We must learn that passively to accept an unjust system is to cooperate with that system, and thereby to become a participant… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Playing big, heroic characters with heart is always a lot of fun. I enjoy making movies like that, and a lot of… — Dwayne Johnson Copy Share Image
Interestingly, it's as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey, the embodiment of the very adventure that all… — Alan Hirsch Copy Share Image
All of world's eyes are trained on the Games. So winning at that stage is heroic. It is a different feeling altogether… — Gagan Narang Copy Share Image
The amazing heroic women in labor, they are the truest inspiration, and when they push their babies into the light... I am… — Robin Lim Copy Share Image
My sonnet asserts that the sonnet still lives. My epic, should such fortune befall me, asserts that the heroic narrative is not… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
The past is only so heroic as we see it. It is the canvas on which our idea of heroism is painted,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I have played some of the great men in history and I believe in the great man who does heroic deeds, even… — Charlton Heston Copy Share Image
I've always felt heroic about my life... As a child, I remember little girls in the playground moaning about how boys could… — Vivienne Westwood Copy Share Image
Disease is surely one of the ways in which we are tried by life and offered the chance to be heroic. Though… — Bernie Siegel M.D Copy Share Image
If you look at the heroes of antiquity and myth, they all have flaws. It's something that they have to overcome; their… — Nicholas Meyer Copy Share Image
If the Philippines secure their independence after heroic and stubborn conflicts, they can rest assured that neither England, nor Germany, nor France,… — Jose Rizal Copy Share Image
I think that the romantic impulse is in all of us and that sometimes we live it for a short time, but… — Jane Campion Copy Share Image
Rama, the ancient idol of the heroic ages, the embodiment of truth, of morality, the ideal son, the ideal husband, and above… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
That man is good who does good to others; if he suffers on account of the good he does, he is very… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
You want to believe in black and white, good and evil, heroes that are truly heroic, villains that are just plain bad,… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
In this vast universe There is but one supreme truth- That God is our friend! By that truth meaning is given To… — Joshua L. Liebman Copy Share Image
Many heroic things happened during slavery. And remember that there was a national movement away from it even at the time. The… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
But the real life of a writer resides in showing up at the keyboard every day, with the necessary patience and mercy,… — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
At Waco, was there really an urgency to get those people out of the compound at that particular time? Was the press… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
The conquest of the fear of death is the recovery of life's joy. One can experience an unconditional affirmation of life only… — Joseph Campbell 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
Most of us are flawed, complicated people, and we're all trying very hard to disguise that or hide it from the public.… — Treat Williams 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
Compassion can shoulder the suffering of the entire world without feeling the slightest bit of pain. — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
All my artistic response comes from American things, and I guess I've always had a weakness for heroic imagery. — Edward Ruscha Copy Share Image
life is a tragic mystery. We are pierced and driven by laws we only half understand, we find that the lesson we… — Florida Scott-Maxwell Copy Share Image
The allure of military life and its heroic promise seem indestructible, but nothing threatens the romance of war more effectively than war… — Elizabeth Samet Copy Share Image
Now i'd like to tell u i did something heroic like stand up against a raging team of fire-breathing horses with only… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
We don't have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process of change. Small acts, when multiplied by millions… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part of earth's… — Richard Watson Gilder Copy Share Image
Majorian presents the welcome discovery of a great and heroic character, such as sometimes arise, in a degenerate age, to vindicate the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
True religion comes not front the teaching of men or the reading of books; it is the awakening of the spirit within… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Men have said that the cross of Christ was not a heroic thing, but I want to tell you that the cross… — John G. Lake Copy Share Image
I have nothing but the embittered sun; Banished heroic mother moon and vanished, And now that I have come to fifty years… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“I could have murdered a man today, but by not doing so I saved his life, and thus became a hero to… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
A real man would never cry in public unless he was watching a movie in which a heroic dog died to save… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Winston Churchill aroused this nation in heroic fashion to save civilisation in World War Two. We have everything we need except political… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
“Nothing makes a man feel more heroic than lying on the floor while his wife captures a criminal with a poinsettia” — Margaret Scherf Copy Share Image
In our age, self-indulgence and self-destruction, rather than self-sacrifice, are the foundations for new heroic myths. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
