Heroic Quotes

513 quotes by 409 authors

I was never able to write seriously about heroes because I was very aware that I was not one and that in my background there… — Robert Sheckley
The truth is always more heroic than the hype. — Jessica Lynch
Traditionally the Nude was used to express formulations about life as larger-than-life, as Heroic or Ideal... The nude is not a 'genre' subject. — Isabel Bishop
Mythology is the study of whatever religious or heroic legends are so foreign to a student's experience that he cannot believe them to be true.… — Robert Graves
The romance genre is the only genre where readers are guaranteed novels that place the heroine at the heart of the story. These are books… — Jayne Ann Krentz
The men that have been the most heroic for God have had the greatest devotional lives. — Leonard Ravenhill
We've made some heroic efforts, but the Earth as a whole is in worse shape today than 30 years ago, ... There's been 30 more… — Denis Hayes
It is absurd for a man to kill an elephant. It is not brutal, it is not heroic, and certainly it is not easy; it… — Beryl Markham
If there must be madness, something may be said for having it on a heroic scale — John Kenneth Galbraith
More investment trusts securities were offered in September of 1929 even than in August - the total was above $600 million. However, the nearly simultaneous… — John Kenneth Galbraith
Many heroic exploits and chivalrous adventures are related to me which exist only in the regions of fancy. With me the world has taken great… — Daniel Boone
I declare that civil war is inevitable and is near at hand. When it comes the descendants of the heroes of Lexington and Bunker Hill… — Sam Houston
I hope that I'm not the type of person who, standing at the doorway to hell, strikes a heroic pose and then starts frowning with… — Liu Xiaobo
Let children have tales of the imagination, scenes laid in other lands and other times; heroic adventures, hairbreadth escapes, delicious fairy tales, even where it… — Charlotte Mason
The dream of my life has risen to become fact. Self-defense in the ghetto will have been a reality. Jewish armed resistance and revenge are… — Mordechai Anielewicz
He would still see it as his duty to shut up and get on with it, not cause any trouble. In our own time we've… — Eddie Campbell
Friendship, in the old heroic sense of that term, no longer exists. It is in reality no longer expected or recognized as a virtue among… — Thomas Carlyle
If you look at the heroes of antiquity and myth, they all have flaws. It's something that they have to overcome; their flaws are something… — Nicholas Meyer
To write a book such as Tiger Bone & Rhino Horn is a formidable undertaking. You must accumulate thousands of facts and spare no detail,… — Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
Heroic deeds, to use whatever dower Heaven has bestowed, to test our utmost power. — Sarah Knowles Bolton

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