This fair homestead has fallen to us, and how little have we done to improve it, how little have we cleared and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If your descent is from heroic sires, Show in your life a remnant of their fires. — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Copy Share Image
“He must have stood there for a long time, making a list of all the terrible things he had done—almost killinng me… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something you have to be all the time. — Luigi Pirandello Copy Share Image
The news of the open military help to Franco from Hitler and Mussolini, and the heroic resistance of the people of Madrid,… — Bill Alexander Copy Share Image
I should throw you off this building minus the flying horse and see how heroic you sound on the way down. — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
All of world's eyes are trained on the Games. So winning at that stage is heroic. It is a different feeling altogether… — Gagan Narang Copy Share Image
As human beings, of course, we're all compromised and complex and contradictory and if a screenplay can express those contradictions within a… — Hugo Weaving Copy Share Image
What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of magnanimity and greatness of soul that… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
If thou workest at that which is before thee ... expecting nothing, fearing nothing, but satisfied with thy present activity according to… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Character cannot be summoned at the moment of crisis if it has been squandered by years of compromise and rationalization. The only… — Dan Coats Copy Share Image
I am indeed willing to acknowledge what I have done, an error and presumption. I will call it an error and presumption… — Deborah Sampson Copy Share Image
If you look at the heroes of antiquity and myth, they all have flaws. It's something that they have to overcome; their… — Nicholas Meyer Copy Share Image
I think that our future has lost that capital F we used to spell it with. The science fiction future of my… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
Revival comes from heaven when heroic souls enter the conflict determined to win or die - or if need be, to win… — Charles Grandison Finney Copy Share Image
I didn't want readers to think I was asking to be praised for taking care of my wife while she was ill.… — Rafael Yglesias Copy Share Image
The allure of military life and its heroic promise seem indestructible, but nothing threatens the romance of war more effectively than war… — Elizabeth Samet Copy Share Image
Few of us will do the spectacular deeds of heroism that spread themselves across the pages of our newspapers in big black… — Wilferd Peterson Copy Share Image
We could say that compassion is the ultimate attitude of wealth: an anti-poverty attitude, a war on want. It contains all sorts… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
I don't really think of Odo as a heroic lead, but that's nice if you do. — Rene Auberjonois Copy Share Image
A truley heroic way of life lies in squarely confronting and courageously overcoming the pounding vicissitudes that life always throws in our… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
