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
Studies from universities in Holland and Berlin confirm that 80 percent of Muslims in the Netherlands believe it is a heroic deed… — Geert Wilders Copy Share Image
The course was more plodding than heroic: I did not strive valiantly against doubters but took incremental steps studded with a few… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
Men imagine that they communicate their virtue or vice only by overt actions, and do not see that virtue or vice emit… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is by no means necessary that a great nation should always stand at the heroic level. But no nation has the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
In my fool hardy youth, when my friends were dreaming of heroic deeds in the realms of engineering and law, finance and… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
“His character would be blamed, loathed, discussed, and adored – but somewhere there, behind his mask of a hero, Cardew would remain… — Simona Panova Copy Share Image
If you bring that scrappy fierceness with you it works until you get big, when really pushing all the way really feels… — Travis Kalanick Copy Share Image
You know, it shouldn't just be about women as heroic figures overcoming things, it just needs to be about women in general… — Diablo Cody 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
Not everything that is good make everyone happy. A heroic act may be considered as an act of a villain by others.… — Frank Matobo Copy Share Image
It is impossible to put into words what we have been through. What happened exceeded our boldest dreams. The Germans fled twice… — Mordechai Anielewicz Copy Share Image
We believe that business is good because it creates value. It is ethical because it is based on voluntary exchange; it is… — John Mackey Copy Share Image
There is a power in love to divine another's destiny better than that other can, and by heroic encouragements, hold him to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
How many attractions for us have our passing fellows in the streets, both male and female, which our ethics forbid us to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Sadly, a prize for peace is a rarity in this world. Most nations have monuments or memorials to war, bronze salutations to… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in embarrassing the United States. We as a nation need to foster a broader understanding of national security, and… — Ryan Shapiro Copy Share Image
The element of heroic maleness had always been present in the concept of the artist as one who rides the winged horse… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
exile is strangely compelling to think about but terrible to experience. It is the unhealable rift forced between a human being and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As agonizing a disease as cancer is, I do not think it can be said that our civilization is threatened by it.… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Climbing is a heroic liberating act; and height spontaneously symbolizes things of high value, be it in the value of worldly power… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
What we accomplished during World War Two is just amazing. We turned our country upside down. African Americans were demanding to be… — Margaret D. Klein Copy Share Image
It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly… — Rollo May 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
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
Explore your mind, discover yourself, then give the best that is in you to your age and to your world. There are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Without the high and noble the simple and vulgar is utterly mean; and without the simple and ordinary the noble and heroic… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Disastrous would have been the result if a fire or a death had suddenly demanded something heroic of human nature, but tragedies… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
As a child, I was always drawn to heroic characters. I decided I wanted to act when I realised that Superman and… — Orlando Bloom Copy Share Image
Every heroic act measures itself by its contempt of some external good. But it finds its own success at last, and then… — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
“And now she had learnt that not only to will, but also to pray, was a necessary condition in the truly heroic.” — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
Heroic ages are not and never were sentimental and those daring conquistadores who conquered entire worlds for their Spain or Portugal received… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
The heart becomes heroic through passion. It is no longer composed of anything but what is pure; it no longer rests upon… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary - they are in the true… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Let us not be too much acquainted. I would have a man enter his house through a hall filled with heroic and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary. — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Government has got to invest more money in our NHS. The people who work in it are heroic. They do an amazing… — Michael Gove Copy Share Image
A lot of the characters I've played before are heroic or invincible in some ways and not tuned into fear and anxiety… — Jason Statham Copy Share Image
I think for some reason we're conditioned in movies that the protagonist must be heroic or redeemable in some way, whereas in… — Oscar Isaac Copy Share Image
