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 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
Simply put: Thanksgiving is the day when the dominant white culture (and, sadly, most of the rest of the non-white but non-indigenous… — Robert Jensen Copy Share Image
We bear, all of us, the misfortunes of other people with heroic constancy. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Look, all administrations, all governments lie, all officials lie and nothing they say is to be believed. That's a pretty good rule. — Daniel Ellsberg Copy Share Image
To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
And as cynical and jaded as many have become, you see the heroic nature of cops, who put aside a lot of… — Veena Sud Copy Share Image
Let's face it: the present self is present. It's in control. It's in power right now. It has these strong, heroic arms… — Daniel Goldstein Copy Share Image
I raised two sons, and I know that even though they're bigger and stronger than I am, they're still little boys inside.… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
He found that it was easy to make a heroic gesture, but hard to abide by its results. — W. Somerset Maugham 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
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
I adore going to movie sets and being part of a team trying to create something. And yet, I hate to miss… — Jennifer Garner Copy Share Image
The monotony of a long heroic poem may often be pleasantly relieved by judicious interruptions in the perfect succession of rhymes, just… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
There's an idea of the Plains as the middle of nowhere, something to be contemptuous of. But it's really a heroic place. — Ian Frazier Copy Share Image
He who would write heroic poems should make his whole life a heroic poem. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
When you do something stupid and die, it's pathetic," I said. "When you do something stupid and survive it, then you get… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
The ones I love most are the people who the flaws show. I like doing characters that we see the total person.… — Alfre Woodard 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
A happy life is impossible; the best that a man can attain is a heroic life. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Mythology is the study of whatever religious or heroic legends are so foreign to a student's experience that he cannot believe them… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
In South America, I heard the 8th Symphony of Beethoven. And the young conductor thought, Beethoven must be heroic. But this is… — Kurt Masur Copy Share Image
