Heroic famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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You can't make accommodations in crucial situations and be heroic.
-- Alan Furst -
It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals
-- Angela Davis -
Americans admire success. Englishmen admire heroic failure
-- Anne Fadiman -
Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world.
-- Ansel Adams -
A happy life is imposÂsiÂble; the best that a man can attain is a heroic life.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer -
Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one.
-- Baltasar Gracian -
The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet.
-- Benjamin Cardozo -
Alfred Hitchcock, Isaac Newton, Elvis Presley, Captain Bligh, they're heroic or pathetic depending on which book you buy.
-- Bob Seger -
Very few of my characters are totally heroic or totally villainous.
-- Charlaine Harris -
I will always be the hopeless romantic, more often pathetic than heroic.
-- Chris Lowell -
To be heroic is to be courageous enough to die for something.
-- Criss Jami -
Some forms of absolutism are not bad; they may even be heroic.
-- D. A. Carson -
Common sense in religion is rare, and we are too often trying to be heroic instead of just ordinarily good and kind.
-- Dorothy Day -
The Dance instills in you something that sets you apart. Something heroic and remote.
-- Edgar Degas -
All my artistic response comes from American things, and I guess I've always had a weakness for heroic imagery.
-- Edward Ruscha -
We may never know why Joe Ellis fabricated a heroic past. But we know that the life he embellished has deeply diminished the life he'd earned.
-- Ellen Goodman -
The most heroic word in all languages is revolution.
-- Eugene V. Debs -
It did seem hard to be doing something heroic while everyone was too busy to notice.
-- Frances Hardinge -
To hallow'd duty Here with a loyal and heroic heart, Bind we our lives.
-- Frances Sargent Osgood -
We bear, all of us, the misfortunes of other people with heroic constancy.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
We always need to remember that behind almost every great moment in history, there are heroic people doing really boring and frustrating things for a prolonged period of time.
-- Gail Collins -
People try to typecast astronauts as heroic and superhuman. We're only human beings.
-- Gene Cernan -
All your wounds from craving love Exist because of heroic deeds.
-- Hafez -
They, all of them, work incredibly hard to make me seem clever and heroic, neither of which I am.
-- Hugh Laurie -
There's an idea of the Plains as the middle of nowhere, something to be contemptuous of. But it's really a heroic place.
-- Ian Frazier -
Societies create their own history and tend to wipe out lowly beginnings, either by forgetting them or inventing totally fictitious heroic rescues.
-- Isaac -
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 -
In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to continue to be heroic days.
-- J. Robert Oppenheimer -
I would love to do something like 'Beverly Hills Cop'. I'd get to be funny and cool and heroic all in the same breath.
-- Ja Rule -
The most heroic thing you can do is tell someone that you love them.
-- Jacques Audiard -
What passes for identity in America is a series of myths about one's heroic ancestors.
-- James A. Baldwin -
My sonnet asserts that the sonnet still lives. My epic, should such fortune befall me, asserts that the heroic narrative is not lost - that it is born again.
-- James Fenton -
The truth is always more heroic than the hype.
-- Jessica Lynch -
When you do something stupid and die, it's pathetic," I said. "When you do something stupid and survive it, then you get to call it impressive or heroic.
-- Jim Butcher -
In the action business, when you don't want to say you ran like a mouse, you call it 'taking cover.' It's more heroic.
-- Jim Butcher -
Yet only the atrocities of the conquered are referred to as criminal acts; those of the conqueror are justified as necessary, heroic, and even worse, as the fulfillment of God's will.
-- Jim Fergus -
The emotions - love, mirth, the heroic, wonder, tranquility, fear, anger, sorrow, disgust - are in the audience.
-- John Cage -
The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.
-- John Dewey -
Heroic poetry has ever been esteemed the greatest work of human nature.
-- John Dryden -
Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure.
-- Joseph Campbell -
Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure. There is no security in following the call to adventure. Nothing is exciting if you know what the outcome is going to be.
-- Joseph Campbell -
No animal, according to the rules of animal-etiquette, is ever expected to do anything strenuous, or heroic, or even moderately active during the off-season of winter.
-- Kenneth Grahame -
The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.
-- Lascelles Abercrombie -
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 indecision.
-- Liu Xiaobo -
Keep out of this," Lucian said. "I'm not smiting anybody." "You're showing mercy." Catch-a-Tick nodded. "That's heroic, too. But not as good as smiting.
-- Lloyd Alexander -
Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something you have to be all the time.
-- Luigi Pirandello -
We, her children, are heroic, dersperate.
-- Marguerite Duras -
If we cannot come together to pause, to respect our dead and the heroic lives of meaning they led, then ours is truly a civilization lost.
-- Mark McKinnon -
Despite the persistent image of the architect as a heroic loner erecting monumental edifices through sheer force of will, the building art has always been a highly cooperative enterprise.
-- Martin Filler -
Oaths and curses are a proof of a most heroic courage, at least in appearance, which answers the same end.
-- Mary Collyer -
If your descent is from heroic sires, Show in your life a remnant of their fires.
-- Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux -
One can't live mindfully without being enmeshed in psychological processes that are around us.
-- Philip Zimbardo -
Any society that you build will have its limits. And outside the limits of any society the unruly and heroic tramps will wander with their wild and virgin thoughts…planning ever new and dreadful outbursts of rebellion.
-- Renzo Novatore -
There's many heroic underappreciated investigative journalists.
-- Robert Crumb -
People have their complexities. They have their heroic moments and their villainous moments, too.
-- Ryan Reynolds -
That's what heroic stories do for us. They show us the way. They remind us of the good we are capable of.
-- Sam Raimi -
He alone is great Who by a life heroic conquers fate.
-- Sarah Knowles Bolton -
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 truth. And, instead of seeing her own heartbreak coming, she had fallen in love, not with her fantasy, but with this new, flawed Ralston.
-- Sarah MacLean -
But there are still only certain film genres where a woman can stand out, be heroic, be the centerpiece.
-- Sarah Michelle Gellar -
An ordinary life examined closely reveals itself to be exquisite and complicated and exceptional, somehow managing to be both heroic and plain.
-- Susan Orlean -
Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice.
-- Thomas Merton -
In all this world, I pray thee, who Is virtuous, heroic, true?
-- Valmiki -
The heart becomes heroic through passion. It is no longer composed of anything but what is pure; it no longer rests upon anything but what is elevated and great.
-- Victor Hugo -
To suffer unecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic.
-- Viktor E. Frankl -
He found that it was easy to make a heroic gesture, but hard to abide by its results.
-- W. Somerset Maugham -
I am reminded how hollow the label of leadership sometimes is and how heroic followership can be.
-- Warren G. Bennis -
How much pleasure they lose (and even the pleasures of heroic poesy are not unprofitable) who take away the liberty of a poet, and fetter his feet in the shackles of a historian.
-- William Davenant -
In proportion as we perceive and embrace the truth do we become just, heroic, magnanimous, divine.
-- William Lloyd Garrison -
We live in an age in which there is no heroic death.
-- Yukio Mishima -
Mandela today is almost universally held as a heroic freedom fighter, and of course rightly so.
-- Ryan Shapiro -
I think people respond to villains because people in general are more villainous than heroic.
-- Michael Emerson -
I did a different size of photograph at the FIAT gallery - this time the images are 30" by 40," so they're maybe like four times the size of images I've shown before in a gallery. I just saw them now, and once they're in the mat and the frame, they're just beautiful. It's funny because even though it's closer to life-sized, to me anyway, they become not necessarily anymore about the person, but they almost become a little more heroic.
-- Scott Schuman
