Quotes and Sayings About Heroism
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Mostly the subject of the photograph, which can be anyone really, coming down the street - someone that has no idea. "Heroism" in photography, just like in a novel, is for everyone.
-- Hedi Slimane -
When the heroes go off the stage, the clowns come on.
-- Heinrich Heine -
Heroism is the brilliant triumph of the soul over the flesh - over fear...Heroism is the dazzling and glorious concentration of courage.
-- Henri Frederic Amiel -
Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.
-- J. R. R. Tolkien -
There is nothing man desires more than a heroic life: there is nothing less common to men than heroism.
-- Jacques Maritain -
Heroism often results as a response to extreme events.
-- James Geary -
What is a society without a heroic dimension?
-- Jean Baudrillard -
Heroism doesn't pay very well. I try to be cold-blooded and money-oriented, but I keep screwing it up.
-- Jim Butcher -
In the action business, when you don't want to say you ran like a mouse, you call it 'taking cover.' It's more heroic.
-- Jim Butcher -
Harry Dresden. Saving the world, one act of random destruction at a time.
-- Jim Butcher -
In most films - especially in regards to the protagonist - really from the get-go they set up some scenario that endears that character to the audience. Or imbues him with some nobility or heroism or something.
-- Joaquin Phoenix -
Where do all the women who have watched so carefully over the lives of their beloved ones get the heroism to send them to face the cannon?
-- Kathe Kollwitz -
Our film examines the heroism, courage and prowess of the Soviet submarine force in ways never seen before.
-- Kathryn Bigelow -
The Communist regime didn't consider this to be a shining moment in history and assigned no heroism to it. They classified it as merely an accident.
-- Kathryn Bigelow -
Now stiff on a pillar with a phallic air nelson stylites in Trafalgar square reminds the British what once they were.
-- Lawrence Durrell -
Sometimes heroism is nothing more than patience, curiosity, and a refusal to panic.
-- Leif Enger -
Women more than men can strip war of its glamour and its out-of-date heroisms and patriotisms, and see it as a demon of destruction and hideous wrong.
-- Lillian Wald -
I see no reason in morality, why literature should not have as one of its intentions the arousing of thoughts of lust. It is one of the effects, perhaps one of the functions of literature to arouse desire, and I can discover no grounds for saying that sexual pleasure should not be among the objects of desire which literature presents to us, along with heroism, virtue, peace, death, food, wisdom, God, etc.
-- Lionel -
The poetry of heroism appeals irresistibly to those who don't go to a war, and even more to those whom the war is making enormously wealthy. It's always so.
-- Louis-Ferdinand Celine -
My father always says that heroism is in the Pashtun DNA.
-- Malala Yousafzai -
I have come to think that great men are characterized precisely by the extreme position which they take, and that their heroism consists in holding to that extremity throughout their lives.
-- Marguerite Yourcenar -
Heroes are very human, most of them; very easily touched by praise.
-- Max Beerbohm -
... many persons strive for high ideals, and everywhere life is full of heroism.
-- Max Ehrmann -
Everybody knows about Pearl Harbor. The thing that really fascinated me is that through this tragedy there was this amazing American heroism.
-- Michael Bay -
Science fiction without the science just becomes, you know, sword and sorcery, basically stories about heroism and not much more.
-- Michio Kaku -
On a normal day, we value heroism because it is uncommon. On Sept. 11, we valued heroism because it was everywhere.
-- Nancy Gibbs -
Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity....
-- Natalie Clifford Barney -
A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
-- Nathaniel Hawthorne -
I pay tribute to the endless heroism of youth.
-- Nelson Mandela
