Quotes and Sayings About Heroic
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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 impossible; 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
