The reason progress is slow is that we always expect other men to be the heroes and to live the heroic lives.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a biography, the life of a man. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I am reminded how hollow the label of leadership sometimes is and how heroic followership can be. — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
Are you the new person drawn toward me? To begin with, take warning - I am surely far different from what you… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
... In contrast to the "banality of evil," which posits that ordinary people can be responsible for the most despicable acts of… — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
I don't understand why women get upset when you compare them to one of the monkeys from Planet of the Apes, even… — David James Copy Share Image
At Waco, was there really an urgency to get those people out of the compound at that particular time? Was the press… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
Whoever is fortunate enough to be an American citizen came into the greatest inheritance man has ever enjoyed. He has had the… — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
I'm not saying this in a condescending kind of way, but it's quite simple: The making of America was a heroic thing.… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
In my fool hardy youth, when my friends were dreaming of heroic deeds in the realms of engineering and law, finance and… — Alberto Manguel 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
Consequently, the value and importance of the monarchic idea cannot reside in the person of the monarch himself except if Heaven decides… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
In California, Jim Jones even staged a shooting of himself. The lesson of this was two-fold. One, that he was a god… — Julia Scheeres Copy Share Image
There's nothing more noble than a father and mother making an opportunity for their child, knowing that their life is gonna be… — Kevin Costner Copy Share Image
Bread may not always nourish us; but it always does us good, it even takes stiffness out of our joints, and makes… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Every fanatic or enemy of virtue is not at liberty to misrepresent the greatest geniuses and most heroic defenders of all that… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
An ordinary life examined closely reveals itself to be exquisite and complicated and exceptional, somehow managing to be both heroic and plain. — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
Sometimes she went so far as to wish that she should find herself in a difficult position, so that she might have… — Henry James 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
You want to believe in black and white, good and evil, heroes that are truly heroic, villains that are just plain bad,… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
Using the language of heroism, calling Daniel Ellsberg a hero, and calling the other people who made great sacrifices heroes - even… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
To criticize one's country is to do it a service.... Criticism, in short, is more than a right; it is an act… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
Self-pity, a dominant characteristic of sociopaths, is also the characteristic that differentiates heroic storytelling from psychological rumination. When you talk about your… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
