Heroic Quotes - Page 3

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

There's an idea of the Plains as the middle of nowhere, something to be contemptuous of. But it's really a heroic place.

A noble type of good. Heroic womanhood.

People try to typecast astronauts as heroic and superhuman. We're only human beings.

To hallow'd duty Here with a loyal and heroic heart, Bind we our lives.

The only training for the heroic is the mundane.

Go back to the '30s, '40s, '50s, and it was the discovery of heroic interventions, the ability to cure people with penicillin or do an operation to stop disease that was what saved the day. Primary care physicians couldn't do all that much that really demonstrated a difference. The people who control and work with you to control your blood pressure, they're not rewarded for doing that or to be innovative about doing that. So, the result is half of Americans have uncontrolled high blood pressure, despite seeing clinicians.

One can't live mindfully without being enmeshed in psychological processes that are around us.

Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure.

Traditionally the Nude was used to express formulations about life as larger-than-life, as Heroic or Ideal... The nude is not a 'genre' subject.

What the writers do, and we hopefully can bring to life, is that they present characters who, on the surface, aren't always heroic and their acts aren't always devoid of selfishness.

Americans admire success. Englishmen admire heroic failure

If you know with a complete absence of doubt that what you are doing is consistent with your own purpose and that you are involved in accomplishing a great affair, then you are at peace with yourself and in harmony with your own heroic mission.

The heart becomes heroic through passion. It is no longer composed of anything but what is pure; it no longer rests upon anything but what is elevated and great.

He who would write heroic poems should make his whole life a heroic poem.

But nothing is better than a truth which appears not to have the semblance of truth. There is always something incomprehensible about the great heroic deeds performed by humanity because they rise so far beyond the mediocre measure of mere mortals; but it is always only because of the incredible feats that human beings have accomplished that humanity recovers its faith in itself.

No animal, according to the rules of animal-etiquette, is ever expected to do anything strenuous, or heroic, or even moderately active during the off-season of winter.

If there must be madness, something may be said for having it on a heroic scale

All good American literature is always interested in people who are ambiguously heroic, like Gatsby.

What passes for identity in America is a series of myths about one's heroic ancestors.

I would love to do something like 'Beverly Hills Cop'. I'd get to be funny and cool and heroic all in the same breath.

Do one thing that's heroic for you today - big or small - and fear won't define you anymore.

There were no formerly heroic times, and there was no formerly pure generation. There is no one here but us chickens, and so it has always been.

People aren't universally heroic.

No less than war or statecraft, the history of Economics has its heroic ages.