There came to him an image of man’s whole life upon the earth. It seemed to him that all man’s life was… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
Creating these messes that go from administration to administration and then you swoop in and clean them up - with that heroic… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
Those who ran away are now outside the distant perimeter wall of the airport. Now they're outside the wall and the heroic… — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf Copy Share Image
Oh, sir, the loftiest hopes on earth Draw lots with meaner hopes: heroic breasts, Breathing bad air, run risk of pestilence; Or,… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Some men make gain a fountain, whence proceeds A stream of liberal and heroic deeds; The swell of pity, not to be… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Theresa Rebeck's writing is so scarily funny. I just love how unapologetic she is with her writing: she doesn't try to make… — Lily Rabe Copy Share Image
Delicate, gracious, and eloquent, John Brandi's poems reveal that he remains an extraordinary profound poet of prayer and praise. His is the… — David St. John Copy Share Image
Since it is so likely that (children) will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Is it not manifest that our academic institutions should have a wider scope; that they should not be timid and keep the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
HYPOTHESES: Evil is boring. Cynicism is idiotic. Fear is a bad habit. Despair is lazy. Joy is fascinating. Love is an act… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
People think me a sort of Florence Nightingale, but I have no heroic qualities. I simply don’t feel very much. — Franny Billingsley 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
The course was more plodding than heroic: I did not strive valiantly against doubters but took incremental steps studded with a few… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
Christ can very well stand as an heroic figure. The hero need not be of wisdom all compounded. Also he is not… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
The root of humanly caused evil is not man's animal nature, not territorial aggression, or innate selfishness, but our need to gain… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
No where else in Christianity does the terrible or heroic name of Armageddon play such role as in America. Not even in… — Jürgen Moltmann Copy Share Image
There were no formerly heroic times, and there was no formerly pure generation. There is no one here but us chickens, and… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
We're chipping away at our capacity for wonder. When hologram TVs eventually go on sale, they'll cost £20,000 and be bought only… — Peter Baynham Copy Share Image
Surely tis by faith we are upheld thro such trials-justice will be meted in time to those who fill soft places and… — Elizabeth Blair Lee 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
But the real life of a writer resides in showing up at the keyboard every day, with the necessary patience and mercy,… — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
An epic is not made by piecing together a set of heroic lays, adjusting their discrepancies and making them into a continuous… — Lascelles Abercrombie Copy Share Image
This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
