Best 122 quotes in «heroic quotes» category

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.

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.

In all this world, I pray thee, who Is virtuous, heroic, true?

In a truly heroic life there is no peradventure. It is always doing or dying.

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

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.

I like women who are so real that they become as cowardly as certain men, as heroic as others and as sexual and dominating as men can be. And as you can imagine everything I do is [misunderstood].

In South America, I heard the 8th Symphony of Beethoven. And the young conductor thought, Beethoven must be heroic. But this is piece which shouldn't be heroic. And this was such a misunderstanding, such a deep misunderstanding.

I think Dalai Lama efforts have been heroic.

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

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

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

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.

Lithuanian bishops have been heroic!

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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 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.

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

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 coward makes himself cowardly, the hero makes himself heroic.

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 most heroic word in all languages is REVOLUTION.

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 training for the heroic is the mundane.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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 truth is always more heroic than the hype.