To commit herself to becoming "an apostle of Joy" when humanly speaking she might have felt at the brink of despair, was… — Brian Kolodiejchuk Copy Share Image
I have nothing but the embittered sun; Banished heroic mother moon and vanished, And now that I have come to fifty years… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“In the campaign of 1876, Robert G. Ingersoll came to Madison to speak. I had heard of him for years; when I… — Robert M. La Follette Copy Share Image
Of all man's inborn dispositions there is none more heroic than the love in him. Everything else accepts defeat and dies, but… — Laurens van der Post Copy Share Image
A nice war is a war where everybody who is heroic is a hero, and everybody more or less is a hero… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
I like the tradition of ordinary men in extraordinary circumstances and how they react to events which force them to be heroic… — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet. — Benjamin Cardozo Copy Share Image
I have found that you have only to take that one step toward the gods, and they will then take ten steps… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
How heroic to be able to suppress one's vanity to the extent of confessing that the game is too hard. — Alice James Copy Share Image
The heroic example of other days is in great part the source of the courage of each generation; and men walk up… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I really wanted to explore a range of women who aren't necessarily perfect, heroic women. I wanted to series to influence creative… — Anita Sarkeesian Copy Share Image
To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing. — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
I assure you, my children, that when a Christian carries out with love the most insignificant everyday action, that action overflows with… — Josemaria Escriva Copy Share Image
At all costs the true world of childhood must prevail, must be restored; that world whose momentous, heroic, mysterious quality is fed… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
What is the foundation of that interest all men feel in Greek history, letters, art, and poetry, in all its periods, from… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
That's what heroic stories do for us. They show us the way. They remind us of the good we are capable of. — Sam Raimi Copy Share Image
To hallow'd duty Here with a loyal and heroic heart, Bind we our lives. — Frances Sargent Osgood 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 think that the heroism which at this day would make on us the impression of Epaminondas and Phocion must be that… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I am still associated with a heroic period in French cinema, and my name remains linked to this period. — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
Compassion can shoulder the suffering of the entire world without feeling the slightest bit of pain. — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
A noble life crowned with heroic death, rises above and outlives the pride and pomp and glory of the mightiest empire of… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
We should cultivate the optimistic temperament, and endeavour to see the good that dwells in everything. If we sit down and lament… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
