I think there are good men and women in all decades. We've grown cynical. And look at what we do to all… — Kevin Costner Copy Share Image
Many heroic exploits and chivalrous adventures are related to me which exist only in the regions of fancy. With me the world… — Daniel Boone Copy Share Image
She refused to think of Neil, brave and quiet, whose reward for a heroic rescue was to be slowly devoured by strange… — Brandon Mull 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
Whatever may be their use in civilized societies, mirrors are essential to all violent and heroic action. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Friendship, in the old heroic sense of that term, no longer exists. It is in reality no longer expected or recognized as… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Despite the persistent image of the architect as a heroic loner erecting monumental edifices through sheer force of will, the building art… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
There's nothing romantic, nothing grand, nothing heroic, nothing brave, nothing like that about drinking. It's a real coward's death. — Warren Zevon 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
Sharona Muir has written a gripping personal memoir about her odyssey to rediscover and reclaim her father. Along the way she uncovers… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
The year 1896 ... marked the beginning of what has been aptly termed the heroic age of Physical Science. Never before in… — Ernest Rutherford Copy Share Image
Im all about entertaining and keeping a reader on the edge of their seat, so to me, the social issues have to… — Andrew Gross Copy Share Image
“For most of the universe's inhabitants, life is not all gummy wads and tarty tarts; is a struggle against hardship, unfairness, corruption,… — Frank Beddor Copy Share Image
You can raise good children in single parent households, and many of you perhaps here today come from that type of environment.… — Sam Brownback Copy Share Image
It is heroic to prepare for war with a tyrant power. Patriots will always win the admiration of mankind for daring to… — John Boyle O'Reilly Copy Share Image
Somehow super power and hero are so synonymous that they get combined into one word, 'superhero,' whereas I'm kind of more interested… — Doug Liman Copy Share Image
Soil is not usually lost in slabs or heaps of magnificent tonnage. It is lost a little at a time over millions… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Democracy doesn't mean much if people have to confront concentrated systems of economic power as isolated individuals. Democracy means something if people… — Noam Chomsky 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
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
It concerns me when I see a small child watching the hero shoot the villain on television. It is teaching the small… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
What does seem to me poisonous, what breeds a type of patriotism that is pernicious if it lasts but not likely to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Gospel preachers nowadays preach the gospel of the Crucifixion, the Apostles preached the gospel of the Resurrection as well. The Crucifixion loses… — R. A. Torrey Copy Share Image
I did a different size of photograph at the FIAT gallery - this time the images are 30" by 40," so they're… — Scott Schuman Copy Share Image
Our best presidents have really combined domestic leadership with heroic achievements in foreign affairs or war. — Allan Lichtman Copy Share Image
Look, all administrations, all governments lie, all officials lie and nothing they say is to be believed. That's a pretty good rule. — Daniel Ellsberg 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
“She was fierce in the presence of death, heroic even, as she was at no other time. Its threat gave her direction,… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Well, I'm a character actor, and actually throughout my life I've... I have relatively speaking played few heroic leads, but I've done… — Rene Auberjonois Copy Share Image
“A heroic person walks at his ease through and out of that custom or precedent or authority that suits him not.” — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
May all of you as Americans never forget your heroic origins, never fail to seek Divine guidance, and never lose your natural… — Ronald Reagan 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
Oaths and curses are a proof of a most heroic courage, at least in appearance, which answers the same end. — Mary Collyer 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
Do one heroic thing today; big or small doesn't matter because it defines who you are and what you really believe — Bob Goff Copy Share Image
Don't scale because you think there's a pot of gold over that rainbow. Scale because you're ready and eager to do heroic… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure-- fearlessness and achievement. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
An ordinary life examined closely reveals itself to be exquisite and complicated and exceptional, somehow managing to be both heroic and plain. — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
Avatars are a way to express our true selves, our most heroic, idealized version of who we might become. — Jane McGonigal 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
