Events Quote by James Geary Download Open image “Heroism often results as a response to extreme events.” — James Geary ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Events Extreme Extremes Heroism Often Response Results
Extreme heroism springs from something that no scientific theory can fully explain; it's an illogical impulse that flies in the face of biology, psychology,… — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
The opportunities for heroism are limited in this kind of world: the most people can do is sometimes not to be as weak as… — Angus Wilson Copy Share Image
Heroism is about taking an action which represents a breakthrough, and then assuming full responsiblity for it, even if it's a failure. — Noa Ben Artzi-Pelossof Copy Share Image
Heroism is a badly remunerated occupation, and often it leads to an early end, which is why it appeals to fanatics or persons with… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Sometimes heroism is nothing more than patience, curiosity, and a refusal to panic. — Leif Enger Copy Share Image
Heroism's just doing more than you want to do or think you can. Sometimes it's just doing the crappy things, the unhappy things other… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
True heroism consists in being superior to the ills of life, in whatever shape they may challenge us to combat. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
There are astonishing stories of heroism not only in preventing bloodshed, but in building understanding which lasts. — Scilla Elworthy Copy Share Image
Heroism works in contradiction to the voice of mankind and in contradiction, for a time, to the voice of the great and good. Heroism… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Heroism is not fighting some big battle. It is not standing up to some fearsome foe ... Heroism is every day getting up with… — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
You only really discover the strength of your spine when your back is against the wall. — James Geary Copy Share Image
“Why must an aphorism be brief? Because only a fool gives a speech in a burning house.” — James Geary Copy Share Image
There is no aspect of our experience not molded in some way by metaphor's almost imperceptible touch. — James Geary Copy Share Image
Metaphor lives a secret life all around us. We utter about six metaphors a minute. — James Geary Copy Share Image
Metaphor impinges on everything, allowing us - poets and non-poets alike - to experience and think about the world in fluid, unusual ways. — James Geary Copy Share Image
Metaphor lives a secret life all around us. We utter about six metaphors a minute. Metaphorical thinking is essential to how we understand ourselves… — James Geary Copy Share Image
I believe aphorisms are best when first read in the wild, free from the confines of any categories. — James Geary Copy Share Image
Aphorisms are literature's hand luggage. Light and compact, they fit easily into the overhead compartment of your brain. — James Geary Copy Share Image
Sometimes, you need a door slammed in your face before you can hear opportunity knock. — James Geary Copy Share Image
History is, in its essentials, the science of change. It knows and it teaches that it is impossible to find two events that are… — Marc Bloch Copy Share Image
My political views have never made me insensitive to the pain and suffering caused to the innocent victims of events such as the Warrington… — Claire Fox Copy Share Image
Teaching children about the natural world should be seen as one of the most important events in their lives. — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
In any event, it is one thing to assert, then or now, that the Iraq war was ill-advised. It is quite another to make… — Laurence Silberman Copy Share Image
I wasn’t like, boo hoo, Bin Laden’s dead, but I wasn’t jumping. America’s a very nationalistic country, and in episodes like that of his… — Jeremy Scahill Copy Share Image
Sometimes I am a collector of data, and only a collector, and am likely to be gross and miserly, piling up notes, pleased with… — Charles Fort Copy Share Image
Things happen too quickly, crisis follows crisis, the soil of our minds is perpetually disturbed. Each of us, to relieve his feelings, broadcasts his… — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
Do we make ourselves into what we become or is it built into our genes, into the fate spun for us by whatever shapes… — Joseph Bruchac Copy Share Image
First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not infrequently) to our cost, when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The future and the past are equally meaningless because they are nebulous entities, times that do not exist, containing events which have no echo… — Tim Lebbon Copy Share Image
History employs evolution to structure biological events in time. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Sporting events like the Olympics have developed and maintained a clear message of promoting gender equality as an essential criterion in the success of… — Richard Attias Copy Share Image
