Life Quote by Gustave Flaubert Download Open image ““I detest common heroes and moderate feelings, the sort that exist in real life”” — Gustave Flaubert ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Life Real life
“The conflict between how we wish to be perceived and what we really feel is at the root of all character.” — John Yorke Copy Share Image
“...heroes are sometimes the most ordinary -seeming people. It reminds us that as ordinary as we might be, we can, if we choose, take… — Daniel James Brown Copy Share Image
“Heroes were ordinary people who knew that even if their own lives were impossibly knotted, they could untangle someone else's. And maybe that one… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“I don't believe in villains or heroes--only right or wrong ways that individuals have taken, not by choice but by necessity or by certain… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
“We’re a society that creates super heroes who aren’t really super heroes. They are just regular people who live in alignment with their goals… — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
“This is often the way we put together our lives, adding the striking qualities of others into our own character.” — Renee Fleming Copy Share Image
“Character joins our inner conscience to our behavior in the world.” — Asher Intrater Copy Share Image
“In those moments of moving through the streets with people who share one's beliefs comes the rare and magical possibility of a kind of… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“What instances must pass before them of ardent, disinterested, self-denying attachment, of heroism, fortitude, patience, resignation: of all the conflicts and all the sacrifices… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Heroes are men who admit to being difficult to live with, who demand extremely high standards in every aspect of their lives, who are… — Robyn Donald Copy Share Image
“Great characters are consciously or subconsciously at war with themselves.” — John Yorke Copy Share Image
As for the piano, the faster her fingers flew over it, the more he marveled. She struck the keys with aplomb and ran from… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Caught up in life, you see it badly. You suffer from it or enjoy it too much. The artist, in my opinion, is a… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“When one does something, one must do it wholly and well. Those bastard existences where you sell suet all day and write poetry at… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“But her life was as cold as an attic facing north; and boredom, like a silent spider, was weaving its web in the shadows,… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
When you reduce a woman to writing, she makes you think of a thousand other women — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
A superhuman will is needed in order to write, and I am only a man. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Of all the people who have affected my life and influenced the choices I've made, none has been more important than my father. I… — Teddy Atlas Copy Share Image
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
Life works most perfectly when a reciprocal love relationship is in place between man and God. — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
I value the experiences that come with life too much to sit by and not put my full effort into them. — Jim Miller Copy Share Image
Entertainment is a sacred pursuit when done well. When done well, it raises the quality of human life. — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“I've spent much of my life calling my intuition "something wrong with me.” — Deanna L. Lawlis Copy Share Image
When you do things they're absolutely right at that time for you and it can always teach you something about yourself. You can take… — Kym Marsh Copy Share Image
The only people who think the Internet is a calamity are people whose lives have been hurt by it; the only people who insist… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
The one thing that I keep learning over and over again is that I don't know nothing. I mean, that's my life lesson. — Dwayne Johnson Copy Share Image
“THIS tale of my sore-troubled life I write, To thank the God of nature, who conveyed My soul to me, and with such care… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
