#heroism

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I'm not surprised that Spielberg was able to capture the heroism of Schindler; so many of his movies are about the better part of mankind.


Gene Siskel


#about #better #capture #heroism #his

Sometimes, before you make any plans or resolutions, before you declare your heroic intent to persevere, you just have to cry.


Jaclyn Dolamore


#heroism #magic-under-glass #perseverance

Sometimes I wonder about good and evil. If the villain wins, isn't he heralded as the hero? I've tried so hard to be good since that day, but sometimes I wonder whether it's even worth it. After all, to be the hero, I have to win.


Sarah C. Yung


#morality #supernatural #teens #yalit #young-adult

Hear this or not, as you will. Learn it now, or later -- the world has time. Routine, repetition, tedium, monotony, ephemeracy, inconsequence, abstraction, disorder, boredom, angst, ennui -- these are the true hero's enemies, and make no mistake, they are fearsome indeed. For they are real.


David Foster Wallace


#boredom

Heroism doesn't pay very well. I try to be cold-blooded and money-oriented, but I keep screwing it up.


Jim Butcher


#heroism #humor #humor

A country grows in history not only because of the heroism of its troops on the field of battle, it grows also when it turns to justice and to right for the conservation of its interests.


Aristide Briand


#battle #because #conservation #country #field

Two ideas are opposed — not concepts or abstractions, but Ideas which were in the blood of men before they were formulated by the minds of men. The Resurgence of Authority stands opposed to the Rule of Money; Order to Social Chaos, Hierarchy to Equality, socio-economico-political Stability to constant Flux; glad assumption of Duties to whining for Rights; Socialism to Capitalism, ethically, economically, politically; the Rebirth of Religion to Materialism; Fertility to Sterility; the spirit of Heroism to the spirit of Trade; the principle of Responsibility to Parliamentarism; the idea of Polarity of Man and Woman to Feminism; the idea of the individual task to the ideal of ‘happiness’; Discipline to Propaganda-compulsion; the higher unities of family, society, State to social atomism; Marriage to the Communistic ideal of free love; economic self-sufficiency to senseless trade as an end in itself; the inner imperative to Rationalism.


Francis Parker Yockey


#authority #culture #duty #economics #equality

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


#heroism #humor #business

Become major, Paul. Live like a hero. That's what the classics teach us. Be a main character. Otherwise what is life for?


J.M. Coetzee


#heroism #live-life #courage

Words of the hero: "I am my fate.


Marty Rubin


#heroism #self-sufficiency #heroism