States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing. — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
The heroic man does not pose; he leaves that for the man who wishes to be thought heroic. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
If there must be madness, something may be said for having it on a heroic scale — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
“My name is heroic. You just have to rearrange all the letters, and possibly replace a few.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Some spirit to stand simply forth, Heroic in its nakedness, Against the uttermost of earth… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
“What had not changed, though, was the heroic spirit of responsibility amid blood and failure. This struck me as the true image… — Paul Kalanithi Copy Share Image
What the writers do, and we hopefully can bring to life, is that they present characters who, on the surface, aren't always… — Charlie Cox Copy Share Image
I honestly think part of the appeal of 'Rumours' was that it was sort of heroic. We managed to push through in… — Lindsey Buckingham Copy Share Image
Whereas in a memory you edit things out and sort of restructure the things to seem a little bit more heroic, or… — Chris Ware Copy Share Image
Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
I should say sincerity, a deep, great, genuine sincerity, is the first characteristic of all men in any way heroic. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Some men make gain a fountain, whence proceeds A stream of liberal and heroic deeds; The swell of pity, not to be… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
The function of (heroic) symbols is to give you a sense of Aha! Yes, I know what it is, it's myself. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“Life is Not a perpetual climb towards Greatness. For our family, ourselves, and friends, It is but sad Decay, so, Let every… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
Find something useful to do with your morning,' she thought to him as she neared her chambers. 'Do something heroic in front… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
“In his youth, he was electrified. The stars were moving in his bloodstream. He would not have been cowed by the customs… — Brenna Yovanoff 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
As Charles Lamb says, there is nothing so nice as doing good by stealth and being found out by accident, so I… — William James Copy Share Image
We all recall the cruel stepmother in fairy tales. That archetype is often a necessary element in a fairy tale so that… — David Richo Copy Share Image
Heroes come in all sizes, and you don't have to be a giant hero. You can be a very small hero. It's… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
Geography was not furthered by the achievement, scientific progress was scarcely hastened, and nothing new was discovered. Yet the names of Hillary… — Edmund Hillary Copy Share Image
I think thing that makes Batman so endlessly interesting is that he's one of the most flawed and deeply human characters, even… — Scott Snyder Copy Share Image
I think there is a disrespect for the mind that Trump, for example, exemplifies. His is a kind of strategic thinking that's… — Joan Wallach Scott Copy Share Image
It's a stark thought that when we die most of us will leave behind uneaten biscuits, unused coffee, half toilet rolls, half… — Steven Hall Copy Share Image
More investment trusts securities were offered in September of 1929 even than in August - the total was above $600 million. However,… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
With subjectivity in philosophy, anarchism in politics goes hand in hand. Already during Luther's lifetime, unwelcome and unacknowledged disciples had developed the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Gargoyles were the complement to saints; Leonardo's caricatures were complementary to his untiring search for ideal beauty. And gargoyles were the expression… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
When I was thirteen, I had a nervous breakdown, and I was put into this grown-up mental hospital with all these 50-,… — Duncan Roy Copy Share Image
If emancipation of the working classes requires their fraternal conncurrence, how are they to fulfill that great mission with a foreign policy… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“True glory and the essence of life lies in the pro-creation and re-actment of heroic meaning.” — VD Copy Share Image
We don't relate to her too much because you don't want the heroic character to not be heroic. — Radha Mitchell Copy Share Image
It's not a one time heroic moment but is living each day with bravery. — Renzo Gracie Copy Share Image
What makes us heroic?--Confronting simultaneously our supreme suffering and our supreme hope. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I will always be the hopeless romantic, more often pathetic than heroic. — Chris Lowell Copy Share Image
There is no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a biography, the life of a man. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
People have their complexities. They have their heroic moments and their villainous moments, too. — Ryan Reynolds Copy Share Image
