Quotes About Heroic

He blew out his breath and sat back. He'd almost wished for some clever evil plot, which they could then engage to out-clever. It could be surprisingly hard to counter Plain Stupid. Even by heroic measures.

I suspect what I was doing would be called courageous. If I rescued them, it might even be considered an heroic action, but was it? Was I not conditioned by reading, by hearing, by understanding what I should do?

I want to do something splendid before I go into my castle, something heroic or wonderful that won't be forgotten after I'm dead. I don't know what, but I'm on the watch for it, and mean o astonish you all some day.

I want to do something splendid … Something heroic or wonderful that won't be forgotten after I'm dead … I think I shall write books.

I find myself drawn to literature more now than in the past; not the individual works as much as the idea of literature—the heroic effort and nobility of our human desire to make beauty of our minds—which moves me to tears

The determination in your heroic effort Will permeate your mind and heart Even after your success or failure Is long forgotten.

The most heroic deaths of all were the pointless ones,

The man retreated towards the door. And no doubt to a heroic, pointless death at one breach or another. The most heroic deaths of all were the pointless ones, Cosca had always found.

Teardrop Tattoo locked eyes with me, and I saw my own death reflected there. It was not heroic or meaningful or even particularly interesting, just bloody, painful, awkward, and agonizing.

The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone!

If your descent is from heroic sires, Show in your life a remnant of their fires.

In a truly heroic life there is no peradventure. It is always doing or dying.

No English novelist is as great as Tolstoy –that is to say, has given so complete a picture of man's life, both on its domestic and heroic side. No English novelist has explored man's soul as deeply as Dostoyevsky. And no novelist anywhere has analysed the modern consciousness as successfully as Marcel Proust.

All heroic endeavour, and all that is known as art, assumes that there is such a background, just as all practical endeavour, when the world is to our taste, assumes that the world is all.

Mighty men of valor.

Behind freedom their are heroic people ready to defend it.

Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world.

I am a big believer in the power of journalism; it's a heroic pursuit.

Ve?ina nas ima svoje omiljeno, herojsko razdoblje života; ovo je bilo Diverovo.

heroic leaders often made mistakes . . . mistakes that were amplified by the number of followers who were held in thrall by charisma.

The quality of films out there depends on how much responsibility we're willing to take. I try to play women who are positive and heroic.

I suppose the textbook definition of an anti-hero is pretty straightforward - a protagonist who embodies not only heroic characteristics but also some characteristics typically deemed non-heroic, even villainous.

I wanted to do something heroic if I was going to be on TV. And the first thing that appeals to me once I have decided I don't want to be the bad guy is to find things that are not black and white.

remembered ever since as the most heroic act of self-sacrifice during the Persian Wars.