Though much is taken, much abides; and though We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven,… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
Riddick is an antihero. He's the quintessential antihero. We all know how much I love antiheroes. It takes you 45 minutes in… — Vin Diesel Copy Share Image
Oh, sir, the loftiest hopes on earth Draw lots with meaner hopes: heroic breasts, Breathing bad air, run risk of pestilence; Or,… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Are they dead that yet speak louder than we can speak, and a more universal language? Are they dead that yet act?… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
In a nation of celebrity worshipers, amid followers of the cult of personality, individual modesty becomes a heroic quality. I find heroism… — Shana Alexander Copy Share Image
The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness. Where we find a heroic life appearing as the… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
The heroic soul does not sell its justice and its nobleness. It does not ask to dine nicely and to sleep warm.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Am I willing to give up what I have in order to be what I am not yet? Am I willing to… — Mary Caroline Richards Copy Share Image
You see tragedy requires persons of heroic stature. It works on the principle of people being more than humansuper-humanand also being only… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
My own heroes are the dreamers, those men and women who tried to make the world a better place than when they… — Anonymous 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
“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
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
She has a choice. She can either accept a life of misery or she can struggle against it. And she chooses to… — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
The root of humanly caused evil is not man's animal nature, not territorial aggression, or innate selfishness, but our need to gain… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
One of the differences between now and then is that the idea of body image is a much bigger issue now. Back… — Ben Affleck 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
Our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit and go out into a sometimes hostile world declaring… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
When I wrote War Against the Mafia as a Vietnam statement, I didn't expect much to come of it-but quite a bit… — Don Pendleton Copy Share Image
It's important to be heroic, ambitious, productive, efficient, creative, and progressive, but these qualities don't necessarily nurture soul. The soul has different… — Thomas Moore Copy Share Image
I have to confess that I had gambled on my soul and lost it with heroic insouciance and lightness of touch. The… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
A rational process is a moral process. You may make an error at any step of it, with nothing to protect you… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“I'm not ashamed of heroic ambitions. If man and woman can only dance upon this earth for a few countable turns of… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
The so-called Christian virtues of humility, love, charity, personal freedom, the strong prohibitions against violence, murder, stealing, lying, cruelty-all these are washed… — John T. Flynn Copy Share Image
I believe that you and I - and everyone we'll ever meet - has the inborn capacity to be heroic, to take… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
The majority of people are ready to throw their aims and purposes overboard, and give up at the first sign of opposition… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
[About the great synthesis of atomic physics in the 1920s:] It was a heroic time. It was not the doing of any… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
When I was younger, not being accepted made me enraged, but now, I am not inclined to dismantle my history. If you… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become heroes over… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I think on some level, that's a fear that exists in everybody, that if we're tested, we won't make the courageous choice.… — Bruce Greenwood Copy Share Image
Baseball is a spirited race of man against man, reflex against reflex. A game of inches. Every skill is measured. Every heroic,… — Ernie Harwell Copy Share Image
To me, it feels like 'The Doctor' has to have a long coat, and that's something imprinted on me from childhood, because… — David Tennant Copy Share Image
The news of the open military help to Franco from Hitler and Mussolini, and the heroic resistance of the people of Madrid,… — Bill Alexander Copy Share Image
But why,... if you have a serious comment to make on the real life of men, must you do it by talking… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Who is better off? The one who writes to revel in the voluptuousness of the life that surrounds them? Or the one… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
Aja gave Loor an up and down once-over. She then said, "Is Loor a man's name or a woman's name?" Ouch. Loor… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
High sentiments always win in the end. The leaders who offer blood, toil, tears and sweat always get more out of their… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I declare that civil war is inevitable and is near at hand. When it comes the descendants of the heroes of Lexington… — Sam Houston Copy Share Image
One of the oddest features of western Christianized culture is its ready acceptance of the myth of the stable family and the… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
I'd love to say something heroic. I'd love to say we made history. But basically it was a bunch of guys parked… — Greg Noll Copy Share Image
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