Famous Quotes - Tags - Heroes And Heroines
- A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big. More
- A dead martyr is just another corpse. More
- A hero’s love is as delicate as a maiden’s. More
- A man can be a hero if he is a scientist, or a soldier, or a drug addict, or a disc jockey, or a... More
- All his works might well enough be embraced under the title of one of them, a good specimen... More
- All men are possible heroes: every age,
Heroic in proportions, double-faced,
Looks... More
- All our lives we fought against exalting the individual, against the elevation of the single... More
- And how can man die better
Than facing fearful odds,
For the ashes of his... More
- Around the hero everything turns into a tragedy, around the demigod, a satyr-play, and around... More
- As a rule, all heroism is due to a lack of reflection, and thus it is necessary to maintain a... More
- As to Mr. Lincoln’s name and fame and memory,—all is safe. His firmness, moderation, goodness... More
- At last, on Monday the 16th of May, when I was sitting in Mr. Davies’s back-parlour, after... More
- At the Carter Center we work with victims of oppression, and we give support to human rights heroes. More
- Bardot, Byron, Hitler, Hemingway, Monroe, Sade: we do not require our heroes to be subtle, just... More
- But whoso is heroic will always find crises to try his edge. More
- Carlyle is a critic who lives in London to tell this generation who have been the great men of... More
- Carlyle, to adopt his own classification, is himself the hero as literary man. More
- Children demand that their heroes should be fleckless, and easily believe them so: perhaps a... More
- Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor... More
- Eddie: Who are you soldier?
Philip Marlowe: Marlowe’s my name. I’m a private detective. More
- Every hero becomes a bore at last. More
- Fit gravefellows you are for Lincoln, Brown
And Douglass and Toussaint. . . all whose rapt... More
- Force is my lot and not pink-clustered
Roma ni Avignon ni Leyden,
And cold, my element.... More
- Forgive the hero, you who would have died
Gladly with all you knew; he rode that tide
To... More
- Had we lived I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my... More
- He all their ammunition
And feats of war defeats
With plain heroic magnitude of... More
- He fought the might of England
And saved the Irish poor,
Whatever good a farmer’s... More
- He said there was gold here. He lied. He is not perfect. More
- He sought an earthly leader who could stand
Without panache, without cockade,
Son only of... More
- He was a fool—a brilliant man and I loved his beard, and there was the mountain ax in his... More
- Henothing common did, or mean,
Upon the memorable Scene:
But with his keener Eye
The... More
- Heroes are born to be troublemakers. More
- Heroes are created by popular demand, sometimes out of the scantiest materials, or none at all. More
- Heroes, whatever high ideas we may have of them, are mortal and not divine. We are all as God... More
- Heroism feels and never reasons, and therefore is always right. More
- Heroism works in contradiction to the voice of mankind, and in contradiction, for a time, to the... More
- He’s not out
seeing a sight but the rock
crystal thing to see—the startling El... More
- How can I live among this gentle
absolescent breed of heroes, and not weep?
Unicorns,... More
- How much we forgive to those who yield us the rare spectacle of heroic manners! We will pardon... More
- I am convinced that a light supper, a good night’s sleep, and a fine morning, have sometimes... More
- I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor food; I offer only hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles... More
- I then went to the Parade. I saw the King. It was a glorious sight.... As a loadstone moves... More
- I think continually of those who were truly great.
Who, from the womb, remembered the... More
- I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his... More
- If a man wishes to become a hero, then the serpent must first become a dragon: otherwise he lacks... More
- If the hero is not a person, the emblem
Of him, even if Xenophon, seems
To stand taller... More
- If the heroine of a romance was to traverse through countries where the castle of giants rise to... More
- If we are marked to die, we are enough
To do our country loss; and if to live,
The fewer... More
- In our world of big names, curiously, our true heroes tend to be anonymous. In this life of... More
- In peacetime, they had all been normal decent, cowards, frightened of their wives, trembling... More
- In those hours when history becomes terrible, it is as if the soul of woman seizes the moment and... More
- Ironic and jittery, we are puzzled by the old heroes with their fighting, boasting, and cocksure... More
- It was involuntary. They sank my boat. More
- It’s true that heroes are inspiring, but mustn’t they also do some rescuing if they are to be... More
- Let us have our heroes. Let us continue to believe that some have been truly great; that it lies... More
- Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire... More
- Listen, my friend, there are two races of beings. The masses teeming and happy—common clay, if... More
- Look
There he is now, look:
There is no interrogation in his eyes
Or in the hands,... More
- Mankind’s common instinct for reality ... has always held the world to be essentially a theatre... More
- Many great actions are committed in small struggles. More
- Martyrs, my dear friend, must choose to be forgotten, mocked or used. As to being understood, never. More
- Most people aren’t appreciated enough, and the bravest things we do in our lives are usually... More
- Mrs. Grayle: You know, this’ll be the first time I’ve ever killed anyone I knew so little and... More
- My dear parents, he said, and Mr and Mrs Micks, heroic figures, unique in the annals of... More
- My dear young friend ... civilization has absolutely no need of nobility or heroism. These things... More
- My villain, my hero you mean. I always think of my murderers as my heroes. More
- Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place? More
- Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few. More
- Newspaperman: That was a magnificent work. There were these mass columns of Apaches in their war... More
- No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb... More
- No doubt Carlyle has a propensity to exaggerate the heroic in history, that is, he creates you an... More
- No doubt, some of Carlyle’s worthies, should they ever return to earth, would find themselves... More
- No one was anxious to get rid of Paul.
He’d been the hero of the mountain camps
Ever... More
- Now stiff on a pillar with a phallic air
Nelson stylites in Trafalgar Square
Reminds the... More
- O beautiful for heroes proved
In liberating strife,
Who more than self their country... More
- Oh, young Lochinvar is come out of the West,—
Through all the wide Border his steed was the... More
- Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only... More
- One by one they appear in
the darkness: a few friends, and
a few with... More
- One realises, with horror, that the race of men is almost extinct in Europe. Only Christ-like... More
- One who never turned his back but marched breast forward,
Never doubted clouds would... More
- One writer says that Brown’s peculiar monomania made him to be “dreaded by the Missourians as... More
- Our Lord Jesus Christ, my brethren, is our hero, a hero all the world wants. More
- Remember all those renowned generations,
Remember all that have sunk in their... More
- Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy. More
- Strange, how the coolest valour may go along with a hot brain-pan. More
- Superstars strive for approbation; heroes walk alone. Superstars crave consensus; heroes define... More
- the beauty of America, neither cool jazz nor devoured Egyptian
heroes, lies in
lives in... More
- The boy stood on the burning deck,
Whence all but he had fled;
The flame that lit the... More
- The boy stood on the burning deck
Whence all but he had fled. More
- The condition-of-England question is a practical one. The condition of England demands a hero,... More
- The daughters of delight now pump iron. More
- The drying up a single tear has more
Of honest fame than shedding seas of gore. More
- The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough. More
- The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the... More
- The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one’s... More
- The hero is a feeling, a man seen
As if the eye was an emotion,
As if in seeing we saw... More
- The hero is a mind of such balance that no disturbances can shake his will, but pleasantly, and,... More
- The hero sees that the event is ancillary: it must follow him.
More
- The hero used to be the one in white. Now he is harder to spot. More
- The high sentiments always win in the end, the leaders who offer blood, toil, tears and sweat... More
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