Quotes About Heroic

So tremendously did he fight that he made killing almost holy...

I had a good raincoat then, a Burberry I got in London in 1959. Elizabeth thought I looked like a spider in it. That was probably why she wouldn't go to Greece with me. It hung more heroically when I took out the lining, and achieved glory when the frayed sleeves were repaired with a little leather. Things were clear. I knew how to dress in those days. It was stolen from Marianne's loft in New York sometime during the early seventies. I wasn't wearing it very much toward the end.

The valiant never taste of death but once.

My fiction is almost always inspired by a character's need or desire to rise above him- or herself. No one is perfect and some of us have much adversity in our lives; it is those people who struggle to rise above their nature or background that I find the most interesting and heroic.

Everyone has faced something; some struggles are more heroic than others.

Admirers who sought to praise him in heroic terms found themselves reduced to hailing his baldness: "his forehead gleams like silver."22

I wouldn't leave you, even for a superpower," Deathbringer said loyally. "I think that is your superpower," Glory said to him. "Extreme heroic idiocy.

even cuter in real life. Oooo, look at his heroic limp. Oooo, I think he looked at me!

Winter slouched handsomely against the cave wall, wearing one of his most heroic scowls.

The historical St. George, an archbishop of Alexandria and a follower of Arius, possesses no features whatever of the heroic dragon-slayer of the legend.

All lives are heroic lives.

Brave. - Cassel, to Lila

If you are very valiant, it is a god, I think, who gave you this gift.

Heroic poetry has ever been esteemed the greatest work of human nature.

The only absolutely and unapproachably heroic element in the soldier's work seems to be-that he is paid little for it-and regularly.

Don't scale because you think there's a pot of gold over that rainbow. Scale because you're ready and eager to do heroic work, every day, forever.

By faith you can work miracles and perform heroic deeds

In this watering-place I acted an heroic character, badly studied; and being a novice on such a stage, I forgot my part before a pair of lovely blue eyes.

One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.

vertus héroïques en se référant à Okulicki et de vertus quotidiennes pour les cas rapportés par Edelman.

bowed, and said; "Recite ye this heroic song In tranquil shades where

Wrap me up in the reddest cloak, in that flight of your tendons, and lead me into another kingdom, into the heroic ability to love, into the combination to every safe, into the wild dice you feel in your sad fingers when roses shipwreck next to the bridge of salvation. When there's nothing you can do.

Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue. Every natural action is graceful; every heroic act is also decent, and causes the place and the bystanders to shine.

I think of few heroic actions, which cannot be traced to the artistical impulse. He who does great deeds, does them from his innate sensitiveness to moral beauty.