Those Victorians: endlessly fascinating, broad in their learning, heroic in their achievements, in parts completely mad. — Simon Heffer Copy Share Image
We've made some heroic efforts, but the Earth as a whole is in worse shape today than 30 years ago, ... There's… — Denis Hayes 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
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
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
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
Woe to the people that fails to honor its heroes! It will cease producing them, cease knowing them. Heroes spring from the… — Rudolf Hess Copy Share Image
We are all inspired by the incredible stories of handicapped people who write novels with their toes, cancer victims who run marathons… — Danah Zohar Copy Share Image
While the Second World War brought about untold misery and suffering, it was also a time when the world witnessed extraordinary bravery.… — Sam Kutesa Copy Share Image
Adam has always had . . . heroic tendencies.” I touched Adam’s arm. “He’s my hero.” There was another pause. . .… — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
Perhaps in our presence, the most heroic deed on earth is done in some silent spirit, the loftiest purpose cherished, the most… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
Every rebel is, with us, more or less a soldier who has missed his vocation, a being made for a heroic life… — Ernest Renan Copy Share Image
I was hugely impressed... was the ultimate example of a man who knew what he didn't know, was perfectly willing to admit… — Randy Pausch Copy Share Image
First, Poland has been again overrun by two of the great powers which held her in bondage for 150 years but were… — Winston Churchill 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
“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
“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
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
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
A noble life crowned with heroic death, rises above and outlives the pride and pomp and glory of the mightiest empire of… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
No animal, according to the rules of animal-etiquette, is ever expected to do anything strenuous, or heroic, or even moderately active during… — Kenneth Grahame Copy Share Image
If there's reason for hope, it lies in man's occasional binges of cooperation. To save our planet, we'll need that kind of… — George Meyer Copy Share Image
Commonplace though it may appear, this doing of one's duty embodies the highest ideal of life and character. There may be nothing… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
We are passing into a social phase in which unless a heroic effort is made for human dignity and freedom, gold will… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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
If we cannot come together to pause, to respect our dead and the heroic lives of meaning they led, then ours is… — Mark McKinnon Copy Share Image
But whoso is heroic must find crises to try his edge. Human virtue demands her champions and martyrs, and the trial of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does… — Aristotle 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
