Some of the very heroic and colourful figures in our history are sons of Sabaragamuwa - Parakramabahu I, born in Dedigama, the… — Dominicus Corea Copy Share Image
Everybody was trying to put me in action movies and heroic roles, and I wanted to find more complex things. They just… — Josh Hartnett Copy Share Image
“Nothing makes a man feel more heroic than lying on the floor while his wife captures a criminal with a poinsettia” — Margaret Scherf Copy Share Image
In America we have only the bourgeoisie, and the love of the heroic is one of the few counterpoises available to us.… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
On some such night as this she remembered promising to herself to live as brave and noble a life as any heroine… — Elizabeth Gaskell 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
The mythical America?that marvellous, heroic, sentimental landwas an object of faith. It challenged you to make the believer's leap over the rude… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
Profound meditation in solitude and silence frequently exalts the mind above its natural tone, fires the imagination, produces the most refined and… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
Great men need to be lifted upon the shoulders of the whole world, in order to conceive their great ideas or perform… — Nathaniel Hawthorne 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
A heroic figure... not wholly to blame for the religion that's been foisted on him. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
True heroism consists in being superior to the ills of life, in whatever shape they may challenge us to combat. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
The only lesson to extract from any civil war is that it's pointless and futile and ugly, and that there is nothing… — Anthony Minghella Copy Share Image
I have a lot of spiritual books that I read that I really, really love - everything from the Bible to Joseph… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
The so-called Christian virtues of humility, love, charity, personal freedom, the strong prohibitions against violence, murder, stealing, lying, cruelty-all these are washed… — John T. Flynn Copy Share Image
The road conditions are so variable here, there is ice, snow and everything in between. But a podium finish is a definite… — Ken Block Copy Share Image
She tried to open the bottle, but the top slipped through her fingers without moving. He took the bottle from her hand… — Paolo Giordano Copy Share Image
But whoso is heroic must find crises to try his edge. Human virtue demands her champions and martyrs, and the trial of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
My fiction is almost always inspired by a character's need or desire to rise above him- or herself. No one is perfect… — Robert Crais Copy Share Image
The amazing heroic women in labor, they are the truest inspiration, and when they push their babies into the light... I am… — Robin Lim Copy Share Image
My daughter, there are times of moral danger when the hardest virtuous resolution to form is flight, and when the most heroic… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
When I wrote War Against the Mafia as a Vietnam statement, I didn't expect much to come of it-but quite a bit… — Don Pendleton Copy Share Image
In our 'don't just sit there, do something' culture, when we get sick we are supposed to become characters in a heroic… — Suzanne Gordon Copy Share Image
Chantal's only ruse ... was her shattering simplicity. While a weak man or an imposter is always more complicated than the problem… — Georges Bernanos Copy Share Image
