Heroism feels and never reasons, and therefore is always right. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A man without a heroic bent starts dying at the age of thirty. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
To hallow'd duty Here with a loyal and heroic heart, Bind we our lives. — Frances Sargent Osgood Copy Share Image
The bands that wrote the big, heroic rock songs - I really wanted to make a record like that. — Sheryl Crow Copy Share Image
“Where once we aspired to be more like our heroes, today we try to make our heroes more like us.” — James Rozoff Copy Share Image
“I was supposed to be making some soup," said Rincewind. He waved the onions vaguely. It was probably not the most heroic… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
An Eagle Scout deserves a letter of congratulations, but not a proclamation, ... That's a normal process. It's not a heroic process. — Frank Bruno Copy Share Image
I admire Bruce Springsteen because he's a heroic person who has lots of integrity and has this incredible body of work that… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
He all their ammunition And feats of war defeats With plain heroic magnitude of mind And celestial vigour armed; — John Milton Copy Share Image
Our children long for realistic maps of the future that they can be proud of. Where are the cartographers of human purpose? — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
Passive resistance is a sport for gentleman (and ladies)-just like the pursuit of war, a heroic enterprise for the ruling classes but… — Kenneth Kaunda Copy Share Image
I would love to do something like 'Beverly Hills Cop'. I'd get to be funny and cool and heroic all in the… — Ja Rule Copy Share Image
In South America, I heard the 8th Symphony of Beethoven. And the young conductor thought, Beethoven must be heroic. But this is… — Kurt Masur Copy Share Image
You know that the nucleus of a time is not The poet but the poem, the growth of the mind Of the… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
We may need simple and heroic legends for that peculiar genre of literature known as the textbook. But historians must also labor… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
I am convinced that we will never build a democratic state based on rule of law if we do not at the… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic. Women face childbed and the scrubbing brush, revolutionaries keep their mouths shut… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Finally Marcus stepped forward. "If you insist on going through me to get him, it's your call. But I warn you, I… — Dan Wells Copy Share Image
Apart from a couple that were just having fun with the concept and making fun of [Donald] Trump - like the one… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
You don't need to be a fan of wars or militarism to note that heroic action - whether being prepared to be… — Claire Fox Copy Share Image
The 'black armband' view of our history reflects a belief that most Australian history since 1788 has been little more than a… — John Howard Copy Share Image
What passes for identity in America is a series of myths about one's heroic ancestors. It's astounding to me, for example, that… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
The ones I love most are the people who the flaws show. I like doing characters that we see the total person.… — Alfre Woodard Copy Share Image
But that is the way of the place: down our many twisting corridors, one encounters story after story, some heroic, some villainous,… — Stephen L. Carter Copy Share Image
“I used to read in books how our fathers persecuted mankind. But I never appreciated it. I did not really appreciate the… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Hope and optimism are different. Optimism tends to be based on the notion that there's enough evidence out there to believe things… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Now this spirit is admirably mortified by the exercise of patience. It involves also a continual practice of the presence of God;… — Frederick William Faber Copy Share Image
There was about all the Romans a heroic tone peculiar to ancient life. Their virtues were great and noble, and these virtues… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Heroes are heroes because they are heroic in behavior, not because they won or lost. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Believe me, 'tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue. — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
Each individual has a universal responsibility to shape institutions to serve human needs. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Nature is not slow to equip us in the prison-uniform of the party to which we adhere. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A happy life is impossible; the best that a man can attain is a heroic life. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image