Quotes of: Heroic Keyword

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

We don't relate to her too much because you don't want the heroic character to not be heroic.

Radha Mitchell

The only lesson to extract from any civil war is that it's pointless and futile and ugly, and that there is nothing glamorous or heroic about it. There are heroes, but the causes are never heroic.

Anthony Minghella

Desire urges me on, while fear bridals me.

The Heroic Enthusiasts - (Gli Eroici Furori) - An Ethical Poem

You can't counter a heroic impulse with a mundane and bourgeois response. You can counter it only with a more compelling heroic vision.

David Brooks

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one less scoundrel in the world.

On Heroes, Hero Worship and the Heroic in History

Most people don't care who's in charge as long as someone is.

Nights of the Round Table and Other Stories of Heroic Fantasy

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.

Kurt Masur

I didn't want readers to think I was asking to be praised for taking care of my wife while she was ill. Lots of people are heroic, more heroic than I was, when faced with the suffering of someone they love.

Rafael Yglesias

Critical and feminist theorists show that most leadership research, including studies of transformational leadership, continue to present prescriptions - heroic or post-heroic - as if they were gender neutral. The critics argue that, although there i...

Leadership for the Disillusioned: Moving Beyond Myths and Heroes to Leading That Liberates

I was raised to face any challenge.

Devil at My Heels: A Heroic Olympian's Astonishing Story of Survival as a Japanese POW in World War II

God knew my needs and took care accordingly.

Devil at My Heels: A Heroic Olympian's Astonishing Story of Survival as a Japanese POW in World War II

It was all in His hands now - as it had always been.

Devil at My Heels: A Heroic Olympian's Astonishing Story of Survival as a Japanese POW in World War II

There needs not a great soul to make a hero; there needs a god-created soul which will be true to its origin; that will be a great soul!

On Heroes, Hero Worship and the Heroic in History

The lies (Western slander) which well-meaning zeal has heaped round this man (Muhammad) are disgraceful to ourselves only.

On Heroes, Hero Worship and the Heroic in History

The suffering man ought really to consume his own smoke; there is no good in emitting smoke till you have made it into fire.

On Heroes, Hero Worship and the Heroic in History

What we learn is that the scientist is as important a part of this experiment as the electron, and that the scientist and the electron are in fact connected. This experiment is the cornerstone of the holistic universe theory.

Random Acts Of Heroic Love

What goes on between a man and his missus is nobody's business; especially where desert toppin's involved.

Nights of the Round Table and Other Stories of Heroic Fantasy

One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me...

Harriet Beecher Stowe

To live, a man needs food, water, and a sharp mind.

Devil at My Heels: A Heroic Olympian's Astonishing Story of Survival as a Japanese POW in World War II

Someone responding to intuition, to chance and fortune, often can't explain himself well.

The Ice Balloon: S. A. Andrée and the Heroic Age of Arctic Exploration