The heroic example of other days is in great part the source of the courage of each generation; and men walk up… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
Creating these messes that go from administration to administration and then you swoop in and clean them up - with that heroic… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
We have taught our people to use prayer too much as a means of comfort - not in the original and heroic… — Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy Copy Share Image
My mother, as a girl, had remembered this woman from Maine, someone who was part of the extended family somehow, and I… — Patricia MacLachlan Copy Share Image
The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Lack of confidence, sometimes alternating with unrealistic dreams of heroic success, often leads to procrastination, and many studies suggest that procrastinators are… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
I think most of us maintain some sort of fantasy in our minds that we are heroes, if only secretly, that we… — Megan Fox Copy Share Image
If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of utmost importance; very… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
To me, it's a heroic attribute to be so committed to a principle that you apply it, not when it's easy, not… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
When you accept your imperfections-and still are willing to brush yourself off and start again-you can make changes...for you are on a… — Denise Linn Copy Share Image
My father was a coal hewer from Goldthorpe, a coal-mining village in South Yorkshire. He played for the Yorkshire second team as… — Brian Blessed Copy Share Image
Greek myths are heroic, noble and tragic; but the American Dream is heroic, comical, and uplifting. Americans are a people in whom… — John C. Wright Copy Share Image
A healthy person is not perfect but perfectible, not a done deal but a work in progress. Staying healthy takes discipline, work,… — David Richo Copy Share Image
“Accepting that life is insane, that bad things happen to good people and that you can find the courage to be grateful… — Richie Norton Copy Share Image
Isn't every hero aware of all the terrible reason they did those good deeds?" Aware of every mistake they ever made and… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
The heroic minute.- It is the time fixed for getting up.- Without hesitation: a supernatural reflection and.-.-.- up! The heroic minute: here… — Josemaria Escriva 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
It is absurd for a man to kill an elephant. It is not brutal, it is not heroic, and certainly it is… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
What is the foundation of that interest all men feel in Greek history, letters, art, and poetry, in all its periods, from… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
This is not a story of heroic feats, or merely the narrative of a cynic; at least I do not mean it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The disappearance of the heroic ideal is always accompanied by the growth of commercialism. There is a cause-and-effect relationship here, for the… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
The greatest cause of evil included all human motives in one giant paradox. Good and bad were so inextricably mixed that we… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
I don't want to be considered a hero… Imagine [if] young people would grow up with the feeling that you have to… — Miep Gies Copy Share Image
I was hugely impressed... was the ultimate example of a man who knew what he didn't know, was perfectly willing to admit… — Randy Pausch Copy Share Image
First, Poland has been again overrun by two of the great powers which held her in bondage for 150 years but were… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise isgone! it isgone, that… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
A lot of action heroes, we're told they are heroic primarily because they commit violence upon the bad guy. It can be… — Gail Simone Copy Share Image
All Presidents start out to run a crusade but after a couple of years they find they are running something less heroic… — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
According to some, heroic deaths are admirable things. I've never been convinced by this argument, mainly because, no matter how cool, stylish,… — Jonathan Stroud Copy Share Image
How often a new affection makes a new man! The sordid, cowering soul turns heroic. The frivolous girl becomes the steadfast martyr… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
At all costs the true world of childhood must prevail, must be restored; that world whose momentous, heroic, mysterious quality is fed… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
I suppose there must be some way in which I'm compelled to show some side of myself - or of people -… — Paul Giamatti Copy Share Image
[W]hen I see men callously and cheerfully denying women the full use of their bodies, while insisting with sobs and howls on… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Friends, Comrades and fellow South Africans. I greet you all in the name of peace, democracy and freedom for all. I stand… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
There were three options [in Allied], which were for [Bred Pitt] to shoot [Marion Cotillard], for them to escape, or for her… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
Any society that you build will have its limits. And outside the limits of any society the unruly and heroic tramps will… — Renzo Novatore Copy Share Image
Obama can't be everything to everyone. He changed. He did. I never thought I'd hear Obama say, "Let's go back to nuclear… — Darryl Pinckney Copy Share Image
We're chipping away at our capacity for wonder. When hologram TVs eventually go on sale, they'll cost £20,000 and be bought only… — Peter Baynham Copy Share Image
My fiction is almost always inspired by a character's need or desire to rise above him- or herself. No one is perfect… — Robert Crais 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