The coward makes himself cowardly, the hero makes himself heroic. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet. — Benjamin Cardozo Copy Share Image
A hero could be anyone who does something heroic, irrespective of the gender. — Vicky Kaushal Copy Share Image
If your descent is from heroic sires, Show in your life a remnant of their fires. — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Copy Share Image
When I hear a guy lost a battle to cancer, that really did bother me, that that's a term. It implies that… — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
I am still associated with a heroic period in French cinema, and my name remains linked to this period. — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
Damn, Claire. Warn a guy before you do a face-plant on the floor next time. I could have looked all heroic and… — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it… — Lascelles Abercrombie Copy Share Image
He would still see it as his duty to shut up and get on with it, not cause any trouble. In our… — Eddie Campbell Copy Share Image
He wanted to appear suddenly to her in novel and heroic colors. He wanted to stir her from that casualness she showed… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I was once invited to take part in a heroic, possibly fatal enterprise, but I declined, mainly on account of sloth. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“A heroic person walks at his ease through and out of that custom or precedent or authority that suits him not.” — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
I feel like I'll be defined more so by ... when I get a chance to play roles where I'm the father/husband.… — Michael Jai White Copy Share Image
There's a book that I read, really a great book - it's called 'Lone Survivor' and I think they're trying to make… — Jared Padalecki Copy Share Image
Without doing injustice to the living, it may safely be asserted that our loss is irreparable; and that among the shining hosts… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
If God does not enter your kitchen, there is something wrong with your kitchen. If you can't take God into your recreation,… — Peter Marshall Copy Share Image
There are two types of courage involved with what I did. When it comes to picking up a rifle, millions of people… — Daniel Ellsberg Copy Share Image
Nor is there wanting in the press Some spirit to stand simply forth, Heroic in it nakedness, Against the uttermost of earth.… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
The sin of capitalism, perhaps, is to make wants feel like needs, to give to simple silly stuff the urgency of near-physical… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
For me, writing a novel is more like digging a well than climbing a mountain - some heroic thing where I set… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
For a bag of pepper, they could cut each other's throats without hesitation, and would forswear their souls... The bizarre obstinacy of… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
No doubt Carlyle has a propensity to exaggerate the heroic in history, that is, he creates you an ideal hero rather than… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Hope and optimism are different. Optimism tends to be based on the notion that there's enough evidence out there to believe things… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Now this spirit is admirably mortified by the exercise of patience. It involves also a continual practice of the presence of God;… — Frederick William Faber Copy Share Image
There was about all the Romans a heroic tone peculiar to ancient life. Their virtues were great and noble, and these virtues… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
But that is the way of the place: down our many twisting corridors, one encounters story after story, some heroic, some villainous,… — Stephen L. Carter Copy Share Image
The ones I love most are the people who the flaws show. I like doing characters that we see the total person.… — Alfre Woodard Copy Share Image
“I used to read in books how our fathers persecuted mankind. But I never appreciated it. I did not really appreciate the… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Heroic deeds, to use whatever dower Heaven has bestowed, to test our utmost power. — Sarah Knowles Bolton Copy Share Image
The myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
tragedy in the theater opens our eyes so that we can discover and appreciate the heroic in reality. — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
People try to typecast astronauts as heroic and superhuman. We're only human beings. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think people respond to villains because people in general are more villainous than heroic. — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
