There are so many stories about boys becoming heroes, learning their powers and becoming incredibly heroic. There have to be those stories… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of magnanimity and greatness of soul that… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
The real test of compassion is not what we say in abstract discussions but how we conduct ourselves in daily life. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Yet only the atrocities of the conquered are referred to as criminal acts; those of the conqueror are justified as necessary, heroic,… — Jim Fergus Copy Share Image
If you want to be heroic, Don't emulate your heroes, learn from them. Heroes don't follow anyone, they set their own course. — Jonathan Lockwood Huie Copy Share Image
A heroic moral victory for the New York Mets. It may be the only kind of victory we're achieving this season, but… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
“She and Lisa always called that kind of snow heroic, because a person could do no wrong in it. Everyone skied like… — Kaya McLaren Copy Share Image
Interestingly, it's as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey, the embodiment of the very adventure that all… — Alan Hirsch Copy Share Image
There's a book that I read, really a great book - it's called 'Lone Survivor' and I think they're trying to make… — Jared Padalecki Copy Share Image
I have a lot of spiritual books that I read that I really, really love - everything from the Bible to Joseph… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
Enthusiasm springs from the imagination, and self-sacrifice from the heart. Women are, therefore, more naturally heroic than men. All nations have in… — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
Conflict is the microscope of a book. When it's trained on a character, you see what's underneath the narratives of physical description.… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
This fair homestead has fallen to us, and how little have we done to improve it, how little have we cleared and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Indeed, the idea that doubt can be heroic, if it is locked into a structure as grand as that of the paintings… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
I lived a dream life (almost too exclusively, perhaps) when I was a lad and even now my thought goes back for… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Perhaps this is what we mean by sanity: that, whatever our self-admitted eccentricities might be, we are not the villains of our… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
Most of our platitudes notwithstanding, self-deception remains the most difficult deception. The tricks that work on others count for nothing in that… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
My sonnet asserts that the sonnet still lives. My epic, should such fortune befall me, asserts that the heroic narrative is not… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
The amazing heroic women in labor, they are the truest inspiration, and when they push their babies into the light... I am… — Robin Lim Copy Share Image
All of world's eyes are trained on the Games. So winning at that stage is heroic. It is a different feeling altogether… — Gagan Narang Copy Share Image
To Be Successful You Don't Need Beautiful Face And Heroic Body, What You Need is Skillful Mind And Ability To Perform — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
Older people are most beautiful when they have what is lacking in the young: poise, erudition, wisdom, phronesis, and this post-heroic absence… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
He lives out in Orchard Park. I mean, to be able to sit on the bench so patiently, for whatever part, and… — Robert Creeley Copy Share Image
Playing big, heroic characters with heart is always a lot of fun. I enjoy making movies like that, and a lot of… — Dwayne Johnson Copy Share Image
We must learn that passively to accept an unjust system is to cooperate with that system, and thereby to become a participant… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I always feel freelance writers are leading a heroic life. I think that is the real writer's life. On the other hand,… — Tom Paulin Copy Share Image
“Be a craftsman in speech that thou mayest be strong, for the strength of one is the tongue, and speech is mightier… — Ptahhotep Copy Share Image
You don't encounter anyone who is not hero or villain of their own story. If it's man vs. self, you have to… — Kit Williamson Copy Share Image
Achilles' absolute, like every heroic absolute, finds its telos or fulfillment, not in dislocating the world as it is, but in self-destruction. — Cedric H Whitman Copy Share Image
“Nothing makes a man feel more heroic than lying on the floor while his wife captures a criminal with a poinsettia” — Margaret Scherf Copy Share Image
Winston Churchill aroused this nation in heroic fashion to save civilisation in World War Two. We have everything we need except political… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part of earth's… — Richard Watson Gilder Copy Share Image
“I could have murdered a man today, but by not doing so I saved his life, and thus became a hero to… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
I have nothing but the embittered sun; Banished heroic mother moon and vanished, And now that I have come to fifty years… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
The allure of military life and its heroic promise seem indestructible, but nothing threatens the romance of war more effectively than war… — Elizabeth Samet Copy Share Image
life is a tragic mystery. We are pierced and driven by laws we only half understand, we find that the lesson we… — Florida Scott-Maxwell Copy Share Image
Now i'd like to tell u i did something heroic like stand up against a raging team of fire-breathing horses with only… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
The past is only so heroic as we see it. It is the canvas on which our idea of heroism is painted,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Compassion can shoulder the suffering of the entire world without feeling the slightest bit of pain. — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
I have played some of the great men in history and I believe in the great man who does heroic deeds, even… — Charlton Heston Copy Share Image
