#heroic

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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


#could #everlasting #fashionable #grand #great

To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.


Harriet Beecher Stowe


#everyday #everyday life #great #heroic #insipid

Some people might say my coming out after just winning the MVP award is heroic, and I understand that.


Sheryl Swoopes


#award #coming #heroic #i #just

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


#good #heroic #remind #show #stories

There's soldiers out there every day that are doing heroic things... We don't need to create them.


Jessica Lynch


#day #doing #every #every day #heroic

As a teenager in Brooklyn Quentin had often imagined himself engaged in martial heroics, but after this he knew, as a cold immutable fact, that he would do anything necessary, sacrificing whatever or whomever he had to, to avoid risking exposure to physical violence. Shame never came into it. He embraced his new identity as a coward. He would run in the other direction. He would lie down and cry and put his arms over his head or play dead. It didn't matter what he had to do, he would do it and be glad.


Lev Grossman


#cowardice #fear #martial-heroics #physical-violence #playing-dead

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.


Thomas Merton


#demands #difficult #fidelity #greater #heroic

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


Benjamin Disraeli


#believe #great #heroes #heroic #makes

Why did you wear heels? How are you supposed to fight a gargoyle in what you're wearing?


Priya Ardis


#chick-lit #coming-of-age #e-books #ebooks #fairy-tales

Yesterday I saved a baby, a boy, a man, and an old man from death, and all by simply not impregnating anybody. But I don't consider myself a hero. Merely heroic, and also unable to reach any of my lady friends on the phone.


Jarod Kintz


#boy #death #funny #hero #heroic