Quotes of: Heroic Keyword

A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

In Puritan thinking, the Christian life was a heroic venture, requiring a full quota of energy.

Leland Ryken

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

You can't make accommodations in crucial situations and be heroic.

Alan Furst

I've always said that I felt women are more heroic.

James Salter

/.../, for unnecessary suffering is masochistic rather than heroic.

Man's Search for Meaning

I think that we all do heroic things, but hero is not a noun, it's a verb.

Robert Downey, Jr.

I have seen heroics - soldiers saving other soldiers' lives - and horrors.

Richard Engel

Truth might be heroic, but it was not within the range of practical domestic politics.

Samuel Butler

The true "LOVE FOR HUMANITY" is an act of Heroic Genius.

Henry Johnson Jr

Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world.

Ansel Adams

THAT crazed girl improvising her music. Her poetry, dancing upon the shore, Her soul in division from itself Climbing, falling She knew not where, Hiding amid the cargo of a steamship, Her knee-cap broken, that girl I declare A beautiful lofty thing,...

The Collected Poems

Modest, conventional expectations weren't enough to lure Adam Brown away from the power of drug addiction that ensnared him. Instead, the college dropout already in his mid-twenties found only the big, near-impossible dream of being a Navy SEAL capti...

Fearless: The Heroic Story of One Navy SEAL's Sacrifice in the Hunt for Osama Bin Laden and the Unwavering Devotion of the Woman Who Loved Him

Mr. Incredible: You mean you killed off real heroes so that you could *pretend* to be one? Syndrome: Oh, I'm real. Real enough to defeat you! And I did it without your precious gifts, your oh-so-special powers. I'll give them heroics. I'll give them ...

The Incredibles

But there are still only certain film genres where a woman can stand out, be heroic, be the centerpiece.

Sarah Michelle Gellar

The bands that wrote the big, heroic rock songs - I really wanted to make a record like that.

Sheryl Crow

There is no such thing as a “war hero”, because there is nothing about war that is heroic.

Michel Templet

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

Benjamin Disraeli

Some days it is a heroic act just to refuse the paralysis of fear and straighten up and step into another day.

Edward Albert