He who would write heroic poems should make his whole life a heroic poem. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
What passes for identity in America is a series of myths about one's heroic ancestors. — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something you have to be all the time. — Luigi Pirandello Copy Share Image
Mandela today is almost universally held as a heroic freedom fighter, and of course rightly so. — Ryan Shapiro Copy Share Image
He found that it was easy to make a heroic gesture, but hard to abide by its results. — W. Somerset Maugham 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
Because that is when you love somebody - when you see them being game in the face of the worst. Not courageous.… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
My younger brother's death in Vietnam was both sobering and cause for reflection. In 'Fallen Angels' I wanted to dispel the notion… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
If I programmed my own TV network, it would air good news! Just positive stories. Heroic stories. Cute puppy dogs doin' stuff. — Jennifer Aniston Copy Share Image
Suicides aren't heroic in my opinion. And I don't think anybody ever really knows why somebody commits suicide. — Alex Gibney Copy Share Image
The discovery of God lies in the daily and the ordinary, not in the spectacular and the heroic. If we cannot find… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
“The Coward will run away from danger, only to strike in the dark. The Heroine will run through the dark, even though… — David A. Cleinman Copy Share Image
The quest for heroic adventure then is a quest for the gospel, although it might not be seen that way by everyone. — Alan Hirsch Copy Share Image
When Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's government fell in May 1940, the nation turned to Churchill. At last, his unique qualities were brought… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
If you know with a complete absence of doubt that what you are doing is consistent with your own purpose and that… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
It's all about trying to make the world and the universe a better place. I'm proud to be connected with it. I… — Leonard Nimoy Copy Share Image
Even as she’d come to know the real Ralston—the Ralston who was not cut from heroic cloth—Callie had failed to see the… — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
And as cynical and jaded as many have become, you see the heroic nature of cops, who put aside a lot of… — Veena Sud Copy Share Image
I adore going to movie sets and being part of a team trying to create something. And yet, I hate to miss… — Jennifer Garner Copy Share Image
I am indeed willing to acknowledge what I have done, an error and presumption. I will call it an error and presumption… — Deborah Sampson Copy Share Image
Tragedy enlightens - and it must, in that it points the heroic finger at the enemy of man's freedom. The thrust for… — Arthur Miller 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
What passes for identity in America is a series of myths about one's heroic ancestors. It's astounding to me, for example, that… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
The anti-hero or hero usually has a journey or quest so they are interesting as you find out what's going to happen,… — Keanu Reeves Copy Share Image
The 'black armband' view of our history reflects a belief that most Australian history since 1788 has been little more than a… — John Howard Copy Share Image
I used to defend the West Wing show from the charge of sentimentality or wish-fulfilment, because I think if you do go… — Bradley Whitford 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
They, all of them, work incredibly hard to make me seem clever and heroic, neither of which I am. — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
In proportion as we perceive and embrace the truth do we become just, heroic, magnanimous, divine. — William Lloyd Garrison Copy Share Image
Freedom requires no effort to enjoy but requires heroic efforts to preserve. — Richard G. Scott Copy Share Image
Very few of my characters are totally heroic or totally villainous. — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
There's always something heroic and romantic about taking a stand against the powers that be. — Greg Gutfeld Copy Share Image
