#heroic

I did stand-up comedy for 18 years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent refining, and four years were spent in wild success. I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a byproduct. The course was more plodding than heroic. ↗

— Steve Martin

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In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to continue to be heroic days. ↗

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

#continue #days #heroic #likely #material

The whole earth is the tomb of heroic men and their story is not given only on stone over their clay but abides everywhere without visible symbol woven into the stuff of other mens lives. ↗

— Pericles

#earth #everywhere #given #heroic #into

Freedom requires no effort to enjoy but requires heroic efforts to preserve. ↗

— Richard G. Scott

#efforts #enjoy #freedom #heroic #preserve

I saw clearly how those who saved the state so heroically and courageously in the War of Independence would be capable of bringing a catastrophe upon it if they are given the chance in normal times. ↗

— Moshe Sharett

#capable #catastrophe #chance #clearly #courageously

I was never able to write seriously about heroes because I was very aware that I was not one and that in my background there was not this heroic thing. ↗

— Robert Sheckley

#about #aware #background #because #heroes

The most heroic word in all languages is revolution. ↗

— Eugene V. Debs

#languages #most #revolution #word

The simple act of caring is heroic. ↗

— Edward Albert

#caring #heroic #simple #simple act

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success. ↗

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

#heroic #minds #stepping #stones #success

The only lesson to extract from any civil war is that it's pointless and futile and ugly, and that there is nothing glamorous or heroic about it. There are heroes, but the causes are never heroic. ↗

— Anthony Minghella

#any #causes #civil #civil war #extract