When you do something stupid and die, it's pathetic," I said. "When you do something stupid and survive it, then you get… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“The bosun knew, as you and I perhaps do not, that there is a big difference between being afraid and being a… — Matt Suddain Copy Share Image
I think we are drawn to anti-heroes because that is what most of us are most of the time and it is… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration. — Warren G. Harding Copy Share Image
The determination in your heroic effort Will permeate your mind and heart Even after your success or failure Is long forgotten. — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
Oliver Sacks remains my hero to this day. He was one of the first medical writers I read. The other was Lewis… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
What makes one heroic? - Going out to meet at the same time one's highest suffering and one's highest hope. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I like the tradition of ordinary men in extraordinary circumstances and how they react to events which force them to be heroic… — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
Consequently, the value and importance of the monarchic idea cannot reside in the person of the monarch himself except if Heaven decides… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Writing is more than anything a compulsion, like some people wash their hands thirty times a day for fear of awful consequences… — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
Great men need to be lifted upon the shoulders of the whole world, in order to conceive their great ideas or perform… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
The human response it calls for is truly heroic, requiring nothing short of rewiring the entire planet with a new generation of… — Eban Goodstein Copy Share Image
I'm definitely good. I'm not bad; I'm extremely honest, and I allow no bullshit to pass by my radar. And that will… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
My sisters both are working mothers. I understand that my being an actress as well as being at home isn't some heroic… — Jennifer Garner Copy Share Image
You don't need to be a fan of wars or militarism to note that heroic action - whether being prepared to be… — Claire Fox Copy Share Image
But there are still only certain film genres where a woman can stand out, be heroic, be the centerpiece. — Sarah Michelle Gellar Copy Share Image
When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the… — C.P. Snow Copy Share Image
We must be prepared to make the same heroic sacrifices for the cause of peace that we make ungrudgingly for the cause… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
An epic is not made by piecing together a set of heroic lays, adjusting their discrepancies and making them into a continuous… — Lascelles Abercrombie Copy Share Image
I answer the heroic question, 'Death, where is thy sting?' with 'It is in my heart and mind and memories. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I think of few heroic actions, which cannot be traced to the artistical impulse. He who does great deeds, does them from… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Women who have successfully run that gantlet to get the care they needed or wanted are heroic. But it's clear they should… — Jonathan Capehart Copy Share Image
For church planters, the motivation is not about the romantic or heroic venture ... it is because you realize you can't not… — Dan Kimball Copy Share Image
“The mark of the true hero is that the most heroic of his deeds is done in secret. We never hear of… — Erika Johansen Copy Share Image
No where else in Christianity does the terrible or heroic name of Armageddon play such role as in America. Not even in… — Jürgen Moltmann Copy Share Image
“I’d scale the tallest tree, just to surreptitiously watch you sunbathe naked. So the real question is, does that make me romantic—or… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“To be heroic does not have to mean possessing the ability to stand against the evils of the world, either well or… — Mike Alsford Copy Share Image
The quality of films out there depends on how much responsibility we're willing to take. I try to play women who are… — Cheryl Ladd Copy Share Image
The Japanese covet important symbols - their heroic past as enshrined in Yasukuni, the Imperial family which has never been sullied by… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
Of all of men's inborn dispositions there is none more heroic than love. Love will fight no-love every inch of the way. — Laurens van der Post Copy Share Image
It is impossible to strive for the heroic life. The title of hero is bestowed by the survivors upon the fallen, who… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Heroic dreams are the consolation of the unhappy. After all, when people like us say we're being heroic, it usually means we're… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
In my fantasies, I was always caught up in heroic struggles, and I saw myself saving lives, sacrificing myself for others. I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My characters are never heroic. They are mostly lost and trying to find the right door to open and they end up… — Gaspar Noe Copy Share Image
Revival comes from heaven when heroic souls enter the conflict determined to win or die - or if need be, to win… — Charles Grandison Finney Copy Share Image
I like women who are so real that they become as cowardly as certain men, as heroic as others and as sexual… — Danielle Arbid Copy Share Image
Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Traditionally the Nude was used to express formulations about life as larger-than-life, as Heroic or Ideal... The nude is not a 'genre'… — Isabel Bishop Copy Share Image