People saw me as being heroic, but I was no more heroic than I was with other injuries I had, like the… — Eric Davis Copy Share Image
At all costs the true world of childhood must prevail, must be restored; that world whose momentous, heroic, mysterious quality is fed… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
[W]hen I see men callously and cheerfully denying women the full use of their bodies, while insisting with sobs and howls on… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
I suppose there must be some way in which I'm compelled to show some side of myself - or of people -… — Paul Giamatti Copy Share Image
The Life of Johnson is assuredly a great, a very great work. Homer is not more decidedly the first of heroic poets.… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
If an American is concerned only about his nation, he will not be concerned about the peoples of Asia, Africa, or South… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The news of the open military help to Franco from Hitler and Mussolini, and the heroic resistance of the people of Madrid,… — Bill Alexander Copy Share Image
“Who is better off? The one who writes to revel in the voluptuousness of the life that surrounds them? Or the one… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
But why,... if you have a serious comment to make on the real life of men, must you do it by talking… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
In commemoration of the fact that France was our ally in securing independence the citizens of that nation joined with the citizens… — William Jennings Bryan Copy Share Image
To me, it feels like 'The Doctor' has to have a long coat, and that's something imprinted on me from childhood, because… — David Tennant Copy Share Image
“He must have stood there for a long time, making a list of all the terrible things he had done—almost killinng me… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
I think on some level, that's a fear that exists in everybody, that if we're tested, we won't make the courageous choice.… — Bruce Greenwood Copy Share Image
Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become heroes over… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Baseball is a spirited race of man against man, reflex against reflex. A game of inches. Every skill is measured. Every heroic,… — Ernie Harwell Copy Share Image
The United States and the freedom for which it stands, the freedom for which they died, must endure and prosper. Their lives… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The majority of people are ready to throw their aims and purposes overboard, and give up at the first sign of opposition… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
When I was younger, not being accepted made me enraged, but now, I am not inclined to dismantle my history. If you… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
[About the great synthesis of atomic physics in the 1920s:] It was a heroic time. It was not the doing of any… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
The so-called Christian virtues of humility, love, charity, personal freedom, the strong prohibitions against violence, murder, stealing, lying, cruelty-all these are washed… — John T. Flynn Copy Share Image
“I'm not ashamed of heroic ambitions. If man and woman can only dance upon this earth for a few countable turns of… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
I believe that you and I - and everyone we'll ever meet - has the inborn capacity to be heroic, to take… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
We don't tend to write about disease in fiction - not just teen novels but all American novels - because it doesn't… — John Green Copy Share Image
Lack of confidence, sometimes alternating with unrealistic dreams of heroic success, often leads to procrastination, and many studies suggest that procrastinators are… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of utmost importance; very… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I think most of us maintain some sort of fantasy in our minds that we are heroes, if only secretly, that we… — Megan Fox Copy Share Image
Creating these messes that go from administration to administration and then you swoop in and clean them up - with that heroic… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
The heroic example of other days is in great part the source of the courage of each generation; and men walk up… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
Human nature, at its best, had always been based on a deep heroic restlessness, on wanting something-something else, something more, whether it… — Will Ferguson Copy Share Image
My mother, as a girl, had remembered this woman from Maine, someone who was part of the extended family somehow, and I… — Patricia MacLachlan Copy Share Image
The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
We have taught our people to use prayer too much as a means of comfort - not in the original and heroic… — Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy Copy Share Image
One of the oddest features of western Christianized culture is its ready acceptance of the myth of the stable family and the… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
People will say it's sad that she leaves a lesser scar, that fewer remember her, that she was loved deeply but not… — John Green Copy Share Image
The first thought that I had about really trying to get sober was, 'Man, I could do a lot of good in… — Steve-O Copy Share Image
I'd love to say something heroic. I'd love to say we made history. But basically it was a bunch of guys parked… — Greg Noll Copy Share Image
Our boys in Iraq are the fucking real heroes, putting their lives on the line for their country. There is nothing more… — Aaron Johnson Copy Share Image
I encourage the translators of my books to take as much license as they feel that they need. This is not quite… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
The heroic New York doctor who caught Ebola has been declared Ebola free. President Obama called the doctor to thank him for… — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
I declare that civil war is inevitable and is near at hand. When it comes the descendants of the heroes of Lexington… — Sam Houston Copy Share Image