One of the jobs of a writer is to add nuance and ambiguity to that straight line that people often draw to… — John Green Copy Share Image
Everyone should be taught the nobility of labor, the heroism and splendor of honest effort. As long as it is considered disgraceful… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Rosa Parks was the queen mother of a movement whose single act of heroism sparked the movement for freedom, justice and equality.… — Marc Morial Copy Share Image
I find it difficult to believe that I belong to such an idiotic, rotten species - the species that actually boasts of… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Though much is taken, much abides; and though We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven,… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
“Edmund felt despair eating away at his victory. "Why is the world like this?" He shivered. "Why does it feel so cold,… — Matthew Jobin Copy Share Image
Mankind's common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism. In heroism, we feel, life's… — William James Copy Share Image
We are the planet, fully as much as water, earth, fire and air are the planet, and if the planet survives, it… — Russell Banks Copy Share Image
“Maana halisi ya falsafa ya 'Nitakuwa tayari kufungwa kwa ajili ya matatizo ya watu', au Falsafa ya Kufungwa, ni uvutano mkubwa uliopo… — Enock Maregesi Copy Share Image
I am well aware that there is such a great craving in man for heroism and the heroic, and that hero worship… — Aung San Copy Share Image
“Zakalwe, in all human societies we have ever reviewed, in every age and every state, there has seldom if ever been a… — Iain M. Banks Copy Share Image
He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
You and I, we must carry on, Gemma. I cannot afford the luxury of love. I must marry well. And now I… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
There were others, women with stories that were told in a quieter voice: women who hid Jewish children in their homes, putting… — Megan Chance Copy Share Image
“You are constantly being trained to be heroic only in the service of your masters - only in slaughter and sacrifice and… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
I would rather have strong enemies than a world of passive individualists. In a world of passive individualists nothing seems worth anything… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Our media provides a continuing message that for men, heroism is defined through association with control, independence, and the ability to commit… — Deeyah Khan Copy Share Image
“In the world of so-called villains, what we need is not another hero. What we need is to stop the influx of… — Vironika Tugaleva Copy Share Image
Go into the streets, into the slums, into the fashionable quarters. Go into the day courts and the night courts. Become acquainted… — Minnie Maddern Fiske Copy Share Image
“We never know how high we are Till we are called to rise; And then, if we are true to plan, Our… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Heroic dreams are the consolation of the unhappy. After all, when people like us say we're being heroic, it usually means we're… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
A major shortcoming of the Resistance is the outnumbering, before long, of the genuine warriors by camera-carrying midgets intent on leaving a… — Coco Chanel Copy Share Image
Every hero is a Samson. The strong man succumbs to the intrigues of the weak and the many; and if in the… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Bardot, Byron, Hitler, Hemingway, Monroe, Sade: we do not require our heroes to be subtle, just to be big. Then we can… — D. J. Enright Copy Share Image
If sub specie aeternitatis there is no reason to believe that anything matters, then that does not matter either, and we can… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
The poetry of heroism appeals irresistibly to those who don't go to a war, and even more to those whom the war… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
The thematic bucket of vomit that I've been chained to since I was about 9 is the moral complexity of anti-heroism. I… — Neil Cross Copy Share Image
September 11, 2001, revealed heroism in ordinary people who might have gone through their lives never called upon to demonstrate the extent… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
I lived the life of Londoners - and thence comes my immense gratitude and my deep attachment with the British people. I… — Maurice Druon Copy Share Image
Looking across this field, we see the scale of heroism and sacrifice. All who are buried here understood their duty. All stood… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
“Winners of some competition are not heroes, heroes are not found in the competition, heroes win much more severe battles than competition… — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“Well, personally, I've seen enough of people who die for an idea. I don't believe in heroism; I know it's easy and… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Heroism, self-denial, and magnanimity, in all instances where they do not spring from a principle of religion, are but splendid altars on… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Extreme heroism springs from something that no scientific theory can fully explain; it's an illogical impulse that flies in the face of… — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
“[There's] something we should never forget; while others display their heroism in battle or against the Germans, our helpers prove theirs every… — Anne FrankFrank Copy Share Image
“Heroism and obscenity appear no more important in the life of the universe than the fighting or mating of a pair of… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I have come to think that great men are characterized precisely by the extreme position which they take, and that their heroism… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
Heroism is the brilliant triumph of the soul over the flesh, that is to say over fear: fear of poverty, of suffering,… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
The suicide bomber's imagination leads him to believe in a brilliant act of heroism, when in fact he is simply blowing himself… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image