I will always be the hopeless romantic, more often pathetic than heroic. — Chris Lowell Copy Share Image
Men have said that the cross of Christ was not a heroic thing, but I want to tell you that the cross… — John G. Lake Copy Share Image
“Yeah, who's this Leo guy anyway?" "How would he even know where we are? He's not a problem." "False: I'm Leo, and… — Hazel Blackthorn Copy Share Image
I like writing about women, weak and strong, pathetic and heroic. I like writing about men, ditto. And all the variants of… — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
The essay I had to read was called, "An Essay on Criticism" by Alexander Pope. The first challenge was that the essay… — Maureen Johnson Copy Share Image
Some days it is a heroic act just to refuse the paralysis of fear and straighten up and step into another day. — Edward Albert Copy Share Image
“In his youth, he was electrified. The stars were moving in his bloodstream. He would not have been cowed by the customs… — Brenna Yovanoff Copy Share Image
He would still see it as his duty to shut up and get on with it, not cause any trouble. In our… — Eddie Campbell 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 find Jessica Jones a much more interesting character to write for than Wonder Woman. Wonder Woman is so noble and heroic,… — Melissa Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Recovering alcoholic guys wake up in the morning, and they have to think of a reason to get up, and then, once… — Liam Neeson Copy Share Image
Mourn not for the vanished ages with their grand, heroic men, who dwell in history's pages and live in the poets pen… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
Rama, the ancient idol of the heroic ages, the embodiment of truth, of morality, the ideal son, the ideal husband, and above… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
One hears of the mechanical equivalent of heat. What we now need to discover in the social realm is the moral equivalent… — William James 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
All the entertainment and talk of history is nothing almost but fighting and killing: and the honour and renown that is bestowed… — John Locke Copy Share Image
They may be called the Palace Guard, the City Guard, or the Patrol. Whatever the name, their purpose in any work of… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
What we accomplished during World War Two is just amazing. We turned our country upside down. African Americans were demanding to be… — Margaret D. Klein Copy Share Image
...The lesson [comic books] taught children- or this child, at any rate- was perhaps the unintentionally radical truth that exceptionality was the… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Elements of the heroic exist in almost every individual: it is only the felicitous development of them all in one that is… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Suicides aren't heroic in my opinion. And I don't think anybody ever really knows why somebody commits suicide. — Alex Gibney Copy Share Image
Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure. There is no security in following the call to adventure. Nothing… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the… — C.P. Snow Copy Share Image
If in heroic conduct, whether of warriors, philosophers or scientists, we see what is of essential nature, then we know that all… — Alfred Rosenberg Copy Share Image