As polishing expresses the vein in marble, and grain in wood, so music brings out what of heroic lurks anywhere. The hero… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Virtue is but heroic bravery, to do the thing thought to be true, in spite of all enemies of flesh or spirit,… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
But despite their heroic acts, the Vietnam Veterans of America continued to struggle to establish a combat badge in honor of these… — Tim Holden Copy Share Image
I'm not great at fear. I made the least frightening vampire show ever on TV. I'm pretty much good at heroic narratives… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
One of the rules I try to follow is that normal people are going to be involved even in heroic events — David Brin 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
In this watering-place I acted an heroic character, badly studied; and being a novice on such a stage, I forgot my part… — Adelbert von Chamisso Copy Share Image
“The most fulfilling romance is an heroic relationship with yourself. You live and die by your own imagination.” — Dean Cavanagh Copy Share Image
The dream of my life has risen to become fact. Self-defense in the ghetto will have been a reality. Jewish armed resistance… — Mordechai Anielewicz Copy Share Image
Hope is easy; knowledge is hard. Science is the one domain in which we human beings make a truly heroic effort to… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
To me, he's a hero, ... He's not polite. He's not someone you want to take home to meet your mother, necessarily.… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
It is these undeniable qualities of human love and compassion and self-sacrifice that give me hope for the future. We are, indeed,… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Talk English to me, Tommy. Parlez francais avec moi, Nicole. But the meanings are different-- in French you can be heroic and… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
True loyalty consists not in bowing the knee to earthly greatness, or in heroic deeds to "gild the kingly knave, or garnish… — James Ellis Copy Share Image
“Do not call us heroes. Not if you are calling us that in order to absolve yourself of guilt over sending us… — Barbara Nickless Copy Share Image
Obviously, despite hard work and heroic efforts, many dreams don't come true. But if we don't dare to dream and then throw… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
“In the campaign of 1876, Robert G. Ingersoll came to Madison to speak. I had heard of him for years; when I… — Robert M. La Follette Copy Share Image
Is it not manifest that our academic institutions should have a wider scope; that they should not be timid and keep the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When we seek a textbook case for the proper operation of science, the correction of certain error offers far more promise than… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Perhaps the heroic element in our natures is exhibited to the best advantage, not in going from success to success, and so… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
I suspect it was...the old story of the implacable necessity of a man having honour within his own natural spirit. A man… — Laurens van der Post Copy Share Image
With hearts that believe in Allah's will and predetermination, we have received the news about the martyrdom of the martyr. . .… — Yasser Arafat Copy Share Image
A broadsheet obituarist once pointed out to me that veteran soldiers die by rank. First to go are the generals, admirals and… — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
The Saga of Dharmapuri is one of the great works of modern Indian literature. (...) Set against Vijayan's heroic and scatological Candide… — David Selbourne Copy Share Image
“I want to do something splendid...something heroic or wonderful that won't be forgotten after I'm dead. I don't know what, but I'm… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to continue to be heroic days. — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
I suppose all fictional characters, especially in adventure or heroic fiction, at the end of the day are our dreams about ourselves.… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
The script of 'Shaapit' was such that the leading man couldn't be shown indulging into anything heroic. — Vikram Bhatt Copy Share Image
This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
I like writing about women, weak and strong, pathetic and heroic. I like writing about men, ditto. And all the variants of… — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
Keep out of this," Lucian said. "I'm not smiting anybody." "You're showing mercy." Catch-a-Tick nodded. "That's heroic, too. But not as good… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
“People become followers of the God because of his fear, but they become a fan of a hero because of his work.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“In some significant aspects, heroes are born, not made. Heroic qualities flow through a person's veins like an undercurrent, ready to be… — Mo Yan Copy Share Image
I salute all the nations of the Arab Spring and I salute the heroic people of Syria who are striving for freedom,… — Ismail Haniyeh Copy Share Image
True heroism consists in being superior to the ills of life, in whatever shape they may challenge us to combat. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
As well as tasting fantastic, blackberries are good for you. Anthocyanin isn't just a pigment, it's a flavonoid, a heroic antioxidant! The… — Alice Roberts Copy Share Image
“Yeah, who's this Leo guy anyway?" "How would he even know where we are? He's not a problem." "False: I'm Leo, and… — Hazel Blackthorn Copy Share Image
“She and Lisa always called that kind of snow heroic, because a person could do no wrong in it. Everyone skied like… — Kaya McLaren Copy Share Image
In such misfortunes my Mother was of an heroic spirit, in suffering patiently when there was no remedy, and being industrious where… — Margaret Cavendish Copy Share Image
A heroic moral victory for the New York Mets. It may be the only kind of victory we're achieving this season, but… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
