Heroes need monsters to establish their heroic credentials. You need something scary to overcome. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
A people without the memories of heroic suffering and sacrifices are a people without a history. — John Brown Gordon Copy Share Image
There's soldiers out there every day that are doing heroic things... We don't need to create them. — Jessica Lynch Copy Share Image
The men that have been the most heroic for God have had the greatest devotional lives. — Leonard Ravenhill Copy Share Image
Dying in the line of duty is heroic, but dying while unemployed is just stupid. — Tsugumi Ohba Copy Share Image
“Admitting we're not heroic is when we're the most heroic of all” — John Dorian- scrubs Copy Share Image
I honestly think part of the appeal of 'Rumours' was that it was sort of heroic. We managed to push through in… — Lindsey Buckingham Copy Share Image
Whereas in a memory you edit things out and sort of restructure the things to seem a little bit more heroic, or… — Chris Ware Copy Share Image
I'm not building each one character around one metaphor, so much as trying to build a heroic archetype that can be used… — Kurt Busiek Copy Share Image
What the writers do, and we hopefully can bring to life, is that they present characters who, on the surface, aren't always… — Charlie Cox Copy Share Image
The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one's self a fool. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
A truley heroic way of life lies in squarely confronting and courageously overcoming the pounding vicissitudes that life always throws in our… — Daisaku Ikeda 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
Christianity is not the faith of the complacent, the comfortable or of the timid. It demands and creates heroic souls... — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
I'm not saying this in a condescending kind of way, but it's quite simple: The making of America was a heroic thing.… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
Remarkable. . . . Moskos manages to capture a world that most people know only through the distorting prism of television and… — Daniel Horan Copy Share Image
We all recall the cruel stepmother in fairy tales. That archetype is often a necessary element in a fairy tale so that… — David Richo Copy Share Image
Heroes come in all sizes, and you don't have to be a giant hero. You can be a very small hero. It's… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
As Charles Lamb says, there is nothing so nice as doing good by stealth and being found out by accident, so I… — William James Copy Share Image
“The heroic books, even if printed in the character of our mother tongue, will always be in a language dead to degenerate… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Find something useful to do with your morning,' she thought to him as she neared her chambers. 'Do something heroic in front… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
“Life is Not a perpetual climb towards Greatness. For our family, ourselves, and friends, It is but sad Decay, so, Let every… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
To be connected with the church is to be associated with scoundrels, warmongers, fakes, child-molesters, murderers, adulterers, and hypocrites of every description.… — Ronald Rolheiser Copy Share Image
In the heroic effort of the handcart pioneers, we learn a great truth. All must pass through a refiner’s fire, and the… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
“Heroes deal out vengeance, wiping out insults, and in an existential sense denying their own death. In twentieth-century camps, however, Todorov found,… — Edward E. Baptist 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
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
When we seek a textbook case for the proper operation of science, the correction of certain error offers far more promise than… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
When reading about what may be described as the lesser celebrated heroic figures of the Harlem Renaissance, we rarely get a definitive… — Aberjhani 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
The stories that spread today empower us and give us belief in our own heroic potential. — Jonah Sachs Copy Share Image
“People who never did a heroic deed themselves are very particular as to how heroes behave...” — Annie Brown Copy Share Image
I am a big believer in the power of journalism; it's a heroic pursuit. — Morgan Neville Copy Share Image
“the way music could break and heal and make everything seem possible and heroic.” — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
No less than war or statecraft, the history of Economics has its heroic ages. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I make dark dramas, movies about people living in desperate fear who then overcome that fear and find a heroic side to… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
