Happiness is not fame or riches or heroic virtues, but a state that will inspire posterity to think in reflecting upon our… — Herodotus Copy Share Image
I was born at six months, and I weighed 900 grams [less than two pounds]. I have a very heroic birth story. — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
I would love to do something like 'Beverly Hills Cop'. I'd get to be funny and cool and heroic all in the… — Ja Rule Copy Share Image
Passive resistance is a sport for gentleman (and ladies)-just like the pursuit of war, a heroic enterprise for the ruling classes but… — Kenneth Kaunda Copy Share Image
I guess I'm always drawn to the underbelly of someone, really, as opposed to how heroic they are. I don't judge those… — Daniel Mays Copy Share Image
The best perfection of a religious man is to do common things in a perfect manner. A constant fidelity in small things… — Bonaventure Copy Share Image
Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure. There is no security in following the call to adventure. Nothing… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I love characters who are clever and smart, and you have to run to catch up with. I think there's something very… — David Tennant Copy Share Image
He is like to be mistaken who makes choice of a covetous man for a friend, or relieth upon the reed of… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
Cowards never won heaven. Do not claim that you are begotten of God and you have His royal blood running in your… — William Gurnall Copy Share Image
They may be called the Palace Guard, the City Guard, or the Patrol. Whatever the name, their purpose in any work of… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I don't want to sound like a heroic woman or to seem full of myself, but I do have a core of… — Julie Taymor Copy Share Image
Courage is a terribly important value. It means you don't run away when things are tough. It means you don't turn away… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
As human beings, of course, we're all compromised and complex and contradictory and if a screenplay can express those contradictions within a… — Hugo Weaving Copy Share Image
If things go wrong, I'll lead them away. Once it's clear, get back to the car. If you don't see me in… — Derek Landy Copy Share Image
Not for Moorcock the painful, infrequent excretion of dry little novels like so many rabbit pellets; his is the grand, messy fluxitself,… — Angela Carter 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
The only absolutely and unapproachably heroic element in the soldier's work seems to be-that he is paid little for it-and regularly. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The idea of the solitary hero can be quite an unhealthy one, and we need to pool our efforts and be heroic… — Rob Hopkins Copy Share Image
Our children long for realistic maps of the future that they can be proud of. Where are the cartographers of human purpose? — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
To be a leader in this new economy, you have to love risk-which means patterning your life on the heroic, not on… — Harriet Rubin Copy Share Image
He all their ammunition And feats of war defeats With plain heroic magnitude of mind And celestial vigour armed; — John Milton Copy Share Image
I admire Bruce Springsteen because he's a heroic person who has lots of integrity and has this incredible body of work that… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
I deem as heroic those who have the harder task, face it unflinchingly and live. In this world women do that. — James Salter Copy Share Image
You don't encounter anyone who is not hero or villain of their own story. If it's man vs. self, you have to… — Kit Williamson Copy Share Image
Achilles' absolute, like every heroic absolute, finds its telos or fulfillment, not in dislocating the world as it is, but in self-destruction. — Cedric H Whitman Copy Share Image
There is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I always feel freelance writers are leading a heroic life. I think that is the real writer's life. On the other hand,… — Tom Paulin Copy Share Image
“Be a craftsman in speech that thou mayest be strong, for the strength of one is the tongue, and speech is mightier… — Ptahhotep Copy Share Image
Older people are most beautiful when they have what is lacking in the young: poise, erudition, wisdom, phronesis, and this post-heroic absence… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
He lives out in Orchard Park. I mean, to be able to sit on the bench so patiently, for whatever part, and… — Robert Creeley Copy Share Image
To Be Successful You Don't Need Beautiful Face And Heroic Body, What You Need is Skillful Mind And Ability To Perform — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
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