In the hands of the discoverer, medicine becomes a heroic art . . wherever life is dear he is a demigod. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
How much pleasure they lose (and even the pleasures of heroic poesy are not unprofitable) who take away the liberty of a… — William Davenant Copy Share Image
Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways,… — Bryant H. McGill Copy Share Image
Sometimes she went so far as to wish that she should find herself in a difficult position, so that she might have… — Henry James Copy Share Image
I asked this heroic pet lover how it felt to have died for a schnauzer named Teddy. Salvador Biagiani was philosophical. He… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Our debt to the heroic men and valiant women in the service of our country can never be repaid. They have earned… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
“Someone heroic and valiant, not merely skilled in speech; someone who is kind and pure in heart. Someone who does not play… — Sarah Mally Copy Share Image
I would love for people to think that I am as quick, clever, smart and heroic as the characters that I write,… — Aaron Sorkin 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
We are all inspired by the incredible stories of handicapped people who write novels with their toes, cancer victims who run marathons… — Danah Zohar Copy Share Image
While the Second World War brought about untold misery and suffering, it was also a time when the world witnessed extraordinary bravery.… — Sam Kutesa Copy Share Image
Adam has always had . . . heroic tendencies.” I touched Adam’s arm. “He’s my hero.” There was another pause. . .… — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
Every rebel is, with us, more or less a soldier who has missed his vocation, a being made for a heroic life… — Ernest Renan Copy Share Image
Heroic figures are now obsolete,So Demigod and Devil find retreatIn minds of children - as rare beasts and men,Elsewhere extinct, persist in… — Osbert Sitwell 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
Surrender means that the history of this heroic struggle will be written by the enemy; that our youth will be trained by… — Patrick Cleburne Copy Share Image
“here’s the thing about being a hero: Only a few ever make it into the history books. Every day, people do heroic… — Yasmine Galenorn Copy Share Image
Liberty without discipline cannot survive. Without order and authority in the spirit of man the free way of life leads through weakness,… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
He says he had to go help someone in a desperate situation. Who, exactly, he refuses to say. He doesn’t know when… — Katie MacAlister Copy Share Image
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
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
Are you the new person drawn toward me? To begin with, take warning - I am surely far different from what you… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Character cannot be summoned at the moment of crisis if it has been squandered by years of compromise and rationalization. The only… — Dan Coats Copy Share Image
Of course, both [Oscar] Wilde & [Vladimir] Nabokov believe in many things, and these things emerge in their writing clearly - for… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Some people might say my coming out after just winning the MVP award is heroic, and I understand that, — Sheryl Swoopes Copy Share Image
Alfred Hitchcock, Isaac Newton, Elvis Presley, Captain Bligh, they're heroic or pathetic depending on which book you buy. — Bob Seger Copy Share Image
Armenia is dying, but it will survive. The little blood that it still has left is precious blood that will give birth… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
A Lady with a Lamp shall stand In the great history of the land, A noble type of good, Heroic womanhood. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
There is nothing man desires more than a heroic life: there is nothing less common to men than heroism. — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
The Border Ballads, for instance, and the Robin Hood Ballads, clearly suppose a state of society which is nothing but a very… — Lascelles Abercrombie Copy Share Image
There's an idea of the Plains as the middle of nowhere, something to be contemptuous of. But it's really a heroic place. — Ian Frazier Copy Share Image
There's nothing more noble than a father and mother making an opportunity for their child, knowing that their life is gonna be… — Kevin Costner Copy Share Image
I was never able to write seriously about heroes because I was very aware that I was not one and that in… — Robert Sheckley Copy Share Image
How much we forgive to those who yield us the rare spectacle of heroic manners! We will pardon them the want of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I've always thought like I'm really a 3-feet-high comic trapped in a leading man's body... but then I played Nicholas Nickleby, and… — Roger Rees Copy Share Image
This obsession with leadership... It's not neutral; it's American, this idea of the heroic leader who comes in on a white horse… — Henry Mintzberg Copy Share Image
I've not seen in my lifetime any politician who is a heroic figure. The manipulation that all politicians use on one level… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“There are indeed no dead heroes or heroines; for they are still breathing through their undying legacies.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
My stepfather stepped in where no man would've stepped in - six kids, five of them boys - and that's heroic. — Tim Allen Copy Share Image
I like books that expose me to people unlike me and books that do battle against caricature or simplification. That, to me,… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
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