We bear, all of us, the misfortunes of other people with heroic constancy. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“My name is heroic. You just have to rearrange all the letters, and possibly replace a few.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
If there must be madness, something may be said for having it on a heroic scale — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
“True glory and the essence of life lies in the pro-creation and re-actment of heroic meaning.” — VD Copy Share Image
Some spirit to stand simply forth, Heroic in its nakedness, Against the uttermost of earth… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
The heroic man does not pose; he leaves that for the man who wishes to be thought heroic. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing. — Boris Pasternak 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
There is nothing man desires more than a heroic life: there is nothing less common to men than heroism. — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
Alfred Hitchcock, Isaac Newton, Elvis Presley, Captain Bligh, they're heroic or pathetic depending on which book you buy. — Bob Seger Copy Share Image
Some people might say my coming out after just winning the MVP award is heroic, and I understand that, — Sheryl Swoopes Copy Share Image
Our debt to the heroic men and valiant women in the service of our country can never be repaid. They have earned… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
I asked this heroic pet lover how it felt to have died for a schnauzer named Teddy. Salvador Biagiani was philosophical. He… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways,… — Bryant H. McGill Copy Share Image
Common sense in religion is rare, and we are too often trying to be heroic instead of just ordinarily good and kind. — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
She tried to open the bottle, but the top slipped through her fingers without moving. He took the bottle from her hand… — Paolo Giordano Copy Share Image
We should cultivate the optimistic temperament, and endeavour to see the good that dwells in everything. If we sit down and lament… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Heroic figures are now obsolete,So Demigod and Devil find retreatIn minds of children - as rare beasts and men,Elsewhere extinct, persist in… — Osbert Sitwell Copy Share Image
Adam has always had . . . heroic tendencies.” I touched Adam’s arm. “He’s my hero.” There was another pause. . .… — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
Perhaps in our presence, the most heroic deed on earth is done in some silent spirit, the loftiest purpose cherished, the most… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
No other agency is scrutinized like the police. Everything we do is in a goldfish bowl. We are not the most popular… — Raymond Kelly Copy Share Image
Woe to the people that fails to honor its heroes! It will cease producing them, cease knowing them. Heroes spring from the… — Rudolf Hess Copy Share Image
She looked at me. "What? Is there something wrong with my idea?" "It's not very heroic," I said dismissively. "I was expecting… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
The truth is that the heroism of your childhood entertainments was not true valor. It was theatre. The grand gesture, the moment… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet, challenging us to be true to ourselves by… — Benjamin Cardozo 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
It is in the name of Jesus, himself become God, that fanaticism ignominiously condemned to the stake men like Giodano Bruno, Vanini,… — Camille Flammarion 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
How do we remember to remember? That's a question I've asked myself often since my time on Duma Key, often in the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
When I was thirteen, I had a nervous breakdown, and I was put into this grown-up mental hospital with all these 50-,… — Duncan Roy Copy Share Image
If emancipation of the working classes requires their fraternal conncurrence, how are they to fulfill that great mission with a foreign policy… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
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