Heroic Quotes - Page 4

How much pleasure they lose (and even the pleasures of heroic poesy are not unprofitable) who take away the liberty of a poet, and fetter his feet in the shackles of a historian.

Some men make gain a fountain, whence proceeds A stream of liberal and heroic deeds; The swell of pity, not to be confined Within the scanty limits of the mind.

He found that it was easy to make a heroic gesture, but hard to abide by its results.

Disastrous would have been the result if a fire or a death had suddenly demanded something heroic of human nature, but tragedies come in the hungry hours.

There is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed.

Photography is a kind of overstatement, a heroic copulation with the material world.

The course was more plodding than heroic: I did not strive valiantly against doubters but took incremental steps studded with a few intuitive leaps.

I did a different size of photograph at the FIAT gallery - this time the images are 30" by 40," so they're maybe like four times the size of images I've shown before in a gallery. I just saw them now, and once they're in the mat and the frame, they're just beautiful. It's funny because even though it's closer to life-sized, to me anyway, they become not necessarily anymore about the person, but they almost become a little more heroic.

Even as she’d come to know the real Ralston—the Ralston who was not cut from heroic cloth—Callie had failed to see the truth. And, instead of seeing her own heartbreak coming, she had fallen in love, not with her fantasy, but with this new, flawed Ralston.

He alone is great Who by a life heroic conquers fate.

Heroic deeds, to use whatever dower Heaven has bestowed, to test our utmost power.

That's what heroic stories do for us. They show us the way. They remind us of the good we are capable of.

Mandela today is almost universally held as a heroic freedom fighter, and of course rightly so.

Some spirit to stand simply forth, Heroic in its nakedness, Against the uttermost of earth.

There's many heroic underappreciated investigative journalists.

Lithuanian bishops have been heroic!

I think Dalai Lama efforts have been heroic.

A heroic nature is very Greek.

Oaths and curses are a proof of a most heroic courage, at least in appearance, which answers the same end.

If we cannot come together to pause, to respect our dead and the heroic lives of meaning they led, then ours is truly a civilization lost.

We, her children, are heroic, dersperate.

Keep out of this," Lucian said. "I'm not smiting anybody." "You're showing mercy." Catch-a-Tick nodded. "That's heroic, too. But not as good as smiting.

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.

It is a mystery to me how a theologian can be praised for having brought himself to disbelieve dogmas. I've always thought that those who have brought themselves to believe in dogmas merit the true recognition owing a heroic deed.

The function of (heroic) symbols is to give you a sense of Aha! Yes, I know what it is, it's myself.