Best 122 quotes in «heroic quotes» category

In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to continue to be heroic days.

Lithuanian bishops have been heroic!

I think Dalai Lama efforts have been heroic.

I think honesty is the most heroic quality one can aspire to.

It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals

I think people respond to villains because people in general are more villainous than heroic.

I was once invited to take part in a heroic, possibly fatal enterprise, but I declined, mainly on account of sloth.

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.

Obama can't be everything to everyone. He changed. He did. I never thought I'd hear Obama say, "Let's go back to nuclear arms," but he did. In the meantime, the clear and present danger is the Republicans in the Senate. A lot of politics isn't heroic, it's as day-to-day as our lives themselves. We always want to make the Byronic choices, but Byron himself was not Byronic all the time either.

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.

Photography is a kind of overstatement, a heroic copulation with the material world.

Our best presidents have really combined domestic leadership with heroic achievements in foreign affairs or war.

One can't live mindfully without being enmeshed in psychological processes that are around us.

Sometimes she went so far as to wish that she should find herself in a difficult position, so that she might have the pleasure of being as heroic as the occasion demanded.

Plants respond far better to moderate but consistent care than they do to occasional bouts of heroic intervention.

Remember, Monsieur that roses are not gathered except in the midst of thorns and that heroic acts of virtue are accomplished only in weakness.

Riddick is an antihero. He's the quintessential antihero. We all know how much I love antiheroes. It takes you 45 minutes in the movie just for Riddick to understand the word "heroism," let alone for anyone to hope that he can be heroic.

Societies create their own history and tend to wipe out lowly beginnings, either by forgetting them or inventing totally fictitious heroic rescues.

Some forms of absolutism are not bad; they may even be heroic.

The best perfection of a religious man is to do common things in a perfect manner. A constant fidelity in small things is a great and heroic virtue.

Suicides aren't heroic in my opinion. And I don't think anybody ever really knows why somebody commits suicide.

That's what heroic stories do for us. They show us the way. They remind us of the good we are capable of.

The course was more plodding than heroic: I did not strive valiantly against doubters but took incremental steps studded with a few intuitive leaps.

The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure-- fearlessness and achievement.

The coward makes himself cowardly, the hero makes himself heroic.

The emotions - love, mirth, the heroic, wonder, tranquility, fear, anger, sorrow, disgust - are in the audience.

The Dance instills in you something that sets you apart. Something heroic and remote.

The most heroic word in all languages is REVOLUTION.

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.

The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet.

The only training for the heroic is the mundane.

The myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact

The only absolutely and unapproachably heroic element in the soldier's work seems to be-that he is paid little for it-and regularly.

The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.

There is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed.

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.

People have their complexities. They have their heroic moments and their villainous moments, too.

There's an idea of the Plains as the middle of nowhere, something to be contemptuous of. But it's really a heroic place.

Truth is a pathless land.

Tragedy is a vision of nihilism, a heroic or ennobling vision of nihilism.

The road conditions are so variable here, there is ice, snow and everything in between. But a podium finish is a definite possibility if we stay smooth and adjust to the slippery conditions.

The tragic sense of life: our heroic acceptance of the suffering of others.

The truth is always more heroic than the hype.

To hallow'd duty Here with a loyal and heroic heart, Bind we our lives.

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.

What passes for identity in America is a series of myths about one's heroic ancestors.

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.

We live in an age in which there is no heroic death.

What is a society without a heroic dimension?

You see tragedy requires persons of heroic stature. It works on the principle of people being more than humansuper-humanand also being only too human. But there just aren't many great figures around now, so the tragic mechanisms can't work.