I will always be the hopeless romantic, more often pathetic than heroic. — Chris Lowell Copy Share Image
In the hands of the discoverer, medicine becomes a heroic art . . wherever life is dear he is a demigod. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Virtue is a system and men do heroic acts as part of the day's work and without self-consciousness.” — Charles H. Cooley Copy Share Image
Do one thing that's heroic for you today - big or small - and fear won't define you anymore. — Bob Goff Copy Share Image
To be heroic is to be courageous enough to die for something; to be inspirational is to be crazy enough to live… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
In a truly heroic life there is no peradventure. It is always doing or dying. — Roswell Dwight Hitchcock Copy Share Image
I guess I'm always drawn to the underbelly of someone, really, as opposed to how heroic they are. I don't judge those… — Daniel Mays Copy Share Image
I was born at six months, and I weighed 900 grams [less than two pounds]. I have a very heroic birth story. — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
The Border Ballads, for instance, and the Robin Hood Ballads, clearly suppose a state of society which is nothing but a very… — Lascelles Abercrombie Copy Share Image
Every rebel is, with us, more or less a soldier who has missed his vocation, a being made for a heroic life… — Ernest Renan Copy Share Image
“Someone heroic and valiant, not merely skilled in speech; someone who is kind and pure in heart. Someone who does not play… — Sarah Mally Copy Share Image
I would love for people to think that I am as quick, clever, smart and heroic as the characters that I write,… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
While the Second World War brought about untold misery and suffering, it was also a time when the world witnessed extraordinary bravery.… — Sam Kutesa Copy Share Image
Sometimes I see myself reflected too closely in other men for comfort, and then I have an enormous wish to believe in… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Surrender is forbidden. Sixth Army will hold their positions to the last man and the last round and by their heroic endurance… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
To be a leader in this new economy, you have to love risk-which means patterning your life on the heroic, not on… — Harriet Rubin Copy Share Image
Surrender means that the history of this heroic struggle will be written by the enemy; that our youth will be trained by… — Patrick Cleburne Copy Share Image
We are all inspired by the incredible stories of handicapped people who write novels with their toes, cancer victims who run marathons… — Danah Zohar Copy Share Image
The breakage and agony rending us today will be our salvation if they drive us by new routes to meet it. .… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
The ideal of having a real job that you risk your soul in and make good or be damned, belongs to the… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
I used to defend the West Wing show from the charge of sentimentality or wish-fulfilment, because I think if you do go… — Bradley Whitford Copy Share Image
Gargoyles were the complement to saints; Leonardo's caricatures were complementary to his untiring search for ideal beauty. And gargoyles were the expression… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
With subjectivity in philosophy, anarchism in politics goes hand in hand. Already during Luther's lifetime, unwelcome and unacknowledged disciples had developed the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
O vanity, how little is thy force acknowledged or thy operations discerned! How wantonly dost thou deceive mankind under different disguises! Sometimes… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
“Original sin is a self-initiating act because it evidences human free will. If humanity were devoid of free will, it would relegate… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
When we seek a textbook case for the proper operation of science, the correction of certain error offers far more promise than… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Christian obedience, by its very nature, has a heroic character. — Hans Urs von Balthasar Copy Share Image
Heroic poetry has ever been esteemed the greatest work of human nature. — John Dryden Copy Share Image