#heroic

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #heroic




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

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

In this watering-place I acted an heroic character, badly studied; and being a novice on such a stage, I forgot my part before a pair of lovely blue eyes.


Adelbert von Chamisso


#badly #before #being #blue #blue eyes

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


Benjamin Disraeli


#believe #great #heroes #heroic #makes

Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something you have to be all the time.


Luigi Pirandello


#from time to time #gentleman #heroic #something #time

Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.


Agnes Repplier


#between #contrast #democracy #forever #heroic

The last declaration he'd made to me hung between us. The L word. The one that had nothing to do with like.


Priya Ardis


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

Now there was great rejoicing at the rumor of Alderic's quest, for all folk knew that he was a cautious man, and they deemed that he would succeed and enrich the world, and they rubbed their hands in the cities at the thought of largesse; and there was joy among all men in Alderic's country, except perchance among the lenders of money, who feared they would soon be paid. And there was rejoicing also because men hoped that when the Gibbelins were robbed of their hoard, they would shatter their high-built bridge and break the golden chains that bound them to the world, and drift back, they and their tower, to the moon, from which they had come and to which they rightly belonged. There was little love for the Gibbelins, though all men envied their hoard. ("The Hoard Of The Gibbelins")


Lord Dunsany


#fantasy #greed #heroic-fantasy #loans #money-lender

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


#because #depends #does #heroic #only

I don't really think of Odo as a heroic lead, but that's nice if you do.


Rene Auberjonois


#i #lead #nice #really #think