the way. They remind us of the good we are capable of. — Sam Raimi Copy Share Image
How heroic to be able to suppress one's vanity to the extent of confessing that the game is too hard. — Alice James Copy Share Image
We may never know why Joe Ellis fabricated a heroic past. But we know that the life he embellished has deeply diminished… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration. — Warren G. Harding Copy Share Image
Oliver Sacks remains my hero to this day. He was one of the first medical writers I read. The other was Lewis… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
The determination in your heroic effort Will permeate your mind and heart Even after your success or failure Is long forgotten. — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
I think we are drawn to anti-heroes because that is what most of us are most of the time and it is… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
“The bosun knew, as you and I perhaps do not, that there is a big difference between being afraid and being a… — Matt Suddain Copy Share Image
